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Show Dingo and Opossum Are Masters at Feigning Death Of the many animals that feign death when approached or captured cap-tured by man or other enemy, the two outstanding masters of this artifice are the opossum of America Amer-ica and the dingo, a wild dog of Australia, says Collier's. When shamming death, the dingo will allow al-low his captor to maul him unmercifully un-mercifully aftd even remove some of his skin. The dingo has a wolf-like wolf-like face and bushy tail and is very destructive to sheep. While the opossum will also allow himself him-self to be beaten, his pose seldom fails to convince a captor that he is actually dead, as he lies limp and motionless with his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his eyes open and rolled back. |