it uses its skin and it protects itself by playing dead and they hiss and growl......... the opossums are not stupid animals.....they are just like that
Mostly , they just play dead.
the brain ?
Skeletal system protects your body parts and your bodies.
An opossum plays dead for protection against enemies
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their ears
Spinal Cord
When a predator attacks and/or they sense danger, then they play dead, and most animals don't eat a dead animal that they didn't kill.
the taial and th siz eif the body helps the animal protect its self
Its shell and its pincers (particularly the larger pincer) help protect it.
Raccoons can carry rabies but opossums no. The chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum's low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum's body.
The feed,teeth and the strips