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Last Leadbeater's possum dies in captivity

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Actually, the last possum in CAPTIVITY dies. It says there is about 1,000 left in the wild.
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-Ben
 
didnt i say in captivity?
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Last Leadbeater's possum dies in captivity, OH NO!!!!!!
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maby i should rephrase it...last Leadbeater's possum in captivity dies. sorry if it was confusing
alex
 
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Moved. Now you owe me a D. capensis.....
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haha
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[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Not good news but he couldn't breed anyway.
I was actually up in their natural habitat yesterday- what's left of it.
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wow!
BTW it takes longer than you think to get an animal from the wild and into a zoo. you can just get and Leadbeater or two from the wild and *plop* put it in a zoo. they have to go through generations of acclimation.
alex
 
Hey, we're probably better off with it being extinct anyway. I mean, there's gotta be a REASON for that name, right?

Hans@visualizing an opossum on the prowl, beating smaller animals to a pulp with a chunk of lead...
 
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