MEpearl: The Opossum Lady

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Do Kentucky possums have fangs and attack people? Or are they bashful like ourn?

Yes they have fangs and claws all American opossum do.
Why? Any introduced species will change to suit the environment.
Possums here are cute ive even patted them. People have pet possums here.
They are nocturnal and really have no predators.
Its like the difference between mice and rats in the UK and mice and rats here.
Mice and rats here will bite your ass some huge rats even kill cats.
In the UK where they were introduced from they are smaller and afraid of humans and other animals.
Here they go into plague proportions and wipe out whole crops.
Same with rabbits they have tried to make viruses to wipe out rabbits here wild ones I mean not pet ones.
Because they can literally wipe out whole crop fields.
European wasps here can kill you in Europe they don't bother you.