
“Being the opossum”: what is tanked, which animals pretend to be dead and why
Tango (from the Greek thánatos“death”), pretend to be dead Staying completely immobile, it is a fairly widespread behavior among animals, which put it in place as defensive behavior when they are touched by a potential predator, or in one dangerous situation. The most famous example, to the point of becoming proverbial, comes fromopossumspecifically the Opossum of Virginia (Didelphis Virginiana). When ...








