Genre:

Regular Feature, Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Exploration, Zoology, Animal Behaviour

    Reports that travellers in America have recorded that, after watching the 'wonderful agility of the opossum in its native forests, they could but exclaim, in conscious inferiority—Non opossumus', a reference is to the Latin plea 'non possumus' (i.e. 'we cannot').