Science Gossip
Anon
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'). |
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