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This suggests that age at first estrus varied from 109 to 162 days, depending on pheromone exposure [ 7 ] . However, body mass at first estrus was remarkably close to 60 g in all females, indicating that puberty in opossums, as in most mammals, is dependent on attainment of a threshold body mass.
Moreover, this growth response marks a difference between pheromonal acceleration of puberty in opossums and that which is well-documented in mice, wherein females paired with males ovulate at a lower body mass (< 20 g) than that of isolated females (> 20 g) [ 30 31 ] .
The onset of puberty in female opossums is strongly influenced by pheromonal and, perhaps, other social cues.
Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.
67 mm) in superovulated opossums [ 22 ] . This increased size of developing follicles in exposed opossums is similar in magnitude to that seen in the pre-Graafian follicles of rats between diestrus and proestrus [ 23 ] . Prepubertal pine voles exposed to male urine also showed an increase in the number of largest follicles, but with no change in atresia [ 24 ] , as in our study.