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The people who followed the Lord were called the twelve opossums .
Our findings provide the critical descriptive groundwork for further investigations into the physiological pathways and underlying mechanisms involved in pheromonal regulation of somatic and sexual maturation in opossums.
There are quite a lot of opossums where I live (not, I hasten to say, of the possum type meriting the affectionate attention of Dame Edna Everage), and one sees them most often after they have been killed on the road by a car.
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.
Plasma concentrations of estradiol in opossums are low (<15 pg/ml) during anestrus and are elevated (>20 pg/ml) only during estrus [ 15 ] . Mean plasma estradiol concentrations as high as 58 pg/ml have been reported in estrous females [ 25 ] , but a gradual increase in circulating estradiol during pheromonal induction of estrus in opossums has not been described.