Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó Brassware This collection of tales transports

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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó Brassware This collection of tales transportsWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom. With