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Meat_hod
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My pet opossum glowing pink!
#13233684 - 09/22/10 09:58 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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So my short tailed opossum glows under blacklight, I think it's pretty awesome. His entire body glows bright pink, and his underbelly is crazy bright. This video is really shitty quality and not very bright, but I'll try to get a better one later...
In normal light, his fur has developed a really pinkish hue, very cool.
This was the only tidbit of information i could find on the web...
"Many didelphids show remarkable color changes of the pelage after they are prepared as specimens. These didelphids, along with others, also show fluorescence (often-spectacular) under ultraviolet light. In some opossums at least, the fluorescent materials are apparently inside the hairs rather than merely adhering to them. 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid seems to be in part responsible for this fluorescence, presumably along with other products of tryptophan catabolism."
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bbl337
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Meat_hod]
#13233717 - 09/22/10 10:07 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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people have those things as pets?
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Innominate


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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: bbl337]
#13233777 - 09/22/10 10:24 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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haha, this is pretty tight. Wonder what "3-hydroxyanthranilic acid" is a result of?
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Arden
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Innominate]
#13233819 - 09/22/10 10:34 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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If it became known that opossum hair contained a euphoric psychoactive chemical, I wonder if there would be underground factory farms and black people walking around with them in their pocket.
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Meat_hod
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: bbl337]
#13233822 - 09/22/10 10:35 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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bbl337 said: people have those things as pets?
Yea, it took me forever to find one up here in Canada, but they seem pretty popular in the southern states.
They can make great pets. They have some really strange and cool habits, haha.
Have you seen them in labs or something? They are used as test animals quite frequently.
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Prisoner#1
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Meat_hod]
#13233832 - 09/22/10 10:38 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think he believes it's a normal ugly white faced opossum, he's unaware that it's closer to being a mouse in size and kinda cute
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Maverick
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Prisoner#1]
#13233883 - 09/22/10 10:48 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said: I think he believes it's a normal ugly white faced opossum, he's unaware that it's closer to being a mouse in size and kinda cute
Mama always told me never trust anything with beady black eyes....
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hippielauren
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Prisoner#1]
#13233889 - 09/22/10 10:49 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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freaking awesome i want on to add to my menagerie of other pets
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Meat_hod
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Meat_hod]
#13233913 - 09/22/10 10:55 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's about the size of a medium/large rat right now. And it probably won't get much bigger...
but ya, cute as hell.
Also some other cool things about these guys:
really soft fur no odor no noise no chewing on everything like rodents cool diet, eats live adult mice, insects, fruits, cheese, steak, you name it... litter trains himself, always goes in same corner, never on you has 50+ sharp teeth, looks like crocodile teeth has both claws AND fingernails only marsupial without a pouch carries around stuff with his tail, which is prehensile amazing senses for night time hunting extremely fast, faster than any rodent of the same size that i've seen... strictly solitary animals
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Charliem


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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Meat_hod]
#13234028 - 09/22/10 11:28 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Every time I see a video of a cute animal, I immediately want one as a pet.
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Re: My pet opossum glowing pink! [Re: Charliem]
#13234883 - 09/23/10 08:13 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'd like to have one of those for my trip room
opossums are awesome
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