Raccoons

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A place for raccoons migrating from reddit.

We are allies with the kingdoms of the opossummms, batss, and the birbs.

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If you're friends with opossums too, there's a community for that. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by blueskiesoc to c/raccoons

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portrait of an opossum wearing a pink floral crown

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's also [email protected] .

Or at least I think there is. I still don't know the difference between an opossum and a possum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Opossums (usually pronounced as ‘possum but the o actually isn’t silent) are the marsupials that live in the Americas, the most familiar of which being the Virginia opossum. Possums live in Australia.

[–] blueskiesoc 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I can tell ya.

Opossum...possum

Potato...tater

Same thing, just word play. One is official. You wouldn't expect to see a discussion of taters in a science journal, but you could be asked to bring tater salad to the cookout.