Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality

When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her …

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