• ickplant@lemmy.worldOPM
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      8 days ago

      I was going through my inbox and didn’t see which post you commented on at first. So my first thought was “how does he know?”

      To answer your actual question, this guy is leucistic. That means he has a lighter pigmentation compared to his regular opossum pals. Think of it as a real-life Pokémon shiny.

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        8 days ago

        I was trying to think of what regular opossums looked like, and I know they’re greyish. I figured it was something genetic but I had a fleeting thought that maybe this one was just clean