Sentences with phrase «possum playing dead»

Their bug - eyed expressions and body language lend additional humor, along with some of their habits — the skunk randomly spraying and the possum playing dead, for example.

I'm really disappointed that even a dwarf can lift off higher that Matesecker, and damn falls too easily to the ground like a possum playing dead.

Some defence strategies are well known: fish and birds gather in shoals for safety, possums play dead, bees sting, and skunks spray a liquid so repulsive that humans caught in the blast are almost always reduced to vomiting.

Not exact matches

If loads of us can use smartphones to play Angry Birds, maybe a few hundred thousand citizens can click on their mobile devices (not while driving) to efficiently help researchers turn dead possums into data points.

The dynamics between the varied characters are wonderful, from the father possum teaching his daughter how to play dead to the irrepressibly energetic squirrel Hammy (voiced almost unrecognisably by Steve Carell of The 40 Year Old Virgin fame).

Garry Shandling barely registers as displaced leader Verne the turtle, but support comes from Steve Carell (hilariously zippy as squirrel Hammy), Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as porcupines, Wanda Sykes as a skunk, and William Shatner as a possum who's an expert at playing dead (get it?).