Instead of biting, they simply stop, drop and “play possum,” losing consciousness for up to four hours. “To complete the illusion,” MacDonald says, “they exude a smell like rotting meat.

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A hungry opossum is going viral this week after eating an entire Costco chocolate cake in Nebraska. The “cake bandit” was found outside Kim Doggett’s Omaha home earlier this month.