And I think they should do is, what we call in rural America, play possum. Just let it go. Don’t get in the way of it, or as we like to say, don’t just stand there, do nothing,” Carville said.

Democratic strategist James Carville suggested the tide is turning in the country and advised Democrats to “play possum” while it does. Carville appeared on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari ...

All this is strange, but none of it is as strange as the behavior for which this possum is most famous: playing possum. Contrary to what you might imagine, that does not simply entail curling up ...

The "choco-holic" opossum turned out to also be dealing with lead toxicity, according to those who treated her Nebraska Wildlife Rehab/Instagram It's hard to play dead when the sugar rush kicks in.

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.

SciFri producer Kathleen Davis talks with Dr. Susana Monsó, associate professor of philosophy at the National Distance Education University in Spain and author of Playing Possum: How Animals ...