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Bill, you just mentioned an interesting animal, a possum. And I've heard the term possum and opossum, and I want to know the difference. Well, apparently there are no possums in North America or North, Central, or South America. What we have are opossums, and opossums are a little different because they've got furless, kind of scaly tails, and actual possums are from Australia, and they're meant, or they're related more to the marsupial family. But in North America we have opossums. Apparently people tend to drop the O and just call them possums, but they're actually opossums in North, Central, and South America. If you wanted to meet an actual possum, apparently they have black, fluffy, furry tails, and they're related to more so kangaroos and Tasmanian devils and stuff like that. So I didn't know the difference until I just searched it and I learned the difference pretty quick. So yeah, apparently people just in North America tend to drop the O, but they're actually opossums. And they play possum when they feel massively threatened. They'll play dead. I wonder if any of you guys have hedgehogs. Here he is. Is that a North American animal? A hedgehog? Does anyone know?