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Meet Heidi
Topic Started: Jan 13 2011, 11:19 AM (221 Views)
brenda
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20027799-503543.html

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Heidi, the Cross-Eyed Opossum, Becomes a Star in Germany

First, it was Knut, the overwhelmingly cute polar bear. Then, it was Paul, the World Cup oracle octopus. Now, the latest German zoo resident to gain massive fame is Heidi, the cross-eyed opossum, currently in residence at the Leipzig Zoo.
Heidi will not be on public view until July, but she already has 50,000 Facebook fans, a YouTube hit and a stuffed doll modeled after her, reports the German news magazine, Der Spiegel.

The adorable, Muppet-like opossum shot to fame after a German tabloid went to photograph the Leipzig Zoo's new "Gondwanaland," a theme area designed to recreate primitive times, according to the report. All it took was one look, and the German public was in love.

Heidi is a Virginia Opossum, which the Ohio Department of Natural Resources describes as "one of the oldest and most primitive species of mammal in North America. This animal is little changed from its ancestors 70 million years ago." Besides being the only marsupial to originate in North America, the species is most famous for giving rise to the phrase "playing possum," because they frequently react to threats by pretending to be dead.
Zoo officials speculate that her crossed eyes might have been caused by a bad diet early in life, Der Spiegel reports. The eyes might look off, but they cause the animal no pain, and don't affect her ability to get around, according to the zoo. She is, aside from her looks, a normal opossum.


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Cute? I don't think so, but I'm not crazy about possums.
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Mikhailoh
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A possum that looks dumb. Well isn't THAT something. :lol2:
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
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brenda
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Jan 13 2011, 11:25 AM
I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
There are more possums named Heidi? :silly:
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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HOLY CARP!!!
brenda
Jan 13 2011, 11:40 AM
The 89th Key
Jan 13 2011, 11:25 AM
I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
There are more possums named Heidi? :silly:
Why, Heidi Ho, of course. :lol:

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Those Germans -- first Paul the Octopus and now Heidi... but of course David Hasselhof is huge in Germany so there you go....
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
I already bought Heidi, the stuffed animal, to express my love of Heidi.

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kenny
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The 89th Key
Jan 13 2011, 11:25 AM
I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
This thread was not started by Larry.
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HOLY CARP!!!
kenny
Jan 13 2011, 02:55 PM
The 89th Key
Jan 13 2011, 11:25 AM
I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
This thread was not started by Larry.
^_^ or George, or Red Rice, or Mik (oh no wait, unlikely a Heidi would be a redhead)
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Finally
sue
Jan 13 2011, 03:04 PM
^_^ or George, or Red Rice, or Mik (oh no wait, unlikely a Heidi would be a redhead)
Umm...was there anything about football in this thread?

I think not.
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sue
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George K
Jan 13 2011, 03:07 PM
sue
Jan 13 2011, 03:04 PM
^_^ or George, or Red Rice, or Mik (oh no wait, unlikely a Heidi would be a redhead)
Umm...was there anything about football in this thread?

I think not.
You might have been being sneaky.
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sue
Jan 13 2011, 03:04 PM
kenny
Jan 13 2011, 02:55 PM
The 89th Key
Jan 13 2011, 11:25 AM
I was hoping it'd be one of the other heidi's...
This thread was not started by Larry.
^_^ or George, or Red Rice, or Mik (oh no wait, unlikely a Heidi would be a redhead)
There are no redheaded opossums. That would be a fox.

One of which, coincidentally, trotted across my yard in broad daylight Tuesday. Very rare.
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Klaus
Jan 13 2011, 02:53 PM
I already bought Heidi, the stuffed animal, to express my love of Heidi.

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Klaus, what is that woman doing to your Heidi?
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