Ho do you know that opposum can't touch his toe thumb to his toe pinky?

In fact, there's a lot we don't know about animals until somebody finally observes a behavior and records it.

On that one site, a lady did declare that her squirrel had little opposable thumbs. Who's to say it didn't have 'em?

On the Disney site it was suggested that we tape our thumbs to the inside of our hands, and then try to crack a nut as a squirrel does. Well, that doesn't seem fair at all. Don't the little squirrels have five fingers, even if they don't have an opposable thumb [which is still arguable since we don't know what they do with their little could-be thumbs in the middle of the night...they may spend part of their nights touching their little four fingers with their possibly opposable thumb and laughin' at us for thinkin' they cain't do it!]

Why, I just learned that a bluejay saw an injured bird, led a human being to it, and then helped feed the bird [not a jay] while the human being took care of it. And that's a documented story. And there's lots of other stories, too, so if AnnaSquirrel saw her squirrel using its thumb opposably, then there's another tally mark for those who think squirrels have thumbs. When you consider, wwh, the great achievements we human beings gained due to our having opposable thumbs, I'll bet our ability to touch our pinky with our opposable thumb doesn't rate very high in achievements. I mean, we aren't even using a very respectful name for that pinky here, are we.

Just to be argumentative and good night,
WW