Anthracite Gray For Submarines Query

[martinbayer]

Interesting pics gents   However only the Aussies could name a submarine after a creature that spends most of it's life asleep up a tree  

We have Possums.

North America has Opossums.

Different animals entirely.

Our Possums are very active, nocturnal creatures.

I realize this is some major thread drift, and I certainly don't doubt that Possums are different animals from Opossums even just by the looks of them, but according to the almighty Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_opossum) the Opossum is the only marsupial found in North America north of Mexico (meaning that according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial they're in the same infraclass as  kangaroos, the koala, possums, wombats and the Tasmanian devil), and over here on the Eastern Pacific Rim (Southern California) they're called Possums just the same, plus they're nocturnal as well. The ones over here look like overgrown rats (i.e. kinda cute and streamlined in my book), and we have them running on our backyard wall every night like clockwork, going one way around 10 PM and back the other way about 90 minutes later. So far our two new cats don't seem to have run into them just yet, but we'll see who gets scared of whom first...

Martin