Hello All.

22 May 05 16:57, Jack Yates wrote to Bj”rn Forsstr”m:

 BF>>>>  No need to.
 BF>>>> After Chernobyl we all shine like a red stop-sign.
 JY>>> It sure isn't sunburn..
 BF>> It's like having the ozon-hole as a halo.
 BF>> The beard is very well fertilized.

 JY> We usually blame that on the pigeons..

Speaking of which, and just in case y'all forgot...

The MC&D Beastiary
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{as previously posted in the echo}...

If you've seen these animals mentioned here, but had no idea what they
were, NOW you know...courtesy of the Grolliers Multimedia Encyclopedia...
Further information has been gleaned from http://www.encyclopedia.com

Pigeon {pij'-eon}
Common name for members of the large family Columbidae, land birds,
cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical regions, characterized by stout
bodies, short necks, small heads, and thick, heavy plumage. The names dove
and pigeon are used interchangeably, though the former generally refers to
smaller members of the family. The rock dove Columba livia of temperate
Europe and W Asia is the wild progenitor of the common street and domestic
pigeons. All pigeons have soft swellings (ceres) at the base of the
nostrils, feed their young with "pigeon's milk" regurgitated from
the crops of the parents, and have specialized bills through which they can
suck up water steadily, unlike other birds. They eat chiefly fruits and
seeds.

Moose {moose}
Largest member of the deer family, genus Alces, found in the northern parts
of Eurasia and North America. The Eurasian species, A. alces, is known in
Europe as the elk, a name which in North America is applied to another
large deer, the wapiti. The Eurasian and the American moose are quite
similar, but the American moose is somewhat larger and is considered by
some to be a separate species, A. americana. It inhabits the coniferous
forests of Alaska, Canada, and the northern conterminous United States. The
moose has a heavy brown body with humped shoulders, and long,
lighter-colored legs, the front pair longer than the hind ones. It has a
thick, overhanging, almost trunklike muzzle and a short neck; a flap of
skin covered with long hair and called the bell hangs from the throat. The
male has broad, extremely flattened antlers, with a spread of up to 6 ft
(180 cm). The largest variety is the Alaska moose; the adult male weighs
from 1,000 to 1,800 lb (450-820 kg) and stands as much as 7 12 ft (2.3 m)
high at the shoulder. Browsers rather than grazers, moose eat leaves,
twigs, buds, and the bark of some woody plants, as well as lichens, aquatic
plants, and some of the taller herbaceous land plants.

Aardvark {ard'-vark}
The aardvark (or ant bear), Orycteropus afer, is the only species in the
MAMMAL family Orycteropodidae, order Tubulidentata. Its name isderived from
the Afrikaans for "earth pig," and this slow, massiveanimal
somewhat resembles a pig. It is brown to yellowish, about150 cm (5 ft)
long, with a 60-cm-long (2-ft) tail, and weighs 45 to77 kg (100 to 170 lb).
It has a narrow head and a long snout. Its earsare large and rabbitlike,
and hearing is acute. The short, stout legs,partially webbed feet, and long
claws are well suited for burrowingits large sleeping dens and for tearing
apart mounds of the ants andtermites on which it feeds with its long,
sticky tongue.

Aardvarks are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, usually in opencountry.
They are shy, nocturnal creatures. The female bears one or twoyoung in
October or November. Aardvarks live about ten years in captivity.

Wallaby {wahl'-uh-bee}
Wallabies are small- to medium-size members of the KANGAROO
family,Macropodidae. They differ from the other small members of the
family,the rat kangaroos, in a number of characteristics, including
long,oval-shaped ears, rudimentary or no canine teeth, and relatively
smallerupper front teeth (central incisors). Wallabies are found in
grassy,brushy, or rocky terrain in Australia and New Guinea and in the
BismarckArchipelago, an island group northeast of New Guinea. Hare
wallabies,Lagorchestes, grow to about 500 mm (20 in) long, plus a 450-mm
(18-in)tail, and weigh up to about 2.7 kg (6 lb). The nail-tailed
wallabies,Onychogalea, are larger and have a horny tip at the end of the
tail;the function of this tip is not definitely known. The brush
wallabies,Wallabia, are among the fastest in the kangaroo family. They grow
toabout 1 m (40 in) long, plus a 750-mm (30-in) tail, and weigh morethan 23
kg (50 lb).

Zebu {zee'-boo}
The zebu, Bos indicus, is a species of hardy domestic cattle that isused as
a draft and riding animal in Africa, India, and other parts of Asia.
Evolved from Indian wild cattle, the zebu has a large fatty hump on its
shoulders, a large dewlap, and long horns. It has great enduranceand is
resistant to heat, ticks, and many diseases.


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