[UA] Cultures in animals

Torsten Bernhardt torsten.bernhardt at mcgill.ca
Fri Jun 8 10:45:53 PDT 2001


>Have you read the Mystic Hermaphrodite's writeup in Statosphere?

Nope. Makes more sense now.

> >And platypi are really a combination of mammals (milk,
> >fur, homeothermy) and reptiles (those darn eggs they lay, and possibly the
> >poison that males have). The beak looks like a bird's beak, but it's
> >analogous, not homologous.
>
>Bird or reptile, either way.

They're fairly different...

>Mr. teapot
>Platypus

No one ever wants to be the echidna. Sigh.



Torsten Bernhardt
Redpath Museum
McGill University
Montreal, QC
Canada


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