[UA] Cultures in animals

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of James O'Rance
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2001 5:26 AM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [UA] Cultures in animals
>
>
> "Timothy Ferguson" <ferguson at beyond.net.au> said:
>
>  >>>How else do you explain the rats which aren't rats, the cattle which
> aren't cattle and the lions that are possums?<<<
>
> I assume that (apart from the rodent-like marsupials) you're
> talking about
> extinct species? The "marsupial lion" is well and truly gone, as is the
> carnivorous kangaroo (shame that), and I have no idea what these
> "no-cattle"
> things that you refer to are.

Macrofaunal womabts...

> Arguably we should be farming kangaroos instead of cattle, but I
> don't think
> that's what you meant.

Actually, wallaby farming would be better in terms of meat production...and
they taste kinda cool too.


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