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Subject: Re: State zoo(the way I heard it)
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:28:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:28:29 1984
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  These two students, who were going to school in Europe, were working on a
degree and as their topic for their Senior paper they planned a joint paper
on the subject of a small group of porpoises, who were discovered in an in-
land cove in South Africa.
  The really amazing thing about these poroises, was not that they were living
in an inland, salt-water cove, but that (from what the officials would release
to the press, these porpoises were the oldest ever found. As a matter of fact,
from all indications, these porpoises were immortal.
  Well since these two guys heard about the porpoises in about May of their
Junior year in Collage, they decided to take part of their Summer to go to 
Africa to do a little independent study on the subject. However, the young
men discovered, on arriving in a towm some 70 miles from the valley where
the salt water cove was located, that the local government would not allow 
anyone to go to the valley untill AFTER their scientists got a chance to
finish an intensive study. In fact they had rangers posted all around the
valley.
  The men  poked around town asking questions and finialy snuck into the 
institution which was doin the research. But the only thing which they could
add to the information they already had, was that these porpoises, who seem
to have allways lived in the valley and never die, eat Mynah birds.
  Well these two weren't going to be put off , especialy after having come
this far. So they hired a guide, bought supplies,(along with 3 Mynahs) and set
out into the jungle. The guide lead then through the jungle until they came
to a trail which took a long and narrow path down into the valley. They took
a their time coming down slowly so that the didn't alert the rangres.
  They finialy get to the bottom of th trail and can smell the salt air from 
farther down the valley, when there, in the middle of the trail is this stately
lion who appears to be sound asleep. At this point the path is still too narrow
to go arround and they sure couldn't go back, so they decided to take turns 
stepping over the lion, and the others run for it(they didn't want to just shoot
it because of the rangers).
  The first young man very slowly creeps over the lion and has the guide
hand him the Mynahs. The guide follows allong with the other student, and it
appears that they have been successful until they get about 5 ft. up the path
at which point the lion jumps up and reveals that it's really a ranger in 
disguise and they were put under arrest.

	Their charge:


     * Transporting Mynahs over a stately lion for immortal Porpoises *


						A Beaver@Tektronix