Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Pam-Pincha's reply to the "elephant" article Message-ID: <821@psivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 10:27:58 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.821 Posted: Wed Oct 30 10:27:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 04:51:40 EST References: <437@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 33 Summary: In article <437@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: > > Now, >comparisons between mammoths and yaks or other deer-like animals are basically >meaningless because the later eat grass and have been provided by God or nature >with sharp hooves to poke through ice and snow for grass during the winter. >Elephants don't have sharp hooves, and they prefer LEAVES to GRASS. And Elephants have *tusks*, which may well be even better for digging through snow than hooves. And not all deer-like animals prefer grass, many, including the White-tail and Mule Deers, prefer leaves. Also, just because living *Elephants* prefer leaves is no reason to assume that *Mammoths* did also, since they have different teeth.(Tho I suspect thay actually lived off of tundra subshrubs). >Furthermore >even deer-like creatures would not survive in Novo Sibirsk. Novo Sibirsk, in >winter (which is 8 or 10 months out of the year there), is COVERED BY THE POLAR >ICE CAP. In the unlikely event that even a yak were to be able to poke far >enough through the ice in Novo-Sibirsk, all he would find would be lichens >and moss, IF HE WERE LUCKY, and I have no problem maintaining that even a yak >couldn't live on that. > Really? Well this sounds like a case for seasonal migrations, since your own statement implies that it is *not* covered by the ice cap for 2 to 4 months of the year! And you would be surprised what can survive on moss and lichens. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!friesen ARPA: ttidca!psivax!friesen@rand-unix.arpa