Re: Any thoughts?

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>-- [ From: Jesse S. Cook III * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
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>Date: Friday, 26-Jul-96 11:26 PM
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>From: Ralph L Holloway \ Internet: (rlh2@columbia.edu)
>From: Ralph L Holloway \ Internet: (rlh2@columbia.edu)
>To: Multiple recipients of list ANTHRO-L \ Internet:
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>Subject: Re: Any thoughts?
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>> >...It seems that our geographer lectured on how southern African Bushman
>> have enlarged buttocks so they can store water like camels for travelling
>> across the desolate
>> >landscape.
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>Is this for real, or are the summer doldrums getting to the audience? No,
>goddamn it, the Bushman do not store water in their steatopygeous buttocks. It
>is believed that that condition relates to fat storage.
>
>R Holloway
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>I was wondering how long it would take, if ever, for someone who was not
>anthropologically ignorant to put an end to this silly thread. I'm afraid
>it's not just the "summer doldrums", Ralph.
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>Jesse S. Cook III 201-9573@mcimail.com


Yes. It is fat. But I have a nagging feeling that the fat in camels' humps
may actually help with water relations. I seem to remember that fat
releases water when it is metabolised. Does anybody know?

I have a recollection that somebody (?Schmidt-Nielsen) found that kangaroo
rats never drink but get all their water metabolically.


jodea@dpie.gov.au (Julian O'Dea)

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