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Re: Morgan Tears 3.
Troy Kelley (tkelley@hel4.brl.mil)
Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:07:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Morgan Tears 3.
From: Alex Duncan, aduncan@mail.utexas.edu
Date: 28 Oct 1995 16:08:28 GMT
In article <46tkhs$cve@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Alex Duncan,
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu writes:
>In article <543298119wnr@desco.demon.co.uk> Elaine Morgan,
>Elaine@desco.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>>Question Three. Is it true that elephants weep?
>
>"For the size of its head, an elephant has small eyes, with long lashes.
>There is only a vestigial tear gland but another gland has taken over its
>function. There is no tear duct and the 'tears' simply evaporate,
>although they sometimes overflow and run down the cheek."
>
>Shoshani, J (1991) Anatomy and physiology. In (Eltringham SK,
>consultant) The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Elephants. New York: Crescent
>Books.
>
>
>It's unclear to me why AAHers would want to use elephants as an analogy
>for the AAH argument, except as the very worst sort of argumentation.
>Elephants are terrestrial animals. The fact that they take a bath
>occasionally doesn't change that.
>
>Alex Duncan
>Dept. of Anthropology
>University of Texas at Austin
>Austin, TX 78712-1086
>512-471-4206
>aduncan@mail.utexas.edu
I thought someone posted that elephants had some kind of aquatic
ancestor? Didn't you see that Alex? Perhaps some kind of seal and
elephants share a common ancestor (the elephant seal mabe?).
I would not be surprised to find that elephants have been aquatic at one
time.
There was a pepsi commercial recently that showed an elephant swimming
buy using his nose as sort of a snorkel. Apparently elephants can swim
quite well using this technique.
Troy
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