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- From: woodford@fourier.ece.cmu.edu (Paul Woodford)
- Subject: Re: Chemical defense discovered in a bird
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150251.19567@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
- References: <1992Nov16.193512.81626@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:02:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.193512.81626@watson.ibm.com> andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor) writes:
- >A recent Science (30 October) has a paper describing the discovery
- >that New Guinea birds in the genus Pitohui contain a potent
- ^^^^^^^
- >alkloid, homobatachotoxin.
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- "Ptooie! This tastes awful!"
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- If I hadn't read a newpaper article about this, I'd almost think you were
- joking.
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- Paul "look - a ptooie bird!" Woodford
- woodford@ece.cmu.edu
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