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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: ISO MY PRINCESS
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:26:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.002845.20217@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cjp8b@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Chris Penington) writes:
- >Are eu therious? Marsupials don't even make it into the placentile
- >rankings. They've adapted to a different set of test conditions and
- >fail marsupially (and monotremously) in competition with many
- >placentals. Theriously!
-
- Virginia oppossums beg to differ with you, sir! Not only did their South
- American relatives survive the invasion of North American placentals, but they
- successfully invaded the placental stronghold. (And the crawlspace underneath
- the parental abode in Florida.)
-
- > Cats and rats are major problems for
- >Australia's native fauna.
-
- As they are for New Zealand's non-marsupial, native fauna. Living on an
- island, even one the size of a continent, is not conducive to developing
- effective defense strategies. But how, sir, did those placentals swim to
- either Australia or New Zealand?
-
- -- Herb Huston
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