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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: Are Buffalo Tongues Rough?
- Keywords: buffalo
- Message-ID: <1696@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 19:05:48 GMT
- References: <1ibk15INN9p4@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1ibk15INN9p4@shelley.u.washington.edu>, adrian@stein.u.washington.edu (Adrian Mariano) writes:
- |> A friend of mine has heard many times that buffalo tongues are
- |> extremely rough. Supposedly, if they lick human skin, they will rip
- |> it off.
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- I suspect that this is rather exagerated. It is quite possible that the tongue is
- sufficiently rough to cause pain when a human is licked, but I doubt it is much
- rougher than that.
-
- |> He might have been referring to bison rather than buffalo.
-
- Almost certainly that is what he meant - unless he lives in Asia or Africa.
-
- |> Does anyone know if this is true? I'd like some references about
- |> this, and why they do or do not have rough tongues.
-
- As I remember it things, even cows have rough tongues. I suspect it is related
- to the way they eat.
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