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- From: lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (LYNN ALFORD)
- Subject: Re: A new battleground
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- In article <1992Nov8.201936.16912@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes...
- >In article <1992Nov8.182458.16036@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
- >writes:
- >
- >} But
- >}the frogs are a wonderful small animal and well worth anyone's support.
- >
- >Bats are all of that, plus they are warm and furry. Btw, their mouths
- >are generally too small to bite humans effectively, save perhaps on the
- >tip of a little finger if you hold it *just so*.
-
- The most commonly seen bat in North Queensland is the flying fox or fruit
- bat. They do have mouths large enough to bite a human. They also have the
- *appalling* habit of landing on your fruit trees, taking three bites of an
- unripe fruit (mangoes frequently) and then doing the same to another fruit
- on the tree. The fruit bitten will rot before it ripens. These bats are
- very unpopular with anyone who tries to grow fruit.
-
- >Also, bats are not blind, neither do they get tangled in your hair,
- >they are both communal or solitary (depending on the particular
- >species), vegitarian or carnivorous (again, depending on the
- >species) and a host of other things. In North America, they
- >generally consume many, many flying insects (including mosquitos).
-
- Most frogs are vegetarian then carnivorous. Tapoles eat algae and other
- things they can scrap off rocks in a stream. Frogs eat insects, for the
- most part, though I believe there is at least one large species of frog in
- South America that can eat bats.
-
- Frogs provide amusement for youngsters, who can get a bucket of tadpoles
- from any pond in the spring, and experimental animals for scientists. Bats
- simply are.
-
-
- >}There can only be one choice. Frogs forever.
- >
- >If I had never met a bat I might indeed choose a frog. Frogs are
- >indeed second, although not a close second...
- >
- >Besides, frogs are green and slimy and ikky. Besides, kissing
-
- Frogs come in many colours. There is basic green, basic brown, basic green
- with brown spots, basic brown with green spots. There are also yellow
- frogs, red and blue frogs, orange and black frogs...in other words a large
- array of colours. Nor are all frogs slimy. Treefrogs in particular are
- dry to the touch, and only go near water during their mating season.
-
- Bats come in brown, ranging from a pale brown, to a very dark brown, but
- all brown. How dull can you get?
-
- >one may destroy the frog as you know it. "Bat" is easier to
- >spell, too.
-
- Due to the long-term lack of handsome princes (or even beautiful
- princesses) in the modern world, I doubt that destroying the frog as you it
- is a problem. Bat might be easier to spell, but it is also confused with
- certain implements used to play games (i.e. the cricket bat and the
- baseball bat.) Frog only means frog.
-
- >
- >}I had an opinion just a moment ago. Now where did I put it?
- >The frog probably took it. Bats think for themselves.
-
- Bats don't think. They just fly around with their mouths open.
-
- Lynn
- _____ The Darwin fish
- \/ o\
- /\_____/
- bb bb
- I had an opinion just a moment ago. Now where did I put it?
-