Saturday, January 19, 2019
Just a Couple of Interesting Things
Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching - starting with the females. Good news.
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Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
ReplyDelete?? You sound like George HW Bush!
DeleteEd. Ok............. :)
DeleteZ, bringing up GHWB once again reminds me how much I was thinking WTF as he was yapping about a New World Order in his speech. And I wasn't even into politics much in those days.
DeleteTuskless elephants are an interesting theory, but given that it takes tens of thousands of years to evolve, I have to question the proposition. We humans are still born with molars, even though we haven't used them since 6,329 BC and to rid ourselves of such bother, we were forced to invent dentists. :-)
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean our CANINE TEETH, Sam –– the pointed, largely triangular, spade-shaped teeth located three teeth beyond our incisors in the front?
DeleteAs far as I know MOLARS are our BACK teeth, which we use fr grinding solid food into a digestibe paste. Or am i wrong?
Sam, to my thinking, the elephants who don't have tusks live longer and reproduce more. I don't think this was sudden, but it is interesting.
DeleteI was speaking about Wisdom Teeth, Franco ... most people have them removed as they are no longer needed and are easily impacted.
DeleteI've always loved elephants, and find the idea of killing them for no better purpose than to "harvest" their tusks to sell on the Black Market chilling and disgusting.
ReplyDeleteIf you've ever read Orwell's essay To Kill an Elephant, you'd be as horrified and revolted as I at the prospect. His description of the process is as memorable –– and powerfully UGLY –– as anythng I've ever read. Makes me feel sick every time I think of it.
Interesting to think that elephants are evolving so RAPIDLY just to defend themseves against barbaric human beings who still have very far to go on the evolutiionary scale, themselves, before they could rightully came to be CIVILIZED..
All poaching disgusts me Franco.
DeleteIn an odd way the tuskless elephant story ties in very well with the latest salvo from the Feminazis who've managed to bully the manufacturers of Gilette Razors into runnng an ad decrying "toxic masculinity."
ReplyDeleteIf those filthy Screaming Bitches get their way, we will soon see an ever-increasing number of male babies BORN WITHOUT BALLS. And THEN where will we be?
MORIBUND, that's where. On our way to EXTINCTION.
The only good thi[ng about THAT is there won't be anymore FEMINAZIS around to louse up Civilization.
But wouldn't be too much of a Pyrhicc Victory for Masculine Males?
I'm sure The Devil must be laughing himself silly over this one.
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I am tech challenged apparently... I have tried a number of times to look at the slide shows on the website and found it to be more work than worth it.
ReplyDeleteI hovered and hovered looking for the arrows.... but hey, I got through the first couple and love Photography.
Regarding the elephants...
i don't understand the thrill of killing elephants... but then again I grew up on small game hunting including deer.
I guess some primitive instinct comes forth.
But then again, having had a couple of deer crashing into my car causing thousands of dollars in damage I felt that turn around was fair play.
Bunk after you click on view slideshow (they don't advance to the next pic automatically so it's not really slideshow) then hovering on the large version of the picture you get you see < on the left and > on the right. Give it another shot, the pics are really worth it.
DeleteI liked the photo of the old man at the table with a book. Haunting.
ReplyDeleteOf course all books will be banned soon if our MillSoc rulers have their way and that photo will count as thought crime. I'm against that.
No doubt LSP. I'm also against.
DeleteI'm most discouraged by so many American's allowing themselves to be pussified.