Wouldn't the iron in their antennas be dangerous for them near electric wires? Or is this why you don't see giraffes in more developed areas of the world? Could you hunt them using a helocopter and a VERY strong magnet?
David --- Martin Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zelimir, > > and nowadays giraffes have adapted better to digest siderites (which they > have to do, to keep the iron in the knobs of their antennas fresh). > That's the reason, why we find substantially less irons in Africa than in > Australia. > > Skol > Martin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zelimir Gabelica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:21 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ya think your so smart, what's this? > > > Tom, > > Obviously the giraffe swallowed a couple of siderites before it was demised > by the Chixculob (or alike) tsumani. > This exotic example therefore is to learn us one more feature: some 65 MY > ago (and perhaps still now ?), giraffes did not digest very readily > siderites....A valuable observation for Science... > > Cheers, > > Zelimir > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ===== Here is the price of freedom, your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
