the goat in the inaccessible village who was cured by remote medical advice via a webcam enabled information kiosk
On 8/7/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i think the problem is more with the thorn...
got poked once...and it is very very painful and causes a sort of nasty infection.....
(unlike the native 'whistling' acacia, which generally has bulbous and brittle thorns, and shares a symbiotic
relationship with stinging ants which live inside the bulbs...so, even if you get a little jab...the ants come swarming
out and take care of the rest. even elephants steer clear of these plants...)
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 08/07/2006 03:57:50 PM:
> > Residents say the mathenge seeds of the plant stick in the gums of their
> > animals, eventually causing their teeth to fall out.
>
> Er.. so the seeds are sweet, and they stick in the teeth of livestock,
> and cause the teeth to rot. If I gave my daughter unlimited amounts of
> chocolate, my dentist would be the happiest person in the world.
>
> They'd need a goat dentist, or maybe see if they can't feed their goats
> some dental floss .. those beasties will eat anything at all :)
>
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does the frog know it has a latin name?
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