Ot something for our down under folks

I suspect Taxonomy has moved on somewhat since I had my
book-learning, so a Google search could help...

In "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins," Jorge Luis Borges
describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium
of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are
divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

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On Jan 10, 2:10*am, Jack Campin wrote:
I suspect Taxonomy has moved on somewhat since I had my
book-learning, so a Google search could help...

In "The Analytical Language of *John Wilkins," Jorge Luis Borges
describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium
of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are
divided into:

* *1. those that belong to the Emperor,
* *2. embalmed ones,
* *3. those that are trained,
* *4. suckling pigs,
* *5. mermaids,
* *6. fabulous ones,
* *7. stray dogs,
* *8. those included in the present classification,
* *9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
* 10. innumerable ones,
* 11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
* 12. others,
* 13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
* 14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

Are cats 6 or 13?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

"Matthew" wrote in message
g.com...
Crocodile invites self into Australian home
Sunday, January 8, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia --
Wildlife rangers have helped an Australian family deal with an uninvited
guest: a 5-foot-6-inch (1.7-meter) crocodile that wandered into their
living room.

(snippage and YIKES!)

Not so different from the phone call I got last year from my neighbor (owned
by pretty black kitties Schwartzie & Fedders): "Did you know there's an
alligator in your back yard?" Sure enough, I looked out the window, there
was a 5 foot alligator in my back yard. Hmmm, can't leave that there. LOL

I felt sorry for the security guard who was sent down with a pole with a
loop on the end and was expected to wrangle this thing. It started trying
to roll (like the crocodiles do in the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films).
It was a young alligator but it probably weighed close to 200 pounds. She
had to drag it between our houses, across the street, behind another house
to a pond. The whole time this thing was putting up a fight.

Aside: this is why it bothers me my neighbor lets her cats go outside.
There are all kinds of threats here, including alligators.

Jill

"Lesley" wrote in message
...
On Jan 10, 2:10 am, Jack Campin wrote:
I suspect Taxonomy has moved on somewhat since I had my
book-learning, so a Google search could help...

In "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins," Jorge Luis Borges
describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium
of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are
divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

Are cats 6 or 13?

Lesley

***

Both.

Joy

"Matthew" wrote in
g.com:

Crocodile invites self into Australian home
Sunday, January 8, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia --
Wildlife rangers have helped an Australian family deal with an
uninvited guest: a 5-foot-6-inch (1.7-meter) crocodile that wandered
into their living room.

The juvenile sal****er crocodile wandered into a home in Bees Creek, a
suburb of the northern Australian city of Darwin. Australian
Broadcasting Corp. reported that the family found it in a partially
enclosed living area Saturday morning after their dog's barking woke
them.

Resident Jo Dodd describes the encounter as "a very surreal moment"
and "the most freakiest thing." She suspects the croc might been
stalking the dog.

Crocodile management official Dani Best told ABC the croc might have
been forced out of a nearby creek by a larger croc. The intruder has
been relocated to a crocodile farm.



Pew!!!
Around my neighbourhood we only have crocks of the human type....

Joy wrote:
"Lesley" wrote in message
...
On Jan 10, 2:10 am, Jack Campin wrote:
I suspect Taxonomy has moved on somewhat since I had my
book-learning, so a Google search could help...
In "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins," Jorge Luis Borges
describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium
of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are
divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

Are cats 6 or 13?

Lesley

***

Both.

And 8, obviously.

--
You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
*
Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn.

wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Its not uncommon for the wildlife to wander in to have a gander. Many
people have woken up to a 'roo in their house!

Of course they can be dangerous, too (if they've a mind to be). Nothing
with that kind of musculature in its hind legs is anything to fool
around with. However, they are at least mammals, and don't have quite
as many teeth!

I wouldn't consider membership in the mammal, um... order? Phylum? I
don't remember which level of the taxonomic hierarchy the vertebrates
are on, but I'm sure MatSav can straighten me out on that. Anyway,
I don't consider "being a mammal" something that would make an animal
any less dangerous, depending on the animal. I mean, which would be
worse - killed by a crocodile, or by a leopard? Granted, the leopard
is better looking, but that probably wouldn't be my foremost concern.


LOL! It's just that many of us have a special aversion to cold-blooded
critters like snakes and 'gators - we relate better to fellow members of
one of the warm-blooded species, even though many are no less dangerous.