[lit-ideas] Re: Dolphin-speak...and sheep
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:05:51 -0800
On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
The statement does not run much counter to my understanding of
evolution ...
This gives me a quite illegitimate opening to report the story of
evolved sheep on the Orcadian island of North Ronaldsay. Since 1832,
when a thirteen-mile-long dyke was built to keep the sheep on the sea
shore and away from more productive uses of fields, sheep on this
island have been living off seaweed. They are, as it were, the
marine iguanas of Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ronaldsay_sheep
I just thought people might be interested.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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