Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:59 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote: > Armadillo are casually known as hardshell possum. Closeup they resemble a > cross between a possum and a rock, and they generally have mental > candlepower somewhere between the two. Now, given that a possum has been > described by a zoologist I know as "not really bright enough to be a > quadruped" (and in the next breath, "Possibly the stupidest multi-celled > organism in existence"), well.... > > They are dangerous in only two possible ways: 1. They've been reported as > carriers of leprosy but I vaguely recall that the strain they get (the > only animal other than man to do so) is not contagious to humans, and 2. > They'll dig up ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and do enough damage to the ground > that horses will break legs and gardening humans will shoot at them - and > miss, resulting in flying lead at ground level, which is inherently > hazardous. > > > It's a safe bet that this critter didn't even know kittybob was there; > their sensory inputs and capacity for analysing them are somewhat ... > limited. They can't see more than an inch beyond their noses and their > sense of smell is about the same range. I've had them litterally trundle > up to me, bounce off my boot, turn around, bounce off the OTHER boot, and > then wander away none the wiser. > > I'm told they're edible. I'm fairly sure you'd have to be beyond starving. Made me laugh on a very sad day Clayton. (nice catch Sonny) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist