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Skriven 2009-05-27 20:38:49 av Carol Shenkenberger (31064.cooks)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson (31059.cooks)
Ärende: WILD SHEEP  90527
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 >  >  CS> Better!  It's actually *fun* to go to work with this one!
 >  > You can't get much better than that!
 > 
 >  CS> Nope!  Now I just have to hope the contract comes through.  It should
 >  CS> but until it gets renewed, I'm understandably a bit nervous.
 > 
 > So are you being employed on a temporary, or a probationary basis?

No long term but the Navy has to review the contract and say they stil want
it for me to keep the job.

 > I doubt if Neanderthals migrated to Australia at any point, but
 > cro-magnon might have.  The evidence of human occupation from that far
 > back is mainly based on the discovery of artifacts and camp sites.

Hard to say!

 >  >  >  > Something I didn't know!  Whenever I see a monkey I will have to se
 >  >  >  > how he uses his tail, so I know where he comes from.  :)
 >  >
 >  >  CS> All can use them (if they have one as a few classes as 'monkey' do
 >  >  CS> not) but most seem to use them as stabilizers or gliding assistance.
 >  >  CS> New world ones use them as much as an elephant uses it's trunk.
 >  >
 >  > Thanks to you, I looked carefully at the next monkey I saw in TV.  It
 >  > used its tail to grip supports, like an extra hand.
 > 
 >  CS> Did you have anyy way to tell if it was a new world or old world one?
 > 
 > I think it was a New World type.  It climbed around branches, using
 > its tail to grip and take weight.


 >  CS> I gather it's a matter of 'difference' in use.  More than just
 >  CS> stabilizing on a tree limb.  They actually pick things up with their
 >  CS> tails and such.  Saw a documentary and one was using a stick with it's
 >  CS> tail to drive termites out of a limb and catching them with his hands
 >  CS> to eat them.
 > 
 > That would be quite a sight!

Not all are that advanced with them but some are.  'prehensile as in an
elephant trunk' seems to be the key.  Old world monkeys can stabilize on a
tree or use them to stabilize a glide, but can't hold a tool even if they can
hang upside down by them.  (Madagascar ones?)

 >  CS> There's a memory fragment that our 'new world' monkeys arent supposed
 >  CS> to be exported because they are a little more efficient and might
 >  CS> decimate the local old world ones?
 > 
 > Quite possible.  That sort of thing has happened many times in the
 > past.

OZ most noted for it.

 >  CS> I've read about it.  The main gap in the idea when it's debated, is
 >  CS> the polynesians brought certain root words and ways of society but
 >  CS> there is no sign of that here except on later populated islands.  It's
 >  CS> possible some of them came but were killed off by the Clovis man here?
 > 
 > Using languages as tools to indicate migrations is often done, and can
 > be very informative.  The prehistoric migration of vegetable foods is
 > something I would like to read more about.  As I have previously
 > mentioned, the sweet potato became established as a staple food in the
 > New Guinea highlands and in New Zealand long before any Europeans
 > travelled there.  As it originated in America, who brought it across
 > the Pacific, and when?

Humm!  Interesting.  Before man maybe?  Vegitation spreads in different ways
and so you get a coconut that was in seawater for 10 years that sprouts.

Ok, gotta go. Charlotte wants to play!
            xxcarol
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