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The platypus is even stranger than you think.

Date: 2004-10-26 07:26 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
Okay, that's freaky.

Though am I the only one who starts wondering at all the intermediate chromosome (non)pairings, parallel to human XXY and all that?

---L.

Date: 2004-10-26 07:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Yes. What is the platypodian equivalent of the male tortoiseshell cat?

Date: 2004-10-26 08:13 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
And, how would we tell?

---L.

Date: 2004-10-26 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelliem.livejournal.com
I always knew platypi were really alien hybrids. ;D

Date: 2004-10-26 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katallen.livejournal.com
The platypus -- I just keep thinking Doug Adam's Babel Fish. That and how much the universe really hates people trying to second guess the rules :o).

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