Re: Language of saurian/reptilian beings

Monotremes (echidnas and platypi[?]) also function
like this, neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded.
Western-style logic prevents one from getting one's
mind around the subject--warm-bloodedness is much more
like a fuzzy set.

Clint


--- "Karapcik, Mike" <KarapcM@...> wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Christophe Grandsire
> | Subject: Re: Language of saurian/reptilian beings
> |
> | Sorry to be picky, but dinosaurs were not
> reptiles. We even
> | know now that they were not cold-blooded animals
> (but they
> | were not warm-blooded either. From what we know,
> dinosaurs
> | had a system which allowed their body to warm
> itself up when
> | needed, without exterior source of warmth, but
> could also be
> | switched off on demand - to save energy -).
>

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