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From: vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella)
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Subject: Re: Coelocanth and evolution: x
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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:58:20 GMT
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What the Nat'l Geographic program failed to relay was the fact that the
behaviour of the coelecanth has changed. 

While the intrepid scientists showed that the fish stands on its head
presumably like an antenna detecting distant delectable dipoles, 

this has not always been its behaviour. Apparently, the ability to detect
food by weak dipoles has actually diminished in this ancient fish, since
cargo ships in the vicinity have lost microwave ovens in the seas around
the Camorro islands. The fish, in an almost unheard of use of tools, now
relies on microwave cooking for meals. Had the submarines tailing these
ancient-like fish been able to follow them into their crevices, they
would have seen the remains of many TV dinners, much like those of many
who watch these documentaries.


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Vincent Mazzarella
College of Medicine, Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
e-mail: mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu