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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Message-ID: <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 88 04:28:51 GMT
References: <2924@saturn.ucsc.edu> <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: vocabulary test
Summary: males score a first in the battle of the sexes

In article <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>in article <2924@saturn.ucsc.edu>, kevin@chromo.ucsc.edu (Kevin McLoughlin) says:
>> 
>...
>
>> you know what happens when you mate a horse with a donkey.
>> A mule is sterile, but it IS a real creature, and it's neither clearly
>> a horse nor clearly a donkey; it has characteristics of both.
>
>...
>
>Recently a mule somewhere in the midwest -- sorry I can't remember
>where -- foaled for the second time.  Apparently it's not a hoax.
>Such an event had been recorded only once previously.  Needless to say,
>lot's of people are VERY interested in this particluar animal.  The 
>offspring is a funny looking fuzzy thing that looks something like a Shetland.


Well, a hinny might have foaled, but a _mule_?  That would really get some
attention all right!

Kent, the man from xanth.