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  3. Subject: Re: Questions...
  4. Message-ID: <kaplan4.722151539@husc10>
  5. From: kaplan4@husc10.harvard.edu (Merrill Kaplan)
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 05:38:59 GMT
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  11. t00022@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
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  13. >In times of famine, the pelican will tear strips of flesh off her own breast
  14. >to feed her young.  I don't remember if this is all a bunch of baloney or
  15. >if pelicans actually do this.
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  17. >                                             Fledermaus, the sometimes
  18. >                                                nature expert
  19. Actually, it's a bunch of hooey.  ;}
  20. It comes from the medieval bestiaries .. didactic animal books written
  21. to demonstrate religious points of doctrine.  The pelican was to be
  22. exemplary of Christian charity and selflessness or some such ...
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  24. Merrill
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