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the drongo's dong

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Subject: the drongo's dong
From: Harvey Perkins <>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:02:52 +1000
Jenny Skewes wrote:

> The discussion of why 97% do not  has a distinctly gender-political air,
>suggesting that female preference may have led to the disappearance of
>this useful appendage. Interesting!


Or is it in fact the case that birds as a group didn't start out with them,
and instead, in mammals, female preference led to the appearance of this
useful appendage. Now that sounds much more interesting!  ;-)

Harvey   




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