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Re: Blue Sky

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From: Hal Lillywhite
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:34
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In article <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:

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>George did that routine before blue-corn became popular enough to 
>show up as corn flakes as well as tortillas, or squid-ink pasta made 
>it into american grocery stores.  Interesting that there are blue birds 
>and flowers but not blue animals; where is a biologist when we need one! 

And I find it peculiar that although there are blue birds, there are
no blue raptors that I know of.  Can you imagine the advantage a sky-
blue hawk would have?  His prey would have a very difficult time seeing 
him until it was too late.  I wonder why such an obvious advantage 
seems not to have developed.
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From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal Lillywhite)
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Subject: Re: Blue Sky
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Date: 22 Jul 92 22:34:32 GMT
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