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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_19525_6707675.1217245626760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2008/7/27 Christopher Majka c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca > > I am no expert on reptiles and the last time I studied them was when I > took Biology in high school! > > > I think you mean amphibians. Reptiles consist primarily of snakes, lizards, > turtles, and crocodiles. > Unless of course Liz is hearkening back to the earliest days of taxonomy, when any vertebrate that "crawled" was considered a reptile! I remember being part of a zoology journal club back in the '80s, as a student. I thought "finally, I have a valid critique about a paper!", but was told about this different usage of the term. Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_Part_19525_6707675.1217245626760 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div dir="ltr"><br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/27 Christopher Majka <span dir="ltr">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word"> <div> <div> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> <blockquote type="cite"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14px; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT-VARIANT: normal"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">I am no expert on reptiles and the last time I studied them was when I took Biology in high school! </font></div></div></span></blockquote> <div><br></div></div> <div>I think you mean amphibians. Reptiles consist primarily of snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div> <div>Unless of course Liz is hearkening back to the earliest days of taxonomy, when any vertebrate that "crawled" was considered a reptile! I remember being part of a zoology journal club back in the '80s, as a student. I thought "finally, I have a valid critique about a paper!", but was told about this different usage of the term.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Randy<br>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.<br></div></div> ------=_Part_19525_6707675.1217245626760--
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