From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Wed Oct 25 07:11:52 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_0); 25 Oct 2000 14:11:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 26902 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2000 14:11:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Oct 2000 14:11:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnd.internet-bg.net) (212.124.64.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2000 14:11:50 -0000 Received: from math.bas.bg (ppp115.internet-bg.net [212.124.66.115]) by lnd.internet-bg.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA21459 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:38:00 +0300 Message-ID: <39F6E352.CE293D70@math.bas.bg> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:42:42 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: raccoon References: <8t6346+7qdo@eGroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" wrote: > To me, "raccoon" has nothing dog-like, but something of a cat > (feline) and a lot of a bear! A look at a few sites on zoology tells me that the order Carnivora is divided into two suborders, Caniformia and Feliformia, with dogs (Canidae), bears (Ursidae) and raccoons (Procyonidae) in one and cats (Felidae) in the other. Conclusion: a raccoon is as close to a bear as it is to a dog, and closer to either of these than to a cat. --Ivan