Re: Otters Keep Warm With Hair, Not Fat


"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> > "Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >
> > > > > > "Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> believes that
humans
> > weigh up to 70 pounds in message
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> > > > > Humans do weigh up to 70 pounds Marc. And more. ;)
> >
> > > > As usual, not too difficult. Yes, my boy, yes, that's what I'm
saying.
> >
> > > No, that's NOT what you're saying. You got caught again, get over it.
> >
> > "kg" I meant.
> > Stop using confusing medieval mearures & metrics when you're trying to
say
> > something scientifically.
> >
> > Don't evade.Point is: otters are smaller than people.
>
>
> http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-otter.html
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> Weight: largest--sea otter Enhydra lutris, males up to 95 pounds
> (43 kilograms);

You weigh 43 kg?

> McHenry calculated an estimated weight of 31.7 kg. for OH 8. There are
> many small examples for early Homo.

Sigh.
1) What do you know about the hairiness of OH-8?? ever seen one??
2) OH-8 is habilis, possibly apith, not Homo, see Wood etc.
3) OH-62 "habilis" had much longer arms than legs. Ape?
4) Calculations.

> Clearly some giant otters larger than some early Homo.
>
> McHenry, H. 1994. "Behavioral ecological implications of early hominid
> body size." In Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 27, pp. 77-87.
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> >
> >
> > > > > > > Marc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > "Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in
message
> > > > > > > > news:430EACE9.5AA8769D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Yes, Richie, otters are smaller than humans, and they
don't
> > live
> > > > in
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > tropics... Sigh...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Yes, they do - sigh. And their hair is uniformly
distributed
> > > > unlike
> > > > > > fat in
> > > > > > > > humans...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Sorry, my boy. My mistake. Otters are smaller than humans.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Large ones can reach a length of six feet. Weight up to 70
pounds.
> > As
> > > > big
> > > > > > as
> > > > > > > young humans and as big as earlier humans.
>


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