From: Bernuetz, Oliver: WPG (Bernuetz.Oliver@cbsc.ic.gc.ca)
Date: Tue 02 Dec 1997 - 17:54:08 EET
Sergio suggests:
>Hummmm.... One of the strange things about such an unruly type as broos is:
>Why should they respect a certain size measure? Why, how why, can't we find
>a broo as small as a mice or as large as an elefant? IMO, if broos can
>apear in all shapes and maners they should exist in all sizes also. Think
>about it:
Hmmm. Why not indeed. There are dinosaur broos in Dorastor. There
probably isn't any reason why broos can't be all sizes. I would think
they'd
be rarer for a number of reasons.
1) The broos would have to have been breeding with progressively small
animals for quite a while for them to be able to "breed" with animals as
small
as mice. (I'll resist any crude analogies here). Below a certain size they
might lose their intelligence. Larger broos would certainly pick on the
smaller
ones and they might only exist in colonies of their own. I have visions of
farmers setting elaborate traps for broo-rats.
2) Large animals are pretty dangerous. If a broo got amorous with an
elephant all it would have to do is to sit down and - splat - the romance
is
out of the relationship. Won't say it can't happen but it wouldn't happen
very often.
Oliver D. Bernuetz
bernuetz.oliver@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/realm/5545
P.S. Thanks to Nick and Peter for the info.
P.S.S. I liked Allen Wallace's essay as well.
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