Re: Very Confused on Page 33

From: Andrew Thompson (SeeMySites_at_www.invalid)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:44:13 GMT

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:30:31 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

> The method milk() would not make a lot of sense to place in the baseclass
> Animal, since many animals don't like to be milked.

I once saw a nature doco. ("Big Cat Diaries"?) in which a young
tiger managed to cut a wildebeest calf away from the herd. But
the tiger was not that hungry, so it kept the calf standing, as
it lay stretched on the ground.

The *calf* got hungry, and, in it's confusion, nuzzled it's nose
under the cat in an attempt to find milk. The cat was obviously
quite startled by this, and it made me ROTFL (even knowing the
calf was about to meet a gruesome and premature fate).

Then, out of the long grass, appeared *three* lions. Instantly, the
calf was forgotten as the tiger concentrated on saving it's *own* hide.
In the confusion, the calf made it safely back to the herd. :-)

Altogether, the funniest bit of animal interaction I have ever seen.

..What were we talking about? 

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