Walker's Mammals of the World

RGVECB's two-volume set arrived today, 6th ed. It is worth the price of admission. First, the pages glued to the front and back covers on the inside, and the adjacent pages have, inexplicably, comparison scales of metric and U.S. measurements of area, weight, temperature and length plus conversion tables. Both volumes have this feature. Second, the pictures of all the different mammals are just too funny. For example, the only Homo sapiens pictured are all astronauts including one of all of those astronauts that got blown up when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. That picture represents human diversity. This is not funny because the Challenger exploded, but because all the humans have space suits on. Third, the phylogenetic order of the mammals is always hilarious because Primates is sandwiched between Chiroptera and Carnivora. Fourth, the proboscis monkey has an erection all right, but doesn't appear to be in a boat like the Crumby Ovate remembered. Either he saw the proboscis monkey in the boat somewhere else, or they have switched pictures, or the CO dreamed up the boat.

On another, and more nostalgic tack. on p. 243 is the star-nosed mole with an insert picture of its nose. I wept a little at the site of one of my potential former foster parents.

the LDR
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Hey Rayetta. What do you think is the etymology of dreamboat?

Hmmmm. Well Ray, I'm not sure about that. Why don't you do some research on the subtopic, dreamboat?

All righty then. Perhaps dreamboat will be my thought for tomorrow.