--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Sloan II wrote: > > > > I also like the other name for the Milky Way that > I learned > > from Greg Benford, "Great Sky River". That one > makes a lot > > of sense. Kudos to the American Indians for coming > up with it. :-) > > > > There's also the very cool-sounding African > >"Backbone of Night", that I learned from Cosmos. > > > In the Tupi-Guarani mythology it's called "Caminho > da Anta", which means "Pathway of a > <big-cousin-of-the-rat-with-the- > size-of-a-cow>". Sorry for not getting the name in > Tupi but in Portuguese O:-)
Those sessions with the Time-Life Series nature books as a child were not wasted...I thought it might be "capybara," which is the biggest rodent in the world, and finally had time to look it up: http://www.k12.de.us/warner/capybara.htm Here are a bunch of pix: http://www.capybara.com/capybaras/Gallery/Gallery_1.html Reggie, wanna have a really *big* guinea pig?! :) Water Pig Maru __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
