In a message dated 11/7/07 4:21:23 PM,
capnbob@nventure.com writes:
> The idea that raccoons are clean because they wash
their food is erroneous.
> They have very small
> throats and wet their food to help them
swallow.
>
really. and all this time I thought it was a vestigial
instinct echoing back to the day when their primordial
ancestors had to drown their prey before consumming
them
John Lau
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