RSD in mammals..

["D.W.Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

> The exceptions to larger (or same 
> sized) mammalian males that I can think of off the top of my head are the 
> mole rats (which are eusocial, and therefore odd, and ugly, in many 
> ways), and the baleen whales.  

I'd like to add the Binturong (_Arctictis binturong_) and certain of the lemurs.
You mention fruit bats, ah yes. 

NECK VERTS AGAIN

I never did get to say that sirenians have 9 neck vertebrae too. Furthermore,
while some sloths have 9, others have 6. 

(Stop drawing mylodontids with tree-sloth faces!)

DARREN NAISH
dwn194@soton.ac.uk