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Re: If No. 9 is a hatchling

To: david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: If No. 9 is a hatchling
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:42:07 -0400
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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Quoting david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>:

> Nick, not knowing tigers as well as I wish I did at this very moment, I want
> you to give me the next five obvious juvenile characters we can work with,
> not shared by the adult house cats, and we'll figure this out together.

Well, I'm no expert on tigers, either, but I have seen pictures of cubs.  I am
reasonably sure that the juvenile characters would include:

large head
short limbs and tail relative to trunk length
large eyes
shortened muzzle
immature bone texture

Nick Pharris
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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