From: lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (LYNN ALFORD)
Subject: Re: A new battleground
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Date: 11 NOV 92 09:30:19    

In article <1992Nov8.201936.16912@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes...
>In article <1992Nov8.182458.16036@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu 
>writes:
> 
>}                                                                       But 
>}the frogs are a wonderful small animal and well worth anyone's support.
> 
>Bats are all of that, plus they are warm and furry.  Btw, their mouths
>are generally too small to bite humans effectively, save perhaps on the
>tip of a little finger if you hold it *just so*.

The most commonly seen bat in North Queensland is the flying fox or fruit 
bat.  They do have mouths large enough to bite a human.  They also have the 
*appalling* habit of landing on your fruit trees, taking three bites of an 
unripe fruit (mangoes frequently) and then doing the same to another fruit 
on the tree.  The fruit bitten will rot before it ripens.  These bats are 
very unpopular with anyone who tries to grow fruit.

>Also, bats are not blind, neither do they get tangled in your hair, 
>they are both communal or solitary (depending on the particular
>species), vegitarian or carnivorous (again, depending on the 
>species) and a host of other things.  In North America, they
>generally consume many, many flying insects (including mosquitos).

Most frogs are vegetarian then carnivorous.  Tapoles eat algae and other 
things they can scrap off rocks in a stream.  Frogs eat insects, for the 
most part, though I believe there is at least one large species of frog in 
South America that can eat bats.

Frogs provide amusement for youngsters, who can get a bucket of tadpoles
from any pond in the spring, and experimental animals for scientists.  Bats 
simply are.


>}There can only be one choice.  Frogs forever.
> 
>If I had never met a bat I might indeed choose a frog.  Frogs are
>indeed second, although not a close second...
> 
>Besides, frogs are green and slimy and ikky.  Besides, kissing

Frogs come in many colours.  There is basic green, basic brown, basic green 
with brown spots, basic brown with green spots.  There are also yellow 
frogs, red and blue frogs, orange and black frogs...in other words a large 
array of colours.  Nor are all frogs slimy.  Treefrogs in particular are
dry to the touch, and only go near water during their mating season.

Bats come in brown, ranging from a pale brown, to a very dark brown, but 
all brown.  How dull can you get?

>one may destroy the frog as you know it.  "Bat" is easier to 
>spell, too.

Due to the long-term lack of handsome princes (or even beautiful 
princesses) in the modern world, I doubt that destroying the frog as you it 
is a problem.  Bat might be easier to spell, but it is also confused with 
certain implements used to play games (i.e. the cricket bat and the 
baseball bat.)  Frog only means frog.

> 
>}I had an opinion just a moment ago.  Now where did I put it?
>The frog probably took it.  Bats think for themselves.

Bats don't think.  They just fly around with their mouths open.

Lynn
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