[TheForge] [OT] Re: Rocks (Was: Steel...flint sources?)

[Jerry Frost]

You always have such . . . Interesting imagery Pete.

Ruminents have top and bottom incisers and if they were 
so inclined could indeed take fingers off.

Frosty
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From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" 
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> Generates an image of a needle nosed sheep slurping 
> it's way down a very long blade of grass only to find 
> that when it reaches the root, that it can't bite it 
> off and is thus anchored to the ground....pf
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
>> I thought sheep, like other ruminants (or even, 
>> even-toed ungulates),
>> had only upper teeth in front.... Bovids, more 
>> particularly... but I
>> couldn't find
>> confirmation of this on wikipedia: 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovidae
>>
>> This is a very important detail, in that sheep & 
>> goats (among others) are
>> not likely to be able to bite off your finger -- and 
>> also, if you happened to
>> be forging a sculpture of a bovid's mouth you don't 
>> need to forge so many
>> teeth :)
>>
>> ben