Wednesday, September 20, 2006

can't-a-name-a-mammal


tonight we ate this for dessert...



...and later, i told my son that this animal was a cantaloupe.

i'll take part of the blame for the low scores he gets on future aptitude tests.

the rest i'll leave for the idiots who name zoo animals after fruits!

2 comments:

MjM said...

If you eat enough cantaloupe, you'll never run away to get married.

Anonymous said...

I feel pretty geeky but as soon as I saw the picture I thought "Hey that's a pronghorn and their not really antelopes."
I ckecked wikipedia to make sure I wouldn't make an ass of myself and in fact yeah they are not actually antelopes.
They call them antelopes anyway. So unless your son is to be a zoologists it may not matter. I don't know if you are old enough to remember those animal cards that you could order off TV. They had a picture of the animal on the front and a lot of info, like the latin name and it's species, genus, family, order phylum, kingdom, its range etc.
Needless to say if the sold such things today the fundis would be all over them for teaching evolooshun.
The cantaloupe however is member of the antelope family.