Re: Unicorn

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santosh <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thom Madura wrote:

According to CNN - a real Unicorn was found in Italy.

The picture looked more like a deer with a single center horn - but it
does fit he description of a Unicorn

And it also explains the origins of the mythology of Unicorns. Obviously
such mutants must have appeared sporadically through the millenia, and
our over-imaginative ancestors just couldn't resist constructing a
fascinating mythology out of it.

You can in fact create a unicorn (from the Latin for one horn, the
Greek would be monoceros; the rhinoceros, or nose horn, was originally
called monoceros) quite easily. Horned animals are born without horns
and the horns emerge later from buds. If you remove one of the buds at
birth only a single horn will develop, symetrically. For reasons not
understood the herd follows the unicorn, and there is evidence that
our ancestors deliberately created unicorns to make their herds easier
to control.


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