Re: Half an hour to go......


"Rabbit" <Rabbit_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5raaetF1315dpU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.... and the annual Haggis Hunt begins.
http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/
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Sandra
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This could help you in the hunt.

Wally
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In the wild the male haggis has
left legs which are longer than his right ones
and walks clockwise round hills, while females
have longer right legs and walk counter-clockwise.

(Experienced haggis hunters who encounter a mixed
horde must decide which sex they are hunting
and then chase the horde in the appropriate
direction. The sex with the long legs on the
uphill side will roll down the hill and may be
caught in a net at the bottom.)

Experiment has shown that leg size in haggis is
developmental rather than intrinsic. Other than
during the mating season haggis form single-sex
hordes and so young male haggis develop long left
legs because of the direction that they have
been walking, and vice versa for females.

(The Department of Food Technology at the University
of Glenbogle has reared, in captivity, two hordes of
reversed haggis [known as siggah] by hoarding new-
born male haggis with robots having [artifical] male
odor but female leg arrangement, and, of course,
vice versa for new-born female haggis. Efforts to
raise flatland haggis have always failed. Recent
research has shown that the digestive tract of the
haggis is also asymmetric, and in lieu of peristalsis,
food is moved through the digestive tract by the
motion of the tract induced by walking along a steep
slope - hence haggis raised in flat country quickly
die of inanition.)

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