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  "thread": {
    "id": 514,
    "subject": "Names, animals and meanings (R)",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-07-31T10:06:09+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-31T10:06:09+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0700@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-31T10:06:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals and meanings (R)",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nRatel.  Any species of genus Mellivora (honey-eater), especially\nMellivora capensis.  M. capensis is also called the honey badger.  It\nhas a grey top and the rest of the fur is black.  It looks like a\ncross between a skunk and a badger.  It has long claws.  It is about\ntwo feet long.  It is stocky and has very loose skin, in which it can\nmaneuver.  The thick skin helps to protect it against bee stings when\nit gets honey.  Interestingly, it is led to sources of honey by\nanother species, a small bird called the honey guide (Indicatoridae\nIndicator indicator).  This bird also leads humans and other animals\nto honey sources, where they open up the nest, leaving the honey guide\nto feed on the remnant honey and wax.  The ratel also eats small\nanimals, insects, roots, bulbs, and fruit.  They are normally\nnocturnal.  A young girl at the palaestra.\n\nRemora.  Latin for delay.  Any species of one of several genera in\nfamily Echeneidae (ship-delaying), especially the remora (Remora\nremora).  The remora has a sucking disk on the back of its head that\nit attaches to the bottoms of sharks, large fishes, or ships.  They\ntravel with them.  It feeds on the parasites of the shark and also\nleaves briefly to catch small fish or crustaceans.  The remora prefers\nthe blue shark as its host.  Patera Remora delays often when speaking.\n He also has a parasitic relationship with Prolocutor Quetzal.\n\nRimah.  Arabic for gazelle.  Siyuf's chief of staff.\n\nRook.  Corvus frugilegus, a bird related to and looking like the crow.\n It also is a piece in chess.  It is also slang for one who cheats or\nis deceived.  One of Mint's lieutenants.  Seen in a symbolic dream. \nInterpreted by Mint to be a message sent by the Outsider (who relates\nto the night chough Oreb).\n\nRose.  From Latin rosa, from Greek rhodon.  Probably related to island\nof Rhodos.  Any species in genus Rosa.  Pretty, but has sharp thorns. \nRepresents chastity.  Maytera Rose is pretty prickly, and has broken\nher vow of chastity.  She's also lost the blush of youth."
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