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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 537,
    "subject": "Incus' name",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-08-04T09:04:12+00:00",
    "last": "1998-08-04T09:04:12+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0724@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-08-04T09:04:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Incus' name",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nIt was asked earlier in this list by someone about what animal Patera\nJerboa confuses Incus' name with when he thinks that an incus is an\nanimal because he doesn't know it's a bone.\n\nAs far as I can tell, he mistakes it for a tree shrew. These are\nmembers of the order Scandentia (climbing) and its only family\nTupaiidae.  They are related to the earliest mammals and similar to\nboth insectivores and primates.  The largest species are no more than\n9 inches long.  They live mostly in trees and physically resemble\nshrews.  They have long tails, large ears, and large eyes.  They have\nsharp claws, longer hind feet, and long snouts.  Various species eat\ninsects, small animals, fruit, and birds' eggs.  Males are\nbad-tempered toward one another.\n\nNow, I would think that Wolfe would have put this in just because\nIncus is about the most shrew-like individual ever, but it just so\nhappens that the primitive mammals that the tupaiids were related to\nhad something that their reptile ancestors lacked.  The members of\nfamily Dryolestidae were the first animals whose jaw bones had lost\nthree of their bones into the structure of the middle ear, one of\nthese being the incus.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
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