Patera Incus

Lee Berman · 15 Aug 2010, 23:10 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:10:25 -0400
Subject: (urth) Patera Incus
Message-ID: <SNT123-W39C189A8CDCD1BCEA1EA51CF9A0 at phx.gbl>

>James: Unfortunately, Incus recognizes that Fulmar is not especially perceptive as reflected 
>by his name, meaning a type of gull which in Vironese thieves cant is a simpleton

>Mo Holkar: Just on a zoological note: a fulmar is not a type of gull, but a type 
>of petrel. Apart from both being birds, fulmars and gulls are not 
>related at all.

Well, they are both seabirds comprising a smaller much smaller subset than that which would 
include owls and ostriches. But it is still a good correction to make (given my own background,
I can never complain about more accurate zoology). Gulls are generally more intensely
social and as such, as tends to be the case among social predators, more cunning and intelligent 
than petrels.

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