Re: the Five---Cornered COW

On Sun, 3 May 1998, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:

> >> Animals which are large AND have fewer predators reproduce less
> >> often. Simple really.  (Yes, a cow/buffalo is bigger than a chimp, 
> >> but it can't climb trees so it has more chance of being eaten by lions)
> 
>  I was really hoping somebody would take up the challenge and 
>  draw a cow climbin a tree to avoid being eaten by lions, to
>  the astonishment of the resident monkeys.
> 
Well, I only just read it and then your mail so here you go :

The monkeys would not be surprised because it is actually a common 
occurence.  The reason noone saw it is because the cows are very good at 
cow-mouflage.  Also not many people hang around when a lion is in the 
vicinity to see the cows at work.

Few people know it but Cows are very good scientists and architects.

The only problem is that they don't have hands to do the fiddly jobs.  
For this purpose they enlist the help of chimpanzees who are much better 
at tying knots and screwing in screws for pulleys etc than cows.

The cows come up with the ideas and the chimps put them into action :

Here is a blueprint of one of the cows ideas.  As you can see it's not 
bad.  Of course it had to get the chimp to draw it (due to not having 
hands) so it's not completely accurate.  Chimps are not very good at 
coming up with ideas or drawing in general, but they can pull ropes and 
climb trees which is why the cows enlist their help.

Also Chimps work for very little pay.  A couple of bananas and they'll do 
anything.


                                                 ';~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                   Pulley ------> /@~~~~~~~~~';
     ___________                                /' |
    /uuuuuuuuuuu\ <------ Cow hide.           /'   |   /\
    |~~~~|~~~~~~|                           /'     |   ||
    |----|[] [] |                         /'       |   Lift goes
    |    |      |                       /'         |   up.
    -------------,;~~~~~~~m~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~';,
   ~~~~~~        ,--~~~;;~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~'
   ---~~~-,    ,' {oo};;'          /' /\           |
     =====;   ;    (o);          /'   ||        ___|___
     /\   ',   ;  ;;. .;;      /'  Branch      | (  )  |       
     ||    ;   ; ;;';,' ;;m  /'    extended    |  uu   |     
     ||   ';   ; m-  ;;    /'                  |--oo---|     
 Tie rope ;    ;  \  m    /' <----Monkey pulls |L I F T|     
 here until;    ;   \   /'        rope         |       |      
 lion gone;'      ';  @/'                      '~~~~~~~'     
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                    /\
                    ||
                    Pulley
                      

There we go.  An ASCII representation of the blueprint.

Hope it comes out OK.

Hope ya like it.

Sorry, can't draw lions.

Phil
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