--- Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> wrote: > > > While I appear to be wrong as far as jhereg, there do still remain a > number of > Dragaeran species with 6 limbs. A friend and I postulated that 6 limbed > creatures > were those that were native to Dragaera, while the 4 limbed ones were > imports from the "small invisible stars". Sort of Tepperesque, eh? > However the example of the jhereg and the > serioli seem to contradict this. They could have evolved from six-limbed beings, for all we know. > Still, I think it would be interesting to compare leggedness among those > creatures > on which we can speculate. Different number of limbs lead to questions > of relatedness > and evolution. > > here's a short list of creatures in each group, off the top of my head > and without > having the time to dig through my books atm. Perhaps someone can add > more to it? > > 6 legs: > cat centaurs Cat-centaurs may be native to Dragaera, but I refuse to believe they evolved there. Or anywhere. They must be someone's genetic experiment. > tiassa > chreotha > dragons Do we know that dragons have four legs and two wings? I can't remember _Broke Down Palace_. > 4 legs: > easterners > dragaerans > serioli > jhereg > issola > jenoine I assume all the Earth creatures mentioned are pretty much like the ones we know and love. cat chicken cow dog donkey horse hawk pig wolf Also 0 legs: yendi, and one or two other kinds of snakes have been mentioned > dzur might have vestigial wings, for all we know. the tiassa's wings > are only mentioned once, in > an easily-overlooked description of a statue in Taltos.l And what about norska? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com