--- FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > Hi everyone and Mark and Rion, > > Mark A. Mandel wrote on Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:08:20 -0800 (PST) > > >The orca is an Earth species, also known as the killer whale. > > Mark, I do not think we know this. We do not know exactly > what the orcas Vlad sees in Phoenix look like. Can't you see > the first Easterners looking at something in the water and > saying hey they sort of look like orca and act like them too? In fact, we know those orcas are not exactly present-day Earth orcas. See below. > They did not see any icebergs though. ... > ... > "Yinta said, 'Those were shorttails. Did you notice the white > splotches on their backs? When they're young they tend to travel > in pairs. Later they'll gather into larger groups.' > 'Their tails didn't seem especially short,' I remarked. > 'They weren't. They were both females; the males have shorter > tails." > > The Book of Taltos, Phoenix, Lesson 2, page 193 ... I looked this up one time. In the orcas we know and love, the males have *longer* tails. So Dragaeran orcas are different. But they might be descended from our orcas, I guess. Jerry Friedman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com