or our inestimable author confused the two, like he did with Zerika's parents. > --- 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