A Quote by Elaine Morgan

Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

Elaine Morgan

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Elaine Morgan
Welsh - Writer
November 7, 1920 - July 12, 2013

I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

Yvon Chouinard

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Marvin Harris

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David Attenborough

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Bernardo Houssay

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Frank Zindler

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

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