Ernest Hemingway
Acum o vreme cineva a ajuns pe blog căutând pe google " pisica reala cu degete opozabile". Nu am băgat de seamă.....la urma urmei nici despre "art 288 "plata cu ora"", "Leon Bota" sau "care tocmai a petrecut un" (?), nu am scris, şi totuşi Google trimite la mine. Dar astăzi găsesc pe Pharyngula asta:
Am râs, desigur. Adica evoluţia are lucruri mai bune de făcut, nu?
Apoi, accidental, găsesc asta:
Şi, parcă nu era de ajuns, ar fi trebuit să ştiu asta de prin liceu:
A polydactyl cat is a cat with a congenital physical anomaly called polydactyly (or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly), a type of cat body type genetic mutation, that caused the cat to be born with more than the usual number of toes on one or more of its paws. Cats with this genetically inherited trait are most commonly found along the East Coast of the United States and in South West England.
Nicknames for polydactyl cats include "boxing cats", "mitten cats", "mitten foot cats", "Vermont snowshoe cats","thumb cats", "six-finger cats", "Boston Thumb Cats", "Cardi-cats", "Hemingway cats", and "double-pawed cats".
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Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was one of the more famous lovers of polydactyl cats, after being first given a six-toed cat by a ship's captain. Upon Hemingway's death in 1961, his former home in Key West, Florida, became a museum and a home for his cats, and it currently houses approximately fifty descendants of his cats (about half of which are polydactyl). Because of his love for these animals, "Hemingway cat", or simply "Hemingway", is a slang term which has come to describe polydactyls.
Some sources state that these cats are rare in Europe because they were killed as witches' familiars, but other sources indicate that they are quite common in England. Polydactyl cats are very common in the Cardigan area of Wales, where they are known as "Cardi-Cats."
Desigur, problema pe care mi-o pun e următoarea: are google capacităţi predictive, fac eu selecţie observaţională sau motanul meu e adevăratul zeu?
