At 01:55 AM 02/14/2000 -0500, David Campbell wrote:
>Mark Twain claimed that man was the only animal that blushes-or needs
>to.
I once observed a squirrel running along a log. When he came to the end,
he (it had to be a "he") jumped across a gap to an adjacent log, and
missed. He fell to the ground, sat there a moment, then "sheepishly looked
around to see if anyone was watching. Having seen no observers, he hopped
back up on the log and continued merrily along. Other than the obvious
anthropomorphisms, he was "blushing". I have seen other animals "blush"
when they were "embarassed". I wouldn't be as sanguine as Twain about the
subject.
Art
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