Re: Freshwater Sponges (Was ZEBRA MUSSELS A BAD THING :( )

["Richard E Matheson" <MOJOMAN at prodigy_net>]

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From: Dwight Moody <dwightmoody at hotmail_com>
To: nfc at actwin_com <nfc at actwin_com>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Freshwater Sponges (Was ZEBRA MUSSELS A BAD THING :( )


>The freshwater dolphins are found in the upper Amazon.  A local legend
>holds that they can mutate into humans at night and visit nubile maidens
>who cannot resist their charms, thereby causing out-of-wedlock
>pregnancies.  Seems the natives protect the dolphins to maintain the
>theory.
>


Sounds like a perfectly reasonable legend to me. They should protect them:
probably saves a lot of hard feelings about unexplained pregnancies.

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