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What the hell is a Round-Headed Rampion?



Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Sussex people have named it as their favourite flower in a poll to establish a new county symbol.

a) Why

b) WTF is it?

I guess the people who said this are the sort of people who are worried about bats :)
 






Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Well, that will enhance my quality of life.

Couldn't the good folk of Sussex picked something more interesting?
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
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The Round Headed Rampion is named after a creature who's habitat can commonly be found on the open plains of Western Australia. It is slightly larger than a wild dingo, and gets its name from its distinctive large round skull-plate, which it uses for defence, and also to batter its prey into submission, before goring them with its tusks. The Round Headed Rampion is a carnivore and often feeds on young kangaroo. Unusually for an animal in the Australian outback, the Round Headed Rampion has no fur whatsoever. Instead, it has a leathery, tough hide not unlike a rhino. In the summer it sheds its skin twice, and each time its new skin is a different colour.

All recorded attempts to domesticate the Round Headed Rampion have ended in disaster. In the province of Goolagong in 1994, a fully grown male Rampion which had been raised in captivity, suddenly turned on its owner without warning after the man, a farmer, had allegedly attempted to perform an unnatural sex act on it. The man died of his injuries, and the Rampion was later destroyed.

The Round Headed Rampion is now listed as an endangered species, and it is estimated less than 400 of them now exist.
 










Hungry Joe.

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Mar 5, 2004
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Gwylan said:

I guess the people who said this are the sort of people who are worried about bats :)


I'm worried about bats. The other night I was taking a stroll down the Adur and one of the bastards nearly flew into me and in my panic I nearly fell in the river.......nearly.

No offence Easy, your bats look quite tame.
 


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