As I understand it, stunned electrically or by inert gas, before being bled. But IANAE. As for @MelonB 's question, it's always puzzled me too though I never put it quite so well myself as … (View Post)

You'd be good for them ... (View Post)

"The judge who makes his own bed", no? Nice expression. (View Post)

I had to do that too ... 'hora fere septima' is about I can recall of the Latin. But quite so. IIRC Pliny's comparison of the smoke plume to a pine tree (of the Italian kind) also turn… (View Post)

And in olden times lots of Thalassocnus aquatic giant sloths paddling around on the Pacific coast of South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassocnus "The generic epithet Thalassocnus d… (View Post)