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Central videnskabelig teori (ifølge Darwin - og iøvrigt ganske interessant)
om hvordan bjørne bliver til hvale...


"In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with
widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even
in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if
better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see
no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more
and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger
mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."

Darwin, C. R. 1859. On the origin of species by means of natural selection,
or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John
Murray. 1st edition, 1st issue.

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En anden historie: Hvordan elefanten fik sin lange næse.


Once a baby elephant was not staying close to his mama as he was supposed
to. Wandering away, he saw the bright, shiny river and stepped closer to
investigate. There was a bump sticking out of the water, and, wondering what
it was, he leaned forward to get a closer look. Suddenly that bump with all
that was attached to it jumped up and grabbed the nose of the little
elephant. Kipling continues the story:

" 'Then the elephant's child sat back on his little haunches and pulled, and
pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. And the crocodile
floundered toward the bank, making the water all creamy with great sweeps of
his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled.' " *Rudyard Kipling,
children's story, quoted in Wayne Freir and Percival Davis, Case for
Creation (f 983), p. 130

And that is how the elephant got its long nose.