This CT scan reveals the sixth "toe" - here seen in dark green towards the back on the elephant's foot
This CT scan reveals the sixth "toe" - here seen in dark green towards the back on the elephant's foot
In related news, an elephants sex organs are in its feet.
(If he steps on you, you’re f’ed!)...
Camel toe is much more interesting.
Sixth “toe” is for communication!
They used it to dial rotary phones, way back when.....
First thing I did with grand-daughter 2.0 was count fingers and toes, just like I did with grandson 1.0, grandson 2.1 etc....
Why 5? Why not 3? or 7? I've seen critters or people with both.
Insects and spiders seem to do ok with 6 and 8 limbs, mammels seem to have 4...
More stuff that makes you go... "Hmmm. I'm glad I'm not in charge of this stuff"
/johnny
From my perverse childhood:
Do you know what that stuff is between the elephant’s toes?
Slow natives.
Male Worker #1: Nice girl.
Male Worker #2: Yeah, she really is. Too bad about her hands.
[ Sheila looks at her hand sadly, revealing that she has seven fingers on each hand ]
Announcer: You've tried sanding them off. You've tried slamming them off. And mitts only hide the problem. There's no way around it - you've got extra fingers. It's time for Handi-Off. Only Handi-Off contains Leprosin. [ Sheila applies Handi-Off to her extra fingers ] That tingle will tell you it's working. In just three days, unsightly fingers disappear - for good! [ Sheila's extra fingers fall off ]
[ back at the office ]
Male Worker 2: Hey, Sheila. Pick you up at six?
Sheila: Let's make it five! [ holds her hand up to reveal she now has five fingers on each hand, and winks at the camera ]
Announcer: Subtract your extra digits with Handi-Off. Now there's new Toe-Riffic for toes.
before I clicked the link and watched the vid, I was going to say it was an elongated carpal bone on the pinky side of the wrist joint...aka the pisiform bone and not very odd for a mammal.
but the vid clearly show it is not the pisiform carpal bone. The vid shows it is a branch off the metacarpal bone of the pinky finger...aka digit V.
THAT IS STRANGE
Being an expert on that subject I must admit that thought never entered my mind.......
That must be the Beohner spot- the one that when touched by a jackass, causes the elephant to cave.
"It's a cool mystery that goes back to 1706, when the first dissection of an elephant was carried out by a Scottish surgeon."
if it took 40 million years to ‘evolve’ this partial toe, how do you explain eyeballs or the brain...??
Some of these things (like an eyeball) only work as a whole- they only work if all the pieces work. How do you ‘evolve’ something that needs to be whole in order to work? You would have to spontaneously generate a complete eye.
So are they now even-toed ungulates or are they still odd-toed ungulates?
Dew claw?
