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Yeah, when you can show me where I said snakes do have ears of any kind I will gladly retract the following comment:

You are a LIAR.

The combination of coy and snippy doesn't really work too well, but whatever.

No, you didn't literally assert that snakes had ears. But you did so assertion by clear implication. In #64 you said:

Do all animals with tiny ears live in cold climates? Snakes don't have large ears.

Of course not a single word of this makes any sense apart from snakes having some sort of external ear that would have some sort of "size".

Yeah, well you LITERALLY did claim I said it.

Rather than adding insult to injury, you might want to refrain from calling me coy and snippy, as what I said to you was EXACTLY what you deserved.

Do you think anyone on this forum thinks snakes have little ears as opposed to big ones? Try reading comments in context to understand what they are about before jumping in and saying things that are untrue.

The context was that a claim was made that the mammoth's small ears (relative to elephants) can ONLY be explained by being adapted to a cold climate. There are a lot of arguments one could use as a counterpoint to my statement, but claiming I said snakes have ears demonstrates a willingness to fabricate things to win an argument and reveals a desire to evade the real issues in order to chase rabbits.

If I make a mistake I am one of the first around here to admit it, but I also don't let people get away with such fabrications.

If you or someone wants to have an intellectually honest debate, I am open. But if you think that taking cheap shots is the best way to win the debate, be prepared to be called on it.

So why do snakes not have large ears? For many reasons we can agree that it is NOT because they vanished through adaptation to cold climates. If not, why is this the ONLY possible explanation for mammoth's small ears? Personally, I could hardly care less whether mammoths lived in cold or mild climates. My reason for interjecting is that it is plain on the face of it that the detractors are quite disingenuous. Don't just sling mud up on the wall and see what sticks. Don't act so condescending toward anyone who doesn't see things your way, and act as if the only possible explanation is they are stupid.