Re: Correcting a mistake

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> About a week ago, or so, I mentioned that elephants cannot stay lying down
> because their weight might cause their tissue to go necrotic.

When I read that, I wanted to point out that *Tyrannosaurus*, unlike any
mammal, has long, straight, strong pubes with enormous pubic feet that would
have supported most of its weight in a birdlike squatting position. All
traces left by squatting dinosaurs show imprints of the feet, hands and
pubic feet (and never the tail, BTW).

Also relevant to the subject line, I once wondered why (on scichina.com) the
last character used to write Zhou Zhonghe is the one that means "and". It
has turned out that its basic meaning is "harmony" :-] , and that the
surname Zhou is written with the character that means "perfect".