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jencallisto, a brief photographic interlude of yaks and other mysterious creatures.

( a tiny herd of purple yaks )

( more yaks, an aardvark for good measure, and a mystery creature (pangolin!) thrown in for free. )

( i just liked this picture. )

( a critical mass of tiny plastic yaks. )

a footnote to the vertebrate limb development chapter, in the NCBI online edition of S. Gilbert's Developmental Biology text:

*When referring to the hand, one has an orderly set of names to specify each digit (digitus pollicis, d. indicis, d. medius, d. annularis, and d. minimus, respectively, from thumb to little finger). No such nomenclature exists for the pedal digits, but the plan proposed by Phillips (1991) has much merit. The pedal digits, from hallux to small toe, would be named porcellus fori, p. domi, p. carnivorus, p. non voratus, and p. plorans domi, respectively.