"Everhard Johannes Slijper (1907–1968) was professor of general zoology at Amsterdam University, Netherlands. He was the world’s leading authority on whales. Chapter 2 of his classic work is entitled ‘Evolution and External Appearance’*. In it, he talks about a bone in whales that he calls the ‘pelvic bone’, which is some 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, ‘but unlike the pelvis of normal mammals it is not attached to the vertebral column’. This bone serves as an anchorage for the male reproductive organs. "
C'est drôle, je commence à vous sentir coincé ...
Julien
*E.J.Slijper, Whales, translated from Dutch by A.J. Pomerans, Cornell University Press, New York, (U.K. edn. Hutchinson, taken over by Routledge, London, UK), 2nd edn. 1979
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