mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....

Kim

Vertebrate?

irach

[Lib] By alive, if you mean non-extinct, yes.
[Kim} Yes. A vertebrate.

Irouléguy

A species?

irach

[Irouleguy] Yes, a species.

Rosie

Mammal?

(CdM) Can't see why a vacuum is temperature dependent, which is why I went for the the rather obscure Bergeron process, which certainly is. Not to worry. :-)

irach

[Rosie] Yes, a mammal.

CdM

Found (in the wild) on more than two continents?

[Rosie] Well, I was thinking about the fact that the density of the mercury (or whatever) is affected by temperature, and hence so is the size of a Toricelli vacuum. (I think. This is your area of expertise, not mine). I certainly agree that I should have at least indicated that the connection to temperature was minor.

Is it amphibian?

Tree-dwelling?

Water-dwelling?

Carnivorous?

Giraffe?

A long-necked meat-eating animal that lives in trees and water and swims?

Irouléguy

Meerkats?

irach

[Inkspot] Yes, it is semi-aquatic.
[rab] No, not arboreal.
[Kim] Not exclussively water-dwelling, see response to Inkspot.
[Raak] Not carnoivorous. Rather the contrary.
[Lib] Not a giraffe. A long way off.
[CdM] Not a long necked or meat eating animal that lives in trees. It does enter water and swim, though.
[Irouleguy] Not meerkats.

Raak

A hippopotamus?

Kim

A beaver?

irach

[Raak] Not a hippopotamus.
[Kim] Not an eager (or disinterested) beaver.

Raak

Smaller than a telephone box?