Sunday, March 20, 2011

Side Hill Gouger

Every year around this time of the year one of the biology teachers at the school I taught had a lesson he taught on side hill gougers. He explained that through evolution the cows that grazed on the sides of the hills in Wisconsin grew legs on one side that were longer than the other side so that they could walk and graze easily on the side of the hills. He gave them an assignment that involved using resources from the library. When the students went to the library they found all the resources had been checked out. It wasn't until April 1 that the learned this was just an April Fool's joke.
Daniel saw a creature like a bear that had legs longer on one side. This we believe represented the Media-Persian empire where one was stronger than the other. Eventually the Persians took over from the Medes. This was no April Fool's joke but prophecy.

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