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Two little girls were drawing with crayons while their mothers watched. Then a man walked into the room. "Look at my drawing, daddy!" a little girl said. "Is that a capybara?" he said, carefully inspecting the drawing. "Or a thylacine?" "No!" she squealed. "It's a horse, daddy!" (1/3) #wss366

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Steven D. Brewer

@stevendbrewer.com

"A horse! But horses are unguligrade! This is clearly a digitigrade animal." He knelt down, picked up a crayon, and started to sketch a skeleton. The girls watched raptly. "On a horse, the joints are backward from what you'd expect." (2/3) #wss366

Steven D. Brewer

@stevendbrewer.com

He pointed at features on the drawing. "See? This isn't the ankle. This, up to the hock, is all foot. And way up here is the #stifle — or what you'd call the knee." "Is he always like this?" whispered one mother to another. "Yes…" she sighed. "One of the risks of marrying a biologist." (3/3) #wss366