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The Dinosaur
by Bert Leston Taylor
Behold the mighty dinosaur,
Famous in prehistoric lore,
Not only for his power and
aman
But for his intellehese remains
length.
You will observe
by
The creature had two sets of
brains
usual place),
One in his head (thepinal base.
The other at his
Thus he could reason "A priori"
As well as "A posteriori."
No problem
He made
both head and tail of it.
So wise was he, so wise and solemn,
Each thought filled just a spinal
column.
ise bothered him a bit;
If one brain found the pressure
strong,
It passed a
few ideas along.
ved a fe
If something slipped his forward
mind,
'Twas rescued by the one behind,
And if in error he was caught,
He had a saving afterthought.
As he thought twice before he
spoke, thought t
He had no judgement to revoke.
Thus he could think without con-
gestion
Upon both sides of every ques-
tion.
this mo
Oh, gaze upon this model beast,
Defunct ten million years at
least.
First published in the Chicago Tribune, 1895.
Back:
Albert J. Copley, Cameron State College, Lawton, Okla.
Stegosaurus was one of the most bizarre dinosaurs.
He was 20 feet long, 8 feet high, and had a
double row of plates down his back. The poem,
"The Dinosaur", has furthered a popular miscon-
ception that he had 2 brains. Many dinosaurs had
a pelvic enlargement of the spinal cord that un-
doubtedly served only as a motor control for the
hind legs and tail. Stegosaurus - the subject of
the poem had a pelvic enlargement 20 times
the size of his walnut sized brain!
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