Fw: Ranjit triumphs!

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:37, lindafowens wrote:
> Lipoxeny, n.  The state of flehman as displayed in the reduncinated
> antelopes of Chad and Sudan.
>
> PIERRE  0, sorry.
>
> Um..Jean-Joseph, why not.  Ranjit
>
> I don't know what flehman is, but it sounds fat, so no go, but I'll guess
> that this is from Pierre.  Jean-Joseph
>
> If they can provide additional definitions for flehman and reduncinated,
> I'd vote for this.  Joe

That should be "flehmen", which denotes a face many mammals make, usually by 
curling the lips away from the teeth, when they want to get more than just 
the nose involved in smelling something. Redunca is some genus of bovids. So 
it's a lip oxen thing.

phma