I guess you never got whacked by a swan. Trumpeter swans bludgeoned a few of our pelicans to death. The first time it happened the vet was sure hoodlums had hopped the fence and clubbed the pelicans to death.
p.s.: Lazy journalist quoting a forgetful biologist, or perhaps just misquoting: I can think of two species of vertebrate that aren't birds and which have a clubbed appendage. Glyptodont (giant extinct armadillo) and ankylosaurus. Both had clubbed tails.
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Date: 2011-Jan-08, Saturday 01:03 (UTC)p.s.: Lazy journalist quoting a forgetful biologist, or perhaps just misquoting: I can think of two species of vertebrate that aren't birds and which have a clubbed appendage. Glyptodont (giant extinct armadillo) and ankylosaurus. Both had clubbed tails.
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Date: 2011-Jan-07, Friday 23:48 (UTC)