I find your jumping to conclusions somewhat offensive. In fact, I don't feel socially disadvantaged for my interests.

If such poster is created, it should be distributed to as many high schools as possible.

"I'd have more confidence if we had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals."

Some mammals are pretty good at doing it themselves... http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~brian_barnes/publications/1989barnes.pdf

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