This morning I was sitting and enjoying a cigar in one of my favorite places on the Rock River. I love watching the flowing water moving rapidly off the shore and drawing the stagnant near shore water into the stream. Reminds me of what Bernoulli must have observed when he noted that rapidly flowing fluid has a lower Pressure than stagnant fluid. So the stagnant ,higher pressure, fluid is pushed into the stream (not pulled). It is the reason a Canard shaped wing with rapidly flowing air on the dorsum is pushed up by the higher pressure ,slower moving, air under the wing. Very obvious to a smoker in a car. When the window is cracked exposing the high pressure stagnant air in the car to the lower pressure rapidly moving air outside, the smoke is rapidly pushed out of the car into the streaming air.

I digress though. It’s remarkable how many different types of life exist on earth and one wonders why some were omitted. The mythical Unicorn probably never existed ,but one has to wonder why??  Antlers and horns are very common in the Mammal and Reptilian world. They have several very useful functions that promote the basic drives of life. Specifically Survival, Mating and Feeding. Generally Horns and Antlers are primarily used in large Mammals as a Mating right. With the absence of antlers, two large Bucks would fight to death over a female and in fact both would probably be fatally injured in such a fight so no reproduction would occur. In Nature the two bucks bump Antlers and ‘size’ up the other and the lesser retreats without injury. Horses would greatly benefit from the presence of a Horn. Their current defense against Predators is simply stomping and kicking. When mating two stallions will fight to death. The presence of a Horn would be a great survival benefit.

So I ask again. Why are there no Unicorns.???