Tweets,

With regard to helicopters and dragonflies: The Tzeltal Mayan word for
helicopter (obviously a recent coinage) is tultush tak'in, literally
"metal dragonfly" and for airplane is shulem tak'in "metal turkey
vulture." Curious.

Gene Hunn.

On Fri, 17 Mar 1995, Serge Le Huitouze wrote:

>
> > as they'd have to move elsewhere!). And they certainly don't like the
> > helicopter that lands near there, which doesn't look like any predator
> > that I know of.
>
> Well, helicopters almost look like DRAGONFLIES :-)
>
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