Re: Predation On Chimps

From: Rich Travsky (traRvEsky_at_hotMOVEmail.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:17:23 -0700

Marc Verhaegen wrote:
>
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotMOVEmail.com> wrote in message
> news:417F1399.3FEF80C7@hotMOVEmail.com...
> > Mario Petrinovich wrote:
> > >
> > > Rich Travsky:
> > > > In areas where leopards, lions and hyaenas abound these
> > > > apes often walk for miles through open terrain, usually creating a
> > > > noisy turmoil, sometimes walking alone, but apparently without ever
> > > > being molested.
> > >
> > > Really? Well, this is the same tactics that american capuchins
> have.
> >
> > There is nothing in the above excerpt about branches.
> >
> > > Hitting branches. They also walk open terrain. This is completly the
> same
> > > tactics. Do you have evidence of capuchins' predator problem? Or, do
> you,
> > > maybe, have evidence of bonobo's predator problem? No, you don't have
> any
> > > evidence, at all. You just have evidence of ungulates' predator problem.
> >
> > Yes, we do have evidence about predator problems for chimps. The leopard
> > predation article Jim Moore cited. And there's Kortlandt.
>
> Don't be ridiculous. Mario answered this, man! Snipped the rest of your
> irrelevancies.

Mario answered incorrectly. Mario likes to ignore research and facts.