Re: A'pith Predatory Realities: not like those of extant chimps (Repost from 08/2003)

<claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's CHIMPS that stay in high up in trees at
night -- to avoid lions and leopards on the
ground, and leopards on the lower branches.
(Leopards can't get at chimp infants when
their mothers nest high in small branches.)
Chimps can cope with leopards on the
ground by day, but not with lions.

Migratory patterns were *very* different. Nowadays
migration is mostly dominated by relatively smaller,
faster, and larger herds of grazing animals [see * note
below] like we currently find in treeless savanna
habitat. Seasonal migration tends to be from one region
to another, and the lions follow these same patterns.

Some basic knowledge of natural history is
required. Lions do NOT migrate. They are
strictly territorial.

Consequently extant chimps rarely come into direct
contact with lions.

African lions do not live in forests. That's
why chimps can avoid them most of the
time.

The situational factors were very diffent for our A'pith
ancestors.

Nonsense. In any case, first sort out Homo.
If you can work out how they coped with
predators, such as lions and hyenas, in their
daily lives, you might have the beginnings
of a scenario for human evolution.

During the late miocene and pliocene--before
the appearance of extensive grasslands--larger, slower,
browsing animals were more abundant. And their migratory
patterns were local, not regional.

All idle fantasy. Not that any of it would
make any difference.


Paul.


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