Re: With birds and lions Re: mud flat
- From: RichTravsky <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:44:58 -0600
Paul Crowley wrote:
RichTravsky wrote:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/226/1
In addition to finding the human footprints, the
researchers also found tracks of ancient animals,
from birds to lions, that provide a "snapshot in time
of what animals were on the landscape," says
paleoanthropologist and co-author John Harris of
Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The new glimpse of
the footpaths of animals and humans complement
earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior
of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern
body proportions, it also increased its home range
and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on
the savanna, says Harris.
That must be why we love rotten meat
-- preferring it to fresh, just like hyena,
wolf and dog. It must be why we have
such an excellent sense of smell.
And it must be why we have so many
savanna adaptations -- conserving
water and salts.
What rotten meat are you babbling about?
Species that compete with carnivores for
carcasses on the savanna are all adapted
to eat carcasses that have been rotting
in the sun for days or even weeks.
Never considered that they hunted too? Or chased predators from kills?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leakey
Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions, Copyright 1995, Chapter 18, "Richard Makes
his Move".
The Leakey boys participated in games conducted by both adults and children, in
which they tried to imitate early man, catching springhares and small antelope
by hand on the Serengeti. They drove lions and jackals from the kill to see if
they could do it.
The corpse of a large animal (such as an
elephant) may be guarded by a group of
predators for many days, who can only
consume part of it. The rest will often
go so rotten that no mammal can
consume it
Or, maybe, under your scenario, this
is where the hominids come in.
Who knows? Who cares?
Thus goes science in Paul "I read it, in an old book in a library when I first
got interested in the subject, about twenty years ago" Crowley
.
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