[Leica] lions and elephants

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

You mean those elephant hunting lions have guns????!
Sheesh! Shades of Larson.

2009/12/20 Bryan Willman <bryanwi at bryanwi.com>

> It's always about risk.   Attacking an adult elephant, even in a pack,
> would be Very High Risk venture.  (Hunting elephants with guns was and
> is considered Very High Risk) - so even Lions would be unlikely to risk
> it unless desperate.   The younger/smaller/weaker the elephant, the
> better the predator odds.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bryanwi <lug-bounces%2Bbryanwi>=bryanwi.com@
> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 10:40 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] lions and elephants
>
> > Luckily we've had our opposable thumbs for a while.  We're not
> > finished until they can build their own firearms, or equivalent.
> >
> > Marty
>
>
> See the movie "Cat People" and the film it was based on - they didn't
> need
> no stinkin firearms.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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Geoff
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