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Subject: [Leica] lions and elephants
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:44:52 -0600
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They are all just big cats.  If they develop opposable thumbs we are
finished as a race.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marty Deveney
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:38 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] lions and elephants
> 
> This kind of emotive commentary:
> >Lions are among the animal kingdom's most brutal and efficient predators
> might sell, but it is inaccurate at best.  Brutality is a human
> concept; lions just do what they do to eat and stay alive.  Most
> studies show their hunting success, like that of many large predators,
> is surprisingly low.  They are 'sufficient' not 'efficient'.  I like
> lions, but I prefer cheetahs, they're more, er, approachable, to be
> simple about it.  This:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/75+Summilux/  gives you
> some idea how easy cheetahs are to get close to.  When it had breath,
> this one was hissing at me like an overgrown house cat.
> 
> I saw the Chobe elephant-eating pride in August, but they weren't
> hunting elephants at the time.  There are certainly very large
> populations of elephants and lions in Chobe.  Behavioural adaptation
> is common in animals, people just appear to enjoy the literal enormity
> of these kinds of events.
> 
> Marty
> 
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