Re: Running apes Re: Naked Ape?


On 2-Aug-2005, bobg@xxxxxxxxx (Robert Grumbine)
wrote in message <11evhple1mb7re4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In article <lpeve19q8u9lt42sjf4tsjk4shbg2j9hvl@xxxxxxx>,
> Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:28:47 -0000, in talk.origins , bobg@xxxxxxxxx
> >(Robert Grumbine) in <11eupnvnanjpu10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >[snip]
> >>
> >> Quite well. For the most part, we're not attractive to the big
> >>cats -- too big for cheetah (they like smaller prey, like Thompson's
> >>gazelles, ca. 20 kg iirc, vs our 70), and a couple of others. Too
> >>small for ?lions, which like 100+ kg prey.
> >
> >I don't know much about the history of African big cats, but is this
> >gap just a coincidence? Or did we out compete/eliminate the cat that
> >saw us as a perfect dinner sized entre?
>
> More a gap in my memory. There are some varieties of, I think it is,
> tiger for whom we are a nice sized lunch.

Not relevant: tigers are Asian, not African. But I'm more than a
little surprised no one has yet mentioned leopards, for which we
are almost ideal prey. Wouldn't surprise me to learn we look pretty
good to spotted hyenas and/or African hunting dogs -- both social
pack species -- too.

> There may also be a matter
> of gap in prey size. 70 kg is an odd size, if you think about it.
> Not much else weighs about what we do. Numbers increase rapidly as
> you get significantly smaller (under 50, say). And, if you're
> indiscriminate
> about the difference between 100 and 200 kg, many over 100 kg. But
> between 50 and 100 kg ... ?

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--
Jim Heckman

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