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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: more on killing mastodons etc.
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:39:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 10:39:06 1985
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> I will admit that men could have killed an occasional elephant, although at a 
> cost in human lives.  That is a very far cry from killing ALL of them.  If any
> of you readers are planning an elephant hunt anytime soon, use a 460 Weatherby
> safari rifle;  please don't use rocks.  Rocks couldn't hurt an elephant's body
> and it's damned unlikely they could hurt his feelings badly enough to make him
> commit suicide by jumping off of a cliff.  A far more likely reaction would be
> to stomp the rock thrower(s) flatter than one of Aunt Jemima's finest;  even if
> the elephant had planned to commit suicide that day anyhow for some ulterior
> motive known only to him, he would probably stomp the rock throwers FIRST, and
> then commit suicide.  

There are many places in North America where this technique was used regularly.
There was an article in the Scientific American on one of thema few years back.

You're also giving a rather antropomorphic description of the mastodon's
potential behaviour.
-- 
	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf)
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