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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
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Subject: Re: [more on killing large animals/reply to S. Friesen]
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:23:05 EDT
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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden), Message-ID: <377@imsvax.UUCP>:
>>     Admittedly, but the archeological evidence is unquestionable,
>>early man did just that! The basic method of hunting mammoths &c was
>>to stampede them over cliffs and then pick up the remains. There are
>>just too many of these massacre sites to doubt that this happened.
>>Of course it was dangerous, and people probably got killed doing it,
>>but people get killed flying airplanes, a much less necessary
>>activity, and we still keep doing it. [Stanley Friesen]
>
>     Elephants, when stampeded, tend to stampede TOWARDS the stampeders,
>Stanley.  That's why it's hard to get volunteers for stampeeding them.

Maybe it's also why elephants are still alive and mammoths are all dead?

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