Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: [more on killing large animals/reply to S. Friesen] Message-ID: <1056@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 16:23:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.1056 Posted: Sat Aug 24 16:23:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:00:29 EDT References: <377@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 26 [This line intentionally left blank] 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? [This blank line, however, was an accident] -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "Oh yeah, P.S., I...I feel...feel like...I am in a burning building And I gotta go." (Laurie Anderson)