Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!imsvax!ted From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: re ignorance Message-ID: <378@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:09:26 EDT Article-I.D.: imsvax.378 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:09:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:10:18 EDT Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 12 Charles Forsyth's latest posting is entitled "IGNORANCE". I recommend it. The article lives up to it's title. Just one point I would like to comment on. Charles claims to have stampeded SOMETHING once, he doesn't say what exactly, probably a herd of mice. Elephants are intelligent, Charles. They are very large and powerful, they have a bad attitude generally, and nobody with any sense who lives around them messes with them if it is avoidable. Unlike true herd animals, such as deer and buffaloe, they could not easily be stampeded over a cliff; they are far more likely to attack someone attempting this. As far as this cliff theory explaining the total extermination of several breeds of elephants in North America, which was the original question, the theory, even if it wasn't BS, which it is, still could not come close. Elephants were living in too many places WITH NO CLIFFS.