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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: re ignorance
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:09:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:09:26 1985
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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.