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That's timely help I can really put to use in my meeting this afternoon.

one of my lotto winner fantasies is a private island where i can hunt chimps from horseback with spears.

What do you think chimps fantasize about?

a gun and opposable thumb?

Monkeys have opposing thumbs already. Watch your ammo... and your back.

Sherwood

Yes, they (Chimps, Apes, Monkeys) could easily kill me - but so could pretty much any animal I can think of that weighs over 50lbs. That is no feat.

I trust horses, dogs and cats - anything else is food. I guess any animal I don't have a trust for is worthy to kill and roast.

I didn't think about my distain for apes, chimps or monkeys until I was watching a nat geo special the other night on baboons and then I hit me - they are like us but worse. They are base and substantive, cruel and fierce. All the things that make us less then human.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1247201765.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1247201786.jpg

Humans very often are the same exact way.


The monkeys are just wild animals. If they don't understand something, they're probably going to assume it's a threat, and rip it to shreds. That's pretty much the wild animal solution for everything, attack it. Sometimes run. Like a few months ago or whenever, that woman with the pet monkey that ate the face off of their neighbor - I didn't follow it in the news, but I'd be willing to bet the monkey felt some competition from the neighbor, or maybe a threat, so it dealt with it the way it felt was natural. But yeah, that would suck to have your face eaten off.

But come on, those little spider monkeys are so cute!

What about people you don't know (i.e. trust)? So let me get this straight. Anything you fear you will kill. I thought that philosophy went away with the neanderthals.

How about, leave them alone? People are not the natural prey for any animal.

Sherwood

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grizzlys, sharks, lions, cougars, wolves, and about a thousand other things will eat a human given the chance.

am tired of this delusion disney view of nature.

Remember Travis...


KT

Bawana Varmint, great hunter (probably with big guns and much armor-piercing bullets). Read my lips:

"People are not the natural prey for any animal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eater
"Attacks on human beings for food have caused the demonizing of the predatory animals in question. The fear caused by the prospect of an attack has encouraged the hunting of tigers, leopards and lions for sport and the extermination or driving out predatory animals from territories close to human settlement; the harassment and hunting of such animals has been coupled with the destruction of their natural habitats. Fear of attacks on humans has inspired folklore, superstition, legends and tales characterizing predatory animals as evil."

It seems your fear of animals is based on some folkloric, superstitious, legendary tale of animals stalking and hunting your person parts. Get acquainted with the animal kingdom and nature, stay out of the brush, then get over it. Go to the shooting range and relieve that forum tension by shooting at paper circles.

Sherwood

Sherwood I guess you have missed the news stories about mtn lions coming into town and eating ppl. No it didn't use to be natural for then to eat us. Paybacks a *****. Think about all those mtn lions killed by early settlers.

did you even bother to read the wiki cut and paste?

Not particularly before but it hardly seems relevant.

was talking to what's his name. it completely contradicts his argument.

I won't quote the Wiki or any other encyclopedia piece about "natural predators" (bold for emphasis and for ease in selecting the search term). You can perform a click on the aforementioned link at your leisure.

I fully realize that some/most animals are fully capable of eating humans. E.g. ants and maggots can be perps as well as a pet Presa Canario. The ultimate solution, it seems for some, is to annihilate them before they have the opportunity to dine at our expense. This demonstrates we are afraid of that which do not care to learn about.

bon appetit,
Sherwood

anyone remember this?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_man_who_lost_face_in_05_mauling_knows_he.html

Well, maybe not people.

But any human male younger than 30 might have a tough time with...
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/stadiu...aquel_full.jpg
...cougars. :D