Re: Becoming altricial/bipedal

H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu)
3 Oct 1995 23:34:07 -0400

Alex Duncan <aduncan@mail.utexas.edu> writes:

>are the most social primates. If you were a lion would you attack a
>GROUP of large primates wielding branches and stones? I think not.

If I were a lion I probably wouldn't know that sticks and stones
could hurt my bones.

They'd have to be hurt by sticks or stones or they wouldn't even
know what to do about them. YOu can scare dogs or even cats
by making throwing-displays. They don't know what it means.

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Regards, Mark
http://www.smns.montclair.edu/~hubey