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From: .p.jm. on 1 Nov 2009 22:59 On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:12:27 -0800, Sean_Q_ <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote: >It's worse when I'm traveling because I'd be away from my home turf >on unfamiliar ground. Tourists in Miami have been robbed "because they >took a wrong turn and got into a bad neighborhood by mistake" >according to news reports, and here's me without a clue how to >distinguish the safe turns in Miami (and most other cities) >from the unsafe ones. Obviously, the left turns are bad. They are never right. -- Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!! www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.' 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.' HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's Free demo online at www.pmilligan.net/palm/ Free 'People finder' program now at www.pmilligan.net/finder.htm
From: Sean_Q_ on 1 Nov 2009 23:17 Datesfat Chicks wrote: > "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote in message > news:hclefu01jah(a)news5.newsguy.com... >> Coyotes have been known to persist in attacks on large prey for 8 hours >> or more until it's brought >> down and can successfully bring down prey as large as elk. Once they've >> made the decision that this critter is dinner it takes more than whacking >> them with a stick to chase them off. > > Wikipedia says 21 hours if the attack is going well: In a nature documentary about Yellowstone NP there were elk, wolves and coyotes, one of whom seemed to have arrived at some accommodation with the wolves, at least, with Wolf Pack 'A'. The wolves would hunt the elk, and when they'd be lying around with full bellies this coyote would slink hesitantly up to the kill, waiting to see if the wolves would object (something like the jackal in the Far Side cartoon who "didn't want trouble"). Well, it seems Pack A was fairly tolerant about the coyote and they'd let him glean at bit from what was left of the elk. Then there was trouble. Some new wolves (Pack 'B') came along and chased Pack A out of the valley. Problem was, no one told the coyote. He had been away, courting Miss Coyote. So after Pack B had taken their first elk and were lazing around with full bellies, along came the coyote... which didn't amuse Pack B in the least. They chased after and killed him, full bellies or not. That left Mrs. Coyote a widow, and she raised her pups on moles and shrews or something less wolf-provoking to catch. Then there was an epidemic of canine distemper which pretty well wiped out Pack B, and after a while Pack A returned (too late for Mr. Coyote, of course). Now after reading Datesfat and Mr. Clarke's comments above I wonder why, if coyotes can bring down their own elk instead of scrounging from wolves, they didn't get a pack together and do that... maybe the problem was that all the Yellowstone elk herds were in wolf territory(?) SQ
From: Sean_Q_ on 1 Nov 2009 23:21 ..p.jm.(a)see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote: > Obviously, the left turns are bad. They are never right. However, if you keep turning in only one direction you can end up moving in ever-diminishing circles until you ride up your own exhaust outlet. SQ
From: MikeWhy on 1 Nov 2009 23:42 Datesfat Chicks wrote: .... > weighing 74� pounds (33.7 kg) and measuring over five feet in total > length.[11] > I did not know they were that large. I was thinking smaller. > > A few of those in the 40-lb range could mess up your whole day. Be careful of getting carried away. Those fleeting glimpses of old werewolf movies as you flicked idly through the channels in the past week leading up to Halloween somehow transformed the first ever recorded adult human fatality to coyotes into legions of humongous, bloodthirsty she-wolves sneaking out of their near urban lairs and riding out of the moonlit midnight mist to surround and devour you. Sounds like a job for Ma Deuce and claymores. Definitely, leave the knife at home.
From: Stupendous Man on 1 Nov 2009 23:44
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