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Re: Terra firma hominids

Subject: Re: Terra firma hominids
From: "deowll"
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:39:40 -0500
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology.paleo
"nickname" <alas_my_loves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> deowll, I'd say bears pounce, not dive.
> Pouncing from ground base into water.
> Diving (in the context of aquatic food foraging) is from water surface
> to depth, typical for sea otters. It is possible that polar bears do
> this, but I haven't seen it or heard of it.
> I've never heard of or seen evidence that sharks or gators/crocs or
> cats or bears attack and eat sirenia, seems likely something would but
> so far unknown to me.  DD
>

Maybe you don't watch enough tv or the wrong tv. It was one bear and every 
bear seems to learn to fish in its own way. It isn't instinct.

As for sharks, if its meat and they can get to it, they'll eat it though I 
don't know anything suggesting that attacks are common. I don't know if 
gators do but a big one might well do so. The main killer of sirenia in 
Florida are boats.



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