Re: Elephants & Pack Hunting (two topics...)

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

<<Also, groups of sibling blue jays actively operating together to drive off 
cats or dogs or hawks is not an example of pack hunting, or even group 
hunting.  A group of sibling blue jays actively operating together to kill 
and eat cats or dogs or hawks would be...>>

My point, which may have got garbled, was that it is a *possibility* it 
could develop.  Anyway, although Harris hawks (_Parabuteo_) are the only 
pack-hunting birds that I know of, keas (_Nestor_) , the only carnvirous 
parrots, can mob sheep in large groups with certain individuals doing the 
actual killing.  (The objective of the whole ganging thing with keas is to 
get kidney fat.)

Matt Troutman
m_troutman@hotmail.com


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