Re: Hyenas and Small-Medium Predators

[dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>>any eagles in
Africa belong to either the fishing clans (ernes) or are very uncommon,
such as the Spanish (or Golden) eagle, which is restricted largely, I
believe, by the naster lammergeier in the northern Atlas of Morocco.<<
I seem to recall a wildlife documentary where they showed monkeys  that would
post senteries  in trees to watch out for snakes and eagles while the others
milled around on the ground.  I remember it, because the monkeys had different
calls for either "eagle" or "snake".  (If the attacker was a snake, climbing a
tree is the best idea, and if an eagle, the ground is safer.)  Anyway, which
"eagle" would that be?  The Spanish one?  It was a common enough predator of
the monkies that they had evolved a behavior to cope with it.

Dan