Re: Hyenas and Small-Medium Predators

[dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>> Are you talking about monkey-eating eagles? South American,
Phillipean, and an extinct form in Malagasy, which is about as close as
the giant eagles get to Africa. A bigger one is the moa-eating eagle of
New Zealand, but that is an entirely different bird -- it's an eagle,
though. I do not belive there are _any_ African harpies.<<
No, no.  It wasn't a harpy and it was _definatly_ in Africa.  They were
vervet, or savanna monkeys, but the TV crew only shot the eagle as an
ominous silhouette in the sky.  It may have been a fish-eagle, but monkeys
were a major part of its diet (since, as I said, the monkeys had evolved
behaviors to cope with this predator).

Dan