Re: Hyenas and Small-Medium Predators

[Finback <goodmr@ses.curtin.edu.au>]

At 06:32 pm 13/10/00 -0700, dbensen wrote:
>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.
        Whilst not knowing which bird is in question, the monkeys would be
vervets, or green monkeys, which are aren't really found far north enough
to encounter even any errant wanderering raptors from Spain..


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