A silly aside

[kustom66 <kustom66@optusnet.com.au>]

Apparently, lions attack the calves of giraffes. (Their thighs are too 
high.)

Peter M



On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 01:51  AM, Lawrence_Dunn@smbcgroup.com 
wrote:

> > There was a recent programme on National Geographic that showed a 
> > pride
> of lions attacking an adult elephant, which
> > may be analogous to a flock of therapods attacking a sauropod.
>
> These were the Savuti lions, I assume.  They are atypical even for 
> lions,
> and I'm surprised to read that they are hunting adults, as even they 
> don't
> generally hunt adult elephants, though I could see them perhaps taking 
> a
> sick or injured animal.  They usually go for calves, in the evening.  
> They
> do take adult water buffalo, though, which is remarkable.