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In git.announce Matthew Simmons <gte850h@prism.gatech.edu> alleged:
-> In git.events Kieran Edward Fletcher <gt8419b@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
-> : Now to address why humans are better hunters then tigers, boy did this
-> : thread decay went from a public service to this,  humans have por hearing,
-> : bad eyesight, and a near worthless sense of smell relative to most other
-> : animals.  What has alouded us to survive is out ability to adapt and
-> : divise methods to counter act our shortcommings.  

-> So, where did this view that humans were lesser ever come in. The fact
-> that humans are bred and trained to completely ignore all senses but their
-> sight is not something that has / had to be the case. People are capable
-> of some very impressive stuff. The human is a very capable hunting machine
-> without all sorts of tools. Admittedly, it is not designed to hunt large
-> animals... On the other hand, pit a tiger (why tigers by the by? there
-> are certainly beast which could outhunt a tiger)

Because everybody knows what one is, agrees it is a decent hunter, would
be alarmed to be hunted by one, etc.  Because a tiger, unlike a tick, ends
it's hunt with a fairly quick death.  Because it was useful for my argument.

-> and a tick against each
-> other and find out who outhunts the other first. I guarantee that the tick
-> strikes first blood... ;-) But the point is that a skill factor
-> (especially in killing) depends upon the scale which is being referred
-> to... Humans are very adept at killing meals which are a great meal size
-> for them.... (fish come to mind immediately) basically what i am saying is
-> that if you take away a human's technology base, they are still very adept
-> at killing just on a different scale than a tiger. on the other hand i
-> think there can be no question that humans with thecnology are the most
-> efficient killing machine ever, (this includes viruses and bacteria) and i
-> would say this was manifested in the atomic bomb and its descendants...

And the use of chemicals, virii and bacteria as well, the latter of which,
with genetic engineering, are in many ways more frightening than any bomb...

-- 
John Cronin