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12 JAN 2006
Rack Cross
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Carl Zimmer in a Discover, February 1996, article: "Death From the 
Pleistocene Sky," described the australopithecine Taung child fossil as being 2 
million 
years old. Given this time scale, an attack from an eagle or other predator 
would not have resulted in "human flesh" being tasted. Rather, a Monkey-eating 
Eagle eating a monkey, similar to our modern Monkey-eating (Harpy) eagle eating 
a monkey today.
.
Contemporary humans have aggressive encounters with birds today as well. 
Steve Erwin of Animal Planet discloses in one of his "Croc Files" that he has 
suffered irreparable damage from a confrontation with a Cassowary! At least a 
cultural myth is that of infant humans being attacked by eagles, although I 
have 
not researched the validity of these tales. If so, however, it seems not much 
has changed over the years.
.
Despite the hype, the ornithological value of predatory mechanics of large 
birds of prey is highly interesting to me.
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'Til we bird again
.
Rack Cross
Blountville, TN

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