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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Abortion debate, once and for all
Summary: some herbivores will eat meat (when the opportunity presents itself)
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Date: 22 Aug 90 13:33:49 GMT
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All of which reminds me of an article in Science that pointed out that some
'strictly' herbivorous animals are quite capable of eating meat when the 
opportunity arises.  A specific example given was the consumption of small
mammals (mice?  lambs?, I can't recall) by deer.

-- 
 I'm not afraid of dying     Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas
 I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,emx,noao}!utastro!ethan
 there when it happens.      (arpanet) ethan@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
    - Woody Allen            (bitnet) ethan%astro.as.utexas.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

These must be my opinions.  Who else would bother?