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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Killing for fun
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Date: 27 Feb 91 13:54:36 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.202248.26171@odin.corp.sgi.com> milt@sgi.com (Milton E. Tinkoff) writes:
>
>animal exists, what is it?  Toying with prey and then
>eating it or leaving it as a gift (house cats) doesn't
>count.

If that doesn't count, why not and what would?
All cats do this, not just house cats.  Sometimes they will
not eat the prey or "leave it as a gift", but simply abandon
it if it is not appetizing or the cat is not hungry.
But they will rarely pass up the opportunity to take prey.
It looks to me like they are having fun.