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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Why do Lions Leave us Alone?
Message-ID: <1255@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 11:06:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 11:06:16 1987
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In article <1055@ttidca.TTI.COM>, jackson@ttidca.TTI.COM (Dick Jackson) writes:
>
>       - Big cat predators (lions, tigers, leopards, etc) do not stalk and
>         eat humans. (The "man-eating-tiger seems an isolated, rare,
>         perhaps "learned" behavior).
>
> 	- Do we taste bad? (Just a joke).
> 
	Don't laugh.  Apparently humans are some of the worst smelling
animals known, and it is taken quite seriously in anthropological circles
that one of our reasons for survival was our bad taste.
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 3 years down, 4 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                 "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."