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From: myers@tybalt.caltech.edu (Bob Myers)
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Subject: Re: Why do Lions Leave us Alone?
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Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 21:04:27 EDT
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>> Now, to a lion, we humans would be much easier to catch and eat than
>> gazelles, etc. Why do they avoid us?

One idea I had heard is that humans look bigger than they really are.
We're bipedal, and apparently most animals judge size by height.
I've heard this particularly in reference to tigers. Man-eaters are
supposedly the ones who have learned we're not so hard to kill after
all.

    "That was incredible. No fur, claws, horns,
     antlers, or nothin'... Just soft and pink"

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Bob Myers                                         myers@tybalt.caltech.edu
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