In , on 11/02/05
at 11:38 AM, Gunner Asch said:

But then...the bad shots..and the unlucky didnt make it
home..so they tended to be weeded out of the gene pool sooner or later.
Polar bears are one of the few animals that will actively hunt you, while
you are actively hunting them.

Have you read the Jim Corbett books on maneaters in Northern India in the
early part of the 20th century? Absolutely chilling - some of the tigers &
one leopard had over 400 humans killed before he got them. I'll never
forget his assertion that "Man has just one advantage over the tiger - the
tiger thinks that Man can smell, so will ALWAY approach you downwind" he
then goes on to explain how tricky this makes susbsequent events when you
happen to be following a trail UPWINDGG

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