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Re: Experts had thought only herbivores hunted in packs...



>  it was pretty explicit about the point that
> this was a single-species, mixed-age assemblage, and presented that as a
> refutation of the flood-carried or tar trap scenarios and thus as the clincher
> for Currie's theory.
>
> Alan

I just don't buy it as evidence of cooperative hunting.  Cooperative hunters
spread out.  Cooperative ambushers drive the prey in the direction of
the other animal, often on the other side of the target herd.  They aren't all
bunched up
-- it would defeat the whole purpose of working together.  It seems more likely
that this assemblage occurred for some other reason (like coincidently 
scavenging
the same carcass), and they all wound up dead in one place together for reasons
unrelated to hunting.

Michael Turton