Re: Still absent logic

[Skip Dahlgren <SDAHLGREN@liblan.uams.edu>]

Betty Cunningham wrote:

> Does anyone other than me know that carrion eaters like buzzards HAVE to eat
> offal because they can't digest fresh meat?  That people that raise and
> rehabilitate buzzards and vultures have to let the meat rot before the bird
> will even touch it?  (Probably the main reason more people don't train
> vultures like hawks is they smell terrible)

This of course wouldn't _preclude_ hunting, cooperative or otherwise.  It 
would merely require them to guard their catch while it ripens - not a very 
long wait on the average sunny day, of course.  I seem to recall that crocs 
often let their food ripen for a while after a successful hunt.  And of 
course humans have been known to prefer ripe meat - the bizarre preference 
for fortnight-old pheasant among the English which endeared them to the 
Japanese, which was sited so colorfully in Clavell's novel _Shogun_, being 
one example.  :)


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