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 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
 reds8n wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40846546

injury pics ahoy !
Spoiler:


An Australian teenager is recovering in hospital after being bitten by multiple "mite-sized sea critters".
Sam Kanizay, 16, found his feet and ankles covered in blood after soaking his legs in Melbourne's Brighton Beach on Saturday evening.
Jarrod Kanizay said his son arrived home with what "looked like a war injury" and that his legs would not stop bleeding.
The family are seeking expert opinion to identify the flesh-eating bugs.
Marine biologists have said they were likely to have been sea fleas, tiny scavenging marine animals.

After a tiring football game on Saturday evening, the 16-year-old decided to soak his legs in the cold bay near his home.
He stood still waist-deep in the dark cold water for about half an hour and didn't feel a thing but returned home "bleeding profusely".
"It looked like a war injury... like a grenade attack. It was really bloody," Mr Kanizay told BBC News.
"We got him in the shower but as soon as we did that the blood kept re-appearing," said Mr Kanizay.
"It wasn't clotting at all. It just kept bleeding and bleeding."



After two local hospitals could not identify the cause of the multiple pin-prick injuries, the Melbourne father decided to investigate and went back to the beach.
"I collected these strange creatures from the same spot last night by trapping them in a net and standing in the water myself," he said.
"We got thousands of these little mite-type bugs and they've been sent on to experts."
Mr Kanizay said he hoped the sandy-coloured mites would not scar his son, and he is expected to make a full recovery.
"We are just waiting on the experts to tell us what they are and how they behave and why this happened."
Marine biologist Dr Genefor Walker-Smith, who saw some of the samples, told Australia's Herald Sun newspaper that the bugs were probably lysianassid amphipods, or sea fleas.
"It's possible he disturbed a feeding group but they are generally not out there waiting to attack like piranhas," she said.
Experts have said such cases are very rare and that there is no reason for alarm.






Australia : where the sea will eat you.


Damn. I just finished reading that article whilst on a break at work. Thoroughly disturbing. Certainly more disturbing than the pictures of Huntsmen. Spiders I can cope with, any size. But the thought of being eaten alive by 1000's of tiny flesh eating mites?

Same. Read that at work but the pic was bandage feet. What if it wasn't the mites.

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I saw that earlier today, initially I thought it was some sort of weird joke article. But holy crap... it's legit.

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It's not even a telephone pole.

It's a wooden stake used to anchor rows of Grape vines (the neat orderly rows visible in the picture - because the vines are dormant at this time of year) - the Yarra Valley is one of the southern wine producing regions here. It's also where Chandon have one of their sparkly-bubbly-lolly-water production houses.

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 chromedog wrote:
It's not even a telephone pole.

It's a wooden stake used to anchor rows of Grape vines (the neat orderly rows visible in the picture - because the vines are dormant at this time of year) - the Yarra Valley is one of the southern wine producing regions here. It's also where Chandon have one of their sparkly-bubbly-lolly-water production houses.


Dammit man. I've a grape arbor.....

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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/05/peppa-pig-spiders-cant-hurt-you-episode-pulled-off-air-in-australia-again

Spoiler:
A controversial episode of Peppa Pig has been pulled off the air in Australia for a second time, after complaints it told children to pick up and play with dangerous spiders.
Mister Skinny Legs, a 2004 episode of the popular children’s show, was removed from online publication by the national public broadcaster, the ABC, in 2012 for sending the “inappropriate” message that spiders were friendly and not to be feared.

In the offending episode, Daddy Pig tells a frightened Peppa that spiders are “very very small” and “can’t hurt you” after the eponymous arachnid enters her room. The children are then depicted picking the spider up, tucking it into bed and offering it some tea.
This advice from the British-produced show was deemed to be “inappropriate for Australian audiences” and the ABC banned it from future broadcast. The episode had not been broadcast on TV because of its unsuitability, but was “accidentally published online due to a technical problem”, the ABC said at the time.
Not all Australian spiders are “very, very small” and some can hurt you. Last year footage of a huntsman carrying a mouse up a fridge in the Queensland town of Coppabella became an internet sensation – the huntsman’s leg span can be as large as 16cm. Australia’s dangerous spider species include the venomous redback spider, the funnel-web spider, white-tailed spider and wolf-spider, according to the Australian Museum. It estimates 2,000 people are bitten each year by redback spiders, and 40 by funnel webs. Data released in January revealed 12,600 people were admitted to hospital for spider bites between 2000 and 2013.

On 25 August, the episode was aired again on Nick Jr, a children’s channel affiliated with Nickelodeon and available on the Australian pay TV service Foxtel.
A Sydney mother, named only as Jess, told Fairfax Media she complained to Nick Jr. The channel initially refused to pull the episode, saying Mister Skinny Legs “did not look real”.
“The episode is light-hearted, friendly and very mild in impact; the overarching message of the episode is about respecting all creatures,” it said.
“The context of the way the spider is portrayed in the episode lessens any impact of scariness or danger; the spider does not look real, it has a smiley face and is shown in context of a show with other talking animals.”
But after being contacted by media, Nick Jr said it would remove the episode from programming rotation, despite continuing to maintain that it “does meet our criteria”.

The five-minute episode shows the two children discovering the spider in the bathroom sink and eventually befriending it. “George wants the spider to be his friend,” the program’s narrator says. “George likes the spider and the spider likes George.”
At the end of the episode, the children pour it a cup of tea alongside a set of dolls. “We are all going to have tea with Mister Skinny Legs,” Peppa announces. “Peppa likes Mister Skinny Legs, everyone likes Mister Skinny Legs,” the narrator then declares.
The spider, listed as played by voice actor Hazel Rudd, does not speak but smiles very widely.
It is not the first time Peppa Pig has come under fire in Australia, after conservative commentator Piers Akerman accused it of having “a weird feminist line” in 2013.


A replacement episode - 'Peppa Pig says stay in, shut all the windows and doors and build a flame thrower' - is in the works.
   
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And linked from that article ...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/24/australia-giant-spider-mouse-carry-horrifying-impressive
   
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 chromedog wrote:
It's not even a telephone pole.

It's a wooden stake used to anchor rows of Grape vines (the neat orderly rows visible in the picture - because the vines are dormant at this time of year) - the Yarra Valley is one of the southern wine producing regions here. It's also where Chandon have one of their sparkly-bubbly-lolly-water production houses.


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 BigWaaagh wrote:
 chromedog wrote:
It's not even a telephone pole.

It's a wooden stake used to anchor rows of Grape vines (the neat orderly rows visible in the picture - because the vines are dormant at this time of year) - the Yarra Valley is one of the southern wine producing regions here. It's also where Chandon have one of their sparkly-bubbly-lolly-water production houses.


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Catachan is where aussies go for their holidays.

I've just come back from FNQ. Saw a ginormous salty swim past our boat (easily a 4m beast snout to tail).

Also witnessed a spider the size of my hand just casually sitting in a tree cavity. Looked like it may have been one of the FNQ tarantula (most definitely a mygalomorph in any case).

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/22/crocodile-over-five-metres-long-found-shot-dead-in-queensland


Death of Queensland's largest crocodile in 30 years could spark violent power grab
Killing of the 5.2-metre male reptile, one of the biggest ever seen in the state, could spark a dangerous battle for dominance between remaining crocodiles

A massive saltwater crocodile – said to be one of the biggest ever seen in Queensland – has been found shot dead and experts fear its demise could lead to other crocodiles becoming more aggressive as young males fight for supremacy.

Police and state environmental officers are investigating after the 5.2-metre male reptile was found with a bullet in its head in the Fitzroy river in Rockhampton on Thursday.

The crocodile was taken to the nearby Koorana crocodile farm, where it will be buried once a necropsy is carried out. Farm owner John Leaver said a five-metre crocodile had not been caught in Queensland for 20 to 30 years.

“There may have been some others shot in the wild that we don’t know about, but from my recollection, over the past three decades this would be the largest,” he said on Friday.

Leaver, who ran a crocodile removal service across the state for 20 years, said the largest one he ever caught was 4.95m in the late 1980s. “We caught that one up near Airlie beach [in Queensland],” he said.

Leaver said it was not unusual for a crocodile of that size to be found so far south. The farmer said Rockhampton locals used to shoot crocodiles “equal to that size” in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, before it was illegal.

It is believed the 5.2m reptile had been dead for a few days before a member of the public spotted it floating and notified environmental officers.

Leaver said the gunshot had caused a large hole in the top of the saltwater crocodile’s skull, suggesting the bullet came from a “fairly large-calibre rifle”.

“I would say that someone felt very threatened,” he said, when asked why he thought it had been shot.

Michael Joyce, southern wildlife operations director at Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, said the remaining male crocodiles could act differently and become more hostile as they establish who will rule next.

“They don’t necessarily become more aggressive with outsiders,” Joyce said on Friday. “But we would expect people to be croc-wise in croc country and be extra vigilant.”

Joyce said wildlife officers would monitor the river to see what transpires and who becomes the next dominant male. “The whole thing could be over in 24 hours; at other times it could take months to see a slight move in the population,” he said.

Joyce said it was estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old.

“It is on the larger end of the scale, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “There are not a lot of crocodiles over five metres.”

People are being urged to notify the department of any crocodiles spotted in the river and elsewhere across Queensland, even if they are seen regularly.

Cassius, a male caught in the Northern Territory three decades ago, is recognised as the world’s largest crocodile in captivity. It measures 5.48m and lives at a farm on Green Island in far north Queensland.

A 6.16m Philippine crocodile called Lolong held the record until it died in 2013.



.. even in death they still etc etc etc

.. not sure I'd heard the term necropsy before.




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A necropsy is an autopsy on an animal here.

Autopsy is reserved for human meatbags.

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Spoiler:
 reds8n wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/22/crocodile-over-five-metres-long-found-shot-dead-in-queensland


Death of Queensland's largest crocodile in 30 years could spark violent power grab
Killing of the 5.2-metre male reptile, one of the biggest ever seen in the state, could spark a dangerous battle for dominance between remaining crocodiles

A massive saltwater crocodile – said to be one of the biggest ever seen in Queensland – has been found shot dead and experts fear its demise could lead to other crocodiles becoming more aggressive as young males fight for supremacy.

Police and state environmental officers are investigating after the 5.2-metre male reptile was found with a bullet in its head in the Fitzroy river in Rockhampton on Thursday.

The crocodile was taken to the nearby Koorana crocodile farm, where it will be buried once a necropsy is carried out. Farm owner John Leaver said a five-metre crocodile had not been caught in Queensland for 20 to 30 years.

“There may have been some others shot in the wild that we don’t know about, but from my recollection, over the past three decades this would be the largest,” he said on Friday.

Leaver, who ran a crocodile removal service across the state for 20 years, said the largest one he ever caught was 4.95m in the late 1980s. “We caught that one up near Airlie beach [in Queensland],” he said.

Leaver said it was not unusual for a crocodile of that size to be found so far south. The farmer said Rockhampton locals used to shoot crocodiles “equal to that size” in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, before it was illegal.

It is believed the 5.2m reptile had been dead for a few days before a member of the public spotted it floating and notified environmental officers.

Leaver said the gunshot had caused a large hole in the top of the saltwater crocodile’s skull, suggesting the bullet came from a “fairly large-calibre rifle”.

“I would say that someone felt very threatened,” he said, when asked why he thought it had been shot.

Michael Joyce, southern wildlife operations director at Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, said the remaining male crocodiles could act differently and become more hostile as they establish who will rule next.

“They don’t necessarily become more aggressive with outsiders,” Joyce said on Friday. “But we would expect people to be croc-wise in croc country and be extra vigilant.”

Joyce said wildlife officers would monitor the river to see what transpires and who becomes the next dominant male. “The whole thing could be over in 24 hours; at other times it could take months to see a slight move in the population,” he said.

Joyce said it was estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old.

“It is on the larger end of the scale, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “There are not a lot of crocodiles over five metres.”

People are being urged to notify the department of any crocodiles spotted in the river and elsewhere across Queensland, even if they are seen regularly.

Cassius, a male caught in the Northern Territory three decades ago, is recognised as the world’s largest crocodile in captivity. It measures 5.48m and lives at a farm on Green Island in far north Queensland.

A 6.16m Philippine crocodile called Lolong held the record until it died in 2013.



.. even in death they still etc etc etc

.. not sure I'd heard the term necropsy before.






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 reds8n wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/22/crocodile-over-five-metres-long-found-shot-dead-in-queensland


Death of Queensland's largest crocodile in 30 years could spark violent power grab
Killing of the 5.2-metre male reptile, one of the biggest ever seen in the state, could spark a dangerous battle for dominance between remaining crocodiles

A massive saltwater crocodile – said to be one of the biggest ever seen in Queensland – has been found shot dead and experts fear its demise could lead to other crocodiles becoming more aggressive as young males fight for supremacy.

Police and state environmental officers are investigating after the 5.2-metre male reptile was found with a bullet in its head in the Fitzroy river in Rockhampton on Thursday.

The crocodile was taken to the nearby Koorana crocodile farm, where it will be buried once a necropsy is carried out. Farm owner John Leaver said a five-metre crocodile had not been caught in Queensland for 20 to 30 years.

“There may have been some others shot in the wild that we don’t know about, but from my recollection, over the past three decades this would be the largest,” he said on Friday.

Leaver, who ran a crocodile removal service across the state for 20 years, said the largest one he ever caught was 4.95m in the late 1980s. “We caught that one up near Airlie beach [in Queensland],” he said.

Leaver said it was not unusual for a crocodile of that size to be found so far south. The farmer said Rockhampton locals used to shoot crocodiles “equal to that size” in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, before it was illegal.

It is believed the 5.2m reptile had been dead for a few days before a member of the public spotted it floating and notified environmental officers.

Leaver said the gunshot had caused a large hole in the top of the saltwater crocodile’s skull, suggesting the bullet came from a “fairly large-calibre rifle”.

“I would say that someone felt very threatened,” he said, when asked why he thought it had been shot.

Michael Joyce, southern wildlife operations director at Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, said the remaining male crocodiles could act differently and become more hostile as they establish who will rule next.

“They don’t necessarily become more aggressive with outsiders,” Joyce said on Friday. “But we would expect people to be croc-wise in croc country and be extra vigilant.”

Joyce said wildlife officers would monitor the river to see what transpires and who becomes the next dominant male. “The whole thing could be over in 24 hours; at other times it could take months to see a slight move in the population,” he said.

Joyce said it was estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old.

“It is on the larger end of the scale, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “There are not a lot of crocodiles over five metres.”

People are being urged to notify the department of any crocodiles spotted in the river and elsewhere across Queensland, even if they are seen regularly.

Cassius, a male caught in the Northern Territory three decades ago, is recognised as the world’s largest crocodile in captivity. It measures 5.48m and lives at a farm on Green Island in far north Queensland.

A 6.16m Philippine crocodile called Lolong held the record until it died in 2013.



.. even in death they still etc etc etc

.. not sure I'd heard the term necropsy before.



Oh wow that's a monster.

15 foot crocodile.... 2.5 tall men long.

Or about 170-180 space marines stacked on top of each other.


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https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/australian-raptors-start-fires-to-flush-out-prey



In the first recorded instance of fire being used by animals other than humans, three Australian birds of prey species have been seen carrying burning twigs to set new blazes. John Pickrell reports.

Australian Aboriginal lore is replete with references to birds carrying fire, and some traditional ceremonies even depict the behaviour. Now ornithologists have collected accounts from witnesses across the savannas of Australia’s far north, known as the Top End, suggesting three Australian birds of prey species use smouldering branches to spread fires and scare prey into their waiting talons.

Black kites (Milvus migrans), whistling kites (Haliastur sphenurus) and brown falcons (Falco berigora) all regularly congregate near the edges of bushfires, taking advantage of an exodus of small lizards, mammals, birds and insects – but it appears that some may have learnt not only to use fire to their advantage, but also to control it.

“At or around an active fire front, birds – usually black kites, but sometimes brown falcons – will pick up a firebrand or a stick not much bigger than your finger and carry it away to an unburnt area of grass and drop it in there to start a new fire,” says Bob Gosford, an ornithologist with the Central Land Council in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, who led the documentation of witness accounts. “It’s not always successful, but sometimes it results in ignition.”

“Observers report both solo and cooperative attempts, often successful, to spread wildfires intentionally via single-occasion or repeated transport of burning sticks in talons or beaks. This behaviour, often represented in sacred ceremonies, is widely known to local people in the Northern Territory,” write the authors behind the find in the Journal of Ethnobiology.

Gosford points to two Dreaming fire ceremonies in particular – the Lorrkon and Yabuduruwa ceremonies from the Arnhem Land region of the Territory – which incorporate scenes involving the re-enactment of birds spreading fire from places to place.
“Most of the Aboriginal groups that we talked to in the NT, particularly in the Top End, are entirely comfortable with the idea that this happens. … for a lot of people, it’s accepted as a fact,” says Gosford.

European scientists, however, have shown a reluctance to accept the observations of Aboriginal Australians, which explains why this seemingly widespread behaviour has not been scientifically documented until now.

To this end, Gosford and his co-authors, including geographer Mark Bonta at Pennsylvania State University in Altoona, US, spent six years collecting more than 20 witness accounts from traditional owners, land managers and Aboriginal rangers across the Top End, suggesting that the behaviour may be very widespread. “We’ve got records from the eastern coast, in the tropics of Queensland, right across to Western Australia. There appears to be a particular cluster through the savanna woodlands of central northern Australia,” Gosford says.

This is a “fascinating phenomenon”, comments Alex Kacelnik an expert on animal tool use at the University of Oxford in the UK, adding that “many species may have learned to respond to natural fire by escaping from it or exploiting it to hunt fleeing prey, but these hawks are showing a form of fire control.” This is the first he as heard of this in a non-human animals, he says.

The behaviour adds to the evidence that birds are very good at “generating innovative solutions to foraging problems,” says Kacelnik, who speculates that the skill could be periodically rediscovered in different locations and then copied by younger hawks in the same population.

Gosford says the next stage of their research will involve setting controlled fires with the help of Aboriginal land managers to try to capture the avian firebugs in action. “We are looking at gathering as much data on as many fire fronts as we can, and hope to record the behaviour on film.”

Up until now humans and lightning have been regarded as the only vectors of fire in Australia, but there’s now “cause to re-examine our understanding of fire history and how fire works in the landscape,” he says.



.. so the wildlife is now using fire.

Good job Australia.. did you learn nothing from The Jungle Book ?!

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Hey, the "Fire Hawks" space marine chapter HAD to come from somewhere ...

Where better to use for inspiration than a continent ("Death world") where the native life is hostile to humans?

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I honestly didn't think it was going to be birds of prey that would evolve and take us down.



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Its AoS, it doesn't have to make sense.
 
   
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Nah this is Aussie PR. Real Aussie Firehawks have tiny flamethrowers....

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
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 Just Tony wrote:
I honestly didn't think it was going to be birds of prey that would evolve and take us down.



Well played, Australia. Well played...


Well they're not poisonous so they had to do something.

   
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I was just about to post about how you guys have this really warped image of Australia, then I remembered last weekend talking to my friend who's pet joeys was snatched by an eagle. Yeah, you know how you guys are so proud of your bald headed eagles? Those things just snatch fish. They're glorified sea gulls.

Our eagles hunt kangaroos.

“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”

Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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 sebster wrote:
I was just about to post about how you guys have this really warped image of Australia, then I remembered last weekend talking to my friend who's pet joeys was snatched by an eagle. Yeah, you know how you guys are so proud of your bald headed eagles? Those things just snatch fish. They're glorified sea gulls.

Our eagles hunt kangaroos.


I tell people about how tiny our national mascot is and they are always in disbelief, until they do a google search.

are you going to keep talking about it, or do something already? 
   
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Just what the world needs

Arson birds.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
 Scott-S6 wrote:
And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!

 
   
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Beyond the Beltway

 sebster wrote:
I was just about to post about how you guys have this really warped image of Australia, then I remembered last weekend talking to my friend who's pet joeys was snatched by an eagle. Yeah, you know how you guys are so proud of your bald headed eagles? Those things just snatch fish. They're glorified sea gulls.

Our eagles hunt kangaroos.
Nope. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/29/nest-cam-livestreams-bald-eagle-parents-feeding-a-cat-to-their-eaglets/ Taking care of the feral cat population, like a good national symbol ought to do : They'll chase off coyotes too in order to enjoy a meal.

They do leave grizzlies alone. Any creature with sense leaves a grizzly bear alone.

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meanwhile in Australia


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 Red Harvest wrote:
Nope. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/29/nest-cam-livestreams-bald-eagle-parents-feeding-a-cat-to-their-eaglets/ Taking care of the feral cat population, like a good national symbol ought to do : They'll chase off coyotes too in order to enjoy a meal.

They do leave grizzlies alone. Any creature with sense leaves a grizzly bear alone.


Hey that's cool. Well not for the cat, but those things are environmental disasters. Anyway thanks for the info.

But for a measure of scale of the two kinds of prey...

“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”

Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
 
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