Subject: SC - coring fruit - sca-cooks V1 #3092

[Bonne of Traquair]

 And another thing. Wolves are oppourtunistic predators: ie., if the need (hunger) is there and an oppourtunity presents itself: again ie...a lone camper, or jogger or wayward, fat kid presents itself.  Sound the dinner bell.
Your current ranking on the food chain is not as incontestable as your soft, suburban exsistence has 
led you to beileve.  Step into a forest, marshland,
wetlands, wildzone, or puddle and you might find your
self becoming a meal...
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:13:02  
 Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>"N. Sasso" wrote:
>> 
>> > Not a source, exactly, but it should be noted that most werewolf legends
>> > appear to be based on the idea, rightly or wrongly, that wolves _will_
>> > attack humans when they're starving. I seem to recall reading something
>> > about this in a book, recently written, about the Little Ice Age of the
>> > 13th-19th centuries.
>> 
>> Given the credibility due such sources, one of the legends of St.
>> Francis of Assisi is that he convinced a wolf at Gubbio to stop
>> attacking the townspeople and their livestock.  As credible an account
>> as any in that time frame . . . Recounted by Brother Leo (?) in his
>> biographical notes immediately after the death of Francis.
>> 
>> niccolo difrancesco
>
>Another consideration is that even if what is being noted as the
>normality (or lack thereof) of wolves' attacks on humans in period, this
>tendency could be seen as either A) abnormal for overall wolf behavior
>over the past couple of million years, B) normal or abnormal for an
>unusual 600-year period from the mid-middle ages to roughly the onset of
>the Industrial Revolution in Europe, or C) unusual in the collective
>experience of modern science, say, roughly, since the aforementioned
>period to the present.
>
>It does appear, though, that in general, although not without exception,
>the weather in Northern Europe was significantly colder for most of the
>interim between approximately 1200 C.E. and 1800 C.E., and it's possible
>that behavior that we may view as abberant for wolves today might have
>been fairly common in that period, if their ecosystem was disrupted.
>Certainly there are numerous accounts of ways in which hard winters
>changed the lives of humans; why should animal species be any different?
>
>Adamantius
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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