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Old 28-05-2015, 10:21 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 03/05/15 14:43, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:

(*) Unless they see the target as prey and about the only animal that
really views humans as "prey" is the Tiger.

No, that's a myth, though it is one of the more likely to attack
people when it gets too ill to take other prey. The ones that did
(past) and do (present) are African leopards and Nile crocodiles /
Sal****er alligators. The former naturally prey on baboons, and
humans are similar, but they stopped doing that as soon as humans
became a threat (they are very intelligent). The latter see
EVERYTHING as prey!

I have a leopard shot by my grandfather for just that reason
in Assam back in the mid 30s. No, it doesn't have a CITES
certificate, since I inherited it in the early 60s.

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