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To: blam
America once had native horses, camels, mammoths, and other large animals that were extinct before Europeans arrived.

I wonder who ate them all.

5 posted on 11/21/2003 9:57:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (France delenda est)
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To: ClearCase_guy
America once had native horses, camels, mammoths, and other large animals that were extinct before Europeans arrived.

I believe horses were first introduced by the Spanish.

8 posted on 11/21/2003 10:19:01 AM PST by Maceman (too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I wonder who ate them all.


9 posted on 11/21/2003 10:20:03 AM PST by ASA Vet ("Right-wing Internet wacko")
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To: ClearCase_guy
There is a surprising amount of information indicating that the "indigenous" predation was a significant factor in the Quaternary Extinctions (time when over 300 species of Ice Age megafauna went extinct).

Sites are numerous where bones have weapons imbedded in them, where bones were burned and then split for the marrow, etc.
PETA freaks wouldn't have liked the appetitive behavior of the "indigenous".
21 posted on 11/21/2003 7:36:50 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
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