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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
8:48:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ghost Riders in the Sky - Concrete Blonde
Well, maybe not revenge. Perhaps proof that humans don't make for good eatin':
Early humans living in Africa's open savannahs probably made easy pickings for large predatory cats, but a new study suggests that at least one of the meals didn't sit well.
A large cat dining on the entrails of one our early ancestors thousands of years ago contracted an ulcer-causing bacteria that spread to lions, cheetahs and tigers and which persists to this day, a new study concludes.
It's possible, of course, that the transmission of the bacteria went the other way -- we got it from the cats when one of us ate them -- but look at your average lion, and then look at your average proto-human, and you tell me who is going to eat whom. And as it happens there are also some scientific data which support the idea that it went from humans to cats, not the other direction.
Now, I don't think there was any doubt that lions and other big cats would occasionally kill and eat people, because of course it's happened enough in both the historical and modern world. What I find interesting is that the record of it happening hundreds of thousands of years ago persists in the guts of those big cats to this very day. There was a meal to remember, I tell you. Whoever you are, anonymous small proto-human big cat snack, I salute you. And your ulcer.
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8:48:00 AM EDT
Hearing Ghost Riders in the Sky - Concrete Blonde
Revenge!
Well, maybe not revenge. Perhaps proof that humans don't make for good eatin':
Early humans living in Africa's open savannahs probably made easy pickings for large predatory cats, but a new study suggests that at least one of the meals didn't sit well.
A large cat dining on the entrails of one our early ancestors thousands of years ago contracted an ulcer-causing bacteria that spread to lions, cheetahs and tigers and which persists to this day, a new study concludes.
It's possible, of course, that the transmission of the bacteria went the other way -- we got it from the cats when one of us ate them -- but look at your average lion, and then look at your average proto-human, and you tell me who is going to eat whom. And as it happens there are also some scientific data which support the idea that it went from humans to cats, not the other direction.
Now, I don't think there was any doubt that lions and other big cats would occasionally kill and eat people, because of course it's happened enough in both the historical and modern world. What I find interesting is that the record of it happening hundreds of thousands of years ago persists in the guts of those big cats to this very day. There was a meal to remember, I tell you. Whoever you are, anonymous small proto-human big cat snack, I salute you. And your ulcer.
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Pro strangler "Macho Man" Randy Savage was once bitten by a (devenomed) cobra as part of a wrestling work... and the cobra got Toxic Shock Syndrome, and died. While cobra autopsies aren't common, the word on the street was that Savage was so full of steroids, the cobra just couldn't tolerate it.
Had he lived, this cobra could have kicked Rikki Tikki Tavi's ass with the Barry Bonds-like steroid empowerment it got from Savage's bloodstream..
6/28/06 1:55 PM
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