File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 455


From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: On Apes
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:00:36 -0500



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From: MES0075-AT-aol.com <MES0075-AT-aol.com>
To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
<nietzsche-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: On Apes


>In a message dated 7/21/98 9:54:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jtduryea-AT-dmv.com
>writes:
>
><< 1. What percent of the calories does a chimp which has been weaned get
from
> the hunting efforts of adult males.
>
> 2. Do chimps pair bond?
>
> 3. What percent of the calorie intake of an adult chimp comes from
hunting?
>
> 4. Do chimps live as solitary predators?
>
> 5. Do you consider chimps "beasts of prey"? >>
>
>
>
>1.  I don't know, do you?  Mr Callihan?. The question sort of Begs the
Point.

Answer : less than 1%. Ice Age humans : >90%

>2. Yes.
Wrong answer : No they don't

>3. Don't Know.  What percent of your calorie intake comes from Meat?
Answer : less than 5% for adult male chimps. Think of what they are fed in
the zoo.

>4.  No.  ALready stated that they hunt as a group.  Remember.  The orang
lives
>a solitary life, though he is a veggie.
You got this one right!

>5.  Just as much as a human, although most of us don't have the backbone to
do
>it ourselves.
Wrong again. See answers above. Nietzsche considered psychically healthy
humans beasts  of prey, chimp's diet is almost exclusively plant matter.

>
>M.E.

Did any chimps live in Ice Age Europe, if not, why?

JTD



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