From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) the problem with de-evolution
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:51:46 

At 11:03 AM 4/25/01 -0700, Blattid wrote:
>(As a side note, how many people are _actually_ attacked by alligators 
>and the like in a given year? I presume that proper precautions could 
>make the threat from non-sentient inhumi no greater than that from 
>crocodilians.)

My understanding is that the number of human attacks from crocodilians is
very low. They're much like wolves that way--feared as human predators all
out of proportion to the actual danger they present. Which isn't to say
that they can't sometimes be very dangerous, indeed. 

-- 
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney@ungames.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://www.nyrsf.com

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