Sakkars & other critters

From: Carlson, Pam <carlsonp_at_wdni.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:09:00 -0700

Thanks, Peter, for reminding me that a Sakkar was a sabre-tooth-type beastie. (I had forgotten.)

There's a theory that Smilodons and their kin lived mostly off the large mammals of the Pleistoscene, and their demise was linked to the decline of the large mammals. They were better at leaping on bison and stabbing with their teeth than they were at stalking hares.

If this is so, then sakkars likely prefer large prey, too. This would make them especially bothersome/fearsome to humans, who tend to keep large prey animals too. (cattle, horses, sheep.) They would be worse to live with than mountain lions or wolves, who actually to eat more mice and rabbits than deer and cattle.

Thanks, too, for the input on badgers, otters, and fierce Yinkini alynxes of Farpoint. I can now understand how they would out compete other feline predators. (But I still think otters should be hunted for their fur in the winter.) But gee - no wolverines? Farpoint sounds like just the spot for them! Or maybe, like everything truely fierce - they live in Pent?;-)

(Do you have wolverines in Scandinavia?)

Pam

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