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To: Ish who wrote (39346)	10/7/1999 7:17:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

<One fellow raises buffalo and you can drive through his area. You don't honk at them either, that causes them to charge.> Morning Ish, Now, I'm not much for "zoos", but I once went to one of those game parks where you drive your vehicle on this winding road that passes through several different herds of animals. As you entered certain compound areas, there were signs saying that you could, or could not feed the animals. For example, you could feed the giraffes without too much danger, although I did see one stick its head down through the open sunroof of the car ahead of us and proceed to lick and nibble at each occupant's face. BTW, those giraffe tongues can just about wrap right around a person's head without much trouble... ;-}> One of the "don't feed" areas was the buffalo compound. But as you can imagine, some people just don't heed warnings. The car ahead of us was some kind of sporty Nissan with a couple of young men in it. They stopped and called out to a buffalo to come over and get some of the animal pellets that were sold by the game farm for this purpose. The buffalo slowly walked over to the car and gently licked the pellets off the driver's hand. This went on for 3 or 4 handfuls...then the driver rolled up the window... no more pellets Mr. Buffalo. Well, Mr. Buffalo didn't like that too much at all. I suppose he decided that his big sharp black horn could be used like a giant can-opener to cut it's way into that large metallic container filled with pellets and two stingy men. So he immediately began gouging at the driver's door of the Nissan. The car was soon rocking from side to side and you could see the occupants getting mighty frightened. Then all at once, the remote-control mirror tore off of the door and was left dangling from the buffalo's horn by the control cables. Seemingly satisfied with his trophy, the buffalo turned and wandered off back to the herd...while meanwhile, the dudes in the Nissan didn't waste any time getting out of that compound and into the next one. BTW, on the same day I saw a gang of some kind of baboons or other primates rip open the roof vent of one of those truck-box mounted campers. A couple of them crawled in through the vent and then one of them opened the back door, presumably to let his pals inside. With the back door open, a bunch of them hopped right in and started to party...sort of like those "swarm" parties that kids have. These guys skipped the preliminaries and got right down to business trashing the place... they were pitching pots and pans, clothing, a radio, and and all kinds of other junk out onto the road behind... Sometimes you have to wonder who gets the most amusement out of these places....