JTEM:
https://youtu.be/u6kc7rEQXpI?t=126
Queued up to the bit on crocs.
I have to ask, as I've never not been aware of the
facts but, why do some savanna idiots think that
crocs are an issue for Aquatic Ape?
kudu runner:
Because australopithecines and early Homo lived along huge crocs in
the Turkana Basin and Olduvai Gorge?
:-DDD
My little little boy, apiths are fossil relatives of Gorilla (E.Afr.) or else Pan (Pliocene S.Africa? early-Pleist.also E.Africa?), forgot??
1) Pliocene was not in Africa: forgot retroviral evidence??
2) Fossil Afr.apes lived not far from crocs (at least from their eggs... :-DDD), e.g.
- Tabarin KNM-TH 13150 “pre-australopithecine”: ‘The fauna includes aquatic animals such as molluscs, fish, turtles, crocodiles, and hippotami, along with others that might be found in the vicinity of a lake of river’ (Ward & Hill 1987).
- "Ardip."ramidus: ‘Sedimentological, botanical and faunal evidence suggests a wooded habitat for the Aramis hominids […] Aquatic elements (turtle, fish, crocodile) are rare. Large mammals (hippopotamus, proboscideans, rhinos, equids, giraffids,
bovines) are rare. Primates are very abundant’ (WoldeGabriel cs 1994).
- Hadar AL.288 Lucy lay in a small, slow moving stream. ‘Fossil preservation at this locality is excellent, remains of delicate items such as crocodile and turtle eggs and crab claws being found’ (Johanson & Taieb 1976).
- Chesowanja boisei: ‘The fossiliferous sediments were deposited in a lagoon […] Abundant root casts […] suggest that the embayment was flanked by reeds and the presence of calcareous algae indicates that the lagoon was warm and shallow. Bellamya
and catfish are animals tolerant of relatively stagnant water, and such situation would also be suitable for turtles and crocodiles’ (Carney cs 1971).
- Olduvai O.H.24 "habilis" (Homo??): ‘Crocodile remains predominate among the faunal material from this site and more than 2,000 teeth were found. Tortoise plates, shells of Urocyclid slugs, fish vertebrae and scales, bird bones and pieces of ostrich
eggshell were also relatively common (Leakey cs 1971).
- Malawi UR 501 gracile ("Homo"??): ‘The Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds of Northern Malawi have yielded molluscs and fragmented remains of fish, turtles, crocodiles and large mammals […] Microvertebrates and carnivores are virtually unrepresented in
the assemblage […] The general ecological setting of the Malawi Rift during the Late Pliocene was a mosaic environment including open and closed, dry and wet habitats, and which harbored a small and ecologically unstable paleolake Malawi’ (Schrenk cs
1995).
Grow up, my little boy!
Accept what is evident:
your ancestors never ran after gazelles... :-DDD
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