I just finished reading http://members.GNN.COM/chetday/ward1.htm with great interest. I'd love to read more if it's available, especially electronically. Has there been any thought of making M2M an e-mail list? We certainly have a lot of ants here in the Sonoran desert. I wonder when it was that we became too "civilised" to eat them? I personally have the pleasure of sharing my land with a large number of ants and even a termite colony eating my back fence. I find myself thinking about eating these little guys. Ants can wage some pretty good checmical warfare if you sit on the wrong. :-) I wonder if primates avoid that by eating them quickly? I remember watching cimpanzees delight in the consumption and "fishing" for termites. They seem much more palatable to me. I keep having my eyes opened on all fronts of my life to how much we humans love to distort reality to please our "higher vision" of ourselves. I remember seeing a documentary a year or two ago where I was first introduced to the scavenger theory (as opposed to the hunter). That must have been very hard for a lot of people to swallow. I have a very nice documentary about lions and hyenas that my son wanted to watch every day for weeks. Somehow, it didn't seem at all unlikely that way back when, we were in there like jackals, before the big guys came to shoo us away. Adaptability seems to have been the major thing that makes us as successful as we are. Seems like our ability to sieze every opportunity for nutrition and habitat have made us what we are. -- [log in to unmask] Forging my sanity http://mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu/~jew/ through polyamory.