There are over one billion pigs whose very existence depends on bacon.  The species you mention taken all together today don't come anywhere near that number.
 
The flood caused by the current interglacial period is just a rough approximation to the end of the Pleistocene extinction event.  Woolly mammoths existed on Wrangle Island until about 4,000 years ago.
 
With dogs to hold them at bay and light throwing weapons even Pygmies can take elephants.  This new "super" predator may have played a substantial role but the rapidly changing climate of the late Pleistocene ( 10,000 year mini Ice Ages forming in under a decade) may have played a bigger role in these extinctions.
 
 
Ray Audette

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Subject: Re: Ben Balzer's Noah

Ray
Please elaborate on megafauna.
As many megafauna did survive which are not neotonised. The elephant, great kudu, bison, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, giant red kangaroo, and others may qualify.
Is there evidence that the extinct megafauna died before or during the floods? I thought our ancestors had wiped them out shortly before.
Ben Balzer
On 10/07/2011 1:23 PM, Ray Audette wrote:
> It is interesting that the only Pleistocene Megafauna that survived the Pleistoce Extinction event  (whick ended with the rise in sea level 12,500 years ago) in anything like Pleistocene numbers, were the ones we bred (took two by two in ancient Hebrew) for food.
>  Perhaps Noah's Arc was more like the Arc of the Covenent, but this time an agreement between animals and people.  We eat you, we care for you - we both survive.
>  Did I mention that Paul Shepard was also a falconer.....Praise Horus!
>  Ray Audette
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