Malcolm  wrote:

> "Robert Karl Stonjek"  wrote in message
> >
> > Lab rats go wild in Oxfordshire
> > A documentary film proves that laboratory rats can still survive in the
> > wild.
> > Is this an indication of hardwired behaviour??  If I get lost in the wild,
> > will I start hopping about and preparing for pregnancy, or does my
> > consciousness override precursory innate behaviours (allowing me to >
> quietly starve to death) ??
> >
> Obviously rats are fairly hardwired. However I suspect that a group of
> humans lost in the African savannah wouldn't know how to start making a
> fire, yet alone get any zebra burgers to cook on it.

Any still alive in, say, five years, would :-)
-- 
John Wilkins
wilkins.id.au
"Men mark it when they hit, but do not mark it when they miss" 
                                               - Francis Bacon
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