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<sagiru@hotmail.com> Donald Osborn raises a salient point about just how subtle negative representations of Africa can be. In the past eight years of working in West Africa, I have never run across an especially ill-tempered bee. In honesty, when I went on hikes and Inselburg-climbs in the countryside, I was occasionally warned about keeping an eye out for and not disturbing bee hives -- but I got the same warning as a child roaming the woods of the American Southeast. In the US I have frequently run afoul of bees, but it has never happened to me in Africa. As such, my non-entomological opinion would be that Killer/Africanized bees are more a result of selective breeding and popular mythology than any real tendency on the part of African Bees to poor humor. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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