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Re: option re pachy head banging
On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Cindy Johnson wrote:
> Hello, I have a question about the head banging of pachys.
> Has anyone considered that head banging may have been used for the dreary
> occupation of food gathering? Please allow me a little leaway here as I am
> not a professional in this area. Perhaps the pachys bonked into trees like
> coconuts, or other fruit trees as a way of foraging.
>
> PS Have you ever noticed that in books plant eating dinos eat leaves and none
> are mentioned eating fruit???
>
Most of the plants from the time of dinosaurs are conifers and ferns,
some seed bearing pods and early angiosperm (flowering plants) appear
later in the Cretaceous. I suspect that fruits were not that common of a
food source.
---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)