Re: Re[2]: Great White Shark hunting techniques

[JCMcL <darwincr@laplaza.taos.nm.us>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Cunningham, Betty wrote:
> >Sauropods fed by reaching down with their long necks to the treetops 
> >whilst floating above them.  At such times, large carnivorous dinosaurs 
> >sometimes leaped into the air and punctured the giants with their 
> >teeth, thus letting the amassed hydrogen out so that the sauropods 
> >FWOOSHED about briefly like titanic balloons before settling to earth 
> >to be devoured at last.  
>      
> The only two problems I see with this theory (!) is that the predator would 
> then
> have to trudge to where ever the dang sauropod hit ground, perhaps miles 
> away, 
> and after becoming tired because of running after it in multiple directions 
> until it actually settled.
> 
> And  I'd hate to see a herd of, oh, say, Ultrasauros in a lightning storm
> (perhaps you meant helium?)
> 
> 
> -Betty Cunningham

No, Betty, this is definitely hydrogen.  And remember, that once a 
carnivore punctured a herbivore, the carnivore had to make tracks in order 
not to be struck by its descending prey.  

In lightning storms, presumably, the sauropods descended to their 
burrows.