Re: The absurdity, the absurdity (was: Cooperating theropods?)

["Larry Dunn" <larrydunn@hotmail.com>]

Sankarah wrote:

>Right, true.  My point here is that Deinonychus would dispatch its prey
>in a way compeletly different from any extant animals.  This means it
>can take different prey, and perhaps larger prey, than we might expect
>from a modern analog.

Why just look at the claw and ignore the brain and other anatomy of the 
animal?  Especially when there are other rationales for the claw?

>> OTOH, wild dogs generally hunt in packs of ten to twenty.  I tend to 
think that
>> the mass difference that's important is the total, not individual 
predator to
>> individual prey.  It's a lot more impressive for one wolf to take 
down a moose
>> than it is for ten wolves to take down a moose.
>
>True.  And I expect it'd be no problem for a dozen Deinonychus to take
>down a Tenontosaur.

But Deinonychus was not a mammal.

Larry

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