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

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

Sankarah wrote, replying to Jeff Martz:

>Looking at what I wrote, I should have said "piercing" instead of
>slicing.  They'd be bad for slicing, I think, but good for piercing.

 and 

>True.  I think a decent tactic might be to pierce again and again,
>leaving the prey to die from blood loss.  This would be doable with
>medium sized prey like your smaller hadrosaurs, particularly if lots of
>individuals are doing it.

Well, this certainly is a lot less convincing than the huge gashes they 
were "obviously" making before.  This makes the whole scenario seem that 
much more ridiculous. Jump up, poke, get down.  Jump up, poke, get down.  
Have at you!

And how does this gel with earlier statements on Deinonychus predation?  
For instance, are we to understand that the properly ventilated 
Tenontosaur eventually keeled over and crushed the three Deinonychus? 

By the way, I liked "owies," Jeff. 

>I agree, slicing per se wouldn't work.  Lots of stab wounds would be
>much more effective, however.

They would? Sharon Tate might disagree (sorry, couldn't resist). I'd 
rather gut a creature than poke it full of holes, if I were a predator 
(unless I were planning to ship something live in it).

Larry

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