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

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

sankarah@ou.edu wrote:
> Jonathon Woolf wrote:
> > Chris Campbell wrote:
> > > Jonathon Woolf wrote:

> > > > The tactics that work against a cat that can only run a hundred meters
> > > > before dropping don't work against a predator that can dog the prey's
> > > > heels for miles, until the prey animal finally tires and falls.
> > >
> > > Depends.  Horns work pretty well regardless.
> >
> > Most large mammalian herbivores have no horns, or their horns are not 
> > usable as
> > weapons.
> 
> Bison?  Buffalo?  Elk?  Moose?  Wildebeest?  These are our large
> mammalian predators, andthey allhave either horns or antlers (and all
> use them in defense).

That's BOY bison, BOY buffaloes, BOY elk, BOY moose.  (typical male
response to forget the babes)
Girls (and youths) of the same species outnumber the adult males and
have no horns or antlers WHATSOEVER.
I _think_ wildebeest/gnu girls have horns but I aint positive.

-Betty Cunningham