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

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

From: Chris Campbell <sankarah@ou.edu>

>>      Many birds hunt cooperatively. The Harris hawk is the foremost
>> example of this. 

>Thank you!  Looks like you didn't have to bend very far, too.

There were several other birds listed in a previous thread as 
cooperative to a greater or lesser extent in hunting IIRC.  It did, in 
fact, require a significant amount of bending, and much discussion of 
the true amount of cooperation used by each proposed bird.  Again, check 
the list archives; they can be very instructive, as many of these 
discussions have already occurred.  

So: This means?  The vast  majority of raptorial birds do not hunt 
cooperatively, birds are probably more intelligent than dinosaurs were, 
and in any event dromaeosaurs didn't fly!

Said another way, there's still the problem of the willingness 
associating dromaeosaurs with birds of all things (all cute references 
to dinosaurs BEING birds aside) when you've ruled out a comparison 
between dromaeosaurs and extant terrestrial predators, animals certainly 
leading much closer lifestyles.  

Larry

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