WAS Re: Sauropod drinking

[Jeffrey Willson <jwillson@harper.cc.il.us>]

"the Rieglers" <herricks@cin.net> wrote  re sauropods:

>They could still wade, or swim( which brings ludicrous imagery to my mind,
I picture
>them paddling like a dog, I don't know, it's the only way I can imagine it)
>It hardly seems possible for them to have swam decently.

Well, elephants are generally considered the closest living analogue for
sauropod 
limb construction & locomotion, and my understanding is that elephants are
quite good swimmers.

(There's an illustration or two of swimming sauropods in GSPaul's _Predatory
Dinosaurs_ if anybody's interested.)

Jeffrey Willson <jwillson@harper.cc.il.us>