Re: Oviraptor

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

>Oviraptor's beak looks a bit like a flamingo's.  Has someone mentioned 
that 
>before, or is it my usual sense of deja vu?  However, I am pretty sure 
that 
>Oviraptor did not filter feed upside down in hypersaline lakes.
>
>                                                       All the best,
>
>                                                                       Bill
>


If your interpretation is correct, then Oviraptor would *have* to feed 
head upside down. The arrangement that flamingos have of their 
filter-feeding apparatus makes it a necessity that they feed that way. 
Now, unless Oviraptor used its crest as a shovel for digging up little 
bugs, the crest would get in the way if Oviraptor was a filter-feeder. 
But, I must say, this is a very good idea.

 MattTroutman





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