Killer whales and theropods (was Longest Animal?)

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

From: "Berislav Krzic" <veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net>

> I've seen a documentary on a pod of orcas attacking young Blue Whale.
>The most spectacular site I've ever seen! I wonder if a pack of 
theropods
>(of equal size
>ratio as K.W. to B. Whale) could have brought down a sauropod of that 
size.

Since they were pea-brains, theropods probably didn't work together the 
same way that Killer Whales (or humans) do. I imagine their "working 
together" to be much the same as Ora "cooperation" in dispatching, say, 
a boar: one brought it down, others came in to help tear up the prey 
animal, dispatching it more rapidly in the process.

Larry

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