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Re: New alvarezsaurid



In a message dated 98-03-24 10:29:54 EST, m_troutman@hotmail.com writes:

<< It sounds like you misunderstood. My point was that the maniraptoran 
 hand is not suited for hunted and they did not hunt using it as a main 
 "tool". 
 
 Of course you cannot accumulate stats on the kill ratios, however nice 
 it may be. I'm not saying that because ( in my view ) the maniraptoran 
 hand was really unsuited for hunting that they weren't effective hunters 
 ( in the predaceous clades ). What I am saying is that the hand is 
 really suited for other tasks.   >>

Exactly so. I must have misunderstood, because that's not what I picked up
from your posts before.