re:babies and ecology (Bakker)

[Emily Tremain <etremain@gac.edu>]

I saw those slides and they are definitely not Velociraptor. The pubic boot
was very large and robust. Does anyone know where the site is? Wyoming
perhaps? Has this been pulished anywhere?
-Emily Tremain

At 08:56 AM 10/3/00 EST, you wrote:
>I attended a lecture by Bakker last year at the Out of the Rock Paleo fest 
>in Rockford, where he discussed the nursery finds. If memory serves me 
>correctly, the spent teeth were from a Velociraptor The teeth from the 
>babies were smaller than a match head. There were bones that showed signs of 
>being gnawed on by the infants. And I mean GNAWED. There was a slide, and it 
>looked like some animal was really chewed the heck out of it. Much in the 
>same way a dog will just gnaw on a soup bone (of shoes). The same bones also 
>had huge teeth marks of an adult of the same species.
>I remember the pubic boot hole being mentioned, and being used as an 
>argument for evidence of family packs that 'took care' of the wounded 
>animal. Bakker believed a stegosaur smacked the Velociraptor right where 
>it'd hurt, thereby crippling it (and who wouldn't be!!) The injury shows 
>signs of being infected, and there is infection pathologies further up the 
>spinal cord. It seems the infection spread to the (this is from memory) 
>vertebrae above the lungs. This led him to believe that there was some care 
>taking going on. According to Bakker, the animal could not hunt for its 
>self, and yet is still lived long enough for the infection to spread and get 
>really nasty, and leave huge pathologies all over the spine.
>
>It's been a year, though. Maybe some further studies have been done, and my 
>information is out of date, so please take it with a grain of salt.
>Did not hear the part about it representing one breeding season, so thanks.
>
>I left the lecture a little early, so this is where I'll stop! Hope this 
>helps.
>
>Angie.
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