Re: Dinosaurs, Size, and Land Area

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:39:51 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
> 
> For a given land area, the largest warm-blooded herbivores were
> about 14 times as heavy as the biggest warm-blooded carnivores.
> Among cold-blooded animals, plant eaters were around 33 times as
> heavy as meat eaters.

Huh?  Could someone show me the extant fifty-ton herbivorous ectotherm
that's 33 times as heavy as a 1.5 ton _Crocodylus porosus_?

(See http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/cbd-faq-q2.htm)

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