Re: alvarezsaurid arms

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

    I doubt that they would be dependent on termites.  I just assumed this 
would be one of many things Patagonykus would be "digging for" (as well as 
worms, grubs, tubers, eggs, etc.).  Those claws might have also been good 
for breaking open rotting trees and logs, even in pursuit of hiding 
symmetrodonts or other small vertebrates.  I bet they had fairly eclectic 
tastes.
                ------ Ken
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> From: "Rob Gay" <rob@dinodomain.com>
> Reply-To: rob@dinodomain.com
> To: "Dinosaur Mailing List" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: alvarezsaurid arms
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:11:10 -0700
>
> >Anyway, termite mounds aren't quite as hard when they have been rained
> upon, and the climate was generally less dry back in the Cretaceous.<
> I don't know that an animal that was very adapted for a certain purpose (if
> digging into mounds is indeed the purpose) would really depend on rains.

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