Re: theropod scavenging

["no go" <honkietong@hotmail.com>]

> With the recent thread dealing with the possibility of spinosaur
> scavenging, participants might be interested in a speculative
> theoretical paper about large theropod scavenging that I published
> several years ago:
>
> J.O. Farlow.  1994.  Speculations about the carrion-locating ability of
> tyrannosaurs.  Historical Biology 7: 159-165.
>
> I basically argued that tyrannosaurs (and other big theropods) could
> have capitalized on being tall bipeds in detecting carcasses by smell or
> sight, having an advantage over carnivores whose heads are closer to the
> ground.

> I emphasize, however, that I explicitly said in the paper that
> scavenging probably wasn't the only foraging methods of the beasts.<<

Was it the paper in which big theropods, given the same nasal abilities, 
could smell about 15 (or was it five? Sadly, I've lost the refrence)times 
the area of a hyena due to their height? Could this be effected by a hyena 
who is on an elevation 13 feet higher then another hyena on level ground.


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