Re: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs

[Tom Pearce <tpearce@cix.co.uk>]

> Do grizzly bears really do this?  I know the idea that grizzlies use their
> claws to gaff fish comes up again and again, but has anyone actually seen
> them do it?  
> 
> I think this discussion is generating more heat than light, so I'm going to
> desist from further posts on the topic.  We'll never know for certain if
> _Baryonyx_ was a dedicated piscivore or not, but I do think we're
> overreaching the available evidence by claiming, unequivocally, that it was.

Though I've never observed them in the wild, there have been a number
of superb documentary films that show grizzlies:

a) Crashing through shallow ponds & rivers chasing fish, seizing them
in their jaws...
b) Waiting by the shores of a river & snatching them with their jaws,
and most spectacularly...
c) Standing at the top of a waterfall & snatching the salmon from the
air as they leap up (in their jaws)!

I've never seen them "hooking" fish from the water - then again, maybe
I'm just watching the wrong TV shows!

Richard