Re: Regarding Spinosaurus

[Jura <archosaur@reptilis.net>]

--- Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/9/02 10:04:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>archosaur@reptilis.net writes:
>
><< On the flip side, most mammals and birds need to eat as much as they can as 
>often as they can in order to keep activated. >>
>
>I know that if I, a mammal, were to eat as much as I could as often as >I 
>could, I'd weigh a ton. I certainly don't need that much food to >keep 
>activated--just a couple of pounds a day, if that much, is fine. >I have the 
>feeling that the food requirements of warm-blooded animals >are all too often 
>overestimated.

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True enough, and exactly my point. The belief that reptiles are reliant (where 
reliant apparently translates to: slave to) on external sources of heat is just 
as overstated.  Most observations I've seen and read about all indicate that a 
preoccupation with keeping an optimum temperature seems to be the furthest 
thing from their minds. Personal observations of my pet iguana also verify this 
as the guy seems far more interested and mugging me for food and sleeping on 
the sil at night than basking under his lights.


Anyway, I threw it out there more to make a point. "Warm-blooded" animals 
didn't "free" themselves from a reliance on their environment. They merely 
traded one dependancy for another.

Jura

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