Re: Many, many thoughts & responses re: the Hutchinson-Garcia paper

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Philidor11 (philidor11@snet.net) wrote:

<...have the potential prey animals for T. rex been checked with the same
sort of models?  If it turns out they could escape consistently, that
might have implications.>

  I do not wish to speak for John, but it is my understanding that while
the physics apply to both fore- and hindlimbs, the anatomy and comparisons
involved between the two are different enough to result in separate values
and results given analysis. For this reason, fore- and hindlimb analysis
in quadrupeds would require a second, and possibly a third, model to
register possible range of speed.

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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