Re: Large man-sized KT dromies

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

> From: "Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: j_mallon@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Large man-sized KT dromies
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:12:42 -0400
>
> > From: "no go" <honkietong@hotmail.com>
>
> > Though the graphics and animation were great (despite
> > some rather disturbing behaviour of Edmontosaurus largely ignoring a
> > striding T.rex in their vicnity),
>
> What's the matter with that?  I've seen a number of documentaries and 
> photos
> which feature a lion or two walking amongst a whole slew of would-be prey.
> But the animals don't feel threatened because the intruder's body language
> isn't menacing.  Simple as that.
>
> Jordan Mallon

Of course, the T.rex in this case was making a heck of a racket and acting 
aggressively. Prehaps that scene was done to drive home the "point" that the 
duckbills had nothing to fear from an aggressively behaving 6-ton carnivore 
because they had seen the same documentry too and were assured that this 
animal, that had more gracile limb proportions then them and a gigantic maw 
capable of killing them in one bite, was just a "mean and stinky" obgilate 
scavenger that was only a threat to yet-discovered dromies (but they had to 
exist dingdarnit, or the entire hypothesis will fall apart) who had just 
made a fresh kill! Wait, they didn't have Discovery back then so it would be 
a moot point.

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