RE: How Did Hadrosaurs Survive? (Was: Hadrosaur "mummy" questions)

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>

> Yeah, but according to your scenario Mommy and Daddy were targeted by 
> >adult _Tyrannosaur rex_.  What does Mommy Hadrosaur do when a 
> >tyrannosaur sees it sitting atop a nest, or feeding its nestlings? - 
> >run, and leave her babies to their own devices.

Would they run, though?  With the likes of the brooding _Citipati_ caught in 
the sandstorm or the nesting _Maiasaura_ caught in who-knows-what, (some) 
dinosaur parents very much seem to be devoted to their young.
Just a thought...

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

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