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From: MariusRomanus@aol.com
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:58 pm
Subject: Re: The bigger they were...

> Well.... speaking solely from the weather-side of things..... I'm 
> confused as 
> to why the impact of tornadic..... gale...... hurricane..... 
> whatever..... 
> force winds on any sort of animal within their vicinity would be 
> questioned to 
> begin with. Hence, I'm lost as to what the point of all of this is.
> 
> Kris 


The point is that a towering animal with a high centre of gravity would be 
particularly vulnerable - and a sauropod fall could only be fatal (especially 
for those beneath :-)).

Or could it? And could sauropods squat down??

Peter M