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Re: Spinosaurs ate my brain




On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 01:06 PM, Amtoine Grant wrote:


David Marjanovic wrote:

Had it been a parachuter, it would have had to climb back up the height of
the entire tree each time it had caught one insect. Less efficient even than
jumping up from the ground, right?

I suppose that depends on the rate of success. Admittedly, no modern animal that I know of catches insects by leaping from the ground into the air

Cats do that - they do it to avian dinosaurs, too.

Peter M