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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