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I t'ought I saw a Spinosaur


On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 01:18  PM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, kustom66 wrote:
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.

Most likely for play.

But birds are their favoured prey, not just playthings. Usually catching one requires some degree of leaping from the ground. The serval in particular accomplishes some prodigious leaps in this pursuit.

Feral cats in Australia are reviled by naturalists for their impact on native birds.

Peter M