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RE: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is Discovered)

I always thought it was same with Parasauroplophus. I thought the idea was that sound was generated by the vocal cords and then resonated through the crest like a brass instrument. I?m pretty sure elephants do the same with their trunks to create very low frequency sounds. Elephant seals don?t raise their proboscis, its inflated and drops down in front of the mouth. The nose acts as a resonating chamber that cane generate very load roars that can heard for miles.


From: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
Reply-To: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
To: simkoning@msn.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is Discovered)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:30:00 -0700

It is through their vocal chords. They lift their proboscis, which makes
you think it is through the nose.


Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/
Chief Preparator
Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Denver, CO 80205

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Sim Koning
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:25 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is
Discovered)

"since when do animals make bellowing noises through their nose"

Elephant seals and elephants do.


>From: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
>Reply-To: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
>To: blackphoenix@eastlink.ca, dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: RE: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is
>Discovered)
>Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:28:38 -0700
>
>You took my comment waaaaaaaay to serious. I was making fun of the
>resonanting chamber hypothesis of lamberosaurs (since when do animals
>make bellowing noises through their nose????) AND Jack Horner's
>scavenging hypothesis.
>
>
>Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
>Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/ Chief Preparator Department
>of Earth Sciences Denver Museum of Nature & Science
>2001 Colorado Blvd.
>Denver, CO 80205
>
>Phone: 303-370-6392
>Fax: 303-331-6492
>************************************************************
>for PDFs of some of my publications, as well as information of the
>Cedar Mountain Project:
>https://scientists.dmns.org/sites/kencarpenter/default.aspx
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
>Of Amtoine Grant
>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:50 PM
>To: dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: Re: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is
>Discovered)
>
>On Thursday, February 9, 2006, at 01:05  PM, Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
>wrote:
>
> > The crest obviously is a resonating chamber like lambeosaurs to call

> > other scavengers to dinner - ;-)
>
>
>Seemingly illogical given that that would only mean less food for the
>'calling' individual. Vultures & bald eagles, for example, don't summon

>each other AND they often squabble and/or fight . HOWEVER, it would
>make sense if that when groups were assembled they would cooperate in
>defense of themselves & the carcass from the [at that time larger
>representatives of] other predaceous theropods of the time. This would
>also be a good starting point for the socialization that certain
>assemblages of tyrannosaurid fossils represent. Besides the obvious
>social implications of a head-borne crest that works directly against
>predation. . .