Re: Neck Defense

[Eric Martichuski <herewiss13@hotmail.com>]

> How about a tail with an easily removed end, similar
> to that of some modern lizards?  Such a feature might
> be discernible in the vertebrae.
>
> Glen Ledingham

That brings up an image of a predator adapted specifically to feast on the 
dropped tail-meat of sauropods.  There's a lot of good eatin' in those 
things!  Why bother to hunt the entire beast when you can just pull/scare 
off a meal with much less effort. ;-)

...of course, it also brings to mind the image of a lot of deeply unbalanced 
sauropods plowing head-first into the ground. ;-)

Eric
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