On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Tim Williams wrote:
Augusto Haro <augustoharo@gmail.com> wrote:Nice... good eyesight seems not very suggestive of social insect hunting or excavation in general... Although it is not said how good sight it had relative to the non-alvarezsaur ancestral state.... Good eyesight would be appropriate for scavengers that keep an eye out for carcasses in the distance... either by sighting large carcasses directly or the pterosaurs above heading in the direction of carcasses.
Smell can be useful too if downwind. Wonder if there was an equivalent of circling vultures... New world vultures have a good sense of smell used in carcass detection, but that probably reflects more the differences between open areas and forested ones.