Re: tiny-armed theropods

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Don Ohmes wrote:

> On 10/7/2011 12:05 PM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> > Went to youtube to see if there was any footage of ostriches running
> > (the closest thing, hopefully, to arms and running) and found
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r-b8uY7C9E&feature=related
> >
> > For the most part the arms/wings are kept against the body but noticed
> > in a turn they splayed out to assist with the turn. The feathers are
> > probably contributing to the assist, like dive breaks...
>
> Being knee-walkers, ostriches may not be analogous to basal theropods 
> relative to investigating Allen's pitch-down observation.

Actually, I was only curious as to what the ostrich arms were doing.

> Maybe a mechanical model?