RE: Microraptor hanqingi, new species from China.

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> > Enlarge the hole in a tree.
> >
> > Lay down on the branch.
> >
> >  Granted, the koala method (plop down at the fork of branches and shove 
> > one's bottom into the
> > split) isn't really an option for archosaurs.
>
> Leopards certainly don't need to hold on when they sleep in a tree. A quick 
> google image search
> of "leopard sleeping in tree" reveals quite a gallery of casual 
> branch-draping, with no hint of a claw
> being used to grip onto anything.
>
> The pubic boot of most theropods would seem to make that an uncomfortable way 
> to sleep - except
> for dromaeosaurs of course, with their retroverted pubes.
>
> Now that'd make for an interesting illustration - a group of sleeping 
> dromaeosaurs draped leopard-
> style over the branches of a large tree, with their tails hanging down 
> vertically beneath them.

*nods*

Or illustrated with the dromaeosaurs draped on the branch like a leopard's 
meal   (rather than with the backbone a parallel line above the branch's line)

hmm...or not.  (it'd be one way to invite a caption of "after a long day of 
trying to fly, mr. dromaeosaur collapses for a nap")