RE: Elephants and hyenas

[john-schneiderman@cox.net]

I think that the ways of birds and crocodylia are our best models for 
parental care and/or defense of the young within the dinosauria. 
Dinosaurs were not mammals and mammal behaviour shouldn't be used as a 
guide to what we consider dinosaur behaviour. Tempting as it is.

John Schneiderman


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Dan Chure wrote:

> Here's a series of photos taken of a hyena attack on a young elephant 
> and the adult elephants defense of the young one.  I won't draw too 
> close a parallel to dinosaurs, but such events are not often recorded 
> and might be of interest to the dino paleo community.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/elephant-fights-off-hyenas-to-save-baby-slideshow/elephant-fighting-off-hyenas-photo--704095293.html
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> Dan