Oh Dear.
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:25:35 -0800 (PST)From: "K. Hunt" <hunt@u.washington.edu>
(c) male walks ahead of female, drops sperm packet on ground. Female comes along behind, sniffing the ground. When she finds the sperm packet (spermatophore) she lowers her vent and picks it up. (Salamanders. A very clever solution - internal fertilization without copulation!)
Aha! Dino-Onanism! At last, the true explanation for dinosaur extinction: they all went blind.
BWWWWWAAAAAAAA-hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Also --
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:35:58 -0500 From: Graydon <graydon@dsl.ca>
> I don't feel that their positions would have reached anything like > the dangerous vertical stance required for the genitalia to > meet. It was for this reason that in my illustration I put the > female with her head down and tail raised so that only the male > needed to attempt the tripod stance and there were no extra sets > of forelimbs to get in the way.
That mechanism would work, too, although I wonder about how the tail _could_ go; there's a very rigid spinal column and an already very low stance in the forward part of the body; there isn't all that much _to_ lower the head and forelimbs.
Of course, one other possible cause of stegosaur extinction would be a surfeit of "headaches" in the females ... you couldn't really blame them, could you? :-)
Some things shouldn't change. A good wallop for rudeness is so communicative.
Some of you people are making wonder about yourselves....... <grin>
Ciao, Dr. Demento