From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kinman@hotmail.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: ptero-"oxpeckers"??
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:36:47
Has anyone ever suggested the possibility of an oxpecker-like
pterosaur, eating insects off the backs of dinosaurs?
I can easily imagine that dinosaurs would have welcomed oxpecker-like
birds cleaning their skin of parasites, but I wonder if an insectivorous
pterosaur might have ever evolved to fill a similar niche. Wouldn't
procumbent teeth work well for feeding on skin parasites? Just a thought.
-----Ken
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