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RE: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is Discovered)



You took my comment waaaaaaaay to serious. I was making fun of the
resonanting chamber hypothesis of lamberosaurs (since when do animals
make bellowing noises through their nose????) AND Jack Horner's
scavenging hypothesis.  


Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Amtoine Grant
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:50 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Guanlong wucaii (was RE: Early Version of T. Rex Is
Discovered)

On Thursday, February 9, 2006, at 01:05  PM, Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
wrote:

> The crest obviously is a resonating chamber like lambeosaurs to call 
> other scavengers to dinner - ;-)


Seemingly illogical given that that would only mean less food for the
'calling' individual. Vultures & bald eagles, for example, don't summon
each other AND they often squabble and/or fight . HOWEVER, it would make
sense if that when groups were assembled they would cooperate in defense
of themselves & the carcass from the [at that time larger
representatives of] other predaceous theropods of the time. This would
also be a good starting point for the socialization that certain
assemblages of tyrannosaurid fossils represent. Besides the obvious
social implications of a head-borne crest that works directly against
predation. . .