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Re: Another feather theory
On Wed, May 26th, 2010 at 2:30 AM, "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010, David Marjanovic wrote:
> > Also, it requires long and densely arranged feathers from the start;
> > that's perhaps not plausible.
>
> Not necessarily long but dense. I'm thinking like loose furry skin on dogs.
The loose skin that has been selectively bred into fighting dog breeds (most
notably the Shar Pei)
isn't a form of predator avoidance - in fact it's the opposite. It allows a dog
that has been grasped
by the throat region to turn around and counter-attack its opponent.
I'm fairly sure that such loose skin hasn't appeared in any wild canid species
though, and is mainly
a product of deliberate human breeding.
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Dann Pigdon
GIS Specialist Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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