Re: Predation categories (per...

[larrys@zk3.dec.com]

>>I am assuming, however, that females would be bigger
>> than males and more likely to win an intimidation display with another T Rex.
>>     Pure speculation, I know. 
>> 
>> Betty Cunningham(Flyinggoat@aol.com)
>> 
>Hey!! I like this....speculation or not....
>---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)

Intruiging idea: if intimidation and threat tactics applied in
social contexts, 'rexes could have been selecting for sheer size
and looks the same why birds of paradise select for long tails -
they balance genes for long tails, the real-world practicality
of long tails, and genes for _preferring_ long tails on males as
expressed in females...

cordially,
Larry Smith