Re: tossing prey

[FEUKAC@PLU.edu]

On Tue, 2 May 1995, John Bauer wrote:

> 
> >...On the other hand, Sauropods like Brachiosaurus had a more typical repti  
> >       
> >reptilian jaw arrangement. They could bite but not much else.
> 
> Wouldn't this explain why sauropods needed to throw their prey into the air?
> I thought that was the only reason alligators do.
> 
> -a new guy and painfully naive
> 

  The original post was about the sauropods chewing food not about 
throwing 'prey' their jaw stucture does not allow much if any side/side 
movement during the chewing of food very similiar to a turtles.(did I 
forget anything?) 

Aaron Feuk 
Preparator,Dept.of Earth Sciences
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, Wash., 98447