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Re: Warm/cold again

 From: NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>
 > 
 > How would the predator/prey ratios be affected by one form of 
 > dinosaur being 'warm-blooded' and the other 'cold-blooded' (in a 
 > relative sense of course)?
 > 
Not at all, really.  It is only the metalobism (or rather food
requirements) of the predator, and the ease of capture of the
prey that matter.  The metabolism and food requirements of the
prey have little to no impact on predator abundance (which is what
predator-prey ratios really are).

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