Re: Blood flow in Sauropods

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

>        A curious question:  many of the birds you mentioned are magnitudes
>of scale smaller than the long-necked mammals -- is it possible that these
>grazing, long-necked birds evolved the long necks to be able to spot
>potential incoming trouble in the high grasses (etc.)?  Obviously, this
>doesn't apply to sauropods, but...
>
>Jerry D. Harris

Why not?  After all, their predators were magnitudes of scale bigger than
goose predators, too!
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