Re: new boook on functional morphology

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

> of it,  Johnson and Ostrom make a very strong case (and I was very pro erect
> gait!) for a sprawling gait in ceratopsian forelimbs, and this means that I
> am now very confused! What are these things actually doing? The authors make
> a few suggestions...

     I'vce heared that most of the fighting in a herbivores life, and 
thus the primary use of any head armament it might have, is not against 
predators but other members of its species.  If the primary function of 
long brow horns in certain ceratopsians was, say, interlocking with the 
horns of an opponent, sprawled front legs might offer greater stability.  

LN Jeff