Re: Theropod eating and attacking

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

>Birds of prey and owls will regurgitate undigestible parts of their 
prey
>in pellets.  Some are capable of digesting small bones.  Fish-eating
>birds usually have strong stomach acids and gizzards and digest fish
>bones, but a few also regurgitate pellets.  Theropods may have done
>either.  I wonder how one could tell from fossils which method they 
were
>using?
>
 First of all "birds of prey"( hawks) do not regurgitate pellets. This 
is pellet thing in hawks is a myth. Theropods probably tried to not 
swallow bones because you rarely find them in a theropod coprolite( only 
small undigested shards of bones.) 
 WMattTroutman

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