Re: DINOSAUR digest 319

[Martin Human <martin@hpentccl.grenoble.hp.com>]

Doug Lewis wrote:

> We talked about this a little about a month ago.
> Crocodiles don't lap and can't stick their tongues out as a prevention
> for them biting their own tongues (all those teeth).  Since most
> meat-eating dinosaurs had similar problems and would probably have been
> in danger of biting through their own tongues, no, they probably didn't
> lap like mammals and probably their tongues worked mre like birds'
> tongues' do.


Come come, are we to assume that lion's lisp because they have bitten
their own tongues? 

martin