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Re: DINOSAUR digest 319

To: Martin Human <martin@hpentccl.grenoble.hp.com>
Subject: Re: DINOSAUR digest 319
From: Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:12:10 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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Reply-to: martz@holly.ColoState.EDU
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> > Crocodiles don't lap and can't stick their tongues out as a prevention
> > for them biting their own tongues (all those teeth).  

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

     If you watch a cat lick, you will notice it sticks its tounge out
between its (relatively) short, blunt incisors, not its big pointy
canines.  A homodont crocodilian (or theropod) would not have that option.
All the teeth are big and pointy.    

LN Jeff 
O-

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- Re: DINOSAUR digest 319
  - From: Martin Human <martin@hpentccl.grenoble.hp.com>

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