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Re: Two quicky non-dinosaur items and one dinosaur one



Bettyc wrote:
> 
> Also seen on one of the new magazine rack (and I think it was in the
> same Discovery magazine) was that many previosly orphaned-and-now-adult
> African elephants in the wild, are going around and killing rhinos
> (specifically) in groups (by stomping on them, laying on them and goring
> them) for no better reason than the elephants were deprived of elephant
> social behavior as juveniles.

        Orphaned elephants have also been seen trying to mate with
rhinos. If you crossed an elephant and a rhino, would you get
something like a ceratopsian? :-)
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        Dann Pigdon
        Melbourne, Australia

        Dinosaur Reconstructions:
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        Australian Dinosaurs:
        http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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