Re: The absurdity, the absurdity (was: Cooperating theropods?)

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Chris Campbell wrote:
> Betty Cunningham wrote:
> > sankarah@ou.edu wrote:
> > > Jonathon Woolf wrote:
> > > > Chris Campbell wrote:

> > > Bison?  Buffalo?  Elk?  Moose?  Wildebeest?  These are our large
> > > mammalian predators, andthey allhave either horns or antlers (and all
> > > use them in defense).
> >
> > That's BOY bison, BOY buffaloes, BOY elk, BOY moose.  (typical male
> > response to forget the babes)
> 
> "Typical male response?"  I'd check my sources before making comments
> like this.  You just wind up looking really stupid.  Female bison and
> buffalo carry horns.  Most, but not all, genera of antelope also carry
> horns. Female elk and moose (which are the same species, which I should
> have remembered but didn't), like most cervids, do not have antlers.
> Reindeer (or caribou, if you prefer), another prey species of wolves, do
> indeed have antlers.

since CHRIS posted a list of horned and antlered animals where 2 out of
5 were sexually dimorphic so that fully half that species had no antlers
whatsoever, I think CHRIS had better check his sources (like who said
what) or wind up looking etc.
Can we keep the discussion civil?  
If you were upset about the way I phrased the posting, it's my odd sense
of humor and wasn't to be taking as a personal attack.
I was wrong about buffaloes, forgot they were Bovines-'nuff said

Cheerios  
-Betty