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

[Chris Campbell <sankarah@ou.edu>]

Betty Cunningham wrote:
> 
> 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.

No, only one was sexually dimorphic.  And I never said they weren't. 
Elk and moose, FYI, are the same animal.  One's just a European name.  I
never said anything that was incorrect; you said that all of these
animals lacked horns (or antlers, as the case may be), which is not the
case.  

> Can we keep the discussion civil?

Hey, when you correct me (incorrectly) and generalize on basis of
gender, you throw civility right out the window.  If you wanna keep it
civil, leave out the gender bias and get your facts straight before
telling me I'm wrong.  I have nothing against being corrected, but when
the corrections are obviously incorrect I get a little irritated.  

> 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.

Alright, I apologize if I overreacted.

> I was wrong about buffaloes, forgot they were Bovines-'nuff said

Fine, done, let's eat.

Chris