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Re: Resting Sauropods

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Subject: Re: Resting Sauropods
From: Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:01:50 -0600 (MDT)
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Roy Nash wrote:
> [...]
> My guess is they just stood there. Giraffes do this - they are able to
> somehow lock their legs.  As sauropods probably lived in herds (or whatever
> the collective term is) they may well have slept propped up on each other.

This brings the image to mind of a row of sauropods falling over like
dominoes if they all leaned in the same direction.

> [...]

rich

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