RE: Parrish's neck work ...

["Jason Pedersen" <prometheus_79@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Augustus T. White" <augwhite@neosoft.com>  wrote:

Almost nothing about [sauropods] makes intuitive
> sense.  The low-neck model helps solve the blood pressure problem, but then 
> why
> bother with a long neck if you can't elevate it, not mention the mechanical
> problems connected with feeding...
>
>   --Toby White

And then you have to think about the amount of muscle needed to hold such a 
long neck in the air.  Sit on a chair and hold your leg parallel to the 
ground and you'll see what I mean, you can't do it for long.  It's just 
easier to hold it under you or above you (which would be the case for 
sauropods).  They same to be a paradox all wrpped up in one little bundle.  
Hold your head high to save strength and pass out.  Hold your head low and 
don't pass out, but get a major kink in the neck.  And then of, course, 
there's feeding problem Toby mentioned.

Jason Pedersen


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