Re: ceratopsian and book ????

["Allan Edels" <Edels@email.msn.com>]

Ken (et al):

Books:

An oldie, but goodie:
R. McNeill Alexander's book - "Dynamics of Dinosaurs & Other Extinct
Giants" - Columbia University Press [New York] 1989.

Also:

"Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia" by Donald Glut (1088 pages/1439 illustrations)
[$145!!!]

Micheal Novacek's "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs".

"DinoFest International Symposium Proceedings" (for 1996 - published 1998):
[$24.99]

"Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight" by Pat Shipman
[$25.00 Hardcover/$12.00 Trade Paperback]

"Dinosaurs of the Silk Road" - Dong Zhiming  (I don't know how you would get
this, or how much it costs - I got it for free). Very thin book (less than
100 pages, I think).


Concerning the idea that ceratopsians encirled their young.  I agree this
concept first appeared as an illustration by Mark Hallett, who apparently
took Bakker's descriptions of ceratopsians being much like modern mammals -
specifically rhinos and oxen.  The final idea seems to be an extrapolation
of Bakker's ideas and basing the activitity directly on Musk Ox {Someone
once told me that the Musk Ox was the only animal [excluding _H. sapiens
sapiens_ ] that acted that way}.  I don't recall Bakker specifically using
that example in "The Dinosaur Heresies".

    (By the way, Larry - I really liked Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror")...

        Allan Edels