Re: hunting strategies

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 06:51 PM 3/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Message from: Thomas Hammann
><THammann@t-online.de>
>
>Hi all,
>
>if I compare big theropods with big cats of today I'm asking myself if they
had 
>also different hunting strategies as the modern top-predators. For example
these 
>strategies depend much on the environment (open landscapes; rainforests; 
>mountains, deserts and so on...). Is there a theory of different hunting 
>strategies of dinosaur-species like T.Rex, Giganotosaurus or
Carcharodontosaurus 
>which, as I think, lived also in different environments?

Having spent a little time (!) on that subject: yes, there are theories of
different hunting strategies in different theropod groups.  For a
net-accessible (if somewhat out of date) summary, you can see the article
entitled something like "theropod hunting strategies" on
http://www.dinosauria.com.

Or, check out the dinosaur list serve archives.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:tholtz@geol.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661