Re: Stegosaurus Defense

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

> Of course, one could imagine that Allosaurs learned by observation: they 
> see
> daddy get spiked and decide that plate-backed things with spikey tails are 
> best
> avoided.

Perhaps allosaurs were cleverer than that.  Maybe big theropods were 
intelligent enough to figure out intuitively (as opposed to empirically - 
and painfully) that spikes = sharp = hurt = bad.  In the same way, an 
allosaur wouldn't need to observe another allosaur falling off a cliff to 
know it could be very hazardous to one's health.


Tim
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