Re: Flocking

["Antony L Hedges" <boner@boner.screaming.net>]

Whilst there was a lot of 'wrong' details about the original Jurassic Park
film, there was a good example of some flocking behaviour in evidence.
Whilst no one will ever know for sure if non-avian theropods flocked like
birds, it is a nice idea.

I stand firmly with my foot in the birds are living dinosaur camp. I find
the discovery of the latest fossils in China to be greatly encoraging.

Another book recommendation. The Mistaken Extinction, Dinosaur Evolution and
the Origin of Birds, by Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe. Excellent book.

Tony Hedges

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From: "M. J. Murphy" <mjm@pathcom.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 1:47 PM
Subject: Flocking


> I have just finished Chatterjee's "The Rise of Birds", and would happily
> give it my unsolicited endosement.  On a topic not discussed in the
> book, what are the origons of `flocking behaviour'.  Chatterjee endorses
> a trees-down theory of the origon of flight.  Does this perhaps entail
> that `herding' animals climbed into the trees together and kept this bit
> of social behaviour as flight developed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> M.J. Murphy
>
> `The shapes of things are dumb.'
> L. Wittgenstein
>
>