Re: Interesting paper

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

   I'd read a quote somewhere (of a paleontologist) who said, "Dinosaurs are
still kicking ass as birds."

    Well, at least as cassowaries, they ARE!?  ;)

    Dinotracker (Ray Stanford)

----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Chapman <Chapman.Ralph@NMNH.SI.EDU>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Interesting paper


Now here's a neat one....

Kofron, C.P. 1999. Attacks to humans and domestic animals by
the
   southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) in
Queensland,
   Australia. J. Zool., London, 249(4):375-381.

These guys can be tough. Includes one fatal attack on a
human hunting it. The kick, they bump, they jump on top.
Gives one pause about just how nasty a small theropod with
more armament would be.

Ralph Chapman, NMNH