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Re: Brachiosaur Defense

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jack Conrad wrote:
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> suggested by some footprints probably added to their defense.  There are 
> animals today which use size and numbers as a combo to defend themselves.  

Size and numbers? This makes me think of mobbing behavior.

Imagine a single predator. Now imagine a group of large and massive
sauropods, instead of running away, turning on the predator. This is 
a frightening image.

This would be interesting against a single predator, perhaps a small
number of them.

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