Re: Predator-trap theory debunked for Utah Allosaurus site

[Graydon <graydon@dsl.ca>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:17:00PM -0400, Jordan Mallon scripsit:
> I would certainly imagine it to be.  Are there any pack-hunters today that 
> gather in such numbers?  The only reason I can really picture such a mass 
> assemblage of _Allosaurus_ together would be perhaps to breed.

Or migrate; eagles flock when migrating, frex, a behaviour they don't
use the rest of the time.

The easiest explanation, though, is that they were a significant
fraction of the allosaurs caught in the flood and got channelled by it
into the same location, which wasn't high enough.  It can be a very
strange behaviour by 'normal' standards if the explanation is a
slow(ish) flood; the allosaurs died on insufficently high ground, and it
says nothing about their usual behaviour.

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                           graydon@dsl.ca
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