Re: Armadillos at the K/T!

[Dino Guy and Computer Gal <gbabcock@best.com>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:

> And let us not forget the north Pacific murrelets (_Brachyramphus spp._),
> which live most of their lives at sea but nest in the relatively
> predator-rich forest.  When the chicks are ready to leave the nest, they have
> to drop (!) to the forest floor and run (!) to the shore to join their
> parents.

Yes, "The Life of Birds With David Attenborough" shows the dramatic journey of
these precocial hatchlings.

-- Ralph (decidedly not precocial) W. Miller III   ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu