Re: Gallery and Commentary for Copenhagen Mamenchisaurus

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

> I can't speak to the publics impression of camarasaur neck length, but 
> we have two at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, and the neck is not much 
> longer than is needed to reach the ground (especially with the 
> difficulty in lowering the neck with the upward oriented 
> cervico-dorsal region...).  Not that the anatomy supports (in this 
> case) grazing, but the energetics wouldn'tbe too unfavorable.

. . as you'd probably think the time & effort put into thinking about & 
making tools to hunt with when you could 'much more easily' throw rocks 
at prey(what with our opposable thumbs an all) or even more easily, 
just eat the plentiful vegetation . . .