Stegosaur display behavior (script question)

[Karen Casino <kcasino@comcast.net>]

This is the guy who's writing the script again. Does the following 
scenario strike you as plausible? (I know it's not likely, but I don't 
want it to be unreasonable.)

The two lead characters are traveling along the edge of a corridor 
forest when one of their vehicles runs out of juice. These vehicles 
have international orange pennants on fiberglass poles, so as to allow 
them to keep track of each other in rough terrain.

This has happened near a small group of Stegosaurus stenops. The 
largest is a female, who is ignoring the other two while eating 
(feathery-foliaged) cycad fruits. The other two are males in full rut. 
Due to the season, their shields are brightly colored. They are 
circling each other, head to tail, pausing to shake their tails at each 
other. After a little while, the smaller, less brightly colored male 
backs down, allowing the other to begin courting the female.

As the smaller male wanders off, he spots the pennants on the vehicles, 
and interprets them -- tall, triangular, brightly colored -- as a 
challenge. As the lead characters get out of the way, he approaches the 
stalled vehicle, and begins to circle it. Eventually, frustrated by an 
opponent that is both smaller and duller than he is but who still 
refuses to give way or engage in a display contest, he swings his tail 
at the vehicle.

Thanks in advance for any opinions.

Yours,

Sean Craven