Re: could Cetiosaurus and Brachiosaurus swing their necks fast?

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> Subject: Re: could Cetiosaurus and Brachiosaurus swing their necks fast?
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:48:07 +0100

thank you for the prompt reply.

> Are you thinking predation in packs, or of small tick grooming
> critters hitching a lift like the lizards that groom seals on
> Galapagos?

either....if predation, though, nothing that would be immediately fatal to 
the sauropod  (maybe the maniraptor landed on teh top instead of the bottom 
half of the neck)

>  If the latter it makes me wonder whether sauropods could
> shiver.

as long as they had muscles directly beneath the skin, I would assume they 
can.


> On 7/19/07, Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ie, if something grabbed them by the neck*, could the sauropods move their
> > necks side-to-side/up-and-down fast enough to dislodge/hurl away the
> > grabbing thing?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> > * = no, not a large therapod....say a person, or a small maniraptor.

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