Re: Hone and Benton 2007 (their second paper)

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:21:37 -0500

> Depends what you mean by "arboreal"?  Are you saying that _Archaeopteryx_ 
> was not arboreal because it lacked perching adaptations?
>
> In a previous post, Jim Cunningham stated that goats were arboreal because 
> they can climb trees.  But what goats do is hook their hooves over branches 
> and clamber up the tree (not very elegantly).   However, goats do not 
> habitually climb trees and they show no specific adaptations to either 
> scansoriality or arboreality.

*tries to imagine Archie (or any other wing-feathered maniraptoran) climbing 
like a goat*

u,mmm.....I'm having trouble forming that image.  think you could provide a 
sketch or a drawing of it, to help the rest of us along?
(even a cartoon)

thought to ask.

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