Re: Hone and Benton 2007 (their second paper)

[jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Hone and Benton 2007 (their second paper)


> 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.

And I never meant to imply that they did.  I was making the point that you 
don't have to have specific adaptations to either scansoriality or 
arboreality in order to get into the trees......  :-)
JimC