RE: attack on dinosaur--horrific video

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

> Such risk-free predation was potentially available
> to the newly discovered late K, racoon-sized
> probable carnivore Nanocuris improvida.

Probably not. In the currect case, it's island
naivity; these birds simply know no terrestrial
predators, and haven't for a long time. And even that
all birds evolving in absence of mammalian predators
are naive to them does not hold true - replace the
albatross with a weka and you'll get a dead mouse and
a well-fed weka.

Then again, there is (or rather was) Hateg Island,
where this actually might have happened.


Eike


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