I <3 paleontology
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoSabertooth tigers hunted in packs.
True story: we were discussing the Rancho La Brea fauna in my Terrestrial paleo class. In particular, we were discussing how Smilodon brought down its prey. I forgot what prompted the comment, but my professor made the following remark:
"Well obviously they were going after big prey. You wouldn't expect to see a sabertooth cat lunge after a bunny. It's teeth would be stuck in the ground and the bunny would just hop out between them."
I loved my paleo classes. These are the same classes that produced the "Oh shit!" turtle story and the "Man, if only I have 20 hours in a day" line.
True story: we were discussing the Rancho La Brea fauna in my Terrestrial paleo class. In particular, we were discussing how Smilodon brought down its prey. I forgot what prompted the comment, but my professor made the following remark:
"Well obviously they were going after big prey. You wouldn't expect to see a sabertooth cat lunge after a bunny. It's teeth would be stuck in the ground and the bunny would just hop out between them."
I loved my paleo classes. These are the same classes that produced the "Oh shit!" turtle story and the "Man, if only I have 20 hours in a day" line.
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Date: 10/31/08 01:49 pm (UTC)It reminds me of a poem I once wrote. The relevant lines are:
Man got to the
place where he could afford to be selfless
by climbing the stacked bones
of other species. Millions of years of them.