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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 6, 2016 8:39:31 GMT 5
Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if sauropods are really that abysmally armed, particularly in comparison to giant proboscideans as a whole. Only some taxa (and within those taxa, some individuals) really have tusks that would at least be reasonable for goring, and these taxa are far from all proboscideans. Even then they still need to be "just right" in terms of size (not too short, not too long), and even those that are still may not be the greatest weapons in the world.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 21, 2016 0:11:56 GMT 5
Something cool.
Of course, I have nothing to vigorously analyze the video, but between 0:24-0:25, the elephant seems to turn around by 90 degrees. Tyrannosaurus turned 45 degrees in 1 or 2 seconds, I presume without flexing its body. If it did this, I presume it wouldn't be that much slower at turning than the elephant.
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Post by theropod on Nov 21, 2016 18:57:58 GMT 5
But I don’t really get the relevance of the video, there’s no way of knowing whether that elephant was going to the limits of its biomechanical capabilities. It obviously didn’t walk at maximum speed either after all.
But yeah, maybe what I speculated about pertaining to rhinos could apply to elephants in a similar manner. Its turning ability may not be limited by the amount of torque needed to overcome its rotational inertia, but rather by the maximum speed at which it can move both ends of its torso in opposite directions to generate that torque.
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