Re: Moving target? NO target... was re:Aquatic elephants.

jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk
3 Nov 1995 15:35:34 GMT

hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) wrote:

>
>That's amazing. Maybe the trunk served another purpose at one time,
>a snorkel ??
>
>Can a croc walk over 200 miles of land without water?
>

The trunk has been postulated as an aquatic modification, I think the tusks are interesting too as
similar structures appear in aquatic animals like walruses. I don't know about the crocs.

James Borrett.