Re: AAT Theory

Thomas Clarke (clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu)
26 Sep 1995 20:49:16 GMT

In article <43ujhm$dba@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> chris brochu
<gator@mail.utexas.edu> writes:

> Y'all are in my territory now.
...
> Crocodylians aren't necessarily better predators than mammalian
> carnivores, but they're no worse, and given the population densities of
> crocodylians, no one would be helped by jumping in the water to avoid
> land predators.

I have always envisioned the "aquatic ape" living on the seashore.
Not on lakes or rivers. Probably subsconsciously I realized the
croc problem.

This raises the question: do crocodiles etc frequent the sea
shore? Are they able to cope with the energetic wave environment
there?

Tom Clarke