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People seem to be misunderstanding niches.
Topic Started: Jan 10 2016, 11:24 PM (3,936 Views)
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Mao
Oct 17 2017, 06:14 AM
Also, why not make an upright mammal instead of a vertically positioned one? I think it's an idea that isn't done a lot.
whats the distinction between the two, if i may ask?
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oh. I meant Horizontial positioned one
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Hadrosaurs eat pinecones, what else kind of large herbivore does that?



They ate more than just pinecones. Rotting logs and crustaceans seemed to have been their favorites.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11538-w#Abs1/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2148143-dinosaurs-that-seemed-veggie-also-ate-the-odd-bit-of-shellfish/

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Oct 18 2017, 07:09 AM
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Hadrosaurs eat pinecones, what else kind of large herbivore does that?



They ate more than just pinecones. Rotting logs and crustaceans seemed to have been their favorites.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11538-w#Abs1/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2148143-dinosaurs-that-seemed-veggie-also-ate-the-odd-bit-of-shellfish/

https://hodarinundu.deviantart.com/art/Crustacean-Cravings-705713400
We know Hadrosaurs mainly would've eaten low-ground foods, like Horsetail, Pinecones, and were probably somewhat like grazers. and yes, thank you for pointing the crustacean thing out. Hadrosaurs seem to not really have a good analogue today.
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Hadrosaurs seem to not really have a good analogue today.

I agree with this, and I think it applies to most dinosaurs. We can make hypothetical comparisons, yes, but there are probably no ideal analogues for most dinosaurs. We need to understand just how specific niches can be, a prehistoric animal might have some comparisons to a modern day one, but so many of the details would be different.
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Oct 19 2017, 12:14 PM
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Hadrosaurs seem to not really have a good analogue today.

I agree with this, and I think it applies to most dinosaurs. We can make hypothetical comparisons, yes, but there are probably no ideal analogues for most dinosaurs. We need to understand just how specific niches can be, a prehistoric animal might have some comparisons to a modern day one, but so many of the details would be different.
I agree with this too, but comparing a prehistoric animal to a modern day animal, the details would be too different.
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Hadrosaur's counterparts are deer,caribou,elks and antilopes.Yes we can compare them because they have somehow the same characteristics(quadrupedal,big or medium sized,are herbivores etc.).
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Eh, no really as was explained
 
We can make hypothetical comparisons, yes, but there are probably no ideal analogues for most dinosaurs. We need to understand just how specific niches can be, a prehistoric animal might have some comparisons to a modern day one, but so many of the details would be different.

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Hadrosaur's counterparts are deer,caribou,elks and antilopes.Yes we can compare them because they have somehow the same characteristics(quadrupedal,big or medium sized,are herbivores etc.).
Eh, no. By that definition antelope and elephant have same niche, and we know they are not same niche. We can somewhat compare them to modern mammals, but it would be vague like 'large grazer', but that can't do justice. More accurate would be, ahm, 'large, grazing, herding, predominantly quadrupedal, sexually dimorphic(as far as we know), herbivore', and I am sure I forgot to put something. All this decides the place of species in ecosystem, aka niche.
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