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ONP...and energetics Regarding the question sauropod neck
posture energetics (why have such a long "expensive" neck to
graze when the animal can more easily just take a step or two?)
there has been one important factor left out because it is
entirely speculative: the temperment of these animals. For
arguments sake, let's say that in general sauropods had an
aggressive temperment.Let's say also that adult sauropods were
protected from predators by their size.And let's grant that
although sauropods were gregarious,that their food requirements
dictated that individuals needed to lay claim to large area in
which to feed. In this scenario,the long whiplash tails were not
used primarily for protection from predators, but for use to put
space between individual sauropods,that each individual within
the group created around itself a sort of movable territory,and
that the long neck was useful for gather