Talk:Creodonta
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That Hyaenodon is definitely digitigrade.
I'm not certain "cats being fed a vegetarian diet would go blind" statement should be included. It's mentioned frequently in biology books for kids but it is somewhat correct and somewhat incorrect, I think. Domestic cats indeed cannot manufacture taurine and would go blind if they were to only eat fruit and leafy greens and the like, but I don't think this applies for grain-fed diets and those are also vegetarian. Afaik most dry cat and dog foods are made from grains, no meat! Perhaps we should just mention the inability to manufacture taurine and the necessity to obtain it from dietary sources to prevent blindness and death? --singe@ix.netcom.com 4:30, 27 Feb 2007 (PST)
- It seems irrelebvant in an article about creodonts, it is sufficient to say they rareely eat vegetables. I removed the line. Sabine's Sunbird talk 18:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Digitigrade?
The hyaenodon is drawn with digitigrade locomotion. Isn't it supposed to have plantigrade feet? (First poster, do you mean that it is or that it is supposed to?) 12.144.50.194 (talk) 22:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hyaenodon wasn't exactly digitigrade, but, according to this skeleton, [1], it wasn't plantigrade, either. Some creodonts were fully plantigrade, whereas others were more digitigrade, just like modern carnivores, it seems. That section about plantigrade needs to be rewritten.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
