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| Tyrannosaurus Rex - Hunter or Scavenger? | |
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| DinosaurMichael | Jul 15 2012, 10:00 AM Post #1 |
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So I just finished watching Valley of the T-Rex and though I accept Jack Horner's opinion about T-Rex being just a scavenger. I still think T-Rex was both a Predator and a Scavenger. So what do you guys think T-Rex is in your opinion. A Hunter, Scavenger or Both? Edited by DinosaurMichael, Jul 16 2012, 12:59 AM.
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| Jinfengopteryx | Sep 9 2012, 07:43 PM Post #46 |
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Aspiring paleontologist, science enthusiast and armchair speculative fiction/evolution writer
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In the Saurophaganax vs Tarbosaurus he himself even said he hates T rex. Ignore him, he doesn't like popular animals(he also hates lions). |
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| Temnospondyl | Sep 9 2012, 07:53 PM Post #47 |
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Stegocephalia specialist.
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I didn't say:
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| Verdugo | Sep 9 2012, 08:11 PM Post #48 |
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Yeah, you're right. BTW this is what Hartman say about this debate: "There's no such thing as a terrestrial vertebrate that always scavenges. Of course I'm sure T. rex wouldn't turn up its nose at a free meal, but it certainly could kill for a living when it had to (which was probably most of the time)." "And outside of the smaller ornithopods, there's pretty much nothing in the latest Cretaceous that was faster than T. rex (sure, it wasn't a speedster itself perhaps, but in every objective measurement T. rex looks faster than its prey)." "The problem is that T. rex is the only common large predator in its environment. I have no doubt that T. rex stole carcasses, but it would have mostly been stealing them from other T. rexes, so someone had to be doing the killing. Also, it's just a myth that any land predator can find enough food to scavenge all the time - lions actually scavenge more than hyenas, but both kill most of their food." |
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| 7Alx | Sep 9 2012, 08:31 PM Post #49 |
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More like Tyrannosaurus was 75 % predator. There is not 5+ ton carnivore, which is primally scavenger. Even Spinosaurus was most likely mostly predator,even though there are competitors like Carcharodontosaurus, however Spinosaurus hunted different prey than Carcharodontosaurus did. |
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| Jinfengopteryx | Sep 9 2012, 08:37 PM Post #50 |
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I think it's in the 60% hunter-80% hunter range, your number seems realistic. But 10% hunter is impossible. |
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| Verdugo | Sep 9 2012, 09:42 PM Post #51 |
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Yeah, it's certainly ridiculous, only retarded T rex haters think like that |
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| SpinoInWonderland | Sep 9 2012, 09:44 PM Post #52 |
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The madness has come back...
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78% hunter, 22% scavenger |
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| Carcharadon | Sep 9 2012, 11:16 PM Post #53 |
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true, it definetly couldn't be a pure scavenger, theres not that much carcasses around, and it would have gone extinct, so it needed to be a hunter Edited by Carcharadon, Sep 9 2012, 11:17 PM.
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| Godzillasaurus | Sep 10 2012, 01:23 AM Post #54 |
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He called it an opportunist. How is that hating? |
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| Fragillimus335 | Sep 10 2012, 01:27 AM Post #55 |
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Both, but hunted for the majority of it's food. |
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| 7Alx | Sep 10 2012, 03:08 AM Post #56 |
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But in his opinion Tyrannosaurus was primally scavenger, which is very doubtful. |
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| theropod | Sep 10 2012, 03:14 AM Post #57 |
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ignore people wo think it was primarily scavenger, we already know that´s impossible. and also ignor verdugo, everyone is a hater in his opinion... anyway, this thread is really totally redundant. everyone with the slightest bit of a brain knows that T. rex HAD to hunt most of the time, even tough it would have certainly fed on a carcasss when it could. also older and larger T. rexes likely scavenged more than smaller ones did, but still it´s unlikely that they where anywhaere near mainly scavengers. If it´s still possible to actually debate about this subject, then that only shows that some people are still believing in that retarded theory horner himself doesn´t believe in any more. And seriously, do we need a thread just to hear how many still believe in that bullshit? |
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| Ursus panthera | Sep 10 2012, 03:27 AM Post #58 |
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It scavengened from small animals. |
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| Jinfengopteryx | Sep 10 2012, 04:11 AM Post #59 |
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What exactly do you mean? Stealing small Ornithopods, from Raptors? I think it won't do this often, but it's possible. Did you mean it was a pure scavenger? |
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| 7Alx | Sep 10 2012, 04:26 AM Post #60 |
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Stealing small animals from small predators like Troodontids? Tyrannosaurus stealing small mammal or small dinosaur like Thescelosaurus from tiny Troodontids sounds pretty gay. |
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