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| DinosaurMichael | Jul 15 2012, 10:00 AM Post #1 |
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Apex Predator
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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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| Oaglor | Sep 13 2012, 06:28 AM Post #76 |
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Autotrophic Organism
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Which would mostly be smaller T. rexes. |
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| Black Ice | Sep 13 2012, 06:31 AM Post #77 |
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Drom King
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Ursus panthera you clearly are a t~rex hater. It wouldn't have survived off only small kills made by smaller predators. |
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| Superpredator | Sep 13 2012, 04:53 PM Post #78 |
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Apex Predator
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Sure, Mr.ElandBeatsTrex. |
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| Temnospondyl | Sep 17 2012, 01:43 AM Post #79 |
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Stegocephalia specialist.
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Why? T-rex lived alongside with dozens of species of well protected herbivores, like ankylosaurids nd Ceratopsians. T-rex was much larger than it's prey, so the prey (e.g. Ankylosaurus) isn't a substantial meal. It's difficult to kill such tanks, so the opportunist will search for a free meal. It scavenged or was stealing the ready kills(e.g. a younger trex or a raptor gang killed a hadrosaur). To keep going, it has to eat at least 2 triceratopses. To live normally - 3 triceratopses. In so many combats it would be killed. |
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| Temnospondyl | Sep 17 2012, 01:46 AM Post #80 |
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Stegocephalia specialist.
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I stated it 7 months ago, when i was hater. |
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| 7Alx | Sep 17 2012, 02:15 AM Post #81 |
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Herbivore
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Triceratops and Edmontosaurus aren't that smaller than Tyrannosaurus. 6 ft long Dromaeosaurids were too small and too weak to hunt hadrosaurs and Ceratopsians. Over 6 ton Triceratops is around 400x (or more) heavier than 15 kg dromaeosaurid. Tiny raptors weren't big game hunters at all. And who hunted Triceratops except Tyrannosaurus? No one. Maybe Tyrannosaurus usually failed at hunting Triceratops/Torosaurus, but most, if not every predators in Earth often have failed than successful hunts. |
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| Aequitas the Eliberator | Sep 17 2012, 09:10 AM Post #82 |
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Unicellular Organism
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ALL animals are predator AND scavenger, bar perhaps vultures.
Edited by Aequitas the Eliberator, Sep 17 2012, 09:10 AM.
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| CrazyFish | Sep 17 2012, 09:11 AM Post #83 |
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It was both. Horner retracted the scavenger hypothesis 3 years ago despite never actually publishing a paper or anything on it. He was trying to get the community to think scientifically, which un-questionably proclaiming Tyrannoaurus as a hunter was not. He always had the most scientific standpoint. Because it could be disroven, and it has been. This is not a debate, it should not even be in question. Looking at it objectively it makes zero sense. |
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| DawnImperator | Sep 22 2012, 02:44 AM Post #84 |
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Yes, this false dichotomy has been confirmed to foster thinking. There's definite evidence that Tyrannosaurus was a predators(for example, teeth and tooth marks found on the skulls of preyed dinosaurs), which wouldn't make sense for a predator if they couldn't pursue prey. Their legs are adapted for pursuit, and a dinosaur of that size would not be able to survive purely on scavenging. |
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| Raptor | Nov 20 2012, 12:03 AM Post #85 |
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obviously if t-rex was not able to run very fas how could it catch its prey. duckbilled were not slow |
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| Ursus panthera | Nov 20 2012, 12:07 AM Post #86 |
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Artiodactyla
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By ambush over short distances it could accelerate with explosive speed/power. |
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| Verdugo | Nov 20 2012, 12:09 AM Post #87 |
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Large Carnivores Enthusiast
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Faster than its preys, T rex just need to be faster than its preys, it doesn't need to be super fast like JP3 |
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| Ursus panthera | Nov 20 2012, 12:18 AM Post #88 |
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Artiodactyla
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Most of the prey t-rex hunted could over long distances out-run it |
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| Jinfengopteryx | Nov 20 2012, 03:32 AM Post #89 |
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Aspiring paleontologist, science enthusiast and armchair speculative fiction/evolution writer
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Well, T-rex had a quite advanced airsack system, but it's prey ran for it's life and T-rex for a meal. |
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| Archer250 | Nov 20 2012, 09:06 AM Post #90 |
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Autotrophic Organism
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Both The T.rex definitely had the armament to be a hunter, and in its environment it could just scavenge. But there's no such thing as a 100% hunter or 100% scavenger. |
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