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Tyrannosaurus Rex - Hunter or Scavenger?
Topic Started: Jul 15 2012, 10:00 AM (12,437 Views)
DinosaurMichael
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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
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Which would mostly be smaller T. rexes.
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Black Ice
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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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Sep 13 2012, 03:07 AM
It was an opportunist waiting to steal from small animals.
Sure, Mr.ElandBeatsTrex.
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7Alx
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Sep 9 2012, 07:42 PM
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T-rex is an opportunist
Opportunist = both, but... 90% scavanging and stealing other's kills, 10% hunting
Another f*ckin retarded T rex hater
He called it an opportunist. How is that hating?
But in his opinion Tyrannosaurus was primally scavenger, which is very doubtful.
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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Sep 11 2012, 10:54 PM
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Sep 10 2012, 01:23 AM
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Sep 9 2012, 07:20 PM
T-rex is an opportunist
Opportunist = both, but... 90% scavanging and stealing other's kills, 10% hunting
Another f*ckin retarded T rex hater
He called it an opportunist. How is that hating?
He has STATED he hated T rex, he is an official T rex hater
I stated it 7 months ago, when i was hater.
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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
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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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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
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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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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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obviously if t-rex was not able to run very fas how could it catch its prey.
duckbilled were not slow
By ambush
over short distances it could accelerate with explosive speed/power.
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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
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
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Most of the prey t-rex hunted could over long distances out-run it
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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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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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