Re: comments?

[Scott <HORTON@BCRSSU.AGR.CA>]

>Imagine a T-Rex watching as a pack of smaller predators make a kill. It then
>moves in and chases them away, then eats its fill.
>Comments?

A lion is not much bigger than a hyena. Either could kill the same game. Those
who advocate that T.rex is a scavenger presumably also advocate any large
theropod to be a scavenger. Therefore what is killing the large game? By process
of elimination, it must be the small theropods. Several problems: 1. there is no
conclusive evidence that smaller theropods hunted in packs, 2. if packs of small
theropods could bring down large game, they would also be a match for a large
theropod trying to bully them away from their kill, 3. if they could not bring
down big game, say an adult sauropod or hadrosaur or Triceratops, then that
leaves MOST OF THE KNOWN SPECIES OF DINOSAUR with no predators at all! Sure,
some would die of natural causes, but not enough to support all the large
theropods. Sorry, I can't swallow it!

Scott Horton
Geophysicist/Computer Programmer