RE: T-Rex a Scavenger?!?

[Tim Madden <TMADDEN@medicode.mhs.compuserve.com>]

Perhaps many of you who doubt a T-Rex could scavenge as a primary means of
survival have the same problem with it I do: How could a large animal such
as the T-Rex find enough carrion to support it?

A PBS special comes to mind about lions and hyenas. For a long time people
observed lions feasting on a carcass at dawn, and then the hyenas would move
in after the lions had finished. It was assumed that the lions killed the
meal during the night, and the hyenas were scavenging. Night photography has
since revealed that hyenas often made the kill, only to be chased away by
the lions.

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.

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