Re: T. REX THE HUNTER

["Gigi Babcock or Ralph Miller III" <gbabcock@best.com>]

> >Perhaps it was dragging the carcass off to find cover, and simply
> >grabbed the closest part of the body.
> 
> I think that is a real good assumption, especially looking at how some 
> modern day predators carry their prey off sometimes to hide it from 
> others.  T Rex could very possibly do the same.

I propose that, like the extant leopard, the _T.rex_ would transport the
huge ceratopid for some distance, and then carry it up a tree, where it
could eat without being disturbed.  Or, alternately, the diminutively armed
theropod buried its quarry for later consumption.  The _T. rex_ tree cache
scenario would be consistent with the trees down origin of flight in birds,
and could even be extended to suggest that, at times, the wily _T. rex_
would drop a ceratopid carcass onto unsuspecting passersby in an effort to
subdue a side dish.

Or: how, exactly, does one "find cover" for a five ton carcass?

Ralph Miller III <gbabcock@best.com>

"Someone had to kill that bird."