Fwd: Re: New Study, T rex Could've Been A Scavenger

["Dino Rampage" <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>]

Personally, i think this study has many, many flaws. It's highly improbable 
that Tyrannosaurus had a reptilian metabolism, and we will never know 
whether Hell Creek had prey concentrations & populations close to that of 
the Serengeti. We shall always have to consider that every mammalian 
carnivore today is a predator to some extent. Even the obligate scavengers, 
vuiltures and condors, will kill small prey like antelope fawns, turtle 
hatchlings and other vulnerable animals. We should think that Tyrannosaurus 
would most likely be a highly opportunistic carnivore. Besides, I do not 
think that the dromaeosaurs of the Late Cretaceous were so large and /or 
numerous to pose a significant threat to adult ceratopsians, ankylosaurs and 
hadrosaurs.

So I think we shouldn't pay any attention to this study. The only thing that 
worries me is how people like Jack Horner (no offence to him, but I think 
he's taken this scavenger theory a bit too far), the mass media and those 
C-people (u know, those who think, differently from us) may invoke this 
study to brainwash a new generation of dinosaur-lovers.




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