Re: Frills & spills

["ROBERT NICHOLLS" <nichollsart@hotmail.com>]

> >Rhinos will charge almost anything except for an adult elephant (but
> >I've seen footage of them harassing baby elephants).
>
> I recall seeing a nature show (Park Life Africa?) in which several
> bull elephants were killing rhinos in a game preserve. Eventually a
> few rhinos ganged up on them and convinced them that going around
> bumping off animals with large pointy things on their faces maybe
> isn't such a hot idea as it seems on paper.

Yes, apparently some calves were relocated into a park devoid of other 
elephants.  Without parental guidance, on "how an elephant should conduct 
oneself," these animals grew up as savannah bullies, and then went around 
killing petty indiscriminately!  I remember seeing some horrific rhino' 
wounds on the elephants -feet long!  ...I believe these animals now live in 
relative harmony.

Compared to a rhino, it seems the potential for damage to a predatory 
Tyrannosaurus rex by a large healthy Triceratops is vast.  Could a 
Tyrannosaurus risk such terrible injuries?  Is it not possible that 
Tyrannosaurus would follow migrating dinosaur herds (those ceratopsians that 
may have migrated in herds) and picked off the unhealthy stragglers?  
...but, maybe, also steeling/scavenging kills from other smaller predators, 
like a Cretaceous bully?

Bob Nicholls
www.paleocreations.com

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