IMHO, 50 tonne (dead) alamosaurus would be enough to feed a few adult T. rex individuals for at least two weeks...
On Tue, Jul 2nd, 2019 at 9:59 AM, Gregory Paul <gsp1954@aol.com> wrote:
> A lot of this discussion is iffy.
All discussions about the behaviour of long-extinct creatures are iffy. That's part of their charm. :-)
> Large predators do attack large healthy adult prey fairly often.
We have no modern analogues for sauropod-sized land-based herbivores, or multi-tonne bipedal
predators, so it's difficult to extrapolate modern observable behaviour to cover this particular hunting
scenario.
One interesting thought experiment might be to calculate how many adult tyrannosaurs a single adult
sauropod could have fed before the carcass decomposed too much to be edible. If it would have taken a
ridiculous number of tyrannosaurs to fully utilise the prey (much more than could conceivably have formed
a single group), then it may not have been worth the risk of hunting in the first place, as the tyrannosaurs
could have been targeting smaller and less risky prey and getting the same benefit.