Re: [dinosaur] Agressive behavior of the T. rex

What makes you say a human would be too small a prey for a tyrannosaur?
Wolves eat rats. In fact Jim Farlow showed in The Complete Dinosaur that a
jurisphagous T. rex would need to eat almost exactly one lawyer per day.

-- Mike.


On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 17:42, Poekilopleuron <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Good day to all listmembers!
>
> Just a short question - given the apparent agresivity of the Tyrannosaurus
> rex (adult individual), but also the fact, that human would be too small a
> prey for it - would it be perhaps "safe" for us to stand near it? In other
> words, if T. rex had a choice of attacking human some 20 yards away and a
> subadult 1 tonne Edmontosaurus 100 yards away, which one would it choose?
> Was there some size/mass limit for an animal, at which it would be not
> interesting as a prey item for an adult T. rex (or any other large
> theropod, for that matter)? Thank you in advance! Tom
>