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

It is not like a T. rex had the proportionally enormous energy needs of an
orca. Not in cold water.... So a bag of bones would be a good snack.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 18:47 Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

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