Re: [dinosaur] Agressive behavior of the T. rex
Casey Tucker <[email protected]>
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Farlow's article on Jurispgagy in T. rex can be found here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__repository.si.edu_bitstream_handle_10088_8042_paleo-5FMKB-2DS-5F1997d-2DPhysiology.pdf&d=DwIFAw&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=WxC6--xf4Vbwbb4eWpD79H9ySV26_YXcuRDz1eJUNUU&s=3D0STr0p8Gq_5YBsNCXT_KmZbF05v7TroOy3g8-PGVU&e= ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Taylor <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:45 PM To: Poekilopleuron <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <[email protected]> Subject: 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]<mailto:[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