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

Thanks for this link, Casey!

And, whoops, I failed to credit Brett-Surman for his role in this
light-heated piece. My bad. I especially like the open phrase "It is agreed
by all living humans that ..."

-- Mike.


On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 23:23, Casey Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=3lf00U4zwirsBkqBJdKjwmdht1_pafDQqCkKYTKlIgc&s=aGcIaJqF_xjKbsx19EyxRX61jPHyKpRUdCNcI8EnYsA&e= 
>
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> *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]>
> 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
>
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