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

Given that their brainpower is in the same ballpark, I suggest that extant
crocodylians provide the best baseline for cutting the Gordian knot of
tyrannosaurid intelligence and behavior; big salties and nilies are
probably the best living analogues for tyrannosaurid aggression that we can
actually observe. I wouldn't get within striking distance of either...

-TDC

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 5:32 PM Dann Pigdon <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Few extant predators will pass up the chance of an easy meal, and they
> don't come much easier than a
> relatively small, slow and non-armoured primate. Although it could be
> argued that a human with the
> technological ability to travel through time might have other
> technological tricks up its sleave.
>
> A more interesting question might be how far a large adult tyrannosaur
> would bother chasing a human-
> sized prey item before deciding it wasn't worth the energy expenditure. I
> suspect the answer would be
> bad news for anyone other than a marathon runner.
>
> --
> Dann Pigdon
>
> On Sat, Sep 21st, 2019 at 2:42 AM, Poekilopleuron <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > Just a short question - given the apparent aggressiveness 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
>
>