Re: [dinosaur] T. rex hunting cooperation

On Fri, Sep 27th, 2019 at 12:56 AM, Poekilopleuron <[email protected]> wrote:

> Recently I was reading an article about what sounds did T. rex produce. 
> There is a hypothesis that it was producing a sinister, low-frequency
> rumbling, spreading out through the ground many kilometers.
>
> I would like to ask, what is the possibility of T. rex using these sounds 
> for communication with other tyrannosaurs in its vicinity? Is it possible 
> that some individuals could chase prey animals towards others and
> communicate in real time during this hunting strategy with low-frequency 
> sounds?

One drawback to communicating with low-frequency sound is that it can be difficult to
pinpoint the location from which the sounds are coming from with any degree of accuracy. 
That may have made it difficult for tyrannosaurs to use infrasound to coordinate hunting 
strategies when they were beyond visual range of each other.

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Dann Pigdon