Their main defense and cooling methods tend to be less than a bouquet of roses too.
I forget that you people don’t know me…
I was slagging the bald eagle, yet again.
No, no you was slagging scavengers.
oh, I’m sorry…
I thought I was slaggin’ thieves.
T=rex may have scavenged but it’s hard to believe that’s all. Scavengers generally don’t get that
big or have teeth like that. The size was for something.
Not when the size of the herbivores they were scavenging were so large. A number of modern scavengers have very strong beaks or teeth, and jaws. Hyenas could eat a car if they had to.
The point is it’s hard to see the evolutionary advantage of the tremendous size and the bipedal erect-head-held-high stance
in a creature that is a scavenger only. One would think that scavenging would favor the evolution of a smaller creature that went about on all fours. Like a hyena. I’m not aware of any other huge land-based scavengers.
Gizzlies are kind of big, sure they like down sleeping bags with soft squishy fillings but they also like dead, real dead elk, deer, and fish to name a few. T. rex wasn’t out of scale for the available food and wasn’t opposed to eating his own either. Mega fauna needs mega scavengers. They weren’t that sucessful anyway, only lasted a few million years.
‘Although grizzlies are of the order Carnivora and have the digestive system of carnivores, they are actually omnivores, since their diet consists of both plants and animals. They have been known to prey on large mammals, when available, such as moose, deer, sheep, elk, bison, caribou and even black bears. Grizzly bears feed on fish such as salmon, trout, and bass, and those with access to a more protein-enriched diet in coastal areas potentially grow larger than interior individuals. Grizzly bears also readily scavenge food, on carrion left behind by other animals’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Bear
The claim isn’t that T-Rex didn’t scavenge but that they hunted too.
wouldn’t be very survival orientated to not scavenge food if yer hungry
Most predators are part-time scavengers, it seems. The wiki article I linked to above goes into the
predator/scavenger controversy pretty deeply. Interesting arguments.
By the way, one argument on the hunter side is that t-rex had binaural vision.
Apparently saw better than a hawk.
That would be vision better than a New World vulture or Condor, their descendants, closer to a stork than a hawk.
“Umm…are you gonna eat that?”
I do try to not get that hungry.
Have you ever crashed a large family picnic and said you were Aunt Mary’s kid? Heck we even voted where to have the picnic the next year. That’s scavenging.
We crash dumpsters. There’s some good scavenging in dumpsters and I’m an apex predator.