Post by patrickstarsdad on Aug 31, 2020 21:11:30 GMT -5
Jun 13, 2012 4:26:15 GMT -5 jumbo1 said:
I don't understand how people can justify saying that a plodding, strait-legged elephant is as fast as an animal with the legs of an ostrich. There's no way to calculate Tyrannosaurus's speed, but it was definitely faster than an elephant. That goes without saying I think.
Anyway, did you see the f@cking size comparison? Case closed.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/rex-ferocious-killer-opportunistic-scavenger/story?id=12974461 T-rex was likely a scavenger not a predator. Not to mention its arms would be useless in pinning the elephant anyway.
Where is it going to bite the elephant? The legs? It'll get his face kicked in. The face? It will get skewered. The only way for the t-rex to win is to outmanuever the elephant and bite its rear. That's almost impossible considering rex takes over 2 seconds to make a quarter turn. So there goes that theory of a t-rex sidestepping a charging elephant.
You aren't vulnerable to an attack you can counter with relative ease.
Carnivores are able to hunt because of a neat cheat code called "flee instinct". When "prey" stands its ground, this confuses the predator, leaves him second-guessing himself. Even wildebeests have deterred lone lions in this manner. It was prepared to fight and the lion called it quits. Without "flee instinct", herbivores would be the predators. A bison herd can trample an entire wolf pack to death in seconds.