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Post by Ultimategrid on Mar 3, 2012 14:09:28 GMT -5
Some individuals are more gusty than others, and although I don't consider for a moment that an attack like this would happen often. But I think a dingo has more potential to kill a large pig than a perentie does. Well yes dingoes are larger and more agile. It would help if you could get your hands on those pictures, Dingoes dont kill via ankle bites (due to there hieght it doesnt make sense to go for the ankles). I will be going down to Australia some time this summer to see some relatives, I'll see if I can get them then.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Mar 3, 2012 14:13:00 GMT -5
Well yes dingoes are larger and more agile. It would help if you could get your hands on those pictures, Dingoes dont kill via ankle bites (due to there hieght it doesnt make sense to go for the ankles). I will be going down to Australia some time this summer to see some relatives, I'll see if I can get them then. That would be great!
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Post by Ultimategrid on Mar 3, 2012 14:16:21 GMT -5
I will be going down to Australia some time this summer to see some relatives, I'll see if I can get them then. That would be great! I'll also see if I can get some pictures of the invasive crocodile monitors when I'm down there.
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Post by Taurus on Mar 3, 2012 20:19:34 GMT -5
Wow! I come here and I was right, monitor lizards were overrated and Daeodon were underrated.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Mar 3, 2012 20:23:10 GMT -5
Wow! I come here and I was right, monitor lizards were overrated and Daeodon were underrated. Because we dont believe that a perentie killed an adult pig? im not following you.
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Post by Super Communist on Mar 4, 2012 0:31:33 GMT -5
The fastest monitor lizards today, are perenties. A perenties top speed is in the twenty mile zone, megalania is about sixty times heavier than one so it probably was pretty slow.
And megalania probably would already be dead.
Its big enough to fit around the skull and neck.
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Post by Anomonyous on Mar 4, 2012 10:23:37 GMT -5
1. Exactly how did they hunt then? You should watch a komodo dragon hunt deer, it's a sight to see. 2. How? Does the pig have explosives strapped to its ankle? 3. Of course it can kill Megalania it if bit down on the skull. In fact, it's not the skull size that even allows Daedon to do that. For some reason though everyone ignores the fact that Megalania isn't going to just sit there with a giant prehistoric pig in its face. It's going to bite, and the results won't be pretty. Komodo dragons will in fact bite the faces of water buffalo.
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 4, 2012 12:33:34 GMT -5
1. Exactly how did they hunt then? You should watch a komodo dragon hunt deer, it's a sight to see. 2. How? Does the pig have explosives strapped to its ankle? 3. Of course it can kill Megalania it if bit down on the skull. In fact, it's not the skull size that even allows Daedon to do that. For some reason though everyone ignores the fact that Megalania isn't going to just sit there with a giant prehistoric pig in its face. It's going to bite, and the results won't be pretty. Komodo dragons will in fact bite the faces of water buffalo. I couldn't have said it better myself Anomonyous.
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Post by Super Communist on Mar 4, 2012 13:10:54 GMT -5
Ambush, attacking large slow animals like diprotodon, stealing kills from thylacoleo and other smaller megalania.
Its faster, more agile, and has much longer reach than the lizard.
Again daeodon is more nimble and would likely get the first bite. It probably would be terribly injured but it would still be alive.
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Post by Anomonyous on Mar 4, 2012 13:25:47 GMT -5
1. Ambush? How is a 20 foot lizard supposed to go about ambushing? Just watch a monitor hunting large prey. They're surprisingly fast. 2. I have no idea how a Daedon is supposed to have a longer reach and be more agile than Megalania. 3. There is no evidence that Daedon was "more nimble". Monitors can strike quite quickly, as can all reptiles. On the other hand, Daedon doesn't strike me as the type of animal that can quickly lunge in and bite. Who has more formidable weaponry?
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Post by rhino on Jan 16, 2013 19:21:57 GMT -5
Daeodon wins IMO. I think height will let it absorb its charge by bending downwards and bite (aided by gravity) on the Megalania's back, neck, or head.
And since it's a mammal it the stamina advantage as well.
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Post by Anomonyous on Jan 17, 2013 0:29:34 GMT -5
Monitor lizards tend to have greater endurance compared to other reptiles.
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Post by Cr1TiKaL on Aug 7, 2013 15:46:30 GMT -5
Look at those awfully thin legs of the Daeodon, rather easy for Megalania to just bite at the Daeodon's Achille's Tendon. The only way I see the Daeodon winning is if it crushed the lizard's skull, otherwise it would bleed and will later be killed.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Aug 7, 2013 16:22:12 GMT -5
Daeodon wins IMO. I think height will let it absorb its charge by bending downwards and bite (aided by gravity) on the Megalania's back, neck, or head. And since it's a mammal it the stamina advantage as well. stamina is unlikely to play a big role with animals that have such devastating weaponry. The lizard will be reaching for the leg's of daeodon, making a bite hard and awkward to land on Megalania's neck and head and I doubt the effectiveness of biting the lizards back given its width, scales and osteoderms.
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