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Post by schnautzr on Jan 11, 2010 4:57:11 GMT
I agree with Tooth...Pachycephalosaurus (Dracorex, Stygimoloch) is another highly likely case, but 200 might be stretching it a bit.
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Post by zillamaster55 on Jan 22, 2010 0:44:34 GMT
Reaally depends, if it was larger than Rugops, I'd hide like a frigging mouse. Smaller, that's when I'd take pictures.
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Post by mantooth02 on Jan 23, 2010 14:15:03 GMT
It's the smaller ones that are probably the most dangerous. I have a hard time believing a tyrannosaurus would see something as small and pathetic as us as a food source worth pursing.
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Post by schnautzr on Jan 23, 2010 21:17:31 GMT
That's part of what made Cloverfield so strange, in my opinion-- the gargantuan monster was chasing people instead of vehicles.
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Post by zillamaster55 on Jan 24, 2010 3:43:28 GMT
That's part of what made Cloverfield so strange, in my opinion-- the gargantuan monster was chasing people instead of vehicles. GODZILLA! FTW!
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Post by schnautzr on Jan 24, 2010 5:32:43 GMT
Well Godzilla at least smashed buildings and chased other monsters...
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Post by mantooth02 on Jan 24, 2010 21:50:05 GMT
Thats how all monster movies are, and dinosaur movies as well. Even movies like Jurassic Park, do you really think a Spinosaurus would be that hell bent on consuming humans?
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Post by schnautzr on Jan 25, 2010 0:39:06 GMT
Ha, I have yet to see JP II and III. And I call myself a dinosaur fan!
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Post by Dino589 on Jan 25, 2010 1:28:05 GMT
Thats how all monster movies are, and dinosaur movies as well. Even movies like Jurassic Park, do you really think a Spinosaurus would be that hell bent on consuming humans? Thats something that I found rather odd the first time I saw JP3. The thing has just killed a T. rex, and then it completly ignores the dead rex to go after a couple puny little things it can eat in a single bite. lol
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Post by zillamaster55 on Jan 25, 2010 2:25:47 GMT
Thats how all monster movies are, and dinosaur movies as well. Even movies like Jurassic Park, do you really think a Spinosaurus would be that hell bent on consuming humans? Thats something that I found rather odd the first time I saw JP3. The thing has just killed a T. rex, and then it completly ignores the dead rex to go after a couple puny little things it can eat in a single bite. lol Same thing happened in the new King Kong movie with the raptors. They had, like, 10 YEARS worth of food from a whole herd of Diplodocus that died, yet they go after humans. I don't get it...
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Post by mantooth02 on Jan 25, 2010 2:32:44 GMT
Ha, I have yet to see JP II and III. And I call myself a dinosaur fan! Seriously? How is that possible?
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Post by schnautzr on Jan 25, 2010 6:12:33 GMT
Actually, seeing Jurassic Park in the first place was entirely a serendipity...I sat down to watch a documentary or a game show one night, and surprise, Jurassic Park is on! I'm not much of a television watcher or moviegoer...and the movies I watch tend to be old classics that my parents watched as kids.
One of these days I might get around to watching JP II and III...I just started watching Trials of Life with Attenborough. It's pretty good so far...and it's amazing how far we've come in documentary production-- used to, it was okay to tag, interact with, eat, and even tease wild animals during the documentary...now they won't even touch the animals while they're not recording!
And as for human consumption...all I can say is M&M's...
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Post by mantooth02 on Jan 26, 2010 0:08:29 GMT
I pretty much grew up with the Jurassic films, the first coming out when I was around 8. As an 8 year old obsessed with dinosaurs I had to see it on the big screen and did...three times. It was only natural for me to see the sequels.
If humans had to exert the same amount of energy pursuing M&M's as carnivores do to capture their prey I'm sure we wouldn't bother.
EDIT: I'm also a fan of Attenborough's work, I just received his "Life of Mammals" for Christmas and the the "Trials of Life" was a great series as well. You might be interested to know that the character of John Hammond in Jurassic Park was actually played by David Attenborough's brother, Richard Attenborough.
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Post by schnautzr on Jan 26, 2010 18:06:32 GMT
Didn't know that...interesting!
I wonder what a Tyrannosaurus would undergo for an occasional "sweet tooth" sort of snack? I mean, we get up, walk over to the candy dish, bend over, pick it up, unwrap it, walk to the trash can to throw the wrapper away, and pop it in our mouths, then sit back down to resume whatever we were doing...which is more effort than we go through for most of our food (unless you are cooking it)-- just get up, walk to the table, sit down, and shovel tons of food in before walking back to do whatever we were doing. In theory, eating a snack requires more energy and doesn't have much benefit at all, if any other than the pure satisfaction of having something to suck or chew on that tastes good. Obviously, our sweet tooth urge is enough to drive us to go out of our way to eat a snack, so who's to say a carnivore wouldn't put itself through a similar situation to satisfy a drive for a snack?
On the other hand, most humans consume a large amount of plant-based food, which is higher in calorie content per amount digested/consumed. So...if Tyrannosaurus was indeed short on energy, it wouldn't have been wise for it to expend much if any on snacks...in fact, it would have benefited more from a lifestyle similar to this one:
You don't have much energy, so save all of it you can. Live a life of ambush. Hide near the edge of the jungle, and when you see something outside the treeline, especially if it's big, position yourself in the correct direction and then dart out to snatch it up. You've got powerful legs, so you might be able to chase it if you have to.
It's an interesting way of picturing Tyrannosaurus that I've never considered before...makes me wonder what sort of camouflage it would have had if indeed it lived this lifestyle.
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