Re: Rex Towing Capacity (Aaargh!)

[se1aard@itis.com (Seth Ellestad)]

Nicholas Wren wrote:
>Did anyone think to suggest this rex could have been trying to drag
>this body back to a den/nest/whatever to feed little rexlings?
>?
>If anyone sees where I've put another foot in it while
>trying to extricate this one, don't just stand there, grab a shoehorn and do
>something!

Only that I doubt, if a T. rex was trying to feed its young, it would have
tried to bring back anything it couldn't have picked up and carried easilly
for some distance.  If it had killed something that big it'd probably have
brought the young along with it, or if they were too young to leave the
nest, maybe brought back some pre-digested food, bird-style, for them to
eat.  Predators such as wolves or lions, even having killed young large
animals the same size as individual carnivores or somewhat smaller, never
seem to try to drag or otherwise bring them back to any den, they just eat
the prey where it falls, young included.  Probably T. Rex did the same.

Seth Ellestad.