Re: Horner on NBC Nightly News

[AM Yates <Adam.Yates@bristol.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> You might consider the possibility that Tyrannosaurus occupied different
> niches at different times in its life. Perhaps it was a predator while young
> and relatively small, then became a scavenger when older and huge.

That's a good point, I could imagine any predator (including
small Tyrannosaurus) would give up a carcass to a really big
Tyrannosaurus. I remember seeing something similar on a wildlife doco
that stated big healthy male lions rarely have to hunt for themselves,
intimidation is all they need (Of course I'm not a lion ecologist and I
haven't seen the scientific literature on the subject so this may have
been duff information). God knows how you could test this idea without
a time machine though!

cheers

Adam Yates