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Lunch! That hollow trunk may not have been a good hiding place after all. Though not a monster, Albertosaurus has got to eat... and it eats meat.

There is much debate over whether Tyrannosaurs were predators or scavengers - Dr. Jack Horner is taking a lot of flack from some folk who seem to simply want or even need T. rex to have been an dynamic, active hunter. The fact is that most carnivores are a bit of both and studies have shown that whilst Hyænas actually do a good deal of killng themselves, Lions spend considerable time and effort steaingl a large part of their carrion... Personally, I have no problems seeing T.rex as a scavenger and an oppurtunistic hunter, with it´s more lightly built relatives like Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus as more fleet-footed hunters who were still not above taking carrion. The question of whether they lived in socially organised flocks/ packs/family groups or rather grew up to be solitary hunters seems more interesting. I´d like them to be pack animals, but there are other ways of explaining the seemingly simultaneous deaths of many individuals of differing ages in the same spot. For example, most large Monitors, crocodiles and other carnivores congregate over a large cadaver...

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Lunch! That hollow trunk may not have been a good hiding place after all. Though not a monster, Albertosaurus has got to eat... and it eats meat.

There is much debate over whether Tyrannosaurs were predators or scavengers - Dr. Jack Horner is taking a lot of flack from some folk who seem to simply want or even need T. rex to have been an dynamic, active hunter. The fact is that most carnivores are a bit of both and studies have shown that whilst Hyænas actually do a good deal of killng themselves, Lions spend considerable time and effort steaingl a large part of their carrion... Personally, I have no problems seeing T.rex as a scavenger and an oppurtunistic hunter, with it´s more lightly built relatives like Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus as more fleet-footed hunters who were still not above taking carrion. The question of whether they lived in socially organised flocks/ packs/family groups or rather grew up to be solitary hunters seems more interesting. I´d like them to be pack animals, but there are other ways of explaining the seemingly simultaneous deaths of many individuals of differing ages in the same spot. For example, most large Monitors, crocodiles and other carnivores congregate over a large cadaver...