While waiting for wife in Walmart parking lot I was lucky enough to witness a crow taking on a rat. Thought occurred to me that since birds are descended from dinosaurs then perhaps the bird’s method was the same one used back in the thunder lizard’s days whenever the prey’s bite was more severe than the hunter’s. Sorry but I missed the chance to video because, well, I didn’t think of it.
Crow grabbed & yanked rat’s tail many, many times and managed to jump aside from every lunge the rodent made towards it. Eventually the bird wore the rat out and after 15-20 minutes delivered the kill shots to the head/body, followed by a good shaking and eventually flight with rat in the beak. Kind of like a mongoose or roadrunner hunting a snake.
Found one article where palaeontologists discovered a T-Rex tooth in the tail of a fossilized duck bill but that could be expected result from a chase. I’d like to know if teethmarks or wounds delivered to the tails of the big meat eaters by smaller dinos have been found. Do you think the big carnivores were immune from being preyed upon by something with less weaponry but cunning and agile enough to make lunch of one?
Crow grabbed & yanked rat’s tail many, many times and managed to jump aside from every lunge the rodent made towards it. Eventually the bird wore the rat out and after 15-20 minutes delivered the kill shots to the head/body, followed by a good shaking and eventually flight with rat in the beak. Kind of like a mongoose or roadrunner hunting a snake.
Found one article where palaeontologists discovered a T-Rex tooth in the tail of a fossilized duck bill but that could be expected result from a chase. I’d like to know if teethmarks or wounds delivered to the tails of the big meat eaters by smaller dinos have been found. Do you think the big carnivores were immune from being preyed upon by something with less weaponry but cunning and agile enough to make lunch of one?