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Ignore Horners’ weak theory on tyrannosaurs being obligate scavengers.

Besides real-world evidence from Triceratops fossils that show healed wounds that have been positively identified as being the result of an encounter with a rex in which the triceratops survived (i.e; it was not scavenged by a rex), The Jurassic park tyrannosaurs have already been shown actively hunting in the first two movies.

The female in the first movie killed and ate a live goat, chased a live mathematician, killed and ate a live lawyer, chased three living people in a jeep, chased killed and ate a live Gallimimus and killed two live raptors.

In the second movie a pair of tyrannosaurs attacked three living people in an RV, shared a live Eddie, chased a whole group of living people across Isla Sorna, where the female ate a live bearded Dr. Robert Burke (and a live snake that was hiding in his shirt). In San Diego the male ate a live pedestrian and a live dog where it also taught its infant how to kill a live Peter Ludlow.

It's only in JPIII where we see the young male tyrannosaur in the process of eating a dead Parasaurolophus. Horner would like us to believe that it was simply scavenging the kill of another predator, which is entirely likely. But it could have just as easily killed it by itself. In reality it doesn't really matter. Tyrannosaurs in the JP universe (and in reality) have been thoroughly demonstrated to be active predators. Which is why you can’t all of a sudden turn them into obligate scavengers as Horner is trying to do. Even animals we associate with scavenging today like hyenas will actively hunt. Likewise, deadly predators like lions will commonly scavenge the kills of hyenas or the carcasses of dead animals. It’s not as black and white as Horner would like us to believe.


I think that what we’ve seen of the JP tyrannosaurs’ behaviour so far paints a pretty solid case for the JP tyrannosaurs being predators that will occasionally scavenge when the opportunity arises. Thus it makes absolutely no sense to now turn around and declare them obligate scavengers. That ship has sailed, since we’ve already seen multiple cases where the JP tyrannosaurs have been actively hunting.


Feel free to tweet this at Spielberg and Trevorrow (as I don’t have a twitter account) if you are so inclined and share it around as much as possible! Fight Horners' crippling influence on the JP franchise we all love...
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Tyrannosaurus is both a predator and a scavenger. Case closed.