I do see your point, it would probably look funny from a safe distance.... Chicken (especially roosters) can be vicious. Up close, a dinosaur-sized chicken would be freaking terrifying!
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Would you rather fight one T-Rex sized chicken or 100 chicken-sized T-Rex?
Def 100 chicken sized t-rex, they’re not pack hunters, so you won’t have to deal with a big coordinated attack. Just have to fight the tiny-rex a few at a time.
I mean, they'd be pretty much like real chickens.
Chicken rules are just prison rules.
You pick the biggest one, and punt it across the yard. Then it attacks the second biggest one and you're done.
If you let one of them attack you first, then the rest are going to want to see how they measure up.
Unless you accidentally punt the one that makes the toilet wine… then you’ll have a mess of alch-y chickens looking for your flask & going all puke-a-potamus all over your shoes.
I've played enough Zelda to know that chickens do attack in packs so why wouldn't a T-Rex and how do we know? For all we know they were purple and sang songs.
Yeah, I saw that documentary. They would even sometimes team up with yellow triceratops.
You.......attacked the cocos??? YOU MONSTER!!!
Fun fact, Danny Sexbang had ZERO idea about that feature despite playing Link to the Past growing up. It wasn't until Arin Hanson forced him to repeatedly attack them. Then we got to hear Dannys reaction in realtime for the first time ever seeing what happens.
Pack 100 of compsognathus (compsognathii?) says hello.
Not sure how out of date the research is, but in the original Jurassic Park book, there are roaming packs of these things that overwhelm and kill people.
Though the on screen scene of them killing people happens in the second movie, it actually takes place in the first book IIRC... anyway, they're basically depicted as land piranhas.
(Again, IIRC, Jurassic Park the book basically gets set in motion with a family of tourists being eviscerated by a pack of compys... but the first movie dropped this from the story, then when the second movie comes out they basically use this scene as the intro for that, but its on a different island and used to set off an entirely new story?)
Though the on screen scene of them killing people happens in the second movie, it actually takes place in the first book IIRC...
You do. That’s how John Hammond goes. Falls in a ditch, breaks his leg, and the compys eat him alive. At least that’s what I remember.
Can I fight the mad scientist making these abominations?
Given I have seen how chickens and birds in general fight, I would fight a 100 chucken-sized t-rexes.
Neither!
I question whether one should fear a T-Rex or not.
First of all, they may have been scavengers and not predators.
Secondly, would they even bother with something so small as a human even if they were predators? I mean, do lions eat mice? 🤔
I can't speak to lions and mice, but chickens or even just birds in general will peck at anything smaller than them that moves.
Most scavengers will gladly accept an easy meal, just like chickens will gobble up little bugs they see on the ground without giving it a second thought.
You eat hamburgers, it's a similar scale comparison
Would you rather fight 100 chicken sized dinosaur or 1/100th of a dinosaur sized chicken?
It looks stupid but is insanely effective.
The bobs helps pick out movement, once they pick out prey, they have laser focus and stop bobbing.
If you don't think they're similar, watch a video of a chicken hunting a mouse. It could be a scene out of a very low budget Jurassic Park.
Edit:
Randomly came across a relevant video
Chickens and many other birds appear to bob their heads because their eyes are fixed in their sockets, so they can't fix their eyes on a point while moving, but instead have to keep their head still. What looks like bobbing is the bird pushing its head forward and keeping it completely still for a moment while its body catches up. Without keeping its head still, it wouldn't be able to see much of anything very effectively, prey or predator.
T rex might have been able to move its eyes, in which case it probably wouldn't have bobbed its head.
The best is when you pick them up and move their bodies around but their little heads stay in the same spot
Nature's own camera stabilizers.
I have no idea why people think chickens look stupid when they walk... to me, the way they walk just looks like the way they walk. And the prospect of a T-Rex being that alert and agile is pretty terrifying.
What I've never been able to wrap my head around is how did they use their tiny arms, and for what?
Only thing I can think of is that they might have used them to brace themselves on the ground while leaning down past their balance point to eat. Doesn't seem like a very useful thing to have arms just for that though
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Unironically... Look it up
Man, I decided to do just that, and it was almost exactly what I thought (minus the technical words): if a velociraptor can do a metric fuckle of damage with their two hook-toes, a T-Rex with 2 of those on each hand can fuck something up, presuming it's close enough (which, as the T-Rex head/bite-force, and distance from the jaw suggests), would have been pretty frequently.
Even if each claw only did a little damage, that's still a lot of blood loss throughout the conflict, and the T-Rex would be more likely to win.
They weren’t actually tiny, they were about a metre long. But they do seem out of proportion.
They were very muscular and ended in very sharp talons, so pretty deadly.
Naturally, they arm wrestled
I had thought the recent understanding was they were likely small wings, like emus or ostriches, to help with balance. Angled back instead of forward.
then donald gennaro would still have a career.