Why did dinosaurs bury their dead?

Answer 1

They didn't

Natural, geology, and natural action buried the dinosaurs. A few could have been buried by volcanic action, but most were buried long after they were attacked by scavengers and stripped to the bone.

Remember that the animals were larger back then and when a few large carnivores are fighting over a meal the smaller mammals would go looking for some smaller game.

Fossils are rare because the fossilization process is rare and because it is hard to find an intact skeleton. Modern scavengers will strip it to the bone and break up the bones to get the bone marrow, still something will survive, and time, dust and decaying leaves will fall upon it and bury it over time. Back in the times of dinosaurs there may not have been as many smaller scavengers as we have in the modern world so they may not have destroyed the skeletons.

One of the border lines of intelligence is if an animal can recognize death. Most herd animals won't even hang around a kill and totally ignore others if they die through disease. They are not intelligent enough to bury their prey. Elephants will try to get the dead elephant to rise again, unless it was killed by predators. Mourning behavior is very uncommon in the animal world, but it has been seen in the actions of elephants.

Some predators will bury their kill to preserve it and to keep it secret from other predators. They can come back later and eat more of it.

On the whole it takes centuries for a skeleton to be buried, but once it has been covered with a few layers of leaves most animals will leave it alone since the scavengers would have picked it clean before hand. Burying their dead is pretty much a custom unique to humans, not even the great apes do that. Of course death is a daily event to most of them so they may not feel as much as humans do.

Scavengers are pretty fierce when it comes to finding a kill and unless a body is buried at least 6’ under the ground they can dig it up; thus the modern practice of digging a grave at least 6’ deep. Of course once you put the corpse into a coffin it is hard for anything larger than insects to get to the corpse.

Answer 2

1. Components of human body present in the soil Elements that are present in the human body are present in lesser or greater quantity in the soil. Hence it is more scientific to bury a dead body, as it easily gets decomposed and mixed in the soil. 2. No Pollution Cremating (burning) the dead body leads to pollution of the atmosphere which is detrimental to health and harmful for the environment. There is no such pollution caused by burying a dead body. 3. Surrounding land becomes fertile To cremate a dead body several trees have to be chopped, which reduces the greenery and harms the environment and the ecology. When dead bodies are buried, besides the trees being saved, the surrounding land becomes fertile and it improves the environment. 4. Economical It is expensive to cremate a dead body when tons of wood have to be burned. Annually there is a loss of crores of rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India. Burying dead bodies is very cheap. It hardly costs any money. 5. Same land can be utilised for burying another body The wood used for cremating a dead body cannot be reutilised for cremating another dead body since it gets converted to ashes. The land used for burying a dead body can be reutilised for burying another body after a few years since the human body gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.

Answer 3

Dinosaurs did not bury dead. Silly to assume they did. How many animals existing today bury their dead?

Answer 4

Most of them didn't.

Some big cats today will bury their kills, and dig them up later to eat them. They bury the kills to decrease the likelihood that scavengers and other predators will find the kill. You can bet that some of the predatory dinosaurs had this habit too.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs were very intelligent speices

Answer 6

there never was a dinosaur.nobody ever saw one.