what makes animals behave like this??
ok so tigers are like it because they are wild! but what is the real reason for some creatures being like this?????
2007-10-26 05:28:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
it was a big b*****rd,and it scared the sh**t out of the other animals,the big bully!!!
2007-10-26 05:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Behave like what - Hollywood actors??
T. rex went extinct 65 millions years ago. Nobody has ever seen a live T. rex, or any other dinosaur, for that matter. All anybody directly knows about this dinosaur is it is a rather small pile of fossilized bones. For all we know, this creature had feathers and could sing like Elvis Presley..
What can be inferred is that the animal was some sort of carnivore from the shape of the teeth. The current debate is what kind of carnivore it was. Its jaws and teeth were powerful enough to kill large prey animals, but T. rex might have just as easily been a scavenger. Internal images of the skull reveal large olfactory bulbs, meaning this dinosaur had a very good sence of smell. It would have helped it find the decomposing remains of animals killed by other dinosaurs.
My impression of T.rex was it played out a similar ecological role as a bear. Bears are large enough to kill prey, but prefer to be scavengers. Their size allows them to dominate the kills made by smaller, pack hunting carnivores, such as wolves. The preditor velociraptor was probably a pack hunting dinosaur, but it was only a bit larger than a turkey. It was able to kill animals twice its size because of large claws on its feet. A group of these dinosaurs could concievably kill animals many their size. T. Rex might have evolved its enormous size to help it drive away smaller, more efficient preditors.
BTW: T.rex and velociraptor were donosaurs known as theropods. There were even larger theropods than T. rex, however. The largest was giganotasaurus. It lived in Argentina and preyed on equally massive sauropod dinosaurs. Argentinasaurus was 30 feet at the sholder and about 100 feet long. This sauropod was the largest land animal which has ever lived.
Maybe it sang like Judy Garland...
2007-10-26 05:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by Roger S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First you have to define what you mean by ferocious because I would never consider a Tiger ferocious.
Tigers are carnivores and must hunt and kill other mammals for food. They can also be territorial which means they defend the territory their food is in, either from other hunters or other Tigers.
It is assumed that Trex is also a carnivore because of the shape of it's teeth. There is no way to really determine if Trex was also territorial.
May I suggest you stop watching cartoons and start studying your books more.
2007-10-26 05:39:17 · answer #3 · answered by tiger b 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I heard that some recent research cast doubt on the T-Rex's ferocity. It is suggested that it might actually have been a scavenger of carcasses (dinosaur equivalent of a vulture) and not the ferocious killing machine that we all believe it to be.
You never know...
2007-10-26 05:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tyrannosaurus rex and tigers are both carnivorous predators. Being ferocious is not a personality trait, it is what they must do to stay alive.
2007-10-26 05:31:39 · answer #5 · answered by floreana_baroness 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Tyrannosaurus Rex, like the Tiger, is what zoologists call an 'apex predator' (like crocodiles, lions, bears, eagles, great white sharks, etc.).
An 'apex predator' hunts, but nothing hunts them.
The only thing that bothers an apex predator is another apex predator. They are their own worse enemies.
Most apex predators are only ferocious when it is time to hunt, like when they're very hungry. Otherwise they tend to mind their own business.
2007-10-26 05:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Carnivores must display ferocity in order to be able to stake a claim in the food supply.
Though it is thought that T. rex and other Tyrannosauridae were scavengers. Still, you have to defend what you have found.
2007-10-26 05:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We don't know how it behaved, we are basically guessing. They died out 65 million years before humanity, there are no accounts of the animals behaviour.
Don't mistake fictional movies as fact either.
2007-10-26 05:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by 203 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a meat-eater (like T. Rex, tigers, or wasps) you have a choice: either kill creatures and eat them, or die.
And don't dawdle about killing things - if you don't kill them, they will fight back and could hurt you, which could cause you to die.
So, your choice is now: Kill things and kill them RIGHT, or die.
That's why meat-eaters are so ferocious.
2007-10-26 05:34:09 · answer #9 · answered by Brian L 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You'd be ferocious if you were named after a cooking fat.
2007-10-26 05:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
THEY ARE HUNGRY...WOULDNT YOU BE THAT WAY IF YOU WAS ALWAYS GETTING SOME ANIMALS CRAP STUCK IN ALL THOSE TEETH AND NOT HAVING ARMS LONG ENOUGH TO PICK IT OUT
2007-10-26 05:37:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋