Dave Hone

Predators, even like, quote, super predators like Tyrannosaurus, they're still real animals.

If you get injured and you can't hunt, that's probably the end of you.

So you don't want to tackle an adult Triceratops that weighs the same as you and has meter, meter and a half long horns on its head.

And...

It's potentially pretty aggressive.

And then even the big... So the hadrosaurs, the kind of classic duck-billed dinosaurs, they're not present with any obvious defenses.

They don't have armor.

They don't have horns or spikes or anything like this.

But they're simply massive.

Again, yes, T-Rex has got the teeth and the bite and...

even if they're a bit rubbish, the claws on the hands, but like just grappling another animal, which is the same size as it, there's a risk you're going to get a foot trodden on that it's going to get off some kind of body slam or whatever.

And then even if you do bring it down, you're never going to eat it.

Like if you bring down an animal that weighs five tons, it's nearly your own mass.

You're not going to eat it before it goes rotten.

That's a huge amount of kind of not like wasted energy, but you've probably put a lot of effort into this and you're not getting that much reward out.

And again, there are exceptions.

You've got things like lynx are the classic one.

Lynx are not very big cats, and yet they'll hunt adult deer.

Way bigger than them.

Lions hunt things like buffalo, but they're operating in a group, so it's a bit of a cheat.