Dave Hone

And then on top of that, they're not very experienced at foraging in the right areas.

And even if they can find a good patch, the adults were often beat them up and chase them off.

You're talking about juveniles across various species.

Everything.

This is just a universal pattern of being a smaller animal versus a larger or a younger animal versus a larger animal.

Right.

They're dumb, but they're inexperienced.

But they're often feeding in suboptimal areas.

So this is the place with all the best food.

The adults will kick you off.

So now you have to feed somewhere else.

Maybe the food isn't as good, in which case you need to eat more of it.

So it takes longer.

Or maybe it's the one next to the edge of the forest where the T-Rexes hide.

but either way you're stuck there and then you don't really know what you're looking for and you haven't got the armor so guess who's getting eaten like this is again there's lots of exceptions you can't have nature without things like that but this is the absolute rule of thumb for how foraging and growth and predation operate across everything from fish to starfish as fish as predators starfish praying mantis all the way up to things like big cats via stuff like crocodiles it

It's how it works.

So it'd be very weird if it didn't also operate for dinosaurs.

And then, as I say, we've actually got the direct evidence for this from bite marks and stomach contents.

They're taking small stuff.

Bite marks give a lot of information.