A Fatal Mistake? by fireangel
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Description
Albert, the Alamosaurus we saw earlier, has been in a bit of a panic, and has now wandered in the wrong direction to rejoin his herd. To be fair being stalked by a hungry Tyrannosaurus is pretty scary even if you're as big as Albert, but he is in big trouble because of his panic. He has wandered into a slightly denser region of the forest with lots of redwoods. With most of the trees Albert can barge them out of the way or sweep them aside with a swing of his tail if he needs to, but the redwoods are too big for that. So now he is unable to effectively use his main defense against predators, his mighty tail. Not only that, but he doesn't have a lot of room to turn and get into the open quickly.
Sensing a meal at last, the hungry Tyrannosaurus closes in...
Rendered in Blender 4.0.2. Hell Creek modules, Alamosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Mesozoic Plants collection all from DAZ, extra plants from good old Renderosity, credited below.
Comments (2)
contedesfees
Damn fine. I've come upon an as-yet unsupported hypothesis: a predator's unmistakable ferocity evolved to induce panic in its prey. Panic, after all, encourages such ill-advised choices as depicted here.
fireangel
Oh, I don't think it's unsupported; many predators use stealth and short bursts of speed to catch prey, and they are very quiet when doing so. However Hyenas frequently make a lot of noise when pursuing prey, because panic adds to exhaustion when persistence hunting. Some human tribal societies use noise too, also when persistence hunting. Frighten a deer, it runs off but you follow its tracks; then you scare it again and follow its tracks once more; after a couple of dozen repeats of this it is exhausted and it becomes easier to get an arrow or a spear into it. It may even trip and injure itself. It works.
Thanks for the view and the comment!
RodS
Dang.... Not looking good for Albert! But Rex is sure going to have some leftovers - that's a mighty big meal!
Really great job on all of these!