Allosaurus social limit....1...come on...

[T-REX-KNIGHT]

Why xD

[Bronzewing]

It is a bit odd I guess, mind you there's not really evidence of Allosaurus hunting in packs. it's just something they decided to add in Walking with dinosaurs because it was possible, and looked good. There's actually more evidence for Tyrannosaurs hunting in packs. Not T rex it's self, but for Albertosaurus, which is a very close relative.

[T-REX-KNIGHT]

Originally posted by Bronzewing:

It is a bit odd I guess, mind you there's not really evidence of Allosaurus hunting in packs. it's just something they decided to add in Walking with dinosaurs because it was possible, and looked good. There's actually more evidence for Tyrannosaurs hunting in packs. Not T rex it's self, but for Albertosaurus, which is a very close relative.

T-rex mostly hunt in family groups being the 2 parents while they raise their children to maturity most likely

[Malganyr]

Many scientists are agree about Allosaurs. He is one of the most known dinosaurs. They hunted in packs (how such a solo allosaur could hunt a diplodocus / brachio otherwise ?)

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Malganyr:

Many scientists are agree about Allosaurs. He is one of the most known dinosaurs. They hunted in packs (how such a solo allosaur could hunt a diplodocus / brachio otherwise ?)

What are your sources for scientists agreeing be hunted in packs? Everything I have read indicated the complete opposite

And they would do it by what is called ‘mobbing’. You see it in animals of today. A sick animal draws in nearby predators, who mob the thing until it dies. Not pack hunting and cooperating with each other as much as just all attacking the same target without any communication the the other allosaurus around you. Komodo dragons do this, and are not considered pack Hunters

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Give your source instead of merely a claim.

He probably watched walking with dinosaurs and instantly assumed that's what they were like.

Well in theory people also said Rex might have been in small groups of 2 to 3

[OCTDUMPUS]

Actually its very hard to prove a certain behaviour based on fossils, congregation of fossils doesn't mean a definitive answer. However, this game is scientifically inaccurate to begin with, so why not increase its social limit instead of having one allo in a big enclosure on a small island, kind of a waste of space I think.

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by OCTDUMPUS:

Actually its very hard to prove a certain behaviour based on fossils, congregation of fossils doesn't mean a definitive answer. However, this game is scientifically inaccurate to begin with, so why not increase its social limit instead of having one allo in a big enclosure on a small island, kind of a waste of space I think.

I think for fossils they go on how they were found such as Mai being a herding dinosaur with dozens of others in nesting sites.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by Venox:

Soooo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid. Those things hunted in packs lol.

There is no evidence of that.

[Dimitris]

well there was a fossil that showed 3 allosaurus together in death that died at prety much the same time
and there was a camarasaurus fossil next
plus there is another one with 2 allos together

[ProfileName]

Maybe a soultion would be just add a feature for the Allosaurus to have at least 3 in one exhibit but dosent need any so you could have either 1, 2, or 3 in a exhibit.

[TheZeroNeonix]

Originally posted by Meteor Strike:

T-rex mostly hunt in family groups being the 2 parents while they raise their children to maturity most likely

Two t-rexs sounds a bit overkill. lol. Maybe they worked together to provide food for their young, but I don't they'd feel the need to coordinate a single kill when they could eat most prey in one bite.

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by TheZeroNeonix:

Originally posted by Meteor Strike:

T-rex mostly hunt in family groups being the 2 parents while they raise their children to maturity most likely

Two t-rexs sounds a bit overkill. lol. Maybe they worked together to provide food for their young, but I don't they'd feel the need to coordinate a single kill when they could eat most prey in one bite.

You have to think of the bigger dinos like Para and other duck billed dinosaurs that were larger, but yeah they would have done it for young.

[TheZeroNeonix]

Originally posted by LoreEnthusiast:

You have to think of the bigger dinos like Para and other duck billed dinosaurs that were larger, but yeah they would have done it for young.

Actually, I'm just remembering that the t-rex couldn't risk running very fast. At 30mph, it would risk tripping and killing itself with its own weight. So it would make sense that two t-rexes would work together to abush prey that would be too fast for one of them to catch on their own.

[Jynn]

Originally posted by dimi:

well there was a fossil that showed 3 allosaurus together in death that died at prety much the same time
and there was a camarasaurus fossil next
plus there is another one with 2 allos together

and what does that prove?

how many lions die on top of their kill? Or how many wolves die right next to the bison they just hunted? Hunting in a group improves your success and usually results in less injury, not more. Wounded predators don't just drop dead hte moment they're hit, even tough dinosaurs hit by something big.

You dont' see dead pack-hunting predators next to their dead prey...but wait, you DO See that with Komodo dragon mobbing. Because they kill each other in their frenzy.

so that actually makes it sound like they probably mobbed their prey, killing smaller and weaker of their own species in the process. Dead predators found next to dead prey seems to indicate this to me, not pack hunting

[hsf_]

There is no significant evidence to suggest that Allosaurus hunted in packs. It was believed for a while that they did, as there was a digsite which contained several Allosaurus and several herbivores all within 20m of each other. It was later discovered that this was what's known as a "predator trap" click for info on predator trap[en.wikipedia.org].