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... I’m here to persuade you that the finding of the well known dinosaur hunter, Jack Horner proves that the T-Rex was not a predator, but a highly skilled scavenger. I will accomplish this by illustrating the anatomy of a predator, with that of the T-Rex using information from the Discovery Channel, NYC Museum of Natural History, and the Ultimate Dinosaur Book, by David Lambert.
To begin let us exam a neighbor of the T-Rex during the Cretaceous period a true undisputed predator the Deinonychus. ... In a street survey conducted 100% of six graders believed the T-Rex were accurately portrayed in the Jurassic Park movies as a terrifying predator. While 75% of high schoolers felt maybe the T-Rex could have been a bit overplayed in the movie, but still felt he was definitely a predator. ... These attributes a very similar to a modern day scavenger the Vulture, they use their keen sense of smell to scent dead meat over tens of miles and, if the T-Rex had the same type of brain to it’s closest modern day cousin, then it too must have been a scavenger. ... Will he remain forever in our hearts as a fearsome predator or be diminished forever in our eyes. ... However, ladies and gentlemen this is not the case all evidence point to the Tyrannosaurus being nothing but a slow, clumsy and highly skilled scavenger and I hope I have persuaded you to agree with Dr.
Approximate Word count = 1277
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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