I’ll just stay inside the hut thanks. An animal that big will starve to death without anything substantial to eat. And by substantial I mean like elephants and shit. These animals needed a lot, and I mean a lot, of calories to keep going. One month should be plenty of time for attrition to get the job done.
Larger animals are more energy efficient, and require fewer calories per pound than smaller ones do.
So, it’s likely the T-Rex is being fed over this month, possibly by your competition. It would be fine eating a full grown adult once a week or so, though it wouldn’t be happy about it.
It depends on its age, activity level and metabolism. A warm-ish blooded active predator is gonna need way more than 1 human a week. It’ll be wandering its large territory looking for meals, not charging after candy bars.
A large adult is also likely too slow to catch a running human; one quick turn, inconvenient obstruction (huge tree, boulder, invincible hut) could result in a leg-breaking accident that the T-Rex would know better than to bother with. A young or adolescent animal would be way more dangerous though.
I’ll just stay inside the hut thanks. An animal that big will starve to death without anything substantial to eat. And by substantial I mean like elephants and shit. These animals needed a lot, and I mean a lot, of calories to keep going. One month should be plenty of time for attrition to get the job done.
Not nearly as much as you’d think.
As it happens there’s an XKCD about it.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/78/
Larger animals are more energy efficient, and require fewer calories per pound than smaller ones do.
So, it’s likely the T-Rex is being fed over this month, possibly by your competition. It would be fine eating a full grown adult once a week or so, though it wouldn’t be happy about it.
It depends on its age, activity level and metabolism. A warm-ish blooded active predator is gonna need way more than 1 human a week. It’ll be wandering its large territory looking for meals, not charging after candy bars.
A large adult is also likely too slow to catch a running human; one quick turn, inconvenient obstruction (huge tree, boulder, invincible hut) could result in a leg-breaking accident that the T-Rex would know better than to bother with. A young or adolescent animal would be way more dangerous though.
This was my exact thought. A month without the t rex eating would be plenty of time for it to die.