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.
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.