This was my exact thought. A month without the t rex eating would be plenty of time for it to die.
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Etterra@discuss.online 6 days ago
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.
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SippyCup@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Not nearly as much as you’d think.
As it happens there’s an XKCD about it.
what-if.xkcd.com/78/
Larger animals are more energy efficient, and require fewer calories per pound than smaller ones do.
Etterra@discuss.online 4 days ago
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.