Super Predators?

[Anonymous]

Guess i have the last laugh.

[Spino_38]

come on guys, this talk is nonsense... please, bear with me Mallon, you must see that a Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Suchomimus, ect. will have been feared by every creature in the animal kingdom at that time... You don't understand that he wasn't talking about Plant life or Bacteria... that is irrelevant to Food Chains. -- Anyway, the chances of bacteria or parasites affecting an entire population of organisms is slim. Expecially since parasites were obviesly more primative in the age of the dinosaurs.

[Anonymous]

[quote author=Spino_38 link=board=19;threadid=384;start=45#msg30766 date=1057818754]<br />... Plant life or Bacteria... that is irrelevant to Food Chains. <br /><hr></blockquote><br /><br />Not neccisarily Spino38, with every food chain, there has to be a bottom link, and that's plants or bacteria or both. But in many food chains, bacteria is the decomposer, neccisary for cleaning harmful waste matieral. Without these links, the whole food chain would fall apart. Just to let to you know. <br /><br />[quote author=Spino_38 link=board=19;threadid=384;start=45#msg30766 date=1057818754]<br />Anyway, the chances of bacteria or parasites affecting an entire population of organisms is slim. Expecially since parasites were obviesly more primative in the age of the dinosaurs. <hr></blockquote><br /><br />But then again my friend, the dinosaurs weren't considered up to date back then either. It is still is a possiblity...

[Mallon]

please, bear with me Mallon, you must see that a Spinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Suchomimus, ect. will have been feared by every creature in the animal kingdom at that time...<hr></blockquote><br /><br />Not necessarily. Fully grown sauropods would have been relatively immune to such predators. I think _Spinosaurus_ would've had it's hands full with a _Carcharodontosaurus_, too. But I understand what you're trying to get at.<br /><br />

You don't understand that he wasn't talking about Plant life or Bacteria... that is irrelevant to Food Chains.

<br /><br />Zuh? Without the above ingredients, the food chain (ugh!) wouldn't even exist!!!<br /><br />

-- Anyway, the chances of bacteria or parasites affecting an entire population of organisms is slim.

<br /><br />Even though it happens all the time?<br /><br />

Expecially since parasites were obviesly more primative in the age of the dinosaurs.

<br /><br />I would argue that they weren't all too unlike those we see today.

[Anonymous]

I JUST SAID THAT!! STOP REPEATING ME PEOPLE!! NOW THAT IS A headache, every one reitterating you. Great now i do have a headache, perfect, thanks

[lilgamefreek]

I think the term "superpredator" is just slang for dominant carnivore of a certain location or habitat or ecosystem. Just over time people began thinking it as super, invunrable animals (sarcasim).

[Anonymous]

maybe because they couldn't find a weak point in the animal

[Chaotic_Baryonyx]

Boy there is some serious spam in this topic.<br /><br />Anyways, I had always thought the &quot;food chain&quot; being a circle instead of a pyramid.

[Anonymous]

well the food chain is really compared to a thread on a spider's web, in that that's why they call all the chains in the ecosystem, the Food Web (very high tech stuff huh?)

[Spino_38]

wow... this whole topic seems like a bunch of ramble to me... : (it's just getting worse and worse)