Dave Hone

This stuff's toxic and kills you within minutes, keels over, dies.

Wolf smells dead meat, comes over, starts eating it, has a drink, keels over and dies.

And then it's not getting, you're just dying from the toxicity rather than being like,

yep let me deconstruct that like almost instantly so it's really easy because this this is my book on dinosaur behavior this is just the kind of thing i'm talking about so the the tyrannosaur trackways of a group of tyrannosaurs is i think four or five tracks total so it's like two from one animal two from a second animal and one from a third animal that's not the end of the world that's somehow how

trackways formed.

Like, you know, the rocks broken up, they stood on mud and then they didn't, whatever.

Yeah.

One of them has got a left and right and the other two don't.

It's very fragmentary, but that's not a problem with the interpretation.

The problem is this is interpreted as a group of them moving together.

Well, why?

Because they're going in roughly the same direction.

Okay.

And they're roughly equal sizes.

okay but like i've seen solitary animals moving in groups um a guy i know quite well in south africa i got a south africa regulator for my teaching actually um and he's one of the big guys at south africa national parks and he gives me the skinny on all kinds of weird stuff and he's telling me a few years ago that one of his park rangers had observed leopards hunting together in a group and

Now, leopards are basically not just solitary.

They're like antisocial.

They beat the hell out of each other if they come near each other.

But I've also seen, you know, you get game trails are a thing, paths that single animals take.

If a female is in heat, like males will track her down and follow her.