How to eat a Triceratops

Not really a surprising trait to be honest. Makes sense for any predator to try remove whatever is in the way of the nicer meaty bits.


As always I will go to modern day raptors as an example.

This girl tends to removes the wings and head of pigeons when she catches them as part of her meal prep.








Have seen her do this a good number of times over the past few years. She plucks the feather and then severs a wing to get at the main body of the pigeon more easily and she also has a habit of going to work on the neck of the pigeon which often leads to the head coming off.

Have also seen her take the head off of a rat before eating it.


Her much smaller mate of the past few breeding seasons has a similar habit with the prey he gets.






I have long held the view that if you watch modern raptors feed, especially the species that can hunt on foot as well as on the wing as the Sparrowhawk is capable of, then you can get a scaled down version of hunting and feeding technoques that may resemble in some manner how some of the bipedal predators of millions of years ago went abouttheir business.

I can't say that it surprised me either, but not because I am an avid fan of these things, but simply because it is a subject that until now had never crossed my mind.

Thanks for a great post though.