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training dinos?
Topic Started: Oct 12 2010, 08:00 PM (451 Views)
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If the dinosaurs did somehow survive and we became what we are to day. Is it most likely that we would build barriers and wall s to keep the dinosaurs away or some how tame them as we did with horses and dogs? If so that would mean no cars most likely less food and meat and less space so would that mean that it might of been better if the dinosaurs stayed or is how it is now good. But then again if we had dinosaurs we wouldn't pollute as much and the dung could b used as fertilizer. But the herbivores would eat all the plants that give us oxygen.

So I don't know what would of been better but please tell what you think.
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Actually it is impossible for herbivores to eat all of the plant matter in one area.
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I wonder if you could train a dromaeosaur in a similar manner to dog training and falconry?
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It'd claw many a belly. I wouldn't try it. Besides, we already have trained dromaeosaurs. Falcons.
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Hmm i guess Hadrosaurs may be good cattle? or would ornitomimids?.... i dont really know unless we could fully understand what sort of intelligence dinosaurs had
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Ankylosaurs could be like mules to pull things and plow through brush.
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well how would you train an ankylosaur to do such a thing? we havent trained rhinos to do that so why would it work with them?
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I'm sure if you domesticated them it could work. They would make pretty good work animals. Ankylosaurid's low squat bodies would make them ideal for pulling things. You could have them pull a plow in a field, or pulling a cart full of farm stuff.
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I wouldnt call that realistic
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