a Therizinosaurus for Therizinosaurus!
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dinosaur
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The people who decide what an animal ate, or its behavioural traits, seem to be kind of limited in speculative imagination.
The theory is that this animal sat on its ass all day and ate leaves. But I'm inclined to think it was a frugivore.
If it evolved from a meat eater, fruit would be far more compatible with a changing digestive system than leaves, and the claws would be extremely useful for pulling down tree fruit, whereas leaves would be much easier to reach.
The theory is that this animal sat on its ass all day and ate leaves. But I'm inclined to think it was a frugivore.
If it evolved from a meat eater, fruit would be far more compatible with a changing digestive system than leaves, and the claws would be extremely useful for pulling down tree fruit, whereas leaves would be much easier to reach.
These people are also highly trained in their field. The reason why therizinosaurs could not be frugivores is because there were not many fruit-bearing trees in the cretaceous period. Angiosperms (of which fruit-bearing trees) had just appeared, and were still restricted to magnolias and certain varieties of elm and similar trees.
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