i feel like the really big Sauropods would've been obligatory herbivores, i just don't see a Sauropod going through the effort of even bending down to chow on some meat or bones. Maybe as juveniles or the small sauropods but once they've reached absolutely ginormous sizes, i feel like they'd stick to just tree tops. Odd hypothesis, i know, but i feel like an animal that's 50 feet tall just wouldn't bother bending down unless it absolutely needed to(say for water).
Tyrannosaurus was almost certainly a meat-only creature. The fact that it’s so finely tuned to swallow gigantic hunks of meat tells me that it doesn’t really spare a moment for anything else. It probably engaged in osteophagy, not even intentionally but bone-crushing jaws will crush bones, go figure. Dromaeosaurs, on the other hand, I could see them stripping a passing branch of berries or chewing some grass to settle its stomach. They’re so bird-like, I wouldn’t put it past them to straight up climb a tree for a juicy fruit.
I think it would be far more common in dinosaurs to be an obligatory carnivore than an obligate herbivore. Carnivore digestive systems are not usually as complex as that of a herbivore, so they are usually unable to extract the nutrients from vegetation directly, hence why they have to consume a herbivore that can obtain those nutrients. The term you would be looking for is [hypercarnivore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercarnivore) with a diet of at least 70% meat.
I think owls are probably obligate carnivores.
Polar bears too
Well yes, but I'm pretty sure they're not dinosaurs.
True lmao
i feel like the really big Sauropods would've been obligatory herbivores, i just don't see a Sauropod going through the effort of even bending down to chow on some meat or bones. Maybe as juveniles or the small sauropods but once they've reached absolutely ginormous sizes, i feel like they'd stick to just tree tops. Odd hypothesis, i know, but i feel like an animal that's 50 feet tall just wouldn't bother bending down unless it absolutely needed to(say for water).
What about animals in the trees?
didnt even think about that, i supposed they mightve monched on arboreal lizards or mammals from time to time, purposely or not lol
Makes sense lmao
I feel like that's just gonna be more effort than it's worth.
can you even consider pigs herbivores though?
Not really considering their lineage
Tyrannosaurus was almost certainly a meat-only creature. The fact that it’s so finely tuned to swallow gigantic hunks of meat tells me that it doesn’t really spare a moment for anything else. It probably engaged in osteophagy, not even intentionally but bone-crushing jaws will crush bones, go figure. Dromaeosaurs, on the other hand, I could see them stripping a passing branch of berries or chewing some grass to settle its stomach. They’re so bird-like, I wouldn’t put it past them to straight up climb a tree for a juicy fruit.
I think it would be far more common in dinosaurs to be an obligatory carnivore than an obligate herbivore. Carnivore digestive systems are not usually as complex as that of a herbivore, so they are usually unable to extract the nutrients from vegetation directly, hence why they have to consume a herbivore that can obtain those nutrients. The term you would be looking for is [hypercarnivore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercarnivore) with a diet of at least 70% meat.