I do see your point, it would probably look funny from a safe distance.... Chicken (especially roosters) can be vicious. Up close, a dinosaur-sized chicken would be freaking terrifying!
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Would you rather fight one T-Rex sized chicken or 100 chicken-sized T-Rex?
Def 100 chicken sized t-rex, they’re not pack hunters, so you won’t have to deal with a big coordinated attack. Just have to fight the tiny-rex a few at a time.
I've played enough Zelda to know that chickens do attack in packs so why wouldn't a T-Rex and how do we know? For all we know they were purple and sang songs.
It looks stupid but is insanely effective.
The bobs helps pick out movement, once they pick out prey, they have laser focus and stop bobbing.
If you don't think they're similar, watch a video of a chicken hunting a mouse. It could be a scene out of a very low budget Jurassic Park.
Edit:
Randomly came across a relevant video
Chickens and many other birds appear to bob their heads because their eyes are fixed in their sockets, so they can't fix their eyes on a point while moving, but instead have to keep their head still. What looks like bobbing is the bird pushing its head forward and keeping it completely still for a moment while its body catches up. Without keeping its head still, it wouldn't be able to see much of anything very effectively, prey or predator.
T rex might have been able to move its eyes, in which case it probably wouldn't have bobbed its head.
The best is when you pick them up and move their bodies around but their little heads stay in the same spot
Nature's own camera stabilizers.
What I've never been able to wrap my head around is how did they use their tiny arms, and for what?
Only thing I can think of is that they might have used them to brace themselves on the ground while leaning down past their balance point to eat. Doesn't seem like a very useful thing to have arms just for that though
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Man, I decided to do just that, and it was almost exactly what I thought (minus the technical words): if a velociraptor can do a metric fuckle of damage with their two hook-toes, a T-Rex with 2 of those on each hand can fuck something up, presuming it's close enough (which, as the T-Rex head/bite-force, and distance from the jaw suggests), would have been pretty frequently.
Even if each claw only did a little damage, that's still a lot of blood loss throughout the conflict, and the T-Rex would be more likely to win.