T-Rex, Bears.....

Reading the local rag this morning, I found 2 articles fascinating.  One was about new theories about big old T-Rex, & the other on the bear problem as seen in beautiful Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta. 
 
Dinosaurs have always intrigued me as it has with both my eldest son & his son, but we all are thankful that most of them still do not live in the neighbourhood.  Not a case of NIMBY, just don't think they would be ideal neighbours (grouchy) & also don't like the thought of being their next meal.  I would venture even Mr. Rogers wouldn't want one in his neighbour.  Today's article really sealed that idea.  Now paleobiologist Prof. Erickson of University of Florida is advancing new ideas while looking for new T-Rex fossils in Grande Prairie, Alberta.  He is suggesting that T-Rex was not a loner while hunting, but travelled in packs, had better eyesight & hearing than thought, plus could get speeds up to 30 klicks an hour & preferred live kills, not already dead ones.  When he caught his prey, he didn't just gulp it down.  With his jaw pressure of about 1500 kilos & teeth strong enough to crush thick dinosaur bones, he would bite & pull like a Komodo dragon or great white shark.  While settling a domestic dispute, would lock his jaws & wrestle.  A favourite meal was a teenage dinosaur.....nice & tender.  Yum! Yum!
 
In the area known as the Jewel of the Rockies, Lake Louise does have bears wandering about.  Parks Canada is considering surrounding the hamlet with a 10-klick electric "necklace" to protect the residents from grizzly bears & to encourage the bears to move up & down Bow Valley.  Some members of Lake Louise council fear that they will lose its wilderness, keeping out elk & coyotes also.  I can understand a little not wanting to keep elk out except I believe an elk can do damage to your person also, but coyotes...like their howl, don't like them going after sheep altho' I guess not too many domestic sheep wander the streets of Lake Louise.  Grizzlies are completely another matter.  Don't even want to see one a klick away.  I say let them mind their own business, I'll mind mine, never the twain should meet.
 
Any day without a T-Rex pack thundering through our woods chasing a grizzly up through our backyard is a great day!  You have one too, eh?
 
Starfire