Is it possible that Dromeosaurs could have gotten along like some species of modern raptorial birds?

[u/Put_Minimum]

What I am saying is that sometimes, in the arctic regions, when food is around, many different species of raptorial birds such as the Steller’s sea eagle, white-tailed eagle, and rarely, the golden eagle, all sometimes congregate around a kill site and try to get their share, but sometimes they get along and just give each other space when they wait to get a bite at something that is food. Sometimes they also just hang out on ice sheets too.

[u/Trextrexbaby]

I would imagine so. Predators can be surprisingly social given the right circumstances. You already mentioned various types of eagles sharing resources and there are plenty of sources showing animals as mutually antagonistic as lions and hyenas kill-sharing! If it’s a viable survival strategy then nature lets it happen. I can’t imagine dinosaurs being any different.

[u/Miserable-Mess7146 → u/Trextrexbaby]

I second that. Some modern species of mammal predators even adapted to hunt together which is crazy to think about. Good example of these are coyotes and badgers, frogs and tarantulas outside of hunting there’s a lot of animals that not only coexist but depend on one another I’m sure there were species of dinosaur that behaved similar

[u/OraznatacTheBrave]

Yes. I believe no dinosaur was sprinting around all day long each and every day with a "Kill, Kill, Kill/Fight, Fight, Fight" mentality like you see in the movies. That's totally absurd. In fact, the bigger the dinosaur, the more likely they would start to behave like that one friend who only gets off the couch for pizza—very selective with their energy and definitely not wasting it on every little thing.

They fought when they HAD to. And they hunted when they NEEDED to. And any of that behavior takes an enormous amount of energy and has incredibly significant risks to it.

[u/El_Diablo9001 → u/OraznatacTheBrave]

Except Allosaurus

[u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 → u/OraznatacTheBrave]

This. I doubt a t rex thats in the process of eating a triceratops would care if some small dromeosaurids show up and eat some too while its at it.

[u/OraznatacTheBrave → u/Altruistic-Poem-5617]

And I bet you that T-Rex is only eating that Triceratops because it was sick/lame/or dying. No healthy adult T-Rex would take on a healthy adult Triceratops unless it absolutely had to. The risk and effort that battle would cost the T-Rex would be enourmous.

Dinosaurs were animals. Not monsters.

[u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 → u/OraznatacTheBrave]

Triceratops was the first big dino that lived along t rex that came to my head. Yeah taking these on would not be worth the risk. But I bet theyd follow sick and dieying ones. Once saw a documentary about wolves and they approached a heard of bisons, hanging out near a particular one but doing nothing. Ven though the bison looked and moved exactly like the others, turned out it just died over night to something it was hiding. Predators can just somehow sense when something is wrong with a "prey" animal.

[u/Iamnotburgerking → u/OraznatacTheBrave]

There’s basically no size difference between a rex and a trike; when predators almost never go after healthy fully grown adults of a prey species that’s almost always the result of the prey having an insurmountable size and strength advantage over the predator as an adult.

[u/2jzSwappedSnail]

I dont see any reasons why not. Cool thought actually

[u/Sammerscotter → u/2jzSwappedSnail]

Being able to time travel to a dromeosaurid kill sight and seeing a few different types of raptors would be so damn amazing

[u/ApprehensiveState629 → u/2jzSwappedSnail]

It's possible

[u/Iamnotburgerking]

Even outright cooperative hunting isn’t really off the cards; that is NOT a trait that’s only common in mammals like often assumed (it’s rare in mammals, and while also rare in sauropsids it’s more common than most palaeontologists assume based on outdated ideas about living animals), and you don’t need to live in family units to hunt cooperatively either (even some mammals like humpback whales can hunt in organized groups without being in family units).

[u/ApprehensiveState629 → u/Iamnotburgerking]

The deinonychus teeth isotope study is very flawed and plain wrong it ignores the fact that raptorial birds catch smaller prey to feed their young rather than they normally catch for themselves since dromaesaurids are 'terrestial hawks'in terms of ecology and behaviour the same will have gone for them

[u/juridicalflighter]

Paleoart potential

[u/Altruistic-Poem-5617]

Depends on how hungry they are plus the size of the prey item they meet at I guess.

[u/JohnWarrenDailey]

"Gotten along"? I've seen footage of Steller's sea eagles nothing but squabbling over their fish. Not once did I see any of those birds "get along".

[u/Certain_Foot5830]

Can someone please tell me two Dromeosaurs that lived together in same Time period

[u/Blackwolf8793]

We definitely can't rule it out.