Terrific scene. I also like how it's framed in such a way that the younger male didn't lose so badly he'll never have another fighting chance, but as a setup for future battles, where he'll eventually prevail.
the video doesn't show it, but David even narrates at the end: "though he may have lost, his damaged horns may be just what he needs next year to impress a mate."
i like how the younger male's horn breaks off in the same way that the older male has a shorter horn if that makes any sense it's almost like the first step to becoming him
If they talked, I imagine the older bull would have said something like "You're not bad kid, better luck next year. And hey, little secret from an old bull: the ladies dig some battle damage." I love that this show doesn't have these duels end in life crippling injuries or make them death battles. It's very realistic to how animals today fight one another.
@@jasonalcatraz5817Depends on how bloodthirsty some animals can be, horses frequently go for tendons and equally fit male African elephants sometimes really go for the kill.
I love how Prehistoric planet shows the old and experienced Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops to both carry loads of scars. It makes a point of how impressive their age is.
If some of you were looking for a battle between that Triceratops bull and T-rex, it has already happened. 3:10 - 3:18 that missing part of its frill is bitten off by a Rex and considering the Triceratops not only survived but grew old, there's no doubt who won the battle and who died. That veteran is literal T-rex killer
I didn't notice it until now. that's awesome. Now we know how he's lived to 30 years old. He's not trapped in the woods with tyrannosaurs. tyrannosaurs are trapped in the woods with him.
Lets not forget in the first season, in the Fresh Water episode, it showed a T- Rex had brought down a Trike, but the latter didn't go down without a fight, as shown on the Rex's thigh.
I like how the dominate males have really long horns like those of Yoshi's Trike. It is not only nice to see the horns based on those of an actual specimen, but it also gives them that commanding presence especially on the old bull. Not to mention, their horns were likely that big considering that the keratin sheath covering the bone cores makes them longer like we see in today's bovines.
The life-span of some dinosaurs might be longer than we imagine. I think about parrots and turtles that can live 50 or more years. The giant sauropods might have lived a century if they avoided disease and predation for example. A tricerotops living to be 40 years old might have been normal. T. rexes lived into their thirties, and they lived rough lives. So lives that were longer than many modern mammals were posible.
Dinosaurs were actually rather short-lived. The oldest sauropods in the fossil record were about 40-50 years old: Tyrannosaurus only lived for around 30 years; etc. Granted that’s still a pretty long lifespan in the grand scheme of things but it’s less than what you’d expect for animals of their size.
This fight definitely reminds me of the original Walking With Dinosaurs Torosaurus fight, except it is the other way around in this current fight. Right in the nostalgic feels!
Well, the old Torosaurus lost a whole horn, not the tip of one. An injury like that would get probably get infected and compromise his immune system. I fell it would've made more sense to have the male T. rex in WWD kill the old bull instead of a young Triceratops.
@@tonybusch8771 Look closely on its frill, you'll see a missing part. A part that has been bitten off and only a Rex could have done that. But considering it survived the attack, has likely killed the predator.
What I love about pp version of Triceratops are their horns length are as long as elephant’s tusks. Making them a formidable animal for mating and against predators like T. Rex
He has definitely killed one or two, that missing part of its frill on 3:19 is a literal bite mark, only done by a Tyrannosaurus rex. But considering it survived and have grown to be an impressive veteran, you know the rest of the story.
People don’t realise, Ceratopsian horns were covered in keratin in life, there’s the bone core, then the keratin sheath, so this Bull Triceratops having huge horns like this is almost certainly guaranteed, they would’ve had massive horns.
Fun fact: the "old bull" is based on an actual fossil which has the longest horns of any triceratops that has been discovered and that individual seems to be a sub adult based on analysis, so they could almost certainly get bigger than that.
1:58 notice how one brow horn is shorter than the other? This is something that happens in elephants where they prefer to use one tusk over the other and it gets noticeably worn down over time, like how humans can be right-handed or left-handed.
Perhaps the best Triceratops rut on RU-vid, kinda reminds me of Walking with Dinosaurs where the losing Torosaurus lost its brow horn. To bad they didn't include the hunt in the show because that would have been cool to see a T.rex successfully hunt an injured Torosaurus.
and the t rex is a scavenger theory. due to how large it is and how it's senses are designed, when even some active predators also have the same keen sensws.
Especially considering that this guy has a chunk of his frill missing that could only have been removed by a _T. rex,_ meaning he has survived fighting one at least once.
As much as i love seeing the classic T-Rex vs Trike battle, i really like to see the much more common battle of male Trike vs male Trike depicted here.
Except better since there's no stupid commentary(other then the great educational ones from david) this is just so much better, it shows dinos as animals like it were a documentary about animals today which is awesome.
The 30 year old male didn’t charge at top speed and they were only about 9 feet from each other and moved it’s top jaw away from the other male’s so the could charge each other just not going top speed to avoid breaking there top jaws
The Triceratops with the largest horns is a great example to be the kind of a animal that giantesses should see. like this triceratops male is intimidatingly Large and Strong.😮
@@ToyMovieMakerProductions Look at the nose horn. T. horridus is known for its comparatively tiny nose horn. T. prorsus has a larger nose horn and smaller brow horns.
Not really. They show the young male with a long and perfect set of horns, but he doesn't get any tail because he has relatively less experience and has less battle scars. The older male is stronger and has the scars to prove it, so he wins the contest and gets the females.
I'm mot sure about the animals reaction to getting that big of it's horn severed. I mean they most likely had nerves in that like todays cows do, that must have really hurt.
this scene is amazing and its even better since itreferences the sophi trike speciemen, this is the main theory of why paleontologists never found part of the right horn becuse they assummed it was broken of in a batle
A few nitpicks: The frills are too spikey The frills on youngsters are not spikey enough and they are sticking up Adult horns are too long and are usually pointing upwards instead of down Their bumpy scales are organized only on the back rather than being spread out all over the body But other than that, it’s still pretty accurate
@@marcmarkers deer and elk are much faster, lighter. They also have antlers rather than horns. The way the trikes are shown here, they are more like actual bulls
the size of triceratops is totally off. they were 10 meters long and 3 meters high. with an average weight of 10 tons lol. these are buffalo sized triceratopses
A person of average height would be about as tall as a Triceratops's front limb. The narration also stated that the older male weighs over 10 tons, so they're about as big as modern elephants, some maybe getting bigger.
@@jacobcox4565 yeah hella big but what I mean is that because they're so different and unique from what's alive today, its hard to comprehend their existence y'know what I mean? lol
The horns of the 3D models are far too long here. And if they are for mating display and fights, why do female Triceratops have the same frills and horns? Female moose, deer etc. don't have the same antlers as the males.
Female caribou have them as well. There can be sexual displays that are also for other purposes. And the horns look fine length wise. About a meter long
@@shalashaskaseven4841 The horns of the bull, which wins the fight, are as long as the skull with frill. In case of an old Triceratops ~ 2 - 2,5 m . Completely oversized horns.
Why do they show dinosaurs, which are reptiles, behaving like mammals? Reptiles are different. Observe komodo dragons choosing a mate or interacting with other komodo dragons.
Komodo Dragons are very different from Triceratops, Komodo Dragons are also not dinosaurs. The reason why the Triceratops "behave like mammals" is because the only animals with really big horns are mammals. They're acting similar because they are more similar than you think. Triceratops was a low browsing large herbivore with horns, and so are Bison, they fill the same roles in nature and they behave more alike because of that..
@@jacobcox4565 Something of a falacy. Here's why. Mammals and reptiles have different nervous systems. Specifically memory. Even cattle will, after a while , will identify a human that it knows and trusts. Reptiles do not. Reptiles , despite JW, cannot be trained. Ancient trick , kind of cleche, is a cobra responding to flute song that it has been trained to. A trick, cobras cannot be trained. It has no memory for it. Cobra responds to stimuli. In case of flute and cobra in Arabian market, the snake is responding to visual stimuli of moving flute tip. A cobra will never remember face of its human owner. Since cobras are deaf, they cannot be trained to follow verbal commands. Cobra exists in now, with 5 seconds in past. I observe this with emu, rhea, kossowary , and ostrich in captivity . They do not remember their human caretaker. An emu is just as defensive and aggressive to same human 5 years later as it was when it was introduced. Becouse to emu that human is always a fresh threat. Similar with dinosaurs, methinks, herd dinos hereded becouse of genetics and instinct. Not becouse of familial bonds.
@@dkoz8321 Monitor lizards are actually able to be trained, same with Alligators. They can be trained to recognize certain objects as signals for feeding time. Birds, like Ravens, Crows, and Parrots can also be trained and they can recognize faces. There was an experiment done with Crows in which a person with a mask would walk with a dead Crow in their hands in full view of other Crows. Then, when that person showed themselves without the mask the Crows didn't react, while being near them with the mask made them more alert and vocal. This means they can recognize faces.
His horns aren't perfect though. You can see his left horn is shorter- likely from breaking off in a duel when he was younger, just like the younger male. Someone also pointed out that you can see a chunk of his frill on the upper right is missing (3:10-3:18 gives you a good look) and was probably lost from a t-rex attack. Seeing as he's still alive though, I think we know who didn't walk away from that encounter.
