I was thinking about one of my favorite movies, Jurassic Park.

And then I realized that T-Rex husbandry is extremely similar to ball python husbandry. In particular, the feeding part.

They take a relatively harmless prey animal (goat) and leave it in the T-Rex enclosure. And then they wait. And wait. And wait. And...wait.

The T-Rex does not appear until later that night, in the middle of a storm. It had to think about it for a few hours, and then have complete darkness before it felt comfortable eating the goat.

Or was it the presence of its preferred prey animal, much like you can trick a ball python into eating a rat if it smells a mouse?

As you can tell from the below picture, the T-Rex has a much stronger feeding response toward the more expensive and harder to obtain prey animal, the human.

Food for thought!