>>5022431
>Komodo Dragons are an endangered species because of humans
Even at their current population they live in extremely high densities compared to almost any other terrestrial predator. Yet deer still vastly outnumber them today and did in the past
>Nile Crocs have enormous populations. I don't know what you think you're talking about
I’m talking about the fact that they’re only a fraction of the herbivore population. Tanzania/serengeti NP has one of the highest nile croc populations at 70,000. Meanwhile there’s 500,000 Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelles, 200,000 zebras, 200,000 Cape buffalo, 1.5 million wildebeest, 40,000 impala, 30,000 giraffes, etc, etc. That puts crocs at just under 3% of just those ungulates. That’s not even considering that they eat a lot of fish and their food intake is far lower than any theropod’s or that there’s a shitload more ungulate species.
>No they don't, and I promise this is something I know far more about than you do
They do though, two were just listed in this thread
>The megaherbivore community absolutely fucking DWARFED the megacarnivore community in Pleistocene North America
And that’s representative of every Pleistocene assemblage? Also that’s not limiting it to a single formation
>Brings up some random, poorly-studied location nobody has ever heard of
You not having heard of it doesn’t mean it’s poorly studied. It’s one of Africa’s most important for Carnivorans, it has a shitload of machairodontines
>The Leysey Shell Pit in Florida is better studied
You mean the one where a single site’s fossil assemblage is 90% one camel species? Yeah I’m sure there’s no preservation bias there
>>5022435
Nile crocodiles are least concern
