Theropods will hang around a carcass like this for weeks, gorging and then sleeping their meals off for days at a time.
8 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.
You can hear this line at 00:17:21 in the radio play.
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- Why couldn't I have gotten him before he died? That would have made a darned fine head.
- Look, on your toes, chaps. The theropod that's been at this carcass is probably nearby.
- How do you know? You see how the hide's been ripped off and the bones are scattered?
- Well, that's what we came after.
- Raja, you take Mr. James through that way and we'll parallel you forty feet distant.
- Now, keep your eyes open. He'll be hard to see in these woods unless you're right on top of him.
- We pushed through the edge of the copse, looking for the huge flesh-eater who'd been at the carcass.
- I could hear James and the Raja pushing ahead on my right.
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