Off the cliff, goes the big one.

[Takama]

This has been makeing me wonder.  If a Sauropod fell off a High cliff, would it die like a human, or survive?

[ajax]

It would die like a sauropod not a human, If this is ment to be a joke of some kind I don't get it?
A smashed ribcage = ruptured lungs = death.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

A famous scientist once said if you drop a mouse a thousand feet it lies there stunned a few minutes then might scurry off. If you drop a human being that far it breaks, and if you drop a horse it splatters.From that analogy you can surmise the answer

[SBell]

Mammoths and bison, among other large animals I'm sure, are known to have been killed using 'jumps'--ridges or high point that large animals are driven off of and then die (or are severely injured to be dispatched soon after).

So if the mass of an animal increases by a factor of 10 or 100--it's simple physics.  The stresses on the body would be lethal. And if an animal is 50, 60 or 100 tonnes, I'm guessing that the fall wouldn't even need to be that far.

Is there a particular reason this is on your mind? It does seem like an odd sort of consideration.

[CityRaptor]

I think I know the inspiration for that question! It happened to one in the 1925 movie version of The Lost World.

[Takama]

I was planning on writeing a story where a sauropod falls off a cliff. And lands in a lake were a territorial theropod was drinking.    He then claims the territory and counts the injured sauropod as his food.

[SBell]

I think I know the inspiration for that question! It happened to one in the 1925 movie version of The Lost World.

There's also a scene in a Discovery documentary--I think Dinosaur Planet (the one narrated by Christian Slater). I think it's the Pyroraptor episode, but I could be wrong.

[Gryphoceratops]

In the dino mini series When Dinosaurs Roamed America narrated by John Goodman i think an Apatosaurus falls off a small cliff and injures itself to the point where it cant get up.  Then some Allosaurus eat it.

[SBell]

In the dino mini series When Dinosaurs Roamed America narrated by John Goodman i think an Apatosaurus falls off a small cliff and injures itself to the point where it cant get up.  Then some Allosaurus eat it.

Maybe that was it...maybe it shows up more often than we realize.

[Iguanocolossus]

Mr. Square-Cube Law says it will look like a sloppy joe after it lands.

[Takama]

In the dino mini series When Dinosaurs Roamed America narrated by John Goodman i think an Apatosaurus falls off a small cliff and injures itself to the point where it cant get up.  Then some Allosaurus eat it.

Maybe that was it...maybe it shows up more often than we realize.

It also happend in 2005s King Kong, were the crew has to run away from a herd of them

Mr. Square-Cube Law says it will look like a sloppy joe after it lands.

Perfect for my story, Thanks everyone