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But one man was going to change all that.
可是有一個人打算推翻這種觀點
Phil Currie is one of the world's most accomplished paleontologists.
Philip Currie是世界上最有成就的古生物學家之一
He is one of the few scientists in the world who can identify any meat-eating dinosaur from a single tooth.
他是少數幾位僅憑一顆牙齒便能判斷出食肉恐龍種類的科學家之一
It was Currie's passion for predatory dinosaurs that led him down to work with Rodolfo Coria on the plains of Patagonia.
Currie對掠食恐龍的癡迷使得他來到巴塔哥尼亞平原，與Rodolfo Coria一起工作
When an opportunity came up in 1995 to go to Argentina
1995年，我有機會來到阿根廷
and see Rodolfo and all the fantastic fossil finds he'd made, of course I jumped at it.
見到了Rodolfo和他那些了不起的發現，我簡直是興奮不已
Like his colleagues, Currie had always believed the mega-carnivores were solitary creatures and didn't hunt in packs.
和他的同事們一樣，Currie一直認為大型食肉恐龍是獨居動物，從來都不會集體狩獵
But over time, as he began to think things through, he made a connection.
不過隨著時間的推移，他再三思考后得出了一種觀點
From looking at modern animals, it became very clear that
只要看看現代動物，
maybe it wasn't such an unusual thing that big meat-eating dinosaurs were in fact pack animals.
大型食肉恐龍群居生活顯然也就不是什么奇怪的事了
We'd already had good indications that the plant-eaters were herding animals.
我們都公認植食動物是群居動物
And it only made sense that if the carnivores wanted to break the defenses of a plant-eater's herd,
并且也很清楚食肉動物要想打破植食動物的集體防御
the only way they could do that is by having strength of numbers.
唯一的方法就是集合群體的力量
And one of the responses that happens in a wide range of animals is that the meat-eaters become pack hunters.
很多動物都反映了這一現象，即食肉動物是群體狩獵者
