Can a character raise a T-Rex from an egg and have it be tame?
So I'm writing a book series called The Weasel Sagas (link here if you want to know more about that). Anyway, there's this character named Santa Muerte (her birth name is Beth but that's a story for another time), and she's been assigned to a planet called Aztlan by the evil overlord that she works for. Aztlan is based on Mesoamerican culture and mythology, but also is home to prehistoric creatures, the T-Rex being among them. Anyway, during a walk through the jungle one day, she finds a T-Rex nest with the mother who laid the eggs dead next to it (she was killed by local villagers after she came too close to their village). Although the villagers stole most of the eggs and ate them, Santa Muerte found one buried a little bit under the nest. She decided to take the egg back to the cave she lived in, and incubated the egg near a campfire. The egg eventually hatched, and voilla! Santa Muerte has her own baby T-Rex. Now the question I have for you guys is: is there a way Santa Muerte can raise this thing as a pet from birth and not just have it become violent and dangerous like the rest of its species?
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It depends on how intelligent the t-rex is. Wolves and lions, for example, can be tame if raised from birth. But black widows can not be. We don't really know how smart our historical t-rexes were, though its size points to decently intelligent. And it's not clear if the t-rexes in your world are the same.
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