If the structures increase the overall abundance of prey in the environment, then they may provide the sustainable new foraging opportunities for these biotas.
Neither were overly large predators, but they were equipped with the weapons and musculature that allowed them to take on prey much larger than themselves.
It's been more than 30 years since the wolf and the winter cold. And now, as then, a beast approaches. Patient and confident, savoring the meal to come.
Hay loved as little as Adams did, the labor of skinning and butchering big game; he had even outgrown the sedate, middle-aged, meditative joy of duck-shooting, and found the trout of the Yellowstone too easy a prey.