Tsintaosaurus tail swipe animation.

[Otocat]

I hadn't noticed this before, but Tsintaosaurus has an animation where it flicks it's body to the side, swiping it's tail. I noticed in the background as two Pentas we're about to start fighting.
My question is why can't these dinosaurs fend off small carnivores with that motion? Why are they always defenseless? The animation seems to be there.
Was it something the devs scrapped?

 

[Butter]

That's the animation hadrosaurs use when breaking down fences. All the dinosaurs have one and they will occasionally do them when idle.

 

[Otocat]

Yeah I guess it is the "fence" animation.
I don't see why it can't be used as a defense mechanism though.
I even just now set up a pen with 16 Tsins, over their social max, just to see if they'd start swiping each other. Nuthin'.
Maybe a suggestion for the future, have the fence breaking animation double as a territory animation, or one that gives the hadrosaurs a fighting chance against small carno's.

So now I'm stuck with 16 Tsintaosaurus on Xanax. Time to bring out an Indominus.