Me: Goddamn, this girl is SO FUCKING ENRICHED. She’s never been more enriched in her LIFE.
Birdie: She is having SO much fun.
I love the idea of treating these dinosaurs like pet birds because in a roundabout way it implies that you could get a T-Rex to enthusiastically embrace the concept of wearing hats.
…FUCK YES
I cheerfully refer you to the Power Rangers Dino Supercharge Christmas Special, set in a modified timeline where dinosaurs were never wiped out, and are still going in the present day (So the palaleontogy museum they all worked at before the change is now a zoo)
most big herbivores are, frankly. if you have a pretty steady supply of food and don’t have to worry about missing a hunt and starving to death, you can afford to throw your weight around more and generally be more aggressive!
that’s why the most dangerous big animals in the world are almost all herbivores.
this is also why walking right up to these things in Jurassic Park would have been a fantastically bad idea
Sauropods would be fucking TERRIFYING and it annoys the hell out of me that media constantly portrays them as passive and harmless. That Indominus from Jurassic World would have been SLAUGHTERED against an Apatosaurus, let alone a whole HERD of them
I love Jurassic Park but I fucking hate people who are so emotionally attached to the portrayal of dinosaurs in the movie that they get upset when you contradict them
You do know that for the time the depictions were actually very progressive. JP was the first mainstream film to show dinosaurs as actual animals, not mini-Godzillas. To show that dinosaurs weren’t big lizards, that they were intelligent, endothermic and fast. Is some of the science dated now? Yes. But that’s just the nature of paleontology, we are always learning new things, any dino film made now will be mocked in 20 years for being outdated. People like to rag on the film, but it made large strides in lifting dinosaurs out of the realms of just being seen as kids stuff (dinosaurs were seen as “dead ends” in evolution until the mid-eighties)
ifesbob 