irl version
>big chicken
Movie version raptors
>Very agile, fast bipedal runners and great jumpers
>High metabolism
>Highly intelligent with social structure
>Sickle claw used to disembowel stuff
Why didn't this version evolve instead? Seems like it would own everything
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I think a T. rex would wipe the floor with an elephant but a big tiger or bear would totally wipe the floor with any dromaeosaur
Ah shit I used "wipe the floor" twice
chicken have all the traits you listed for the movie version except the claw thing.
what are spurs?
They jingle, jangle, jingle
JP was a mistake
It singlehandedly obliterated any discourse on dinosaurs for decades. Honestly kind of impressive.
There are many big raptors that evolved that were even more badass than movie raptors. It's just that less people know them because they aren't named velociraptor.
What is this thread about? They did evolve like that afaik.
Or are you asking why they don't exist irl right now?
That's because of big meteor that went boom.
because they liked the name more, when the reality its closer to deinonychus
I know about bigger dromaeosaurids but I doubt even Deinonychus or Utahraptors can do half the shit that the movie raptors do
>being 500lbs+ and still jumping as high as three times their body height
>dig under a door to get to prey
>plan and coordinate their hunts, arrange traps, distractions, etc
>run as fast as motorbikes
Also
>sickle claws are shown to be ineffective tools for disembowelment, more likely used to hang onto stuff
>no strong evidence of cooperative hunting, more likely they would mob a big corpse the way vultures do
I don't think the evidence points to dromaeosaurids being particularly smart or social
>I doubt even Deinonychus or Utahraptors can do half the shit that the movie raptors do
Thats cause they probaly couldnt. JP films are no different than any other monster movie like godzilla or jaws. Which is fine, being accurates not the point of the movies. Its just annoying when dumb nerds try to push how much the movies 'embraced science' by not making them claymation swamp lizards, ignoring the fact that they regularly make shit up for the spectacle
Prove to me that dilophosaurus did not have frills
>missing the point this hard
Dilophosaurus had frills and poison because the theme of the novel was that Ingen was playing with forces they did not understand and could not predict, and they thought they'd be getting a safe medium sized carnivore (as the fossil evidence would indicate) but instead they got a nocturnal nightmare that should never have been released into the park.
>no strong evidence of cooperative hunting
You sure about that?
Not in the case of Velociraptor. Deinonychus does have it tho
>using documentary CGI to support your claim
This is like when Dr. Grant said they were birdlike because they have bird in their scientific name. You can't back up your manmade argument with manmade evidence.
>You can't back up your manmade argument with manmade evidence.
Hehe.
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A tiger of that weight would be able to make that jump no problem.
>Movie version
>Very agile, fast bipedal runners and great jumpers
>High metabolism
>Highly intelligent with social structure
so a big chicken essentially
do chickens employ group hunting tactics?
well, they forage as a group and have calls for each other that signal the presence of food. They don't really hunt per se, aside from the occasional insect, small reptile or mammal
Seagulls do. In some places they've learned to distinguish between locals and tourists based on body language and target the latter knowing they're an easier mark. They're also known to employ distraction techniques where one will perform a dance in front of an unsuspecting tourist while another targets them from behind and attempts to steal their food.
Yes.
Because the goal of life is to survive long enough to reproduce. Not to engage in epic battles
Being a killing machine would guarantee survival and reproduction
Clearly not enough to be selected for in the case of Velociraptor
But jokes aside. Didn't Velociraptor live in a desert where most dinosaurs were about that size? maybe it was a lack of food that made everyone smaller
Chicken are pretty fricking wild and would definetly be a threat if they werent so small and had teeth and claws.
Maybe in a movie world, but not in the real world where a single cut can lead to a nasty infection and death
weird that all these predators today exist although there are infections coming from cuts n stuff
How many of them "engage in epic battles" with other predators?
Just sloth bears/tigers. And even then, the tigers try to avoid fighting if they can and the sloth bears are doing it because the alternative is surprise murder by tiger.
wait
who said they are engaging in epic battles?
that'd be dumb af
>wait
>who said they are engaging in epic battles?
>that'd be dumb a-ACK
didn't help hitler, elliot rodgers to mention a few
IT'S NOT FAIR
Big chickens would basically be ostrich/emu/moa
Movie version raptors still describes chickens IDORT.
It did.