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Jurassic Park: New Blood

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Really the part of it that I'm interested in seeing is its effect on the world.

But that sort of stuff would probably belong in a sidestory.
 
I don't think it was mentioned yet, so how do dinos react to bad weather?

Look for shelter, just carry on?

And can they somehow feel the weather changes coming?
 
Oleg-14191 said:
I don't think it was mentioned yet, so how do dinos react to bad weather?

Look for shelter, just carry on?

And can they somehow feel the weather changes coming?
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So far it's been mostly reacting to pressure changes. While the larger herbivores tend to ignore it and continue on, the therapods tend to take cover and move to higher ground rather than seemingly ignore it like in canon. I'm thinking personally that it was another knock-on effect of using the Frog DNA. The Dilophosaurs have been absolutely fascinated when the moat system gets a ton of water in it, but none of them have tried to swim in it.
 
@TempestK If you don't mind me asking, when the Shareholders pushed Elliot too much with the Ice Age park we took the "Revival" option because Elliot had a veterinary background... What would have been our options if we went for the tech startup or the Investor Firm background?
 
Fanhunter696 said:
@TempestK If you don't mind me asking, when the Shareholders pushed Elliot too much with the Ice Age park we took the "Revival" option because Elliot had a veterinary background... What would have been our options if we went for the tech startup or the Investor Firm background?
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Tech-startup would have had you pulling out patents and beginning to lease the manufacturing rights. Investor Firm would have had you basically completely flipping the Investors on their heads with buzzwords, profit projections and asset allocation until they wondered what the hell they'd been thinking.
 
TempestK said:
Tech-startup would have had you pulling out patents and beginning to lease the manufacturing rights. Investor Firm would have had you basically completely flipping the Investors on their heads with buzzwords, profit projections and asset allocation until they wondered what the hell they'd been thinking.
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Glad we picked the Veterinary background then... I have the feeling that the quest would have been significantly less wholesome with the other two backgrounds...

It is a shame we could not have hired some of the other potential recruits, Gertrude Hepple and Amelia Bittman would have made the park even more wholesome, and getting Ethan Sobrosky would have given us a veterinary trauma expert, which hopefully we won't ever need but, better safe than sorry...
 
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Hehe, love the image and idea of making cute yet informational pamphlets for zoo in future.

Same with dinos, especially if it means showing them off as animals and not monsters.
 
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TheSnekMan said:
We made Dodos and terror birds a therapist is not out of the question
Permian park might be am actual option now that I think about it
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Well, I specified that we could "go back" to the Therapsids because the first option we had to revive actual dinosaurs we had a couple of of Permian not-dinosaurs...

So it is perfectly within our possibilities to bring creatures from the Permian, but we will probably have to wait for it...
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[][Sorkin]Dimetrodon. One of the largest of the early non-saurians that are still associated with the age of Dinosaurs. They were supposed to be fairly slow and unwieldy, but someone looking at a crocodile or alligator on land would say the same thing. They'd also require you to get an enclosure for them properly sorted out on the island.

[][Sorkin]Pareiasaur. An alternative choice, still large but they're theorized to have been herbivorous. The skeletons are rather intriguing to look at, almost like a turtle without the shell. They ranged from just two feet to almost ten in length, and were estimated to have been upwards of half a ton. They would face the same housing issues as the Dimetrodon, but they'd at least be slightly less likely to take a hand off of a caretaker. At least not to actively feed on them...
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By the way, @TempestK what has been the reaction of our resident paleontologists and biologists when they have pretty incontestable evidence that the dinosaurs were MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more intelligent than previously estimated (IIRC with therapods like Rexy being close to corvids and the rest being as smart as regular birds)?

Because, AFAIK, in the 1980s-'90s, the consensus was that dinosaurs were clumsy, dumb beasts, are the revisionist theories that they could have been much more intelligent than previously expected are much more recent...

I cannot wait to see Dr Grant's reaction when he finds out that a 7-ton Apex Predator with the most powerful known jaws of any land animal is smart enough for tool use (and also smart enough to recognize its handlers by their voice/smell, to have a favorite person, and ask for belly rubs)...
 
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Fanhunter696 said:
By the way, @TempestK what has been the reaction of our resident paleontologists and biologists when they have pretty incontestable evidence that the dinosaurs were MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more intelligent than previously estimated (IIRC with therapods like Rexy being close to corvids and the rest being as smart as regular birds)?

Because, AFAIK, in the 1980s-'90s, the consensus was that dinosaurs were clumsy, dumb beasts, are the revisionist theories that they could have been much more intelligent than previously expected are much more recent...

I cannot wait to see Dr Grant's reaction when he finds out that a 7-ton Apex Predator with the most powerful known jaws of any land animal is smart enough for tool use (and also smart enough to recognize its handlers by their voice/smell, to have a favorite person, and ask for belly rubs)...
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In fact, the Dinosaur Renaissance has long been mainstream in the scientific community, and there have actually been cases of overestimation of the intelligence of non-avian dinosaurs (such as the pack-hunting hypothesis for dromaeosaurids). It's more that pop culture has lagged behind - Jurassic Park was created to catch up.
 
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It's hard to really know the exact intelligence of something when it's been dead for a very very long time.
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Very much so, without the living creature (or even worse without any available living tissue sample of said creature) the best we can have are rough estimations based on the theoretical size and structure of the brain (and since brains don't get fossilized we will never know for sure), which could be completely wrong and we will never know (especially when you consider how intelligent the parrots are corvids are with such a tiny brain).

I was asking the reaction of our experts because in the canon of this quest it has been established that Rexy and the Dilophosaurs as being around corvid level, whereas the Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus are similar to chickens or pigeons... And AFAIK that goes against both the common perception and the most optimistic estimates from paleontologists about dinosaur intelligence in the 80s-90s...
 
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