Dracilust
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Zehark the Albertosaurus
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Post by Dracilust on Mar 11, 2010 14:50:56 GMT
This is in your backyard.And he's hungry.WHAT THE HECK DO YOU DO?
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Post by schnautzr on Mar 11, 2010 17:50:36 GMT
Ha, I'd probably take photos, record some footage...and try to get it published in a major journal. All from the safety of the second floor window, of course. Don't want to risk the thing slamming through the basement window, lol.
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hermes888
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Pterafrax the Quetzalcoatlus [F4:Hermes888]
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Post by hermes888 on Mar 11, 2010 19:30:31 GMT
Go outside and tame it... if it's a Microraptor! I have a way with them, they do my bidding... You never specified the species! LOOPHOLE!!!!!
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Dracilust
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Zehark the Albertosaurus
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Post by Dracilust on Mar 11, 2010 21:58:01 GMT
Go outside and tame it... if it's a Microraptor! I have a way with them, they do my bidding... You never specified the species! LOOPHOLE!!!!! Oh contrare,my microraptor loving friend.The poll question above the choices says Velociraptor.And if you look at the image on the first post,that obviously ain't a microraptor. If it were a Microvelociraptor,then that would be a different story...
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Post by zillamaster55 on Mar 13, 2010 4:46:21 GMT
Toss the meatloaf....
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mantooth02
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Dieter the Saurornitholestes [F4:ManTooth02]
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Post by mantooth02 on Mar 15, 2010 22:06:24 GMT
Like schnautzr I would document it. It ain't gonna get into the house so why worry? I see raptors about that size all the time and they never bother me, I of course mean bird of prey raptors and not dromaeosaurs.
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Post by schnautzr on Mar 16, 2010 1:48:01 GMT
Condors? We don't get anything bigger than a great blue heron out here, and I consider those pretty small.
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mantooth02
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Dieter the Saurornitholestes [F4:ManTooth02]
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Post by mantooth02 on Mar 16, 2010 3:24:49 GMT
Condors no, but bald eagles are in the area. Velociraptor was only about the size of a turkey which is about the size of an eagle . Blue herons are pretty tall by local bird standards but they certainly don't weigh much.
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Post by zillamaster55 on Mar 16, 2010 12:52:37 GMT
A cassowary would scare the crap outta me.
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Post by schnautzr on Mar 17, 2010 0:37:58 GMT
Ah, turkey size. I thought they were supposedly five feet high like in Jurassic Park. Yeah, I'm familiar with turkeys; they like to cross the road in big gaggles. There was even one that lived in the city out here that ran out in traffic all the time, and the radio station named him Wilson. This past year he finally got hit.
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mantooth02
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Dieter the Saurornitholestes [F4:ManTooth02]
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Post by mantooth02 on Mar 17, 2010 2:33:18 GMT
I'm surprised you didn't know haw small velociraptor actually was. The species in Jurassic Park would more accurately be called deinonychus.
From wikipedia...
"Velociraptor is well-known from its role as a vicious and cunning killer in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg. The "raptors" portrayed in Jurassic Park were modeled after a larger relative, Deinonychus, which Gregory Paul at the time called Velociraptor antirrhopus.[3] The paleontologists in the film and the novel excavate a so-called Velociraptor skeleton in Montana, far from the central Asian range of Velociraptor but well within the range of Deinonychus. A character in Crichton's novel also states that "…Deinonychus is now considered one of the velociraptors", indicating that Crichton used Paul's taxonomy, though the "raptors" in the novel are referred to as V. mongoliensis."
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Dracilust
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Zehark the Albertosaurus
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Post by Dracilust on Mar 18, 2010 1:58:57 GMT
lol, apparently you guys would rather debate then pay attention to the raptor pecking on the bottom floor window. ;D
And with these answered...time for part 2!
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Post by schnautzr on Mar 19, 2010 15:24:26 GMT
Thanks, Tooth. I wasn't aware of that flaw in JP (although I'm not too surprised). I knew Velociraptor was small in comparison with hadrosaurs, demonstrated quite well in Dinosaur, but the hadros I know are pretty huge.
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