• Multiplexer
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    19 hours ago

    Me neither, before I saw the first feathered life-size replicas in dino parks.

    And I have to say, they were somehow way more scary than their naked counterparts in my opinion.

    So now I am Team Feather!

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      19 hours ago

      Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with an enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

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        I turned our geese into attack dogs when was 3 because they liked me but no one else. This resulted in at least one instance of my uncle (moms younger brother) being chased around by five pissed off geese. I have respected feathered creatures ever since.

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        18 hours ago

        visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

        But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height

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          Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Crichton and/or Spielberg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.

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          15 hours ago

          Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.

          Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you…

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      19 hours ago

      I bet some of their patterns would be so beautiful and mesmerizing that you just stand there admiring it until you get chomped up.

      I am also having a great time picturing dinosaurs having wacky feather patterns, dances, and habits for mating. I collected you ferns and frilled my feathers please respond.