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Re: four tiny _KONG_ questions






From: noble22@verizon.net
Reply-To: noble22@verizon.net
To: rodlox@hotmail.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: four tiny  _KONG_ questions
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:54 -0600 (CST)

Hey, my opinions on your questions...

much appreciated; thank you.


>Just got back from seeing the 2005 edition of _King Kong_...and two things
>come to mind:

a little theory.....Kong's species became as big as they are, to help them fend off attacks from the dinosaurs. (and also to prey on the dinosaurs)


we just didn't see the ape species who went hte other way -- becoming too small to be much bother for the dinosaurs.....though I think its telling, that the animals all recognized the people (ape family) as potential meals.


just a thought.


and hte rest of the replies....

>* if everything there was named after the island, would it be _[genera]
>skullensis_?

The naming would be at the discretion of whomever named them - not every genus and species name in existence honors the location of its discovery.

good point.


>* my guess is that those were camarasaurs (the sauropods), but did they have
>their nostrils there?


Didn't notice the nostrils during the mayhem that was that scene.

they were in front of the eyes, not touching the tip of the snout, & about eye level, or slightly higher...though there was no elevation of the nostrils (like Brachiosaurus had)



But they did look very 'old school' perhaps an homage to the restorations of sauropods from that time?

entirely possible.

The website refers to them simply as Brontosaurus.

shouldn't that be a lowercase 'b' ? :)


>* was that scavenger a terrestrial croc or a monitor lizard?

Actually, much like the crickets in the pit are nods to the native New Zealand wetas, I think that the scavenging creature may be a nod to the tuatara of New Zealand, being some sort of relict rhynchocephalian scavenger

cool.

(Tuataras themselves are actually scavengers and predators, even feeding on the young of the sooty shearwaters they share burrows with.).
Looks like a cross between a terrestrial croc and a tuatara in my opinion...

ah, okay.



>thoughts?

Kong's website has actually created a bestiary of the species from the island, giving a majority their own latin names complete with translations, and explanations for differing anatomy.

gracias.

if I may ask, where is this site?


Just my takes on your questions.

for which I thank you.



FTR, I enjoyed the movie very much. I wasn't expecting it to be 100 % on the dinosaurs or anything else,

we can hope that's in the sequel.

except Kong, and he did certainly give the impression of a gorilla. As was mentioned before, the scene where he nibbles the vegetation is one of my favorites, and then shortly thereafter when he's playfully knocking Ann over and getting himself all worked up.

The nods to the original were amusing as well,

and at the very end of the closing credits, they thanked everyone who worked in the 1930s Original.



Apologies for any misspellings or grammatical errors, or anything obvious I may have missed or screwed up.

I see nothing wrong.


have nice days & happy holidays.