Re: Note To Dinosaur Documentary Producers

["philidor11" <philidor11@snet.net>]

<The depiction of dinosaur predators regularly engaging in these
life-or-death struggles just perpetuates the old notion of antediluvean
mindless ferocity.  Let's see them behave like real animals, the supposed
goal of these documentaries.>

Yes!
Sounds like I'm being ironic, but I would have enjoyed watching the
anchisaur chewing (grinding, quick swallow, what?) and where it went for the
night, and how it walked.
I suspect an anchisaur's best defense against predators was being someplace
else, so the constant scenes of threat seem unreal to begin with, sort of
like a kid with toy cars portraying traffic accidents.
(Flash to Calvin and Hobbs with his Tyrannosaurs in fighter jets.  Also that
great cartoon of the plane crash, earthquake, and derailed train all
hurtling toward a lonely farm house.  The farmer blinked.  I would, too.)
Proposition:  any apparently realistic depiction of a natural system
involving continuous attacks by predators on prey is going to seem ludicrous
eventually.
Agreed?