Good gravy, ok so I was watching Primevil, a show on BBCA (I love British TV) it's about rifts opening between the past, present, and future, and creatures- such as dinosaurs -wandering into our time. Great premise right? I though so.
A pet peeve of mine is that astists conception of dinosaurs are really innacurate, they're always running around top speed, fighting and roaring, now honestly have you seen reptiles? Like at the zoo, or in Mexico, or the southwest? I have, and let me tell you, they were not running around fighting and roaring. They spend a good chunk of their time chilling out. Watch an iguana for an hour and the you can count the times he blinks on one hand.
And fighting? I was lucky enough to see an iguana fight in Mexico. It was under the boardwalk in Chankanaab on Cozumel Island. It was a lot of posturing and some hissing, not even as loud as a cat. It was fierce enough, and they can move really quick, but nothing like the roaring ridiculousness you see on TV.
Sadly Primevil has fallen into the nosiy trap of roaring growling, hissing, and hunting everything in sight. Animals aren't so silly as to hunt something they can't take down or taking such huge risks in hunting like diving through plate glass windows. Ok some of them are, but that's usually teenage predators who are full of hormones.
So I'm watching and they have giant spiders on the show and what do the spiders do? They snap, hiss and chatter. Sigh.
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