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Books, film, and other media / Just finished The Lost World
« on: March 19, 2012, 01:26:05 AM »
I just finished the sequel to Jurassic Park and I really, really want to review this book so please bear with me and some of the concepts within it. I found it just as good as Jurassic Park, and loved how it touches on paleoecology.
1. I think that the species chose for the book truly would fit within an ecosystem despite being eons and miles apart from one another in reality. I think this because of the types that were chosen, you had 3 carnivore species. Two were apex predators, which would be needed in that environment. Then you have a ambush predator that could thin the population of the smaller herbivores. The Symbiosis of herding and living together from the Parasaurolophids and Apatosaurs is SO extremely likely. I can verify that from what I see on our farm. Where they would have been living together since birth they would have created an dependence on one another. I see this daily on our farm, we have ducks and chickens they depend on one another. They both also have different food sources as the Dinosaurs in the book do. Thus making it feasible to believe that would work. Then you take into account all of the herbivore species in the book, that each would take from different food sources (in theory of course).
2. Then Naturally reared animals verse human reared. I see a HUGE difference with that. Its unbelievable at the behaviors they embrace when reared naturally versus hand reared. Just as theorized with the raptors in the book.
I think they are both good books, and IMO likely in the future. If the technology to perform the sequencing and extractions existed,(and at the rate technology changes) I believe we truly could see genetically engineered dinosaurs. Probably those species as well, because of their presence in the fossil record.
1. I think that the species chose for the book truly would fit within an ecosystem despite being eons and miles apart from one another in reality. I think this because of the types that were chosen, you had 3 carnivore species. Two were apex predators, which would be needed in that environment. Then you have a ambush predator that could thin the population of the smaller herbivores. The Symbiosis of herding and living together from the Parasaurolophids and Apatosaurs is SO extremely likely. I can verify that from what I see on our farm. Where they would have been living together since birth they would have created an dependence on one another. I see this daily on our farm, we have ducks and chickens they depend on one another. They both also have different food sources as the Dinosaurs in the book do. Thus making it feasible to believe that would work. Then you take into account all of the herbivore species in the book, that each would take from different food sources (in theory of course).
2. Then Naturally reared animals verse human reared. I see a HUGE difference with that. Its unbelievable at the behaviors they embrace when reared naturally versus hand reared. Just as theorized with the raptors in the book.
I think they are both good books, and IMO likely in the future. If the technology to perform the sequencing and extractions existed,(and at the rate technology changes) I believe we truly could see genetically engineered dinosaurs. Probably those species as well, because of their presence in the fossil record.
