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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!
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.
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.
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
Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.
They'd still be large for cassowaries, just not the size of a truck.
But yes, that'd be terrifying.
Also relevant: https://youtu.be/U49R3Gqx8lw
Edit: oh, holy shit I didn't know cassowaries were that big
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.
The book came out in 1990.
Building the animatronics, filming, and editing still take time. According to Wikipedia, filming took place entirely in 1992 and post-production ended in May 1993.
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
Yeah, geese are terrifying and already come with "teeth".
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...
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.
You'd like Prehistoric Planet (1 & 2), if you haven't seen it. It's really, really good.