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• Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The T-Rex was celebrating having climbed a 300m sheer wall with only it’s teeny, tiny arms

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• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bruh, what cherry picking. Literally in the exact same movie you have velociraptors stalking prey in groups and the dilophosaurus doing their own patronizing thing. If we look to other movies, you’ve got Xenomorphs, you’ve got tremor worms, you’ve got pumpkin head, you’ve got Moder (The Ritual), you’ve got the Blair Witch, etc.

  There’re plenty of good stalking monsters in film, some of which that you don’t even know are there till it’s too late.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In that scene the T-Rex is trying to flush out people which it knows are hiding somewhere as well.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the Blair Witch

    We never even see her. How do we know for sure that’s how witches behave?

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    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The witch stalks them for days, picks them off when alone, and at the climax of the film ambushes them in the abandoned house. I’d say that counts as a persistent ambush predator.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blair Witch

    Eh? That’s not exactly comparable, is it?

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    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d say that a witch creature which stalks trespassing videographers counts as an indigenous predatorial species of a local ecosystem.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And predators in movies waste so much energy chasing one miniscule prey, which yield insignificant amount of calories, for hours if not days. Ladies and gentlemen, Hollywood may have just discovered the first known example of an animal that exhibit autism.

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s just predator instinct to chase something. My cats chase flies, for example. They don’t do it for the calories.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe they were already well-fed and are just hunting for fun.

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• mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hum… Owls and tigers know how to make a lot of noise too. We don’t really know if the tyrannosaur is hunting or just trying to get ride of the people.

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  • tkohldesac@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or tryna get some. It mounted that sexy-ass jeep for seemingly no reason.

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    • Lucien@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is headcanon now

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So dinosaurs are dragons after all?

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    • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Remember the T-Rex is female…

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• binary45@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, humans: walking at a faster than average pace at the prey until it can’t run anymore.

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Slow and steady winning the race. I’ve heard that’s why we are fascinated by zombie movies. Like us they use persistence and numbers to attack their prey.

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    • binary45@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s probably the uncanny valley at play, too. Sure, it looks human, but it most certainly doesn’t behave like one.

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    • Eiren@lemmygrad.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s also part of why humans and dogs get along so well. Grey wolves (and, to some extent, many other canids) are also among the best animals at persistence hunting.

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• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know deer can vocalize, but I have never heard it in my many encounters with them. They either stand and stare or just run away. In games you can home in on them by the constant yelping.

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  • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They hang out in my yard. When they are in my yard I walk out holding my dog do they see him. They watch while I walk out into the yard and I say “I’m letting him down now”, then as I lower him one of them invariably lets out a really unique short screech and they all run off to the woods followed by my dog running full speed, stopping at the tree line, and then carrying on doing his business as the deer stand off in the trees watching him in the yard, waiting for us to go back inside so they can come hang out in the yard again.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everything had to do a tilt head and roar. Nothing just kills when the characters do mundane things like putting on socks.

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Predators make a lot of sound when defending their territory. Perhaps T. Rex wasn’t hunting.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She was right near her paddock and the metal creature had just stolen her leg of lamb

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  • manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the book it is explained that since (in universe) her vision is based on movement, she roars to scare prey into fleeing so that she can see them.

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• CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are lots of different success strategies in nature and perhaps in the era of megafauna the direct approach would’ve been more viable. I’m not sure that we know. The depiction of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park is pretty out of date in general, but it’s also from over 30 years ago.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, and all snakes rattle and hiss constantly. No mater the species, they can’t help themselves.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ever been somewhere that rattlesnakes are native? Those fuckers are loud.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are getting quieter though, and there’s concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I didn’t even realize that she had stolen my helmet, I deserved to be hoisted on my own magna-bolts”

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I recall reading that trex was probably a scavenger and hunter, so screaming loud to get other scavengers to fuck off is legit

  Also just buzzing from finally getting to tear down that fence

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• BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was just conditioned from eating those goats. I bet it was the kind that faints when it’s scared and just falls over.

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• fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Clever girl…

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You say that, but elephants, which are the largest animal alive on land today, are surprisingly quiet. They’ve got very padded feet to support their enormous weight, which means they move very quietly.

    Now, not seeing them? They were big bastards. Need some trees to hide in.

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Elephants evolved to be stealthy to not spook the plants. I remember just yesterday I went to pick an orange but stepped on a twig… The entire orchard bolted. Huge pain in the ass. The farmer was pissed.

      Btw I’m being silly not insulting your comment.

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    • pixelmeow@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How does an elephant hide in a cherry tree?

      They paint their nails red

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think they stomped loudly (except maybe when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)

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