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Raptor Red

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Raptor Red	comment	Raptor Red is the story of a young female Utahraptor by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, who served as one of the fact-checkers for the film version of Jurassic Park. It was written as a sort of companion novel to his non-fiction book The Dinosaur Heresies, in which he exposed his then-revolutionary ideas about dinosaurs being a little more active and birdlike than the popular imagination's vision of them as big, stupid lizards. It's written as a kind of nature documentary that allows some insight into the animals' thoughts.Raptor Red and her kin may or may not be sapient, but they definitely aren't human; they're much more olfactory creatures, and communicate in birdlike calls and gestures. Even Raptor Red's "name" is a Translation Convention - she attaches the concepts of "raptor" and "red" (for her species' red snout-markings, as opposed to the yellow snouts of a rival Utahraptor species) to her concept of "myself". The other major characters are either 'named' in relation to Raptor Red or by their species, like with the ancient white dactyl who considers Raptor Red's pack as the moving centre of his territory.The novel follows an eventful year in Raptor Red's life; the times are changing (the book takes place around the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary) and various dinosaurs are on the move, among them Raptor Red and her mate, who have come to what will one day be Utah from what will one day be Asia via land bridge. He dies in a hunting accident in the first chapter; not long after, Raptor Red reunites with her sister and finds that her sister has three chicks. Since the chicks are "half of half of me", Raptor Red forms a two-raptor pack with her sister to help raise the offspring. The ensuing adventures include famine, flood, a dashing young male attempting to court Raptor Red over her sister's protests, menacing Acrocanthosaurs, a very nasty run-in with a whip-tailed sauropod, and lots and lots of random paleontology.
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Raptor Red / int_100070c5	type	Meek Mesozoic Mammal
Raptor Red / int_100070c5	comment	Meek Mesozoic Mammal: One chapter focuses on a tiny, shrew-like mammal that lives in the same area as Red and her family, and his struggles to avoid being eaten or stepped on by the massive dinosaurs. Though he does escape one dinosaur's attempt to eat him by biting it on the snout.
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Raptor Red / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
Raptor Red / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: By the book’s Early Cretaceous setting, whip-tails (sauropods related to Diplodocus) are on their way out due to a deadly plague.
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Raptor Red / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Raptor Red / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: The Old Dactyl may be a homeless scavenger past his prime, but he's still a gigantic and wily creature who knows anything that flies can escape injury and death from anything that can't fly if it's careful. Given he doesn't have any chicks or mates to worry about anymore, he just takes advantage of his physical prowess and wisdom for fun these days.
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Raptor Red / int_144d31b1	type	Most Writers Are Human
Raptor Red / int_144d31b1	comment	Most Writers Are Human: At one point the story suddenly swerves into a two-chapter subplot about an insectivorous mammal living beneath the notice of the "earthquake animals", mainly because he's one of humanity's ancestors.
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Raptor Red / int_16dd0b72	type	Make Sure He's Dead
Raptor Red / int_16dd0b72	comment	Make Sure He's Dead: The whip-tail. After his first Tail Slap knocks Raptor Red's sister down and she stops moving, he closes in and hits her three more times.
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Raptor Red / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Raptor Red / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: The white dactyl. He's old even by dactyl standards, and has chosen to spend his golden years dicking around with the land-based predators. He and Raptor Red's clan have a friendly, if distant, relationship, since he considers Raptor Red herself the moving centre of his territory, and he helps the pack on more than one occasion (though occasionally only accidentally).
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Raptor Red / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Raptor Red / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Aegialodon is only known from England, not North America, and the early bird Sinornis is only known from China. Hand Waved by saying that they migrated over land bridges connecting North America with Asia and West Europe during the Early Cretaceous.
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Raptor Red / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Raptor Red / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Raptor Red's consort, and over her sister's chick, no less. He has mixed feelings about his actions: the chick isn't related to him, he gets several cracked ribs out of the deal, and Raptor Red didn't even see him help save her. The event keeps her sister off his back for a while, at least.
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Raptor Red / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
Raptor Red / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: There are several scenes where the Utahraptors hunt prey in this manner, much as they are thought to have done in real life.
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Raptor Red / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Raptor Red / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Utahraptor lived several million years before nearly all the other animals which are depicted. The ending is especially egregious, because it shows the Acrocanthosaurus being decimated by a plague, which allows the Utahraptor to dominate, when in reality Acrocanthosaurus is only known to have lived well after the last Utahraptor, so it should've been the other way around. note At the time, Utahraptor was thought to have lived during the Barremian to early Aptian, around 125 to 120 million years ago, while animals like Astrodon, Deinonychus, and Acrocanthosaurus lived during the late Aptian to Albian, around 115 to 110 million years ago. More accurate geometric dating of the rock layers in which Utahraptor and Gastonia was found indicates it actually lived much earlier than the Barremian-Aptian, during the Valanginian-Hauterivian, around 135 to 130 million years ago.
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Raptor Red / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Raptor Red / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: One of Raptor Red's sister's chicks dies from illness, and even before this, Raptor Red and her sister seriously consider abandoning the chicks during a famine.
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Raptor Red / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Raptor Red / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Raptor Red's sister has chicks, but there's not a single mention of her mate.
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Raptor Red / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Raptor Red / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The sliding-with-troodons scene. "The concepts do not go together."
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Raptor Red / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Raptor Red / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: In spirit, even though no one has any names. Raptor Red's sister's oldest chick grows up to resemble her mother so strongly that, as Raptor Red sees the remains of the pack approaching after a hunt, she briefly thinks her sister has come back to life.
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Raptor Red / int_3149ad14	type	Stinky Flower
Raptor Red / int_3149ad14	comment	Stinky Flower: One chapter details the first arrival of a flowering plant into Raptor Red's world. Because insect pollinators like bees and butterflies have yet to evolve, this planet gives off the scents of rotting meat and herbivore dung to attract flies and carrion beetles. Raptor Red and the other carnivores in the area are driven nuts by it, as their noses are telling them that there's a huge feast right there that they can't find.
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Raptor Red / int_35fa738	type	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart
Raptor Red / int_35fa738	comment	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: A subtle variant, but the Utahraptors’ symbiotic relationship with the Old White Dactyl appears to be based on the similar symbiosis between modern wolves and ravens, with pack hunting predators forming a partnership with a wily, mischievous flyer. The Kronosaurus is depicted attacking terrestrial prey by launching itself into the shallows like modern-day killer whales when hunting seals.
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Raptor Red / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Raptor Red / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The Utahraptor vs. most of the things they decide to hunt, the whip tail vs. the Utahraptor, the Aegialodon vs. the scorpion, Kronosaurus vs. Acrocanthosaurus, Gastonia vs. almost any predator (unless the Gastonia is weakened and has its abdomen exposed), and the Utahraptor vs. Deinonychus (unless the Utahraptor are already severely weakened).
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Raptor Red / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Raptor Red / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Both the Utahraptor and Deinonychus mob their prey to death, relying on numbers to bring down larger prey items. The Utahraptor are more organized about it, while the Deinonychus are more akin to a loose mob.
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Raptor Red / int_44796d0f	type	No Guy Wants an Amazon
Raptor Red / int_44796d0f	comment	No Guy Wants an Amazon: There's a scene in which the normally isolated Utahraptor packs are drawn together by flowers that smell of carrion, during which time a giant red-snout female attempts to woo Raptor Red's consort. Raptor Red takes issue with this, and the consort is more than a little freaked out about the whole thing. When he and Raptor Red make it very clear that she isn't welcome, the giantess leaves with sadness; the narration informs us that her size meant she'd been dealing with rejection the whole day.
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Raptor Red / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Raptor Red / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: All of the predators, as a matter of survival. None of the animals are portrayed as bad for their baby-snacking ways, but the parents obviously object, which causes drama at various points: Raptor Red's sister is afraid that Red's consort will eat her chicks, one of the chicks nearly gets eaten by a young acro, and a family of acros attacks Red's family because they know Utahraptors will raid acro nests given half the chance.
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Raptor Red / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Raptor Red / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License – Paleontology: Mostly averted, since the author actually is a paleontologist. If anyone's crying, it's probably because they don't agree with Bakker's views or because Science Has Marched On - the book came out in 1995, and was pretty accurate up to that year. There was one flaw, but its only one that someone who really pays attention to paleontology would notice. Utahraptor was from the Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Acrocanthosaurus was from the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. While most people (with the exception of some incredibly pedant paleontologists) will allow some overlap of dinosaur taxa from neighboring stages due to the patchiness of the fossil record, Acrocanthosaurus rose to prominence after Utahraptor. Thereby making the ending where the Acros were nearly wiped out by plague allowing Utahraptor to dominate the continent temporally inconsistent. If anything, Utahraptor would have been the one to go first. Later studies have made this discrepancy even greater because Utahraptor's chronological range has been pushed back ten million years. One of the animals shown coexisting with Utahraptor is a diplodocid. At the time, diplodocids were only known from the Jurassic Period, which was 25 million years ago by the time of the novel's setting, although the story handwaves it as being an endangered species by this point. This has partly been vindicated, since an Early Cretaceous diplodocid was described in 2014, known as Leinkupal, however it lived in South America about 136 million years instead of North America 120 million years ago. Ammonites were probably filter feeders rather than having biting jaws like other cephalopods.
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Raptor Red / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Raptor Red / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Raptor Red's sister, and nearly Raptor Red herself.
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Raptor Red / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Raptor Red / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: Well, they are a pack of Utahraptors. While perhaps the tiniest chicks can't really kick ass, their older sister and the adults sure can, and in fact have to in order to provide meat for themselves. Herbivores aren't exactly going to go down without a fight, after all.
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Raptor Red / int_59a9605d	type	Never Smile at a Crocodile
Raptor Red / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: A Bernissartia is a minor character. Utahraptor did not coexist with any of the known giant crocodylomorphs of the Mesozoic, but smaller species are still mentioned as a potential threat to juvenile Utahraptor.
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Raptor Red / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Raptor Red / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Like modern small mammals, the high metabolism and small body size of the Aegialodon mean that he has to eat almost constantly during his waking hours.
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Raptor Red / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Raptor Red / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: The segnosaurs are the most obvious example of this, but the raptors and ostrich dinos have more simple versions of this.
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Raptor Red / int_6660aaf	type	Herbivores Are Friendly
Raptor Red / int_6660aaf	comment	Herbivores Are Friendly: Averted. The main viewpoint characters are carnivores, and they have to work hard for their meals against wary and violent prey. Some herbivores they won't even touch outside of extremely unusual circumstances because of how good their defenses are. And woe betide the predator who encounters an unknown herbivore who doesn't fear them: it usually means they have a deadly trick the carnivore doesn't know about until it's too late.
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Raptor Red / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Raptor Red / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Some of the pterosaurs, but in particular the old dactyl, a giant among giants. This is of course Truth in Television - pterosaurs are some of the biggest flighted animals to ever exist.
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Raptor Red / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Raptor Red / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: At the end of it all, Raptor Red herself, her niece, and the white pterosaur all have offspring. For Raptor Red, it's because she finally became mated to her consort; for her niece, it's that she's finally an adult. And for the white dactyl, he found a new mate even after he'd sworn off chick-rearing in his golden years.
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Raptor Red / int_72595768	type	Darwinist Desire
Raptor Red / int_72595768	comment	Darwinist Desire: Justified since the character is a Utahraptor. When choosing mates she prioritizes fitness and strength. She rejects a yellow snout raptor who tries to court her despite being another subspecies and later, another suitor is rejected because he has parasites. Eventually, she is persuaded by a red snout male to pair up. Her thoughts are that he's strong and smart. Another female, meanwhile, keeps getting rejected because she's freakishly big and the males sense something wrong.
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Raptor Red / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Raptor Red / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Raptor Red's sister thinks the whip-tailed sauropod will be an easy kill. Turns out he has an incredibly powerful tail and is extremely accurate with it.
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Raptor Red / int_73bb403	type	Magnetic Girlfriend
Raptor Red / int_73bb403	comment	Magnetic Girlfriend: During the flower chapter, Raptor Red's consort is made much more attractive to the other Utahraptor females by the simple fact of being a consort.
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Raptor Red / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
Raptor Red / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: The tiny furry Aegialodon is a voracious insectivore that can curbstomp a scorpion.
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Raptor Red / int_795705c6	type	Sturdy and Steady Turtles
Raptor Red / int_795705c6	comment	Sturdy and Steady Turtles: One chapter focuses on a Trinitichelys, contrasting her highly asocial lifestyle with that of the Utahraptor and demonstrating the effectiveness of the turtle shell as a defense. Even Raptor Red, a highly intelligent predator for her time, cannot figure out how to get past the shell of a living turtle, despite having scavenged on dead ones.
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Raptor Red / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Raptor Red / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: It's established early on that Utahraptors rely primarily on their olfactory sense to hunt and perceive the world. The consort is even able to identify Raptor Red and her sister as female Utahraptors by sniffing their dung and tracking them down from that.
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Raptor Red / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Raptor Red / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: The Aegialodon and Kronosaurus.
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Raptor Red / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Raptor Red / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Calm, methodical Raptor Red is the blue oni to her sister's manic red.
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Raptor Red / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Raptor Red / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Raptor Red exploits this by leading an Acrocanthosaurus into the jaws of a Kronosaurus.
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Raptor Red / int_8f1450ba	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Raptor Red / int_8f1450ba	comment	Pintsized Powerhouse: The baby Gastonia. Also the Aegialodon, at least against large arthropods.
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Raptor Red / int_8f4822fd	type	The Great Flood
Raptor Red / int_8f4822fd	comment	The Great Flood: One of the middle chapters concerns a catastrophic flood, the kind that only happens once every 1,000 years. Visualized here.
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Raptor Red / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Raptor Red / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Raptor Red's consort.
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Raptor Red / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Raptor Red / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Several. The Astrodon that Raptor Red and her first mate kill and her first mate's subsequent death, an Acrocanthosaurus' death at the hands of a Kronosaurus - even the scorpion that was killed by the Aegialodon.
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Raptor Red / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Raptor Red / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: The old white dactyl. In his long life he'd had many mates, all of whom have likely passed on at this point, and by the time we first see him it's stated that he no longer has any desire to mate. Until the end, that is.
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Raptor Red / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Raptor Red / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: There's a clearly-defined protocol for when a male raptor and a female raptor meet. The first two times Raptor Red meets her future consort, circumstances force them to break it.
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Raptor Red / int_bb0150c8	comment	Cool Aunt: Raptor Red is this to her sister's chicks, being more easy-going, playful, and clever compared to their surly and impulsive mother.
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Raptor Red / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Raptor Red / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: When the Aegialodon gobbles up a swarm of assassin bugs, he is only trying to fulfill his hunger, but he also saves the Utahraptor from a fatal disease that would have been transmitted by the bugs.
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Raptor Red / int_c309f9d1	comment	There was one flaw, but its only one that someone who really pays attention to paleontology would notice. Utahraptor was from the Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Acrocanthosaurus was from the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. While most people (with the exception of some incredibly pedant paleontologists) will allow some overlap of dinosaur taxa from neighboring stages due to the patchiness of the fossil record, Acrocanthosaurus rose to prominence after Utahraptor. Thereby making the ending where the Acros were nearly wiped out by plague allowing Utahraptor to dominate the continent temporally inconsistent. If anything, Utahraptor would have been the one to go first. Later studies have made this discrepancy even greater because Utahraptor's chronological range has been pushed back ten million years.
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Raptor Red / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
Raptor Red / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Averted by the Utahraptor. Raptor Red's consort would kill Raptor Red's sister's chicks if it weren't for the fact that Raptor Red would never let him. That, and the fact that either Raptor Red or Raptor Red's sister would probably kill him afterward. Nothing ever actually happens, but there are several close shaves.
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Raptor Red / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	One of the animals shown coexisting with Utahraptor is a diplodocid. At the time, diplodocids were only known from the Jurassic Period, which was 25 million years ago by the time of the novel's setting, although the story handwaves it as being an endangered species by this point. This has partly been vindicated, since an Early Cretaceous diplodocid was described in 2014, known as Leinkupal, however it lived in South America about 136 million years instead of North America 120 million years ago.
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Raptor Red / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
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Raptor Red / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Raptor Red / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: The novel is entirely from the perspective of non-humans who don't have language or even names. Much text is spent characterizing them despite these limitations.
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Raptor Red / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The animals in this book have no real language and mostly think in pictures, sounds, and smells. Bakker provides helpful English translations for their thought patterns and communications.
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Raptor Red / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: This is strongly implied to be one of the reasons (besides the one directly stated in the text) that Raptor Red's sister hates and tries to chase off Raptor Red's consort.
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Raptor Red / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
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Raptor Red / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Raptor Red / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Every single character is "named" like this: the animals don't have individual names for each other or even themselves. "Raptor Red" is just a rough translation of her self-perception, and other characters are either "named" in relation to her (such as her sister and her consort) or by their species (such as the white dactyl and various acros.)
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Raptor Red / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Raptor Red / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: Raptor Red is fairly calm and methodical, but her sister is best described as manic and slightly nuts, especially when her chicks are in danger. Or even when she just thinks the chicks are in danger. This eventually proves to be her downfall.
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Raptor Red / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Raptor Red / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The author is a paleontologist, after all. It was completely up to date by 1995 standards, but, of course, paleontology is a very fast-moving science, so a lot of the details are now outdated.
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