Velociraptor
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"The point is, you are still alive when they begin to eat you..."-Dr. Alan Grant
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| Name meaning | Swift plunderer |
| Code name | Raptor |
| Diet | Carnivore |
| Height | 2 meters (6 feet) |
| Length | 3 meters (10 feet) |
| Weight | ??? |
| Range | Isla Nublar Isla Sorna |
| Novel appearances | Jurassic Park The Lost World |
| Film appearances | Jurassic Park The Lost World: Jurassic Park Jurassic Park III |
Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late cretaceous period which inhabited what is now Mongolia. In the Jurassic Park universe, Velociraptor bares more similarities to Deinonychus in size and shape, due to Deinonychus having been classified as a type of Velociraptor at the time Michael Crichton wrote the first novel. In the movie the velociraptor's size and shape is similar to the Utahraptor, infact most paleontologist involved with the making of the Jurassic Park movie did not want the raptor to be as big as it was portraid in the film as they figured it would be to unrealizitic until the utahraptor was found. In real life the velociraptor was no bigger than a turkey and bore a more bird-like appearance.
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[edit] Hunting
Dromaeosaurids may have hunted in packs. The most well known evidence of this is a group of Deinonychus eating a Tenontosaurus. Dr. Grant's theory is that if you were to stand still in front of a raptor, the raptor would just look back. And then the attack would come: not from the front, but from the sides - the two other raptors jump at you with their killing claw, spilling out your intestines.
[edit] Jurassic Park
These vicious carnivores stand six feet and weigh around 176 pounds as adults. Velociraptor eyes are green with vertically slit pupils. The first raptors, all females, had brown skin. Later males began to appear with orange skin and dark tiger-like stripes (identified as males in DVD special features).
[edit] Subspecies
Some fans have labeled the raptors in Jurassic Park 3 as a different subspecies than those seen in the previous film. They are called "antirrhopus nublarensis" and the latter "antirrhopus sornaensis".
[edit] Books
In the book the raptors are the first to escape. They had found a hidden place to nest and the number of raptors rose quickly. Before every one on the island left they had to check the count of raptors there were. The raptors discovered them and chased them into the lab. The way they die is Alan Grant finds a liquid chemical and pours it on eggs and rolls it in front of the raptors. They eat it and it poisens them.
