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** Spoofed in the section on hypothetical future reconstructions, where housecats are said to have been vicious, pack-hunting predators that preyed on humans and had five switchblade claws on each forefoot.
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* StockAnimalBehavior: This book sets out to avert this. On the other hand, it also points out that certain stock behaviors now thought to be unlikely can still be made plausible under particular circumstances. Just because sauropods in general were not adapted to living in swamps, for instance, doesn't mean no sauropod ever hung around in swamps at least some of the time, and one artwork depicts the sauropod ''Opisthocoelicaudia'' wandering in a swamp reminiscent of a Rudolph Zallinger painting to make this point.
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* StockAnimalBehavior: This book sets out to avert this. On the other hand, it also points out that certain stock behaviors now thought to be unlikely can still be made plausible under particular circumstances. Just because sauropods in general were not adapted to living in swamps, for instance, doesn't mean no sauropod ever hung around in swamps at least some of the time, and one artwork illustration depicts the sauropod ''Opisthocoelicaudia'' wandering in a swamp reminiscent of a Rudolph Zallinger painting to make this point.
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* MistakenForBadass: Many of the restorations of modern animals. House cats are interpreted as being predators of humans (due to their fossils being commonly found in human dwellings), hummingbirds suck blood, spider monkeys are stealthy predators, baboons are venomous, hippos eat cars and bowhead whales specialize in prey their own size.
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* MistakenForBadass: Many of the restorations of modern animals. House cats are interpreted as being predators of humans (due to their fossils being commonly found in human dwellings), hummingbirds suck blood, spider monkeys are stealthy predators, baboons are venomous, hippos eat cars (which the future paleontologists apparently think are a kind of animal) and bowhead whales specialize in prey their own size.
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* FutureImperfect: The future paleontologists' speculations tend to be... a little wide of the mark. Every single one has no body fat, being tight muscles over bones and often so thin you can count their ribs, none of them have fur, feathers, or any organs that wouldn't be preserved in skeletons, and every interpretation of their lifestyle makes them out to be brutal predators. Cats hunted humans with their deadly switchblade claws, swans used their pointed arms to impale prey, baboons had grooves in their teeth to inject venom...
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* FutureImperfect: The future paleontologists' speculations tend to be... a little wide of the mark. Every single one has no body fat, being tight muscles over bones and often so thin you can count their ribs, none of them have fur, feathers, or any organs that wouldn't be preserved in skeletons, skeletons (except, ironically, the iguana), and every interpretation of their lifestyle makes them out to be brutal predators. Cats hunted humans with their deadly switchblade claws, swans used their pointed arms to impale prey, baboons had grooves in their teeth to inject venom...
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* BlackComedyRape: The ''Stegosaurus'' illustration, showing a frustrated male ''Stegosaurus'' trying to mount a very unwilling (and very baffled) sauropod.
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* BlackComedyRape: The ''Stegosaurus'' illustration, showing a frustrated male ''Stegosaurus'' trying to mount a very unwilling (and very baffled) sauropod.''Haplocanthosaurus''.
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* CreepyCentipedes: The aforementioned image of a giant centipede eating a small pterosaur.
