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* MeekMesozoicMammal: 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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* [[CoolUncle 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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* FaceFramedInShadow: When Raptor Red and her sister encounter the segnosaur, it's in a dimly lit cave. Raptor Red only catches glimpses of the creature before her sister kills it in the dark, after which they observe its corpse. This was likely done as a means to circumvent the lack of clarity regarding the nature of segnosaurs (therizinosaurs) in the '90s.
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** 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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* NoNameGiven: The ornithomimid, troodontid, and therizinosaur are never referred to by a specific genus name, since all three are speculative species.
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* MisplacedWildlife: ''Aegialodon'' is only known from England, not North America.
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* MisplacedWildlife: ''Aegialodon'' is only known from England, not North America.America, and the early bird ''Sinornis'' is only known from China. [[HandWave 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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TRS wick clean-up
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* StockDinosaurs: Pretty much limited to ''Deinonychus'', ''Iguanodon'' and arguably ''Utahraptor''. Generic ornithomimosaurs, an elasmosaurid, and a diplodocid appear as well. The other dinosaurs are much less familiar -- ''Acrocanthosaurus'' (a big theropod possibly related to ''Allosaurus''), ''Astrodon'' (a smallish-by-sauropod-standards relative of ''Brachiosaurus''), and the ankylosaur ''Gastonia'' (which hadn't even been described at the time the book was published).
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* UncannyValley: A pair of Yellow Snout males evoke this reaction in Raptor Red: their courtship dance is ''almost'' right, but the nagging little differences, not to mention the completely incorrect snoutband colour, repulse her. [[invoked]]
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* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: 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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* TurtlePower: 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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* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Acrocanthosaurus'', ''Kronosaurus'', ''Gastonia'', ''Aegialodon'', ''Trinitichelys'', ''Ornithodesmus'', ''Platypterygius'', ''Astrodon'', and ''Bernissartia''. The White Dactyl's species is implied to be an ''Ornithocheirus'' in the text. The unidentified segnosaur and troodontids qualify as well. Even ''Utahraptor'' itself is this to some extent.
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* AnachronismStew: ''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. [[ScienceMarchesOn 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.[[/note]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Raptor Red's sister does not act normally, prone to fits of mania, rage, and paranoia.
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* DyingRace: 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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* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: 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.
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* StinkyFlower: One chapter details the first arrival of a flowering plant into Red's territory. Because insect pollinators like bees and butterflies have yet to evolve, it gives of the scent of rotting meat to attract flies and carrion beetles. 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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* StinkyFlower: One chapter details the first arrival of a flowering plant into Raptor Red's territory. world. Because insect pollinators like bees and butterflies have yet to evolve, it this planet gives of off the scent 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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* TheNoseKnows: It's established early on that ''Utahraptors'' rely primarily on their olfactory sense to hunt and perceive the world. Raptor Red's future consort
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* TheNoseKnows: 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's future consortRed and her sister as female ''Utahraptors'' by sniffing their dung and tracking them down from that.
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* StinkyFlower: One chapter details the first arrival of a flowering plant into Red's territory. Because insect pollinators like bees and butterflies have yet to evolve, it gives of the scent of rotting meat to attract flies and carrion beetles. 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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* MakeSureHesDead: The whip-tail. [[spoiler:After its first TailSlap knocks Raptor Red's sister down and she stops moving, it closes in and hits her three more times.]]
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* MakeSureHesDead: The whip-tail. [[spoiler:After its his first TailSlap knocks Raptor Red's sister down and she stops moving, it he closes in and hits her three more times.]]
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* MuggingTheMonster: Raptor Red's sister thinks the whip-tail sauropod will be an easy kill. [[spoiler:Turns out it's got an [[TailSlap incredibly powerful tail]] and is extremely accurate with it]]
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* MuggingTheMonster: Raptor Red's sister thinks the whip-tail whip-tailed sauropod will be an easy kill. [[spoiler:Turns out it's got he has an [[TailSlap incredibly powerful tail]] and is extremely accurate with it]]it.]]
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* UncannyValley: A pair of Yellow Snout males evoke this reaction in Raptor Red: their courtship dance is ''almost'' right, but the niggling little differences, not to mention the completely incorrect snoutband colour, repulse her. [[invoked]]
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* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: One chapter focuses on ammonites and belemnites.
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* FlowersOfRomance: A field of primitive flowers attracts ''Utahraptors'' from all over, many of which attempt to court each other.
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* DeathOfAChild: Averted. 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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* DeathOfAChild: Averted. 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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* DeathOfAChild: Averted. 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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* GenreSavvy: Raptor Red's sister thinks the whip-tail is an easy target because it's alone and is basically ignoring the ''Utahraptor''s. Raptor Red, on the other hand, immediately feels uneasy, because an animal willing to go it alone and completely unconcerned by two predators probably has some kind of lethal defense mechanism. [[spoiler:[[MuggingTheMonster She's]] [[TailSlap right.]]]]
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. 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.
* KilledOffForReal: The novel starts with [[spoiler:Raptor Red's original mate]] getting killed when an Astrodon corpse rolls over on him and drowns him in mud.
* KilledOffForReal: The novel starts with [[spoiler:Raptor Red's original mate]] getting killed when an Astrodon corpse rolls over on him and drowns him in mud.
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'''''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 ''Film/JurassicPark''. 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 [[DinosaursAreDragons big, stupid lizards]]. It's written as a kind of nature documentary that allows some insight into the animals' thoughts.
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'''''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 ''Film/JurassicPark''. 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 [[DinosaursAreDragons [[DumbDinos big, stupid lizards]]. It's written as a kind of nature documentary that allows some insight into the animals' thoughts.
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--> "''In her own brain the raptor identifies herself with the symbols she learned as a chick: ''me... raptor... red.'' We can call her Raptor Red, because that's how she labels herself in her own mental imagery.''"
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-> "''In her own brain the raptor identifies herself with the symbols she learned as a chick: ''me... raptor... red.'' We can call her Raptor Red, because that's how she labels herself in her own mental imagery.''"
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* ADogNamedDog: Every single character is 'named' like this.
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* ADogNamedDog: Every single character is 'named' like this.
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* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Dinosaur]]: This is strongly implied that one of the reasons (besides the one [[EatsBabies directly stated in the text]]) that Raptor Red's sister hates and tries to chase off Raptor Red's consort.
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* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Dinosaur]]: This is strongly implied that to be one of the reasons (besides the one [[EatsBabies directly stated in the text]]) that Raptor Red's sister hates and tries to chase off Raptor Red's consort.
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