It was a "winning hearts and minds" move, at least in the movie. The villagers were helping American soldiers monitor Viet Cong activity in the area, and the elephant was the village's Sacred Cow of a sort. The Viet Cong rolled into the village when the Americans happened to be away, and killed the elephant as punishment for collaborating. So the Americans got the new elephant to keep the villagers on their side.
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This is one of the main reasons why I tend to tune out any and all arguments about the plausibility of the Jurassic World park making a comeback from the Indominus incident, whether it's a simple continuation from canon (e.g. The Scaly Raptor) or an AU divergence where the Indominus was actually an Anti-Villain that got convinced to pull a Heel–Face Turn (e.g. It's not the Raptor DNA).
edited 28th Apr '18 7:53:25 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Apropos of nothing I like the setting idea of Lost Kingdom and Lost World more than Jurassic Park and World
Something about a decayed abandoned facility (or upside down boat) really appeals to me more than one actively going to shit
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm just saying I think they could have fixed 99% of the franchise's problems making sequels if they just stuck it in a park and had adventures there.
Part of why 2 and 3 sucked was because there was no park.
It was just dinosaur island.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.YMMV there. Two didn't suck for being on dinosaur island. To be honest, to me it didn't suck, but I can see the complaints and they really boil down to Van Owen being an eco terrorist and getting the rest of the group on board with killing the hunters' camp. Even that wasn't necessarily bad, considering NOT killing the camp meant a whole bunch more dinos on the mainland. It might have been better if barely anyone had survived the island except Malcolm and his family.
Two had that problem that a lot of bad movies have where they're basically two movies because the script never managed to cohesively gel.
Also not enough time spent in the abandoned facilities.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers"Also not enough time spent in the abandoned facilities."
Or, if dinosaurs do become a normal part
◊ of life in the rest of the world.
They're all working fine for me... after I turned on Psiphon to bypass my country's Media Watchdog's censorship, that is.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I've said this before, but I really hope they bring back the spinosaurus. That thing is just too cool to be a one-movie dino. When the T. rex crashed through the spino skeleton at the end of Jurassic World, I died a little inside.
I also hope Jeff Goldblum gets more than a cameo.
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Supplemental stuff has it there was only ever one Spino. They brought it along with the other dinosaurs but died sometime before the events of the movie. That might've been actually her skeleton in there
The interesting thing is that they also explained its presence as having been one of several hybrids created a splinter group of Masrani's and set loose upon Site B, disrupting the ecosystem there. With how stupid aggressive it was, it might have been a proto-Indominus all along

What did the Americans need to do with an elephant?
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