Removed this:
- The Sociopath: As much as is possible for an animal, they intentionally bred the I. rex to be a hyper-aggressive monster, killing just for sport and pleasure, not simply if she is hungry or feels threatened.
- Grady outright warns in the movie that raising an animal in isolation with limited stimulation results in them not "functioning" very well. He raised the raptors as a pack of siblings, and he stimulates their instinctive need to hunt by letting them chase live pigs around their pen. In contrast, they feed the I-Rex by just lowering a dead side of beef into its pen with a crane - even the T-Rex, eating a chained up goat, gets more entertainment out of its feeding times.
- Tie-in website info reveals that they didn't just try to make her a sociopath through Nature, but through Nurture as well: they deliberately raised the I. rex in an enclosure which was uncomfortably too small for her, and kept her completely isolated from other animals — which, as is known from modern-day zoo animals, is specifically how to make a zoo animal grow up into a hyper-aggressive sociopath. In the novel, it was pointed out that the dinosaurs have no parents, and many zoo animals who are raised without parents as infants turn into aggressive sociopaths without their influence. The other dinosaurs at least had sibling groups — they kept the I. rex isolated.
- It's also later revealed she has human in that genetic slurry too, meaning she's probably a sociopath in human terms as well.
This is shoehorning of the highest order. Not only does the entry start off with weasel words "As much as is possible for an animal...", merely being intelligent and aggressive does not make it a sociopath. The Sociopath is a trope that is increasingly suffering Trope Decay by applying it to most villain characters or even characters who simply don't consider other character's feelings when in fact it is a highly specific character type that displays 1) Lack of Empathy and Imperviousness to Shame 2) Consummate Liar and Manipulator 3) Need For Stimulation 4) A Grandiose Sense of Self-Worth and 5) Shallow Affect. It fails almost all criteria because it is an animal that simply doesn't act in social surroundings that would make these aspects identifiable.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Thoughts on comparing Zara as a gender flipped version of Alan Grant (movie version), in addition to Ed Regis (book version, obv)? You have an adult who is shoehorned into being responsible for some bratty kids, who clearly does not want to be, complains about it, but does their best to rise to the occasion to take care of those kids when they're in danger. Of course, Grant is an expert in both the outdoors and dinosaurs, whereas poor Zara is a personal assistant, totally out of her league, and gets eaten for her troubles.