Whenever a beast is shown on screen
Whenever a beast is shown on screen
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Predators in nature
[Superimposed over an image of a tiger] I stalk my prey for hours before I make a sudden attack
[Superimposed over an image of a camouflaging octopus] I blend in with my surroundings to become invisible for my prey
[Superimposed over an owl in flight] I grow specialized feathers to muffle any sound I make during flight
Predators in movies
[Superimposed over a still from the 1990 movie Jurassic Park showing a screaming Tyrannosaurus Rex] Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!
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I know deer can vocalize, but I have never heard it in my many encounters with them. They either stand and stare or just run away. In games you can home in on them by the constant yelping.
And predators in movies waste so much energy chasing one miniscule prey, which yield insignificant amount of calories, for hours if not days. Ladies and gentlemen, Hollywood may have just discovered the first known example of an animal that exhibit autism.
Maybe they were already well-fed and are just hunting for fun.
Bruh, what cherry picking. Literally in the exact same movie you have velociraptors stalking prey in groups and the dilophosaurus doing their own patronizing thing. If we look to other movies, you've got Xenomorphs, you've got tremor worms, you've got pumpkin head, you've got Moder (The Ritual), you've got the Blair Witch, etc.
There're plenty of good stalking monsters in film, some of which that you don't even know are there till it's too late.
EDIT:also, we see literally a few scenes later the T-Rex come outta nowhere and grab a gallimimus no problem, so they're even shown to be decent ambush predators in the same movie.
In that scene the T-Rex is trying to flush out people which it knows are hiding somewhere as well. (Disregarding all the T-Rex specific science and just focusing on the idea of a predator screaming.)
Blair Witch
Eh? That's not exactly comparable, is it?
I'd say that a witch creature which stalks trespassing videographers counts as an indigenous predatorial species of a local ecosystem.
I recall reading that trex was probably a scavenger and hunter, so screaming loud to get other scavengers to fuck off is legit
Also just buzzing from finally getting to tear down that fence
Meanwhile, humans: walking at a faster than average pace at the prey until it can’t run anymore.
It was just conditioned from eating those goats. I bet it was the kind that faints when it’s scared and just falls over.
The T-Rex was celebrating having climbed a 300m sheer wall with only it's teeny, tiny arms
Hum... Owls and tigers know how to make a lot of noise too. We don't really know if the tyrannosaur is hunting or just trying to get ride of the people.
There are lots of different success strategies in nature and perhaps in the era of megafauna the direct approach would've been more viable. I'm not sure that we know. The depiction of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park is pretty out of date in general, but it's also from over 30 years ago.
Predators make a lot of sound when defending their territory. Perhaps T. Rex wasn't hunting.
In the book it is explained that since (in universe) her vision is based on movement, she roars to scare prey into fleeing so that she can see them.
Yes, and all snakes rattle and hiss constantly. No mater the species, they can't help themselves.
Ever been somewhere that rattlesnakes are native? Those fuckers are loud.
They are getting quieter though, and there's concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.
Clever girl...