#mai chatting

[museum-mile-uma]

Heya ! I'm Museum Mile. If you wanna hear about all kinds of prehistoric creatures, you're in the right place ! I could talk about them all day long... Oh, and I race too ! You should come see me on the racetrack !

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Hi hi, this is @28pezzaslices again. I know almost nothing about prehistoric creatures please don't ask Mai too specific questions... (yeah Museum Mile's nickname is Mai because it's a real name that is in her horse name. Like how Almond Eye's nickname is Ai and Win Variation's is Shion. I was proud of myself for finding this nickname can you tell?) Anyway here are some info about her (template by @/racc-attack):

Her design changed since i made this but i still don't have a proper ref for her new design. I have this tho

This intro post is a mess that's what you get for making a blog at 2am.

Museum Mile is based on a real horse, a grandson of Cesario and therefore great-grandson of Special Week and great-great-great-grandson of Maruzensky.

[museum-mile-uma]

Hi again Mai!! ♪

I was wondering on what your opinion is about keeping a dinosaur as a pet?

Ya know, hypothetically speaking! （˶•̀ ᎑-˶）

Like if it started following you wouldn't leave?

Also, what do baby dinosaurs eat??

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@cutecurren

AFHFGDHSQSHD A BABY PET DINOSAUR ??? I WANT ONE !!! I mean... hypothetically speaking, of course. If non-avian dinosaurs were still around, it would probably be better to leave them be, not disrupt the wildlife... you know, this kind of things. But if a baby dinosaur started following me and bringing it back to its mom isn't an option, then I guess I'll have to take care of it !

As for what they eat... Well, since dinosaurs don't produce milk, the hatchlings just have the same diet as their parents ! If your little dino is an herbivore, it should be able to find food all by itself. If it's a carnivore, it depends. Some species hunt for their children, other don't. If baby dinosaurs have to hunt for themselves, they'll go for small animals or insects.

Hope this anwsers your questions, feel free to ask if you want to know anything else !

[museum-mile-uma]

Day 3 of taking care of a baby dinosaur

We went to the beach today ! Moe loved it, he was very intrigued by the waves. Of course, I didn't let him go in the deep water, but I allowed him to dip his toes. He also liked digging in the sand. I hid some toys so he could look for them, and he immediately understood the assignment. He's so smart ! I wonder if I could teach him how to use those speaking buttons that some dogs have...

As for today's food, I looked into what iguanas eat (since they share a similar jaw with Stenonychosaurus, they must have a similar diet) and ordered some iguana food online (I hope this isn't a scam...). In the meantime, I gave him some rice since they said there is some in that iguana food, and let him eat some of the plants we found on our walk. If he eats it by himself it must be good for him, right ?

[museum-mile-uma]

Day 2 of taking care of a baby dinosaur

Summer camp started ! Moe handled the bus ride surprisngly well, probably because he already experienced travelling in a time machine. I brought a harness and a leash with me so I can walk him around Shizuoka safely. He's very curious and often stops to sniff or nibble all kinds of things (so cute !). People seem very intrigued by him, who wouldn't be ? Some even asked to pet him, but I refused for security reasons and not at all because I'm worried he could get attached to other people than me.

Speaking of which: he seems to appriciate Croix du Nord, a bit too much for my liking. The only possible explanation is that he understood the potato chips were hers (thanks to his sense of smell ? Or is he smart enough to undertand that what is under her bed belongs to her ?). Anyway, he digested those pretty well, but I still wouldn't want to give him anything too salty today. I gave him cat wet food, I think he liked it but I need to find something more appriopriate for an omnivore.

[museum-mile-uma]

Day 1 of taking care of a baby dinosaur

This thing is so cute I can't focus-

So I have been tasked (by myself) to take care of Moe, a baby Stenonychosaurus. Of course, the first thing I did with him was try to take some mesurements but as it turns out, mesuring the size of a living animal is a lot harder than expected. I'm used to immobile fossils, not baby dinos moving all the time ! I feel like I'm getting better at handling him though, he doesn't bite my fingers as much as he did when I started my experiments. I took a lot of photos as well, and took notes of everything on his body that wasn't preserved through fossils.

I wonder what kind of food I should give him. The diet of Stenonychosaurus is still debated among expert, although most of them say that they were omnivores. I'll go to a pet store and see if they have any food that could be appriopriate for him (I should also buy a transport cage for the ride to summer camp). In the meantime, he found some snacks under my roommate's bed (I knew she was cheating on her diet !) and ate them before I could stop him. I wonder how a dinosaur's digestive system will handle potato chips... I guess we'll find out soon !

[museum-mile-uma]

Any tips on taming a ptereodactyl?

@umavines

YOU WANT TO TAME A PTERODACTYL ???? You're so lucky, I wish I could be with you right now...

I'm not sure if there are any specificity for taming a non-avian dinosaur compared to taming any other animal, after all they were all extinct before we could even try to tame them. You shold try to give them food (they eat fish or insects or other small animals) to gain their trust first I think.