#velociraptors

[claypigeonpottery]

my first piece on the Forgotten Bisqueware! this strange tile/cutting board. I painted some cardinal inspired velociraptors, cave art style

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Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg 

[kedreeva]

Watching people question the whys and hows of your choosng peafowl, I just thought "Why yes, you truly love the dinosaurs with the jaunty feathers" Makes me wonder if velociraptors and the like still existed, and were domesticated, would they be the stars of poultry shows? Would you have them?

Just a silly thought.

It's a good question!! I think if they did still exist, AND we're talking real ones like Guy #2 here:

Then even though they're about the same size as peafowl, I would not own one for the same reasons I would not own a serval instead of a house cat, or a wolf instead of a dog. Are they both the cats or both canines? I mean.... yeah technically... but they're also completely different animals, and one of them doesn't belong in a home.

I also don't think that velociraptors would ever be "domesticated" the way cats/dogs/poultry were, because (despite the feathers) they're reptiles still and we haven't domesticated any reptiles (I mean, you can argue birds are reptiles but... enghhh). Not even ball pythons are considered domesticated because we didn't really.... do anything. Wild caught ball pythons are practically indistinguishable from captive bred ones (outside of color, but even color morphs are often found in the wild first). We still import wild caught reptiles of pretty much all species, except where we aren't allowed to export from anymore, and there's just not a lot of difference- like yeah okay you can't let a beardie go in the wild because it doesn't know what to do but also if you brought a baby wild one in and handled it, there's just not going to be a significant enough difference. Which isn't bad! It's perfectly fine, many reptiles can be kept perfectly fine in captivity regardless of being tamed or not because it doesn't really matter.

Buuuuuut velociraptors are bigger than most reptiles being captive kept, and would have different temperaments than any reptiles or birds being kept (being carnivores for one, the number of people keeping large carnivorous reptiles is not high, and the number of people successfully keeping them to adulthood is even lower, and keeping carnivorous birds/birds of prey is a HIGHLY specialized situation that requires a lot to get into legally). The housing requirements and liability alone would likely be outrageous (due to size, but also mobility... reptiles like monitors would not be nearly as active as something that's closer to Birds), not to mention the diet requirements. The closest we've come to "processed" diets for meat-eating reptiles is "make sausage" and that isn't cheaper than whole prey. They would be such a pain in the ass to keep, I don't think I would ever own even one, and they're likely to be social animals so keeping Just One would be bad for its mental health.

Also the biting. I have enough scars from incidental/accidental movements from animals with dull beaks and dog-shaped claws. Cannot imagine the scars from something with talons. Even people who wear leather gloves for falconry stuff a) understand the leather is there to protect from accidental wounds but that b) the talons will go through if the bird means it. The talons will go through multiple layers of leather if the bird means it. That scares me. I know I'm not on that level.

Would people do it anyway? I mean. Yeah. People keep servals and wolfdogs and have idk tigers and bears and water monitors and anacondas and train eagles and shit (whether or not they SHOULD is another story, but they DO). SOMEone would keep them if they could. But I would really hope that they'd have landed in the domain of like... "falconry" type animals where you CAN legally own them BUT you gotta do a lot of shit (apprenticing for one, licensing for another, and mandated insurance and reporting) to be able to do it legally, so that anyone entering into the keeping of them has a mentor and stuff to be able to do it properly and respect the keeping of them. Honestly there's a lot of animals where this would be a better idea than "random person can at-will acquire highly specialized animal with highly specialized needs while having made zero preparations for such a thing." I have a lot of mixed feelings about exotics as pets.

But, even though I wouldn't keep them myself, I would LOOOOOVE to follow a bunch of zoo accounts who post pics and videos of their little hellions daily.

[real-dinosaur-facts]

The velociraptors in Jurassic Park tried to sue Steven Spielberg after he had their feathers plucked for the movie. The court ended up ruling against them when Speilburgh bribed the judge and they ended up being blacklisted. This is why you don’t see velociraptors anymore.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[sappho-offical]

I don't know how to explain it, but velociraptors give off lesbian vibes

[justanothersfthfan]

Now that I think about it, there are a lot of dinosaur references in SFTH, off the top of my head I can name:

1. The cardboard stegosaurus

2. All the velociraptors wielding guns in the off season

3. The fake fact in TEOTHV

4. The velociraptor in a game of truth and tea (I think?)

5. I feel like there was a guessing game where sam(?) through there was a velociraptor

I’ve come to 2 conclusions.

The first : I know a lot less SFTH dinos than I thought

The second: that’s a lota velociraptors

Did I miss any big ones?

[rawrdinosaurfriends]

New! Stackable velociraptors

As seen on TV

[img id] Digital art of a human hand grasping a lime-green velociraptor. This velociraptor is going to be the fifth dinosaur added to a stack of four velociraptors. The other four velociraptors are in various states of accepting their stackable fate. They will be described from top-most velociraptor to bottom-most velociraptor. The blue velociraptor on top growls at the hand. The beige velociraptor, who has lime cheek markings, flaps and struggles. The sky-blue velociraptor has accepted their role in the stack of velociraptors, but hasn't quite slotted into position perfectly. The leaf-green velociraptor on the bottom is completely flat. [/id]