![]() The other major characters are either 'named' in relation to Raptor Red or by their species, like with the ancient white dactyl who considers Raptor Red's pack as the moving centre of his territory. ![]() Even Raptor Red's "name" is a Translation Convention - she attaches the concepts of "raptor" and "red" (for her species' red snout-markings, as opposed to the yellow snouts of a rival Utahraptor species) to her concept of "myself". Raptor Red and her kin may or may not be sapient, but they definitely aren't human they're much more olfactory creatures, and communicate in birdlike calls and gestures. ![]() It's written as a kind of nature documentary that allows some insight into the animals' thoughts. It was written as a sort of companion novel to his non-fiction book The Dinosaur Heresies, in which he exposed his then-revolutionary ideas about dinosaurs being a little more active and birdlike than the popular imagination's vision of them as big, stupid lizards. Bakker, who served as one of the fact-checkers for the film version of Jurassic Park. ![]() Raptor Red is the story of a young female Utahraptor by paleontologist Robert T. ![]()
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