{"id":107855,"date":"2020-05-30T01:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/jurrassic-park-got-it-wrong-research-indicates-raptors-didnt-hunt-in-packs"},"modified":"2020-05-30T01:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:52:45","slug":"jurrassic-park-got-it-wrong-research-indicates-raptors-didnt-hunt-in-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/jurrassic-park-got-it-wrong-research-indicates-raptors-didnt-hunt-in-packs","title":{"rendered":"Jurrassic Park got it wrong: Research indicates raptors didn\u2019t hunt in packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jurrassic-park-got-it-wrong-research-indicates-raptors-didnt-hunt-in-packs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the peer-reviewed journal <i>Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology<\/i> shows that Velociraptors and their kin likely did not hunt in big, coordinated packs like dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The raptors (Deinonychus antirrhopus) with their sickle-shaped talons were made famous in the 1993 blockbuster movie Jurassic Park, which portrayed them as highly intelligent, apex predators that worked in groups to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hunt\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hunt<\/a> large prey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaptorial dinosaurs often are shown as hunting in packs similar to wolves,\u201d said Joseph Frederickson, a vertebrate paleontologist and director of the Weis Earth Science Museum on the UWO Fox Cities campus. \u201cThe evidence for this behavior, however, is not altogether convincing. Since we can\u2019t watch these dinosaurs hunt in person, we must use indirect methods to determine their behavior in life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the peer-reviewed journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology shows that Velociraptors and their kin likely did not hunt in big, coordinated packs like dogs. The raptors (Deinonychus antirrhopus) with their sickle-shaped talons were made famous in the 1993 blockbuster movie Jurassic Park, which portrayed them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}