Jurassic World Dominion spoilers! Therizinosaurus from Jurassic World Dominion is the one dinosaur it got scientifically right (sorta). Let's see why this is the case
I never forgot the Stegos attacking Sarah because she was too close to their baby. Baby was harmless because it didn't know better but watching it's family attack a human will teach it otherwise. So Therizno attacking Claire to defend it's home wasn't a surprise to me. It has the "tools" to kill and I don't mean just the claws, that beak yikes.
I personally think that herbivores are far scarier than carnivores, because when a carnivore wants to kill you, is usually just for food and can be persuaded to give up if he thinks you're not worth the risk. But with herbivores is quite the contrary, when an erbivore wants to kill you IT WILL FUCKING DO IT. It isn't an animal that just does it for survival, is an animal that sees you as a threat and has decided that the best way to deal with you is to turn you into an article on the local newspaper and trying to look dangerous will just prove his point, plus he doesn't need to save energy to hunt his pray (the last time I checked, plants don't run away from you) so it will use 100% of his effort and go fucking ballistic on your ass until you stop moving.
@@scp-wasp3463 Especially the bulls. Those huge antlers and high determination of territorial defense are a particularly deadly combination. No surprise why sometimes, you see bull moose attacking literally anything; not just humans or predatory animals, but also everyday inanimate objects.
@@RDSyafriyar yeah, and the hooves are what is the most deadly, as a creature that big putting it's weight on you with those large hooves, and both genders use them capably, no wonder they put so many people 6 feet under.
I asked someone "Whats scarier, a snake or a moose?" They answered snake. Snakes would quietly slither away if it hears a human but a moose has the strength and the balls to tip your entire car over. The sick Triceratops scene in the original movie always confused me, as a WILD ANIMAL allowed humans to come near it and touch it and observe it. I do like the Therizinosaurus scene because it does show how scary and powerful herbivores can be.
The only explanation I can give for the triceratops allowing humans to be near is because it was raised with humans around. But it doesn’t seem to be the same case for the velociraptors who not only didn’t care about the people who raised them but also decided to attack and kill them. I get they’re doing it because it’s a movie plot but I just don’t see a reason for a Tyrannosaurus rex to actively pursue a group of humans when the island is full of creatures that are bigger than humans, we wouldn’t even be on their meal table because it would be a waste of energy to seek out and eat us.
I approve of this message. Growing up in a environment with both snakes and mooses, I was always taught: "If the grass moves, stomp your feet against the ground as hard as you can, and you will be safe. If the bushes and the trees move, YOU. DO. NOT." Wild moose up close is a terrifying sight.
@@Suigeneris999 Yeah if most large animals alive today don't actively prey on humans why would T-Rex? The same reasons modern animals don't find us edible would still apply to a dinosaur. Heck most raptors would probably be domesticated livestock and pets like chickens are now.
There are exceptions though. The Manatee is physically incapable of biting, scratching, or tail slapping anyone, let alone humans. I'm honestly surprised how they manage to stay alive for so long. They're just so cute.
Speaking of dangerous herbivores, I liked the added detail of how that individual Therizinosaurus appeared to have a vision impairment. One reason why rhinoceroses are often so aggressive, for example, is because their poor eyesight can make them much easier to startle.
I believe I heard in somewhere else that giant ant eaters got something similar going on for them .- I have zero idea of the amount of truth behind that statement,- But I'm to lazy to research for myself anyways ... Edit: Just used the very unreliably reliable reliably unreliable google- And it says that it indeed- Has a bad sight ... Should I have try to research in a more trust worthy source,-? Like Standford University database?... Probably,- But that'll probably take way to long ... Anyways ...
Thank you. Herbivorous animals WILL defend themselves, their young, their territories, etc when necessary. The scene depicting Owen comforting the parasaurolophus was so unnatural. I know it’s just a movie, but can you imagine trying to pet a wild horse you JUST chased and wrangled with rope? A wild ostrich? A wild hippo? I assisted park rangers with freeing a CAPTIVE buck (rescued and raised by humans) that got its antlers tangled in broken habitat fencing. When the buck suddenly freed itself with help from the rangers who RAISED him, the buck immediately turned and rammed the closest ranger and began to drag him back and forth on the ground before we were able to pull him back to safety. He was so lucky to walk away with just soreness and bruising. Herbivores are not to be underestimated and can be extremely dangerous/fatal.
It's even weirder because The Lost World already showed a Paradaurolophus being wrangled and it required atleast 10 people to even hold it because of the size and fighting prowess, and toppling it to the ground to even subdue it. Owen doing it with one thin ass rope and his memetic hand gesture is just ridiculous lol.
@@mrwhom2188 Yes, thank you for adding that fact as well. The scene with Owen made the parasaurolophus seem weak when they are obviously very large and powerful animals (one of my favorite dinosaurs as well), especially compared to a human.
Yeah the whole Jurassic World Series is just dumb asf. Like it was already hard to believe that the velociraptors were trainable but even then they were still unhinged in the original movie, and then after years of living alone in the wild the velociraptor is still nice to humans and is like man’s best friend.
This is THE comment. This herbivore trope just has to stop; it really adds nothing to the story. In fact it becomes more interesting when they are portrayed correctly, I mean look how many people loved that Therizinosaurus scene. Oh and side note thanks for telling us about that personal story of yours! Kinda funny as an outsider but man that must’ve been hella scary
Sigh. Right. I'm here to remind all you guys that these aren't natural animals and aren't even real dinosaurs. They are mix of many different animals using a Dinosaur as the base. this has been covered since movie one and was put front and center in Jurassic world. They were able to make the Dinosaurs do whatever they wanted to a point including primarily Behavior around Humans. To that point, they wanted Carnovores to be Stronger, faster, Scarier and even made a Hybrid to that effect. 2 in fact. They also did the reverse with Herbivores, making them Significantly more docile so that they could be around people without murdering everyone. You didn't think some sonar was enough to protect people in those Glassballs while they *Wandered around Herds of Dinosaurs* did you? No it wasn't, those dinosaurs were programmed to be docile. The DNA for these animals was sold to black markets, but the DNA already contained the changes Ingen and Musrani corp made to the animals. Thus all the Dinosaurs would have that base programming, out side of those that were changed further and for the most part only Carnivores would have been made more violent or less violent. So yes, I think Owen taming the Human made Parasaurolophus was perfectly inline with the information known about Jurassic World Dinosaurs. Camp Cretaceous has the Kids kayaking right up beside Parasaurolophus as well and they are not attacked, As well as several other herbivores. Never Mind Grant and the Kids with the Brachiosaur. They were made Docile. As for our friend Theizinosaurus, we dont know who made him, and we've only seen one. He could have been a Black Market creation that had it's aggression jacked up. If you require more proof, you can read the original Novel, were Henry actually complains to Hammond about using the more Aggressive strains of the Velociraptor they had bred and wanted to use the Docile versions but was over ruled. Now if people could stop treating the Movie monsters as if they were being portrayed as Real Animals, that would be nice. It's kinda making everyone look really dumb.
To add to all of this, one thing that applies across many species is that temperament can vary from one individual to the next. Some dogs are friendly and might even let a stranger pet them, others are very territorial and won't let you get close, yet others are shy and will prefer to leave so as to avoid confrontation. I could easily see such a variety of potential behaviors on many kinds of animals. Including humans, for what it's worth.
This was my favorite creature in the movie. Often herbavores are shown to only be dangerous through stampedes, or some gimmick like armor. Even the ones with horns are usually shown as being gimmicky. Rarely are they shown to survive against carnivores by being actively more aggressive and dangerous than the predator.
I was actually rather happy with the Therizinosaurus in this movie, not from an accuracy standpoint but it's overall presentation. I feel herbivores in the Jurassic franchise often get sidelined a bit too much. The Lost World was pretty good with the Stegosaurus and Pachycephalosaurus being presented as a threat, but to think the Triceratops hasn't had a scene of it taking on a T-rex despite those animals actually having been competing against one another is sad. Glad that the Therizinosaurus actually was shown to be a rather threatening and dangerous herbivore.
If it interests you, the game called "Jurassic Park : The Game"(which takes place right after the events of the first Jurassic park movie) made by Telltale Games had a scene with a T-Rex and a triceratops fighting in its first episode. You can look it up on RU-vid.
Yes I’m glad what they did with Blue pretty much the whole series. It was still an animal that could become violent, but it also had another side to her that isn’t usually explored for carnivores in media
@@EeveelutionStorm she was also hand raised by owen..so her actions towards him are in line with other animals hand raised by humans released into the wild or even when placed in sanctuaries or zoos. When they see "their person" they are less likely to attack and actually more likely to want to play or nuzzle them. Blue was extra agressive this film just because of Beta.
In Blue’s mind Owen is friend and given that all her sisters died at the park, he’s the only one that can help her if she needs help. If she killed him she could live to regret that somewhere down the line.
I feel like the reason it killed for fun and did that is because of something that's never stated but seems obvious, the theri is blind, so it likely exhibits what things like Rhinoceros and Anteaters exhibit, over-aggressiveness.
Yeah, this guy had a reason to kill for fun, unlike the Indominus Rex and the Indoraptor. The I.Rex killed because it could, the Indoraptor killed because it was made to. The Theri? It's just legally blind
I was actually pleased with this too. A lot of people underestimate how aggressive herbivores can be. Literally some of the most terrifying animals to meet are so called plant eaters. Especially the larger ones. Honestly I'd rather meet a wolf while walking in the woods than a moose. The dangerous 7 of Africa is made up of over half herbivores. Those being Elephants, Cape Buffalo, Rhino and Hippo. I do wish media would acknowledge that herbivores aren't entirely pushovers. They haven't survived for so long by being pre cooked chicken.
Yeah I mean by their logic all the herbivores should be extinct by now cuz they're just sitting ducks for carnivores. Africa is a great example contradicting this trope, as you say so thanks for mentioning that
@@lassefrohlking1481 Boy, you should see what cows do to snakes. Snakes= small but have venom therefore threat, Humans= small but have guns therefore threat, same logic.
Nobody shows them as pushovers. From the very first clay animation films and regular animation films, you always see a triceratops or brachiosaurus type fighting and holding their own against t-rexs or the like. It just doesn't make much sense to have an herbivore actively hunting humans or other prey. So you usually only see them defending their young or themselves
Agreed. Meeting an angry wolf would suck, but that's basically me having to wrestle a large dog. Which you might still lose, but there's a CHANCE. But a moose is not even gonna feel your flailing arms while you're being trampled to death...
Well for cows, something small just has to get in front of its eating path, seriously saw a cow just inhale a bird as it was eating grass, feathered boi didn't suspect a thing. Also one thing you may be overlooking is that this specific Theri is blind so I don't think it was picking a fight with Giga, just like Theri, Rhinos are mostly blind thus are extra aggressive even squaring up against elephants because it can't see how big it is, all it knows is that something is standing up to it and it needs to defend itself at all costs because it doesn't know if it intends on killing it, it literally treats every fight like a fight to the death, that's why this Theri can't afford to turn its back on any opponent.
Goddamn it inhaled a bird? Wow that’s brutal. And yeah I didn’t know the Therizinosaurus was blind which is pretty badass, although still don’t know why they added it in particular. Would’ve been fine as is tbh
Therizinosaurus may have "possibly" been an omnivore. Phylogenetic bracketing does show some support for this, as some of its closest ancestors show evidence of being omnivorous. However, we don't have a lot of fossils of Therizinosaurus, and the skeleton is still incomplete, so it's impossible to be conclusive. You also presented dogs and grizzly bears as carnivores. They are also omnivores, but I could see why people might think they are carnivores. Surprisingly, meat only makes up about 10-20% of a grizzly bear's diet.
Finally someone else mentioned Theri's may have potentially been omnivores!! I was reading through comments and everyone was continuing to call it a herbivore. I was honestly beginning to wonder if I'd just dreamed about reading recent research presenting Theri's as omnivires, and it was all made up in my head lol. And I had the same thoughts for the video when it showed the bear and pupper. I still really enjoyed the video and agreed with the overall idea being explained, but definitely a handful of inaccurate info for some of the listed creatures.
Honestly i thought it was quite common knowledge that bears were omnivores! Yes grizzlies are almost always shown hunting salmon, but they also eat a ton of berries, herbs, grubs/bugs, mushrooms, tubers, even grains. And showing them eating honey isn't wrong either.
I actually think the amount of feathering they portray is quite reasonable. Given that Therizinosaurus is around the size of Tyrannosaurus rex, and we think Tyrannosaurus rex had little to no feathering due to gigantothermy, I find it unlikely that it would have a dense coat of feathers.
@@andrewlund6596 Because the Jurassic franchise is the largest outlet for paleontology in popular media, and up until prehistoric planet, has had little to no competition, making it important to depict animals more accurately than just movie monsters that resemble nothing near the actual creature
@@richardblazer8070 I agree with you in a sense, but the jurassic park dinosaurs have been specifically mentioned that they are not accurate. I forget which movie but there's a specific line that says "you didn't ask for accuracy, you asked for more teeth" . although, a scientifically accurate Jp spin off would be cool.
To be frank, I feel it’s obvious they would have chosen therizinosaurus to show this point. While it is an herbivore, it looks far from peaceful. Showing a brachiosaurus doing the same would have been far better imo
@@kryptoniana9489 while that would be dope, I’m talking about an herbivore that actually looks nice and peaceful, hence why I chose brachiosaurus, which had already been established in the franchise as a peaceful herbivore. Even a giga would probably hesitate to attack an amargasaurus, whether it had spikes or sails
The "peaceful herbivore" trope was strong in me, knowing that herbivores can also be dangerous. So when the Theri killed the deer, I was quite surprised, even though the deer would've run asap, Theri is neither silent nor small. It also made me afraid for a Jurrasic character for the first time in a long time. I can't remember being afraid of any scary scene in the Jurassic Franchise before this one.
Another part in the movie where it was surprisingly accurate: the first meeting between Rexy and the Giganotosaurus. When large carnivores encounter each other in the wild, they generally try to avoid each other because they are both likely to die or get seriously hurt from a scuffle, something they would like to avoid unless a confrontation is unavoidable, if they are disparate for food and territory, or both animals are extremely agitated due to stressful condition in their environment(i.e when they were both forced into that pen with all of the other dinosaurs).
And because it seems to at least be partially blind, the theri is likely acting even MORE aggressive than it normally would. Because of its disability, it has to perceive everything around it as a potential threat, and react accordingly.
Trying to kill Claire wasn't out of character...but the way it stalked her and hovered above the water before roaring into it felt much more monster-like than animal-like (a problem with the Jurassic series in general)
@@EeveelutionStorm I'm not saying herbivores can't be dangerous. But the way it hovered inches above the water just to roar into it...not natural at all... Same with the indorapter in the last movie as it slowly uncurled a sinister claw over the little girl's bed...
@@ExtremeMadnessX ah yes, echolocation. That one that birds and reptiles usually have. You know, creatures with not exactly the best hearing capabilities. Who are also known for their exceptional eyesight and big olfactory bulbs
@@EeveelutionStorm you're comparing apples not with oranges, but with freaking aluminum foil. Nest parasitism has nothing to do with cartoonishly roaring in the face of a creature
I really appreciate cows being on that list, the bruises and scars I have from working with the family’s cows would be concerning anywhere else. Our old bull strait up almost killed my father, the horns missed the artery I. His leg why a quarter of an inch. And we have incredible docile cows you can sit on and they won’t care.
Yes, this, and a thousand times, THIS. People have this annoying tendency to believe Herbivore equals friendly, and this franchise is one of the MAIN culprits alongside Disney, the first movie even has the gall to say: "IT's okay, it's an herbivore, it's friendly"... Herbivores AREN'T friendly, they're in fact, far, FAR more violent and aggresive than carnivores, due to the fact that herbivores have to fight constantly for everything, so the strongest prevails while the weak is eaten. THEY WILL MESS YOU UP if you approach them carelessly. Carnivores on the other hand, specially those that hunt alone are often quite skittish, because they CAN'T fight that easily and risk getting injured, for any injure means death for a carnivore if it can't hunt and kill its prey. This is really, REALLY a contention point for me nowadays, as I've seen more and more people believing herbivores are cute, cuddley friendly animals. No, they aren't.
I’ll give them a pass in that brachiosaurus scene because they’re way too small to ever pose a threat to them. As for the triceratops it was sick and could barely move anyway.
Well it depends, sure most animals should not be treated as approachable or harmless would be 'pets', however there may be animals that aren't very aggressive to humans in general unless they feel seriously threatened. Actually look up Shoebill Storks, they are very aggressive towards most animals and even to others of their own kind but are strangely calm around humans to the point that it's becom a serious problem for them as an endangered species because poachers will take advantage of this alot. So, who knows, maybe certain species of dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals might've been suprisingly 'friendly' or seemingly not afraid to be around humans. (though that doesn't mean you should treat them like cute, harmless creatures nor especially try to aggravate them)
Lots of herbivores get underestimated just because they appear to look harmless and friendly, and it’s naturally believed that they won’t attack people because of their diet. The main reason for an herbivore attack is when they act on instinct. They will seek to defend themselves, their young or territory from what they perceive as a threat.
Yep. Nobody thinks an anteater can put someone on a shirt (as Casual Geographic says), but they live in an environment where everything wants to kill them and they're nearsighted. Those claws are meant to tear apart termite mounds hard as concrete, you pull up on one, they will swing on you out of instinct.
Well said, had a miniature Zebu cow who had given birth and was ready to throw down when my coworkers went to investigate. Despite being smaller than average cattle they still have the horns and the muscle.
The Tickle Chicken is one of my favorite dinosaurs ever. It’s such an “off” herbivore that I’m pretty sure the carnivores would accept it into their club. Plus, Dino scissorhands is just scare as hell for a leafy boi.
I feel it's because people tend to believe that if it doesn't eat meat then it's less dangerous, along with it just not being talked about or shown much in media
Where's the money, Bambi. I want that money Bambi, Boni you good for it. Where the money Bambi. Where's the money Bambi. WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY SHITHEAD. It's down there somewhere, let me take another look
I work in the forests of northern BC and I'm legitimately more concerned when I come across a moose (whether it's a cow with calves or a bull during rutting season) than when I see a bear. Just had a black bear encounter today, actually. It was about 50 m away on the other side of a wetland. It saw me, I saw it. I asked, "how's it going, bear?" and it just turned around and left. Rude.
I like to think that the bear actually got your greetings but it remembered that once he tried to hail someones back and how his language is based on roars it scared the person He probly remembered what happened last time and thought "not worth it"
This was my favorite scene in the movie. Felt genuinely creepy, the foggy scenery, the quietness of the scene. So much of jurassic park is slap sticky, a jurassic world that is based in horror would be so good.
Yes absolutely. It was a master class of a sequence. And yeah I agree a lot of that Malta scene was also super fun and entertaining. The raptor chase too
This was the most executed and well done scene in the film! suspenseful and creepy at the same time! one of the few scenes that actually felt like Jurassic World or Park.
I had to write a paper once on deer and how different cultures perceive them/treat them, versus how deer act in reality and how our perception harms them (or us). My research led me to a pretty solid conclusion: *Deer are fucked up.*
There was never a trope of herbivores being friendly. The pachy pummeling that guy in The Lost World and the stigimoloch almost pummeling Chris in fallen kingdom, the stegos attacking sarah in the lost world, even the gallimimus almost trampling the Alan and the kids in the original counts
in the tracker site and some of those happy meal books you get from McDonald’s you can actually see the aggression level of some herbivores, glad they included that. also, seeing that the theri is seemingly blind due to its clouded eyes, it may be attacking everything out of fear. or to serve something bigger.
I don’t think it’s fully blind but rather it’s ability to see is very limited. Mainly because it was dodging the Giga’s strikes. Perhaps it can only see movement. And the reason it screamed at the water is because it saw Claire moving and then suddenly she wasn’t there, which confused it. But yea, I agree with pretty much everything said here.
Oooh okay yeah that’s pretty sweet. And yeah honestly I didn’t consider it being blind which is an interesting addition. Curious if there’s a in canon explanation or what
@@nmfp3dc278 It was blind, but only in one eye. You can see that the other eye is completely normal compared to the withe one and the jwe2 base model doesn't have the cloud eye
@@nmfp3dc278 But if you think about it, it didn’t see Claire hanging off the tree when it was pretty close to her, if it did see her it would do something about it immediately.
At least he's not wrong on this topic. It's true that some large herbivores have been known for being the opposite of graceful and harmless animals. 👍🏽 The best creatures I would put in similar actions is either a Cape buffalo or a rhinoceros. Both nearly blind but powerful to even the most dominant apex predators. Able to live almost peacefully by grazing plant material but extremely territorial.
As someone who's played Ark for years.......therizinosaurus is the most horrifying thing to run into at any time no matter how damn powerful you are........
Yep, I remember Tv Tropes created a trope around this where Media would present Herbivorous as "good and harmless" and Carnivores as "evil sadistic monsters" when it reality as it says on the trope page! Those Herbivores can be just as dangerous if not MORE then the Carnivores! You'd be surprised how many "cute little herbivores" I researched after seeing them in movies and tv shows growing up as a kid had "dark sides I never would have known if I just used their media portrayals as indicators (Oh Hippo! I use to think you were cute Big fun.....and then horror movies started playing you straight LOL)
HAHA yeah I actually even looked up that website for the publishing of this video. It was a pretty good read. And yeah absolutely I completely agree! I once thought herbivores were all nice and cuddly but man those hippos seriously mean business and those elephants
they also present herbivores as being inherently weaker than all carnivores, remember that movie madagascar where the lion goes crazy and his three friends (a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo) all run for their lives? in reality you can find more videos on kruger sightings' channel of a single adult hippo or a single adult giraffe embarrassing an entire pride of lions. i'm talking like 10+ lionesses attempting to hunt one hippo and the herbivore just casually walks around as if the lions were no more than a bunch of annoying flies.
@@fernthaisetthawatkul5569 Yeah, I thought the same thing as well when I saw those movies! Frankly Wolves work in packs because big game CAN AND WILL KILL THEM if they aren't careful (as funny as Moose antlers look! Underestimate their "goring power" at you own discretion!)
Giga was too OP in this movie because in the Jurassic Franchise only size matters ... T-Rex had the potential to generate a pressure up to 30 tons (enough to wreck 3 cars at the same time) ... with one bite ... turning bones into literal dust ... and yet somehow any dino can take it?! Still I think the first interaction between Giga and Rexy felt absolutely realistic, but their fight was pretty inaccurate to say the least ........ At least the Therizinosaurus got the spotlight it always deserved!! I remembered when I was like 6 years old and the Theri would become my, at least, third favourite Herbivore and him/her seeing here in Dominion was a real treat 😁
Oh yeah I absolutely agree! The first interaction between them was really well done. Even though Giga “won” the confrontation and you can question that, I was very very satisfied with that scene. Battles is the last thing a carnivore wants to do since it would likely result in death. And yes I’m so glad the Therizinosaurus came out in this movie and had such a great sequence! I was so worried it’ll just be some cameo but it came out pretty nicely
well how big you are does mater and in the 90s aka the time jp and jw got ther dinos giga was biger and how big you are is the most inportant thing in a fight and the 2 apxe were stufed up next to each other and only 20,000 rex live at one time in a contonint so two lager dinos in less than a mile is prakitly trying to kill both
@@ginam5497 I agree with you that size is the most important thing when you speak of a fight between living beeings! With "their fight was inaccurate" I meant that their fight would have looked liked completely different if the makers of the Jurassic Franchise would take the Rex' biteforce in account. Sooner or later 2 Apex Predators have to fight each other, it's always inevitable. In the case of Giga Vs. T-Rex however I don't think that the Giga would have that much of an advantage with it's bigger size. Because there is T-Rex immense bitepressure (up to 30 tons) plus dinosaurs had airholes in their bones to reduce their immense bodyweight supporting Rexys already fatal bite and the Rex was build way bulkier than a Giga meaning it could take more damage. I'll send a Link where both their bodystructures are compared: images.app.goo.gl/k146H1so8gGMLs7K6 I don't say Rex would always win, I only say I'd bet my money on the Rex 😆 Because in the end of the day no one can tell which of them both really was stronger.
For literal years, as a matter of fact, whenever I heard of the Therizinosaurus, I wanted it to be in JP/JW. I knew that it could show the world how violent any creature can be if provoked or disturbed, and, like, c'mon, it's one of the most fascinating and terrifying Herbivores in paleontology. At the top of my list of Dinosaurs I wanted in the Jurassic Park franchise, there sat the Therizinosaurus. And thankfully, the hero has finally been knighted.
A prey fighting back would make a carnivore think twice before killing it. They have to make sure that the fight is worth it. While a carnivore fighting back to a herbivore would just make the herbivore more pissed off
Well in fairness to the therizinosaurus picking a fight with the giga... the Therizino waqs blind. Literally every noise and scent it encountered was perceived as a thread... and like most large animals, it's pretty confident in its own ability to win a fight, so it just lashes out like a lunatic. Basically the movies goes "What if rhinoceros, but also Canada Goose?"
Modern herbivores aggression comes from the fact they are prey for them it's better to just assume everything is out to get them. While more predatory creatures have shown to be more passive then most believe because they have to way the risk of, "Is this thing worth the energy expended or possible injury?"
@@thesterben5573 You have to remember that alot of animal behaviours can be anachronistic because they evolved over millions of years of evolution alongside other creatures that may no longer exist. And I believe rihnos evolved alongside various powerful predators that no longer exist, went extinct but the behaviors developed to counteract these long gone foes lingers still. Actually alot of human behaviors could be considered anachronistic because they aren't strictly necessary for our survival anymore. Actually another great example of this are certain species of lemurs that will act scared and yell out calls to warn their fellow members of a large predatory bird species that hunted them for millennia that went extinct just a few centuries ago and no modern carnivorous birds in the area pose a serious threat to them now yet the lemurs still act as if they (the modern birds) do because they resemble their old nemesis.
I think I speak for everyone when I say I loved the therizino in this movie! It was so well presented and i loved the added factor that it was in fact blind, leaving it to show off it’s true abilities like keen smell despite being a herbivore! And even though the fight with the Giga may seem unnecessary, as you stated earlier in the video this therizino is very territorial and was probably fighting for the area, and only didnt fight rexy because they worked together. I know that doesn’t make much sense because it was blind though. I’m still trying to work that out myself. But in the immortal words of Ian Malcom, Life Finds A Way
It stopped fighting for 2 good reasons. A - It was hurt and tired, and B the threat was going away on it's own. Rexy went after the Giga for the earlier loss she took and honestly wanted to f- the younger dino up. There was spite in those attacks. The Theri saw two massive figures coming around it and went on the offensive to scare them off. After the fight one of it's claws was broken and it had to pull it out of the body of one of the "attackers" the other went off. Figuring that the other is leaving because it killed the first, it was "safer". Not perfect logic, but pretty much what they where going for with this scene.
The Thero also had cataracts, which is why it acted as it did throughout the movie. You can see it in its eyes, it acted on basic instinct because it can't visually size up its opponent until it's right there with the force of its mass hitting the ground. Also, as I agree that herbivores aren't always cute and cuddly like any other animal, they do have standards such as territories and personal space. Something any living creature can agree on, and breaching that space, especially a blind animal without its say so will get the same if not worse results as we saw in Dominion. The reason why the dinosaurs, mainly the Brachio for example was passive is because we don't mean a thing to them in terms of size and physical threat unless the scent of gunpowder or something they learned as a threat's present. Just felt I should add that, as no animal is 100% out to get you until you've gotten too close, whether it be personal perimeter, mood, rabies, what have you. Either way, maintaining distance and observing the surrounding area is key
Thank you. I've worked with wild animals in captive situations. I've worked with predators and prey species. There were times I felt safer around the predators than with the prey. Just read headlines constantly coming out of Yellowstone about how many people who are hurt, or worse, from bison. I like it when movies show the reality about how herbivores can be grouchy, and how predators are not furry Freddy Kruegers. Both kind of animals are powerful and deserve respect.
Not to mention an animal that is blind or a species that is blind/bad eye sight can not take any chances so they over compensate with a nasty temper. Like no one expects a anteater to be dangerous until it's disembowling you with it's claws designed to tear open hard as cement termite mounds. Also anyone who has played The Isle knows you don't mess with the tickle turkeys.
This ive seen somone who in africa works with big cats like jaguars and leapards and seing how some act not as monsters but inteligent animals is kind of beautyful
@Edward Vincent Laybourn Waller exotic doesn't mean wild. They are all captive bred, I only keep captive bred, wild caught is wrong. They can't feel complex emotions but can trust their owner and of course everyone have it's own habitat. I know really well about this animals and I know that they don't suffer life in captivity because they were born in captivity (also their parents were born in captivity)
@Edward Vincent Laybourn Waller you're right, but I keep arachnids, reptiles, crustaceans and fish. All of this animals don't have an advanced limbic system so they can't feel complex emotions, they only can associate things. Mammals instead can feel most of our emotions, that's why they suffer. My animals are captive bred, so they will suffer if I release them in nature because the nature they know is an enclosure.
I love they chose theri, because of its size and fearsome presence, even as an herbivore. It’s as big as T-Rex, has knives for hands, and is just as much of a threat as Giga. Dominion did something so right in this movie, and I love it.
Fun fact: Therizina sourus is actually a carnivor but failed to be one so they had to adapt By eating plant and stone since his stomach is for meat and not plant so if by any chance a baby dinosour wonder off without his mother nearby a therizina souros than he will eat that baby dino
Therizinosaurs ancestors were carnivores including its cousins, but it itself wasn’t a carnivore or omnivore. If you wanna check out the evolution of Theri, I have a video on it. Anyway thanks for watching!
Actually the cow part and the video itself is actually correct 👏👏👏 the problem I have with the movie is that it would've been really cool if they spiced things up by making the theri the villain, as it would be different from the other films
I’m super glad there was this youtube guy who was actually there in dinosaur times and is an authority on what they got right and wrong about dinosaurs in the movies.
@@Gamma138 yea it's blind it littraly looks directly at clair and only seems to mind when she makes a noise by falling. That's also why it attacked the dear. To establish that it has no clue what it's looking at.
@@MasonDoesSomeStuff Huh….well that’s interesting I guess. I’d assume it killed the deer because it was territorial. Would’ve made a ton more sense. The blindness aspect seems pretty lame. Anyway thanks for telling me about that
People are blind sometimes, they think all Herbivores are friendly and all Carnivores are monsters, but that's mostly the trope in movies and think that in real life too.
Even cabybaras can bite (I don't know why they don't most of the time considering where they live). People forget they're the biggest rodents on Earth.
@@georgeuferov1497 To be fair, it is still speculation. Yeah we can use related genera to make a reasonable reconstruction, but for all we know, Therizinosaurus could've had features that no other therizinosaur had.
Yeah well, we talk about animals that in nature are always, since the day they born, in continuous struggle for survive. So yes, even herbivores aren't cute. Sometimes herbivores can be even more scary than carnivores. If we also think at extinct ecosystems like that of the dinosaurs, well... Nature is master in violence, abominations and horrors.
Another interesting to think about is that Therizinosaurus is blind so it could also be very on edge about everything, not knowing whether or not something is a threat and having to kill anything that moves before it has a chance to strike But the deer was definitely a matter of territoriality, since it swings them aside before calmly munching on some plants, suggesting it didn't like the competition, then it noticed Claire and didn't like the presence of another living creature roaming about its turf
HAHA bruh yeah my mom didn’t know it was a herbivore. I told her “did you know that’s a herbivore” and she said “oh so it wouldn’t act like that in real life right?”. Honestly inspired me to do this vid
The Theriz attacking the deer is actually the most realistic, ok so let me explain, so there is a belief that if an animal eats meat, its super aggressive, despite dogs and cats are carnivores (Though humans as a whole can be stupid) and if the animal eats greens such as grass, its friendly. Also, I always thought the Theriz wasn't aware of Claire. This belief is usually instilled in kids early preschool, except, Deer atleast Bucks will run fades with each other for the right of eating grass patches, as for killing, that just means the buck removes a rival bug and more to his harem. The Theriz attacking the deer for a patch of green, normal animal behavior, plus the Theriz is legally blind in one eye (I assume due to an issue in the genetic lab) and animals who are legally blind when in a world of stranger danger and/or could turn you into calories, its best to assume everything is a threat. Unfortunately this leads to an issue, if that Theriz was put into captivity, if the enclosure is comfortable, with regular exposure and interaction to humans... Well lets say an demeanor change will occur, much like Rhinos. Now for Blue and Beta, that is a parent wanting to show a close friend/parent figure their kid, which humorously the most adorable thing to see in an animal, Ferrets do this with their human owners, Hyenas do this with their handlers and they don't do that with each other. Ok so skip ahead, now you may say "Oh what about that scene with Allan, Owen and Macy with Beta?" Well simple, Beta may know something about Owen through Blue and Beta may know something about Macy since the two were held captive, but the one person Beta never met Allan, to Beta, who is this hairless ape? Plus Beta is in a very weird and probably terrifying situation.
I’d disagree if we’re talking about the scene I make mention of (forest scene). That sort of behavior seems like that of an aggressive herbivore. Now when it all of a sudden decided to join the fight and battle a Giga, then yeah that’s plain dumb schlock
I was genuinely scared for Claire the entire time she was separated from everyone else. The Dilophosaur scene was pretty scary too albeit inaccurate. I hate all the negativity towards JW: Dominion. It was far better than Fallen Kingdom and told a better story. It was just plain old fun. Jurassic Park has never been realistic and it doesn’t have to be either.
When I'm writing a young adult dinosaur fantasy novel, I wrote the herbivores to be more threatening to the protagonists compared to the carnivores whose attacks are the only obstacles to avoid when it comes to territoriality or ambush hunting, but other times, I made the T-Rex and Dakotaraptor as anti-heroes benevolent towards humans, unless if they're threatened, to avoid the tropes we've seen in a lot of dinosaur literature and movies.
I like to think realisticly the two were roaring at one another and one of them left the area. They werent a team after all. They were both still on each.
Sad that this is the only dinosaur to be scientifically accurate. Giga? Terrible. Freaky/Over-designed and terrible OP, especially against the Rex. Trex. While it's design is pretty accurate, the films make it a wuss, not the top predator as it should be.
I feel the interaction between Trex and Giga was decent the 1st time because no predator really wants to risk it all for a small morsel like the deer they fought over over briefly. For once jurassic world depicted predators behavior as you would expect from real animals. But the Trex was most certainly a bull which is believed to be smaller than females in the series.
The Rex isn’t a bull. It’s “Rexy,” the famous one from JP, as well as the last 2 movies. She’s also confirmed to be the oldest and largest of any Rex in the franchise, which means they used her on purpose as a punching bag against the giga to show how powerful the giga was. They did however show the Buck and Doe at the end with her.
@@Betweentheraindrops8 OK but even so that's the first time they actually showed that even a large predator knows when a small morsel isn't always worth fighting for and that they value their own life. That no predator with a sense of preservation would always risk a potential fight to the death over morsel of food. Rexy is an old girl so its not too much a stretch that shes a shadow of her glory days too, of course this isnt canon so i guess thats left to speculation. But for this I hate their final fight. Throw out the first grounded fight for a monster bash.
