I've read Jurassic Park umpteen number of times now. And every time I go through it, I find something new that makes my mind ticking. The last time I read it again, what caught my interest is the subject of the dinosaurs breeding in the wild. Apparently, the breeding dinosaurs changed sex when left in the wild. But according to the book, the velociraptors have always been in placed in a caged environment, so if there had been any breeding, the keepers would have found out sooner or later. My question is...how and when did the velociraptors start breeding??


Flutterfly.
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Hi Flutterfly, and welcome to our MC community!

If what you say is true, (I haven't researched raptor breeding; I'll take what you say as fact) then that's a very good catch!

On the other hand, one can always say that Michael's books are, actually, fiction based on fact. In that context, an author can easily fictionalize anything. Sometimes the truth hurts a good story. It is entertainment, after all, don't you agree? And Michael's work is pretty darned good entertainment, right?

Thanks a ton for the welcome Kickup.

I do agree with you on the fictionalizing part. Authors are entitled to a lot of literary license to make a book more interesting. And MC's books are very interesting.

It's just that it got me wondering when I came to it. One of the best qualities of MC's books are that it makes people think a lot... about the topic on hand and about the repercussions about the way we're treating nature in general. In a way, I guess that's the whole point of his books and the subjects he chooses. To create an awareness of the surroundings that we live in.

But I guess I went a little off the road when I started thinking about the book. Can imagine how deeply it affected me.

Good point, Flutterfly. Michael was one of the first people to show me how to think upside down; to break apart an issue and look inside its dualities and contradictions, to cut the extraneous white noise (is there preferable white noise?) and to search inside the heart of a problem. For helping to shake open my brain, he will always be one of my dearest heroes.

You are right KickUp, I value MC for such approach too, for his analitical skill ti find a core of any problrm and see it from not common but original point of view... His novels are very stimulative for serious thinking....