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Realistic Dinosaur Movie; A Dinosaur Movie that is actually life like
Topic Started: Nov 1 2010, 04:14 AM (2,501 Views)
T.Neo
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That Sinosauropteryx is actually the perfect example what I meant with "don´t make them too colorful". Or would you call brown, white and black "too colorful"?


It is certainly too colourful if you compare it to monotone drab grey. Which is what some people think all dinosaurs looked like...

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And all dinosaurs more basal than Enantiornithes lack clavicular air sacks and thus don´t have a syrinx, making them incapable of producing vocal sounds. So deep roars are certainly out of question, though they could have communicated with non-vocal sounds like hissing, clapping their jaws together or (in maniraptorans) beating their wings.


That doesn't mean that they'd be devoid of vocalisations though (well, technically, but still).

Crocodilian vocalisations are pretty interesting (adult alligator bellow here, juvenile alligator call here and baby crocodile here). From the article you posted to;

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Crocodilians vocalise by vibrating three mucosal folds - absent in the avian larynx (McLelland 1989a,b) - that project into the laryngeal lumen under part of the arytenoid cartilage (Reese 1914). Unlike the avian syrinx (see below), the crocodilian vocal organ leaves no trace of its presence on fossil skeletons


That makes me wonder if any ornithodires other than Enantiornithes potentially had some sort of vaguely similar vocal apparatus. The relationship between birds and other theropods might make it unlikely, but forcing an avian norm on a pterosaur, for example, makes me feel a tad uneasy.

Nevertheless, the lack of vocal apparatus does not prevent the organism from making suitably impressive noises; I can imagine a hiss-like sound to be quite imposing, especially if eminating from a large organism.
Edited by T.Neo, Dec 15 2010, 02:33 PM.
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Or maybe a "red-tailed hawk screech." Like the sound they always give to Bald Eagles in the movies.
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They can be colorful...look at modern birds
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Thing you have to remember about Jurassic park though, is that it's 17 years old now.
It was pretty spot on for when it was made, excluding the misnamed Deinonychus.
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