Idk, thought this was a bit of a laugh. So I was listening to the audiobook for the Lost World as I hadn’t before, or maybe it’s been awhile and I forgot, and I came across this passage:

“But in the last decade, a growing interest in social behavior had led to still another view. Dinosaurs were now seen as caring creatures, living in groups, raising their little babies. They were good animals, even cute animals. The big sweeties had nothing to do with their terrible fate, which was visited on them by Alvarez's meteor. And that new sappy view produced people like Tim, who were reluctant to look at the other side of the coin, the other face of life. Of course, some dinosaurs had been social and cooperative. But others had been hunters—and killers of unparalleled viciousness. For Malcolm, the truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.”

I know it was a bit of a sticking point that in a movie where dinosaurs roamed the earth, that there was so little carnage so it’s interesting to see Michael Crichton thoughts.