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re: What would be worse: Raptors or giant eagles roaming the earth?
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:16 pm to SEClint
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:16 pm to SEClint
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If jp raptors could fly, they would be giant eagles.
You guys saw how much havoc just bullshite Pterodactyls caused in Jurassic World, Imagine that but with much better hunting skills.
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Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:18 pm to Cosmo
A giant eagle would essentially be a raptor that can fly.
Anyone that answers "raptors" is stupid.
Anyone that answers "raptors" is stupid.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:19 pm to HideChaKidz
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Raptors were the size of chickens in real life.
No, they were about 4 feet tall. This issue came up when the original Jurassic Park was released. A month or so before the movie came out a Raptor fossil was discovered that was 5 feet tall (largest ever found). They weren't as big as depicted in the films but they were bigger than chickens and formidable. They were the wolves of the dinosaur world.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:28 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
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A giant eagle would essentially be a raptor that can fly. Anyone that answers "raptors" is stupid.
Yea, the only even minor advantage a Raptor would have over giant eagles is that they pack hunt.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:32 pm to BOSCEAUX
Exterminating Eagles would be easy. You could see them coming and take em out with our tech very easily. Raptors would be harder to hunt to extinction. I'd go with eagles.
This post was edited on 5/22/16 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:34 pm to Dam Guide
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Raptors would be harder to hunt to extinction.
Eagles could make their breeding grounds nearly impossible to get to. A armored vehicle group could do some damage against raptors.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:36 pm to Cosmo
I'd rather take my chances with the giant eagles. It wouldn't be long before Amazon captures and trains them for package delivery. (With a big American flag) 
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:43 pm to BOSCEAUX
They didn't average 4 feet. Those were the biggest. Comparing them to chickens might have been a bit hyperbolic. Wolves are a better comparison.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:55 pm to BOSCEAUX
Raptors can swim.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:59 pm to Cosmo
Post WWII, Raptors. The Giant Eagles would be fricked the second radar was invented. They'd all be hunted down and killed. Raptors would be more difficult.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 2:10 pm to Cosmo
Giant Eagles
Posted on 5/22/16 at 2:50 pm to HideChaKidz
Friends, Giant Eagles in this scenario would not be a protected species. They would be incredibly easy to hunt and kill, because they're giant.
Raptors obviously seem like they would be much more elusive and able to evade being wiped out.
Raptors obviously seem like they would be much more elusive and able to evade being wiped out.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 2:54 pm to Cosmo
Raptors existed in different sizes. They would be worse. Sure the little ones might just be annoying and a threat to children or pets, but Utahraptor weighed up to 1100 pounds. Imagine polar bears hunting in packs. They would frick you up.
Giant eagles would be easier to spot and easier to destroy. I'm sure we could develop defenses against them (commercial aviation would certainly become more interesting). Eagles don't hunt in packs the same way that we think raptors did. Solitary(ish) eagle < pack of raptors.
Giant eagles would be easier to spot and easier to destroy. I'm sure we could develop defenses against them (commercial aviation would certainly become more interesting). Eagles don't hunt in packs the same way that we think raptors did. Solitary(ish) eagle < pack of raptors.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 3:08 pm to Cosmo
Velociraptor.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 3:15 pm to Cosmo
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Birds of prey, also known as raptors
Seriously, when someone says "raptor" I'm not thinking dinosaur.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 3:41 pm to BOSCEAUX
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Eagles could make their breeding grounds nearly impossible to get to. A armored vehicle group could do some damage against raptors.
Lol no, fricking missile attack safely from our desk chairs. Big birds would get fricked up.
Of course ir equipped helis could do the job on raptors, but finding them would be a needle in a haystack in rural areas and not nearly as visible as a giant bird on the side of a mountain.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 3:43 pm to Cosmo
Giant Eagles, Raptors would probably be a lot like wolves, they're pack animals they'd learn to be cautious of humans.
Hell, normal sized Eagles and Falcons can be a danger on hikes and climbs now.
Hell, normal sized Eagles and Falcons can be a danger on hikes and climbs now.
This post was edited on 5/22/16 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 5/22/16 at 3:46 pm to Cosmo
I would rather raptors. Raptors were not much bigger than chickens, not what is on Jurassic park.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 4:04 pm to Cosmo
Eagles are a type of raptor.
Also, giant eagles would be too heavy to fly. Their muscle composition is efficient for their average weight but it wood be insufficient to produce the thrust needed for a much heavier bird. Even if the muscles were scaled larger (because they would add a lot of weight).
Also their bones would not be strong enough.
Strength scales exponentially as you decrease an animal in size. This is why ants have very little muscle in their body composition and yet can lift many times their own weight. But a blue whale that has a very high muscle composition would be crushed under its own weight outside the water.
Strength is determined by the cross section of a muscle. As the muscle volume is cubed, the cross section (strength) is only squared. This leads to diminishing returns as muscle size increases.
Giant eagles = impossible to fly. Therefore, velociraptors would be much worse.
Also, giant eagles would be too heavy to fly. Their muscle composition is efficient for their average weight but it wood be insufficient to produce the thrust needed for a much heavier bird. Even if the muscles were scaled larger (because they would add a lot of weight).
Also their bones would not be strong enough.
Strength scales exponentially as you decrease an animal in size. This is why ants have very little muscle in their body composition and yet can lift many times their own weight. But a blue whale that has a very high muscle composition would be crushed under its own weight outside the water.
Strength is determined by the cross section of a muscle. As the muscle volume is cubed, the cross section (strength) is only squared. This leads to diminishing returns as muscle size increases.
Giant eagles = impossible to fly. Therefore, velociraptors would be much worse.
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