Buildings & Attractions vivarium

Thorrgal

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Good morning all

I do not know those rappellement but BBC had broadcast a 6 episodes on a group of people wanting to capture various animals through a portal. This program was called "Prehistoric park" with, for the one who had the mission to bring them back to our time "Nigel Marven"

During episode 5, Nigel had to go to the Carboniferous era to capture different creatures like scorpions, giant worms, dragonflies, etc...And at this end, all the creatures are in a vivarium.

It's why I propose do creat a vivarium !

And what to put in this vivarium you will ask me?

I propose these

MEGANEURA

A dragonfly with a wingspan of 70cm

meganeura.jpg


PULMONOSCORPIUS

A scorpion could be about 70 centimeters long

Pulmonoscopius.jpg


ARTHROPLEURA

It measures between 0.3 and 2 meters long and up to 50 centimeters wide

Arthropleura.jpg



MESOTHELAE

A spider the size of a human head.

"I did not find a image sorry"

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Here is my proposal for a new building as well as new creatures OTHER than dinosaurs.


Don't hesitate if you have other ideas.

thanks for reading
 

Thorrgal

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To change a little.

Admittedly there are many choices of dinosaurs (and even now 2 more with those which have just been discovered) but we must not forget either that there were not ONLY dinosaurs but insects of all kinds
 

JediJoe84

JediJoe84
In jurassic park for the super nintendo there was a deadly dino dragonfly that you would occasionally come across so i can see it as somewhat relateable to JP franchise.
 

Thylaco

Thylaco
Thorrgal said:
MESOTHELAE

A spider the size of a human head.

"I did not find a image sorry"
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There's a reason for that, BBC kind of made it up. Truthfully though it was based on Megarachne, which shortly before release was revealed to be a sea scorpion (albeit a freshwater one that may have been amphibious). Mesothelae does exist, but it's a suborder (that's been around since the Carboniferous), not a species.

In any case, the Carboniferous is quite the jump from the Mesozoic. There are quite a few mesozoic insects (albeit much smaller), Burmese amber alone has quite a few interesting things, such as predatory cockroaches, Caputoraptor & soft mouthed ants. Mickoleitia is another interesting mesozoic insect. For small insects like these though, you'd need some sort of plaque in front of the exhibit, as I wouldn't expect most of them to get proper models.

(Edit: I did a bit more searching, the largest I've found so far is Triassologus biseriatus, a 9.5 cm long insect wing from a relative of Meganeura, coming from the Late Triassic of South Africa. With an approximate 20cm wingspan, it seems to be between a third and quarter the size of Meganeura. Keep in mind that it's still almost double the wingspan of the largest modern dragonfly.
Apparently, before to the rise of birds is when the maximum size of flighted insects follows the amount of oxygen in atmosphere, then after 150 million years ago they get smaller.)

Another thing that might be interesting is a nocturnal house for mesozoic mammals.

All in all though, I'm unsure if the Aviary could ever have more than the one species, and if it's the case there, that would be an indicator that similar limitations would exist for any building like it. There's also the matter of if the game really benefits from these, which in the case of ones I've suggested, probably not.
 
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Howqualepis

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MarcWP said:
Still has nothing to do with the books or movies.
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"Yew!" Lex shouted, ducking.
Two giant red dragonflies with six-foot wingspans bummed past them.
"What was that?"
"Dragonflies," he said.
"The Jurassic was a time of huge insects."
"Do they bite?" Lex said.
"I don't think so," Grant said. Tim held out his band. One of the dragonflies lighted on it. He could feel the weight of the huge insect. "He's going to bite you," Lex warned. But the dragonfly just slowly flapped its red-veined transparent wings, and then, when Tim moved his arm, flew off again.
(Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1990)

Obviously not Meganeura (no insect ever reached a six-foot wingspan), but giant dragonflies are in the book canon.
 
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MarcWP

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Howqualepis said:
"Yew!" Lex shouted, ducking.
Two giant red dragonflies with six-foot wingspans bummed past them.
"What was that?"
"Dragonflies," he said.
"The Jurassic was a time of huge insects."
"Do they bite?" Lex said.
"I don't think so," Grant said. Tim held out his band. One of the dragonflies lighted on it. He could feel the weight of the huge insect. "He's going to bite you," Lex warned. But the dragonfly just slowly flapped its red-veined transparent wings, and then, when Tim moved his arm, flew off again.
(Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1990)

Obviously not Meganeura (no insect ever reached a six-foot wingspan), but giant dragonflies are in the book canon.
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True, they are mentioned that one time in the first book.
 
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