'They want to leave. They are behaving like birds. They want to migrate.'

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Here's the Sad (or maybe Happy) Ending...............

We knew that the velociraptors are breeding. So, we, Ellie, Gennaro, Muldoon and me, decided to go out and find their nest. Thank goodness that we still kept the raptor that I had tranquilized before. We released it and let it go to its nest while we followed it with the jeep. It suddenly disappeared down a hole.

That is our attempt to search the nest of the velociraptor
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We got down too, one-by-one, except Muldoon. We found that there are lots of velocirators inside the hole. However, they acted strangely. Suddenly, all the raptors run towards the end of the hole. We followed them. To our surprise, the end of the hole is the shore of the Pacific Ocean! So now we knew how they could escaped from their enclosures. I also know now that they are very bird-like and they wanted to migrate.

Then, suddenly, a helicopter landed between the raptors and us. A soldier pulled us towards the helicopter. We finally met again the survivors. We finally learnt that Hammond had been killed by the Compsognathids. I didn't feel sorry for Hammond and I saw the bombing of the Jurassic Park with my own eyes. That's the end of the dinosaurs and their park...............

Together Again........

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
We're freed from that ugly menacing tyrannosaur monster (I mean dinosaur)........

Now we would head to the Control Room using the maintenance vehicle. The tunnel stopped at the Visitor's Centre. We came out of the tunnel and found a dead security guard lying on the ground. I picked his wakie-talkie and tried to cal someone. Thank goodness, it was Ellie (the first name of Dr Sattler) who picked it up.

Uh Oh, here's another poblem.......
Ellie told me that the raptors were freed from their enclosures and Arnold and Genaro was turning on the main generator but hadn't returned. Ellie is with Harding and Wu in the Control Room. Muldoon had an injured foot and had seen raptors biting through the bars of the skylights. So I decided to help Arnold and Gennaro to turn on the generator and sent the children to the Control Room.

We succeeded to turn on the main generator but Arnold was nowhere to be seen. We got out with the help of Ellie and the others, however, that plan took the life of Wu. Gennaro and I went back to the Control Room and found out that the children were in trouble. So, I tried to kill the raptors that chased the children while Gennaro escorted them to the big glass map. Tim finally make the elctricity flowed into the Safari Lodge and the raptors on the bars of the skylights were dead. And all of us gathered in the Control Room, except Hammond.

This is what the raptors that had killed Wu looked like
Picture source: http://dinonews.net/images/telechargements/velociraptor2.jpg


Phew..... What a relief to see everybody safe and being together again............

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Oh no..........! The Tyrannosaur is After Us..........!

We woke up one morning and we started to move again. We chose a path through the river. We agreed to use the inflatable raft from the shed in the sauropods' enclosure and I will row the boat. When we're doing this, the tyrannosaur was asleep. Unfortunately, the tyrannosaur woke up due to Lex's cough and began to chase us until it saw its meal was being eaten by other tyrannosaur. The tyrannosaur turned away, leaving us alone. We were rowing through the river until we heard a loud noise. Oh no, it was the waterfall. We couldn't stop the boat and the boat fell down the waterfall.....


Oh.... How I hate to see that ugly Tyrannosaur's face!
Picture source: http://www.slotsjam.com/blog/uploaded_images/other/t-rex.jpg


By the time I woke up, I realised that the Tyrannosaur had followed us here and I near the huge hind leg of the Tyrannosaur. I found Tim and Lex, and rescued them. I led them to safety quietly to a path that led to the back of the waterfall. There was a door and I opened it. To my surprise, I found the electric maintenance vehicle. But there was a problem. I found a male velociraptor near me and I quickly tranquilized it. The tyrannosaur seemed to know our presence and began to grab Tim. Luckily, Lex fought back and suddenly, the tyrannosaur went back and collapsed without any reason, leaving us some time to escap to the Control Room. We went through the tunnel that was connected from the room to an uncertain place, but I believed it was the Control Room, using the maintenance vehicle and bringing the male raptor to prov that they were wrong.......

The Tour that Ends in Disaster...........

OOOOOHHH YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!
This is the part that I always wanted! I always wanted to study living dinosaurs. We were led to the first floor of the Visitors' Centre or the Control Room. Regis said that it is where the island is being controled. We were introduced to John Arnold, the chief engineer, Robert Muldoon, the park warden, Dr Harding (well, he was not in the Control Room by that time), the vet, and Dr Wu, the chief geneticist. We were brought to the Extraction Room, the Fertilization Room and the Hatchery Room.

This is the process:

Dinosaur DNA is being extracted from the amber

The DNA were being organized in this supercomputer
                                                                                           

The embryos were then put into special eggs
Then they hatch
But there is another problem. Wu didn't know what dinosaurs he was making. Uh oh

Next we were brought to the Control Room. John Arnold told us how they control Jurrasic Park. He even showed us the total numbers of living dinosaur per species and the chart of the heights of the Compsognathids. Wow, Amazing!

Next, Ed Regis took us to a road. Our group was divided into two because of the land-cruisers that can only fit four people in it. The land-cruisers were moved by the electricity. We were brought to enclosures of the dinosaurs. Each of them had dinosaurs of the same species. There were hypsilophodontids, dilophosaurs, triceratops, tyrannosaurs, sauropods, hadrosaurs, velociraptors, stegosaurs and many more.........


This is the land-cruiser with me sitting on the back row
Picture source: http://www.hollywood-diecast.com/jurassic%20park%20explorer.jpg

We stopped by a sick stegosaur who was taken care by Dr Harding, the vet. While we stopped by, I happened to see pieces of a dinosaur egg. We talked about this with Dr Wu and he said that he only make female dinosaurs and the dinosaurs can't breed. But, when we checked the total numbers of dinosaurs, the computer found that there are 292 dinosaurs instead of 238, the expected number of dinosaurs. Oh no, this is really bad.

We all decided to go back to the Control Room and told Dr Wu, Arnold and Muldoon about this problem. However, Dr Sattler and Gennaro decided to stay with Dr Harding. We got back to the land-cruisers and continued our journey to the Control Room untill suddenly, the land-cruisers stopped near the tyrannosaur enclosure. That is when we realised that the power is off from the Control Room. Oh no! This is very bad! The electric fence wasn't working! The tyrannosaurs was out of their enclosures! Regis got terryfied and ran out of the land-cruiser, leaving the children alone. Malcolm and I went out too. Tim and Lex, however was in the vehicle when the tyrannosaur picked it up and let go of the land-cruisers. Tim fell on top of a tree and Lex fell to mud on the road.



Malcolm was thrown away and Regis was killed, leaving me alone with the children. Somehow, we managed to survived until we had our slumber in the sauropods' enclosure. That's where our surviving adventure started..............


Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Start of Our Exciting Journey

WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
We were taken to Isla Nublar by Hammond's private plane. On the way to Isla Nublar, we met many people on our way to the Cloud Island (the other name besides Isla Nublar). We met Donald Gennaro, a lawyer from InGen Corporation, Ian Malcolm, a mathematician,  Dennis Nedry, a computer expert, and Hammond himself.

The journey on the plane finally ended when the plane arrived at San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica and continue our journey by helicopter. That is when we met Nedry. We met the rest of the party on the plane. The helicopter took us to our destination, Isla Nublar or Jurasssic Park. The island is rather huge. This is what the Island looked like:

Oooooh yeah. This is the map of Isla Nublar
Picture source: http://www.jplegacy.org/index2.php?load=encyc/nublar.shtm


Wow, this is so extraordinary. You cannot find it anywhere except here in Jurassic Park. There are real dinosaurs! Believe your eyes, you are not imagining. The dinosaurs were huge and amazing and .... and .... (well, they're so amazing that I can hardly describe them). However,  no matter how amazing they are, their enclosures were surrounded with electric fences and deep moats. Your eyes can feast upon these dinosaurs.

Okay, back to the story. As soon as we arrived at Isla Nublar, we were introduced to the publicity manager, Ed Regis. He took us to the Safari Lodge. Oh, what a place! This Lodge looks like a jail. No matter how many times we complain, our sleeping place would still be this Lodge (or you can sleep outside if you want to be eaten by the dinosaurs).

We went to the Visitors' Centre to meet our guide again (well, Ed Regis is both the publicity manager and the guide). Then, there came a sudden surprise. John Hammond's grandchildren were coming too! Oh no. We came here to work and not to have a holiday. Gennaro started to complain to Hammond and threatened him that he would close the park if the island is not safe enough. And the worst part is that the children came after hearing that the island is a resort. Oh noooooooo................. Here's another problem...............

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Mystery, the Journey and ME..........

This is me.
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This is my assistant, Dr. Ellie Sattler
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Hello readers. I am a famous palaeontologist. I work in Montana, USA. My job is digging and collecting dinosaurs' bones in expeditions. I am also the author of a book entitiled 'The Lost World of the Dinosaurs'. If you want to know who I am, just guess. You could guess all the famous palaeontogists' names but there is only one answer. Yes, I am Dr. Alan Grant. I work with Dr. Ellie Sattler. She is a palaeobotanist. She helps me a lot in my expeditions. Her job is to study how plants lived and grew many milions of years ago. Our job is quite similar, only that I study about dinosaurs and she studies about plants. 

Our mystery begins when we were asked by a lawyer from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). He asked lots of questions about John Hammond who paid us for our work on dinosaurs. Then, after the conversation, Ellie came to me as she had just received a telephone call and a fax about a reptile (or dinosaur) who looks like a compsognathus attacking babies and a 10-year-old girl at a beach in Costa Rica

Then, the telephone rang and I found out that John Hammond called me. He was inviting Ellie and me to his island, Isla Nublar. He'll pay us a very huge sum of money each for being his consultants. We couldn't refuse. That sum of money will pay for our research for the next two years. So, reluctantly, we accept his request. AND, THE JOURNEY BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!