About That Swimming Pyroraptor.

I also made this meme to sum up my thoughts on this:

https://www.deviantart.com/sasquadash/art/Unrealistic-Behavior-914495008 

Oops, I made a typo in the first sentence, I accidentally put "They're" instead of "Their"... 

EDIT: The typo has been fixed, Thank You Chris!

SasquaDash

Theres only one thing i can really think of that could somewhat discredit your argument, is that most of the birds that you list are adapted to more aqautic lifestyles. Note the build and beak shapes as a reference. And another thing is many animals can swim yes, but are not adapted to it so only swim when needed or enjoyment.

Most the animals that you list can swim, but do not hunt underwater. The differnece is the pyroraptor seems to be trying to hunt from the water. Which is something it wouldnt be able to do. 

It doesnt have a hydrodynamic build, nor like the birds that do swim and hunt underwater, have a spearing beak or bottomfeeding duck bill. And most of the non avian animals you describe keep theyre heads above the water while you swim.

Its the just the behavior makes no sense

I mean its not impossible. But like would a raptor dive under ice to attack a person? Because the water is freezing and it might not escape.

But hey! Welcome to Jurassic Park!

HinikunaGoji

Some of the non avian animals that were brought up in the meme I made actually do hunt in water.

Bears swim and hunt fish all the time.

Jaguars will actually dive into water to hunt fish and caiman.

The wolf image I used was of a breed of "coastal wolf" which live on the pacific coast of Canada. They spend a lot of time swimming and primarily hunt fish and seals. They're actually genetically distinct from regular gray wolves.

As far as Pyroraptor being able to swim, there isn't enough evidence to prove or disprove it. Halszkaraptor is part of the same family as Pyroraptor (both being types of dromaeosaur), and it is thought to have been able to swim and dive, so it's possible that other dromaeosaurs could as well. The JW Pyroraptor is genetically altered and does have adaptations that allow it to swim.

As far as divining in cold water. The pyroraptor seen in the movie was specifically placed in a cold snowy environment, which indicates that it was designed and bred to withstand freezing temperatures, so it's feathers and possible fat act as insulation for it.   

There's definitely arguments you can make against the idea of a swimming pyroraptor. I was actually pretty iffy about it at first. My point was that the idea isn't really as crazy or unrealistic as some people are claiming, and it's definitely not getting upset over (or, in the case of some people in the paleo community, throwing juvenile tantrums)

SasquaDash

First of all your counterargument was amazing. Literally dismantled my argument very well.

I'm not convinced that its a normal behavior though but yeah. The paleo community is full of some

people. 

Theres a rant about feathered dinosaurs that the paleo community got youtube to mark as inappropriate, even though it's more kid friendly than most things.

The anger of thousands descends upon you when you make a wrong step.

Also did Collin Fix the broken wrists on Pyro? I noticed the same with Giga?

Are people going through.. INNACURACY WITHDRAWLS??

HinikunaGoji

Thank You :)

As for the Pyro's wrists, they actually are in the right position, Steve Brusatte mentioned that they fixed the wrists for some of the theropod dinosaurs, the Giga, Pyroraptor, Allosaurus, Therizinosaurus and Atrociraptors have properly position wrists. I even noticed that there were some shots in the Prologue where it looked like Rexy's wrists were position correctly. They've definitely made more progress with dinosaur accuracy than the previous movies (even if it's still not 100% perfect). 

You bring up good points to support why this scene wasn't absolutely odd, but I will say with everything else jammed into this film, I don't think a Raptor swimming in ice water is necessary at all. Also - people falling into ice water and not dying relatively soon afterwards always makes me roll my eyes in movies. The threat of falling in ice is fine but actually doing so sends the body into an intense state of shock. Definitely wouldn't be able to out swim, or fight a Raptor underwater.

I get Fast and Furious vibes from JW Dominion with the latest trailer... I'm sure I'm not the only one.

The wrists thing has really made me more excited than i was before, idk why its just cool.