The fences are more of a guideline

Latest at my JWE sandbox park somewhat modeled after the moviepark (but gone pretty AU from there, lol).

Well, the herbivores in the Cretaceous Cruise enclosure don't seem very intimidated by the spinosaurids they're neighbors with, so that's good.

"Hey, before you girls head to your fish feeder just yet, there's a gyrosphere just about to come through the gate to your side, if you want to harass that."

"Thanks for the heads-up! We'll give them a good scare."

Kitten bites from Velociraptor chicks

[JW Fallen Kingdom spoilers]

Today's raptor thought is that I just realized something further indicating that baby Delta's terrible, horrible, vicious (/sarcasm) attack when Owen pretended to be hurt to test her reaction was 100% play and not meant to cause harm.

Rumors, renovations, romance

Some more raptorsim silliness for a change amidst all the other raptor silliness.

Pelto ilta

Can't see fences, can't see where I'm going

Started a new challenge mode game at Isla Pena and forgot I have the invisible fence mod replacing the cheapest fence. That looks pretty frightening, but I promise she's contained! :D

How's my driving?

Midnight rendezvous

My adventures in camping at the back of the Velociraptor paddock with a camera capture mode continue.
Previously at this park: there are enough posts by now that I just made a tag.

Patiently waiting.

Cozy seaglets

White-bellied Sea-Eagle chicks SE29 (left) and SE30 at four weeks old. Loafing about waiting for fish deliveries and growing pennaceous feathers over their white fluff.

Neighbors!

Update: it wasn't nothing.

"Hi! :D"

Neighbors?

(Previously at this particular park: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

The Velociraptors get more space finally, with renovations having concluded in the part of their paddock that has been closed with a gate so far. What kind of renovations? Oh, just power going out in parts of the electrified fences, nothing major - and it's fixed! So all is well. :)

Well akshually JWE already has feathered dinosaurs

Some pretty screenshots of the parrots that take flight when you delete forest in Jurassic World Evolution.

Which is a neat detail... but also really sad. Did I just destroy habitat of dinosaur species, potentially including endangered ones, native to their present-day ecosystem, to make room for my theme park of dazzling rich tourists with cloned dinosaurs that became extinct so long ago that their niches in nature have long since been filled, making them non-native everywhere on present-day Earth? Probably did, yeah. It's not like Islas Nublar and Sorna were blank slates devoid of wildlife before the clone dinos got released there.

Just cute seaglets

Screenshots (cw: includes prey in view) from the past week at Sydney White-bellied Sea Eagle nest. The chicks have gone from these scruffy, little fluffballs:

(Older chick SE29 left, younger chick SE30 right in both pictures)

...to these bigger and ganglier fluffballs, with both having pennaceous feather growth clearly visible.

Infestation

Things that go chirp in the night

Charlie, and Delta, have a little more dignified visit to the grooming station cage. How they got in there is a mystery that park security is still trying to solve.

POV: you are a goat or perhaps a lawyer

A small new world

Some more screenshots from my latest JWE park (previous posts about it are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). This time, a peek in the officially empty paddock near the high-security research facility, featuring its unofficial resident.

"So this is what the outdoors is like..."

Misty sunrise with Masu

Neo fledges!

A few screenshots from nest#1 of Sääksilive Osprey nests, where the 50-day-old only chick of this year's clutch fledged today.

Returning to the nest from first flight.

Beautiful landing!

Snacks soon after.

Kerroksia

Fish feedings and fish findings

Some older screenshots from nest#1 of Sääksilive Osprey nests, with another occasion of dad Eura gently feeding the chick while mom Eine keeps watch. The little one is three weeks old here.

And one more such moment. The chick is four weeks old, close to turning five weeks. Seeing dad fly in with a fish in the early morning.

Allegedly smarter than dolphins and primates

More adventures at my JWE moviepark park (previously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

Oh boy, a chance to visit the facility behind the gate! Got a text with a temporary access code (expires in 15 minutes, so let's be quick about this, no time for sightseeing) and an order to go resupply a feeder in there.

Weird, because my staff map app still says the paddock in there is empty. Maybe they meant the second feeder at the back of the Velociraptor paddock and got them mixed up since it's so close. Well, I'm keeping this text as evidence, and they can't make me carry this stuff over there later if it's their mistake!

Meanwhile, at the aforementioned Velociraptor paddock:

"Hey Charlie, I bet you can't fit your head through the bars on the gate!"

"Oh yeah? Watch this! -Wait, how do I...? Oh shit, I'm stuck! Help!"

"Calm down, you'll hurt yourself trying to pull your head back like that! Try fitting the rest of you through instead?"

"Well, now my butt is stuck! Any more ideas?"

A rainbow spotting

Indominus rex and Indoraptor hand thoughts

(Spoilers for Fallen Kingdom, not much for Jurassic World,
and none for JW: Dominion)

As it was recently brought to my attention in a comment to a picture I drew of indoraptorlet Sunny using her opposable thumbs, the movie hybrids' hands are a bit weirder than I'd previously noticed: They seem to have two phalanx bones on both the first and second digit, when I'd assumed it's only the first, and that the second would have more than that like the third and fourth do.

In addition to scrutinizing the movie, here's a screenshot I took of the hands of Jurassic World Evolution's Indominus rex model, which was created using the model from the movie. Yep! Looks like two phalanges on the second digit. Okay, why does that matter?

Sleepy paws

Napping in her favorite cardboard box.

Fence tricks

"What's it look like out there?"

"Not as many people today... I think. Hold on, let me find something to stand on."

"I don't know why you bother with that, just do what I do."

"See? Easy!"

"Get your head back in here before they notice! It's supposed to be a secret we can do that, remember?"

"It's okay, I'm camoflaged."

Employing more conventional means at a different part of the park, Olive concludes that the leaves on the other side of the fence are indeed always greener and tastier.

Seaglet pics

Screenshots from the past ~two weeks at the Sydney White-bellied Sea-Eagle nest. Includes mild sibling rivalry.

SE30(left) and SE29, at 3 and 5 days old, respectively.

Closeup. SE29 at front.

Things change so quickly

Nuppu and her chicks Una (middle) and Jouko three days ago at nest#4 of Sääksilive Osprey nests. Dramatic turns of events at this nest have been continuing, and it's starting to look like the latest twist is a sad one for one of the siblings.

Jouko at the edge of the nest the next day in what might be my last screenshot of him. He fledged later that day, to escape what seems to have been a large raptor approaching the nest, and hasn't been seen since. After a search for him on location yesterday, the news as I recall is that neither the osplet himself nor signs of an osplet having been caught by a predator were found in the surrounding area, but that he hasn't returned to the nest by now means something has likely happened to him, perhaps farther away, as an exhausted and lost new fledgling is not the most equipped to avoid predators. If he is fine after all and hanging out somewhere away from the nest, accepting parents' fish deliveries to his new address, I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but it is looking pretty likely by now that Nuppu and Niilo only have one chick left.

He was such a cute and tenacious little osplet, and I'm sad his journey may have ended here after already coming so far. But so it sometimes goes in nature, not every new life makes it to adulthood.

But life continues, at this nest, too. Una has returned to the nest, and here receives a fishtail from Nuppu.