Sunday, April 17, 2022

What is the problem? Surprisingly, not Velociraptors

I think I'm getting better at driving the jeep.
Had to lift the tranquilized Velociraptor out of the way to release the Diplodocus, too, because that little turkey was blocking the door. Well, I guess if we're being nitpickily realistic, it could have gotten trampled, so good call in any case. Didn't like this mission since it involves deliberately making the animals uncomfortable, but now it's done.

Otherwise, it wasn't so bad. My raptor test subject tried her very best to headbutt all fences to pieces, but I just built more fences around those and she got confused. After the test was over I quickly incubated her some friends so she wasn't lonely anymore, and now she's doing fine hanging out with them in the remote part of the Tacaño map I saved for this test in case they got out. No tourists to annoy them, and I think I'll keep it like that for now.

So now I've got four Velociraptors. Despite the occasional dominance display, they get along well.

They're back!

The West End Bald eagle nestcam came back online yesterday, and I'm happy to see all three eaglets safely in the nest. There was concern the day before as one of the eaglets seemed to have disappeared sometime during the day. I'm still not sure whether things just looked that way, or if one of them (as I've understood, the youngest chick WE3) did fall out of the nest and was returned there, but I'm sure there'll be some official post about it later to clarify.

ETA: WE3 did fall, or slide at least, and Dr. Sharpe from IWS returned it to the nest. Very fortunate that he was already going to the island that day to fix the nestcam, and so WE3 didn't have to wait for rescue for long, and that WE3 hadn't been injured.

ETA2: In case the link to the post gets lost, since it's a chat message, here's a screenshot:

And here's a video summary of the events, with links in the description to the two photos Dr. Sharpe shared of WE3.

WE3 on the left by itself, WE1 farthest from the camera, and WE2 in front of WE1. They have all grown so much! And their feathers have, too. WE3 turned five weeks old yesterday. And I turned 1929.29 weeks old.

Nothing is wrong and they're communicating

Not sure that's the safest way to airlift a sauropod, lol. But then again, what is. Sick Diplodocus and Metriacanthosaurus have been cured, and are happy in their enclosures.

Also I'm happy every time I see my dinos having these little gossip rings. Yes, chat and chirp to your hearts' content!

No running or screaming yet, but I expect that'll eventually change. Or, the characters running the park with me seem to think so at least, seeing as I've completed at least two contracts with the objective of letting no more than 5 tourists get eaten in a certain time, and they sound so amazed when by the end of it no one has died. My Isla Muerta park has two carnivores for now, Misabel the Metri and Reetta the Cerato (housed separately at opposite ends of the park). Nervous to make any more because of the potentially fence-breaking storms.

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Later comes the running and screaming

I started on playing Jurassic World Evolution at long last. So far my park on Isla Matanceros is doing well, even if the building placement is probably the least practical possible. Here are my three Ceratosaurus, Justiina, Hanna, and Tarja. They're good girls.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Youngest to oldest

Checking in on Bald eagle nests. Warning for closeups of bloody prey.

The chick at the Two Harbors nest is now a week old, and has already grown so much from the tiny hatchling it was the last time I took a screenshot. Here with dad Chase again.

And at a feeding with mom Cholyn.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Eaglet to do list: sprout feathers, annoy family members

Warning for prey in the nests, but not in focus.

Jackie tucking in her 5-week-old eaglet Spirit at Big Bear Bald eagle nest. Jackie has been easy to tell apart from her mate Shadow for the past few days thanks to Spirit's bad/good aim. :)

And cute Spirit closeups the next day.