Jurassic World put to the test of science: “It's not science fiction”

Paul De La Panouse, founder of the Thoiry group parks, gives us his point of view on the successful films derived from Jurassic Park.

Jurassic World will return to TMC this evening, so to wait, we offer you an analysis of the saga by a famous zoo director, Paul De La Panouse. First had met him at the time of the theatrical success of Colin Trevorrow's blockbuster, in 2015. Flashback, while waiting for news of the next opusworn this time by Scarlett Johansson.

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Did Jurassic Park convince you?

The starting point is not SF; currently geneticists are trying to cross frozen mammoth DNA with Asian elephants.

Pardon ?

At the moment we don't have the means to get there, but it will come. Same for reptiles, we can imagine that from comodo dragons, why not try? I'm sure we'll get there. Otherwise it's realistic, the image we gave of the dinosaurs is excellent, apart from a pure invention: we don't know their cries, which were invented by and for the film.

There is a cult scene, that of the T-rex, from which the heroes think they will escape if they make no movement. It's true ?

In fact there is an oversight in the film: they can perceive by smell, but it is extremely difficult to know that from a dinosaur skeleton. The relative part of their senses is not invented but chosen and modulated by the script. For example, they feel vibrations on the ground. The principle is simple: they took a known element and developed it to dramatize the film. It's a good fight!

Can a velociraptor understand how to open a door?

Why not ! A door is easy to open, my cat can do it. On the other hand, they do not have hands, rather “fingers” with claws and their front limbs are atrophied, it's like kangaroo paws.

More generally how wild and carnivorous dinosaurs would act in the face of civilization, as we can see in Jurassic World ?

They would be completely stupid. They would have the reflex to eat everything that moves, but faced with cars for example, they would be completely lost. You shouldn't come across it on your way to school, but an animal that doesn't know the territory is just worried and cautious.

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