And who in this thread claimed such expertise exactly??
When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbiddenam I alone here?

You know, I just love the fact that for some reason, almost every time I see someone whom either claims to be, or is supposed to be a serious fan of dinosaurs and these movies, keeps calling Pteranodon Pterodactyl, when they are not even close to the same thing, aside from being Pterosaurs.

I thought the same thing! The Pterodactyls just tried to eat the people on the island and then they think it is a good thing when the Pterodactyls fly away?

In one of the spin off books Dr Grant and the kid went and caught them all.

On the second movie, they surmised that the herbivores consumed plant life that contained the substance, then the carnivores absorbed it through eating those herbivores.

First movie:
The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die.
Also in the first movie:
Life finds a way.

There were dozens of military personnel also leaving the island. There's no way only Grant and co. witnessed the flying reptiles; that would be a big reason for a lack of immediate concern.

that was pretty much my take at the ending as well everyone is just flying off into the sunset happy as can be including the Pterodactlys??!! why not just let the raptors and trex' onto the mainland too? i think Enid, Oklahoma would be a good home for the raptors frankly the warhips should be shooting them down over the open ocean and leaving them for chum imho
that speciaies is gonna wreak havoc wherever their 'new home' might be and dr.grant saying such a lame thing after all he's gone thru (and the implications of his being a stout anti-dio-island protestor in the tim in between then movies), being the dino-ecpert and all, he should be the first one yelling up to the pilots to blast those things out of the air it was an okay movie until then but that was just a real jack-a-mo of an ending
aside from the need for sequels, why didn't they go in an kill all the dinosaurs after the first failed experiment? if they could reproduce without males, then they could evolve into prehistoric aquatic or semi-aquatic dinos too and the next thing ya know, Tokyo's got one more giant lizard stompin the hell out of it on a regular basis ..
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Yeah ofcourse these bird seemingly have survived since the second film without anyone to monitor them so they couldn`t have got lysine either way and yet they still live. Nature finds a way.

I just finished watching and was thinking the same thing. I don't know if it was lazy writing, or if it will at least be addressed in the new one. I would certainly hope that they'll at least address why the place is now a park, with hundreds of visitors, why this was allowed and why anyone would actually go there on purpose!

First movie:
The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die.

Might as well shoot lions too.

The army would likely just ignore them as mad-men or something.
Ummthose were the people who rescued them. And were flying back with them. Therefore able to see the dinosaurs
When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbiddenam I alone here?

Why would they think they were mad? The army knew about the dinos on the island.

But try telling it to the army: "There are pterodactyls flying around. Could you please do something about it"?
The army would likely just ignore them as mad-men or something. It is hard to believe to quite frankly. So it wouldn't do anything.
Also it doesn't mean that the pterodactyls would come so far. maybe they just fly around the island and back?

mere hours ago they were almost killed by them, and in the chopper Grant is like: "they made it out the island, good for them"
come on. the army should be shooting at those things

I suppose them alerting the military or authorities that a flock of Pterodactyls have escaped the island is too much for people to comprehend

Exactly! And that more than anything is what bothered me about the ending to this. They could have at least tried to look a little more concerned than they did.

Why are people saying 'what could they have done?' Well obv they couldn't do anything at the time but they shouldn't just not give a beep Its a big problem.

The original was just plain old regular birds - not dinosaur birds. It was a nod to the belief that dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds.

I always thought it was a nod to the original, which also sees them flying at the end. In reality those birds could create some serious havoc. Think about it, it is a sunny Sunday afternoon and you see these giant birds thought to be extinct attacking everyone on the street. Unless someone had a shotgun on hand, those things are going to do damage before the cops or the army get there to terminate them.

Besides feed the "birds"? Nada.

Yes, but as already stated it was not their task to stop them from nesting. They are just five regular individuals, what can they possibly do?
That's what the military is there for!

Yeah I thought Dr. Grant's reaction in particular was pretty weird, considering he understood as well as anyone else the grave implications of it. It was pretty inconsistent of him, after all his admonishments of people who wanted to go anywhere near dinosaurs.

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