Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-27225564-20150613133909/@comment-109.175.232.192-20150613150500

With Rexy it seems she has had a degree of training, it did take a second viewing to kind of see this but Rexy follows the flare to potential food sources which you see earlier on with the ACU guard throwing a flare to attract her to the goat, Claire also seems to wait until Rexy is right in front of her before running off putting her, to paraphrase Dr Malcolm, at a conveniant biting point but Rexy doesn't attack her she roars and follows her before Claire promptly throws the flare at the Indominus Rex which Rexy probably thinks is food and so attacks her. I say this because Masrani seems to be intent on Owen inspecting the I Rex's paddock for weaknesses as well as give pointers on how they should handle the animal which Owen follows up on saying that the I Rex's only positive relationship is with the feeding crane so it seems they have provided some level of training for the captive dinosaurs so that they are less likely to attack the humans and it wouldn't be surprising to do it with Rexy since she's already known to have attacked people but she also would have been one of the first exhibits so they've had 10 years + to train her to some extent and if you lok at the original when they use the goat to draw her out she doesn't respond at all whereas when they do in JW she comes straight over after the flare is flung in the goats direction.

Blue doesn't attack because she has a relationship bond with Owen, he imprinted on the raptors when they were born or so he implies and has had a fairly positive interaction with her and the other raptors even going as far as to stop people from shooting them, putting himself at risk just to establish that bond. If you look into things such as the lion man in South Africa or the crocodile man in Costa Rica you can see real life people creating bonds with dangerous animals and they even acknowledge that they could be attacked at any time but it is about establishing a trust barrier and teaching them that if they push to hard they will understand your reaction and back off as well as you being able to understand their body language and this seems to be the basis for Owen's character so it is only natural that Blue would not attack him as she will respect him out of that relationship bond and if Rexy did attack the humans who are staying out the way inside the damaged shop I think Blue would attack her and distract her so they could get away. It's all about the bond between Owen and Blue though and she seems to accept him into the pack as effectively her alpha. The other raptors would then follow suit as she seems to be the most dominant out of the pack and to begin with seems to be attempting to gain the alpha position from Owen but ultimately respects his authority when he shows unwillingness to fight her or the other raptors.