Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-26507164-20160420024513/@comment-26507164-20160812025406

Lieutenant Davis wrote:

Granman wrote:

Lieutenant Davis wrote: Sorry if I'm coming into this a little late, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents. I understand the confusion about this and I've thought about it myself quite a few times. The first Jurassic Park was released in 1993, two years before Michael Crichton wrote The Lost World and introduced the concept of a Site B and the dinosaurs being raised on another island, so there are real life reasons for this inconsistency. As for an in-universe explanation, I've come up with a theory. The only animals we actually see being bred, not taking the embryos Nedry steals into account, are the Velociraptors. In the very next scene, we're made aware of the Big One and how she killed all but two of the previously introduced pack. Now, these animals are already tremendously expensive to produce, let alone the cost of transporting them almost a hundred miles by boat from one island to another. It's possible that, in an attempt to limit the costs of replacing those animals, they simply bred the replacements on Isla Nublar. This is of course complete and total speculation and conjecture and shouldn't be taken as fact. As for why there were a large number of male animals on Isla Sorna, remember that the gaps in the gene sequences were filled with frog DNA. Why frog? I've been trying to figure that out for years. As Dr. Grant stated, some frog species can change their sex if they're present in a single sex environment for a period of time, and it's clear that someone in InGen's genetics department didn't do their research when choosing a frog to use. Since the animals on Sorna are from the same genetic stock as those on Nublar, it would make sense that there'd be a significant population of males there. Hope this helped you. Sorry for my late reply. I was on vacation in Baltimore. Anyway, that is a good theory, but what confuses me about it is why you think the baby raptors were bred as replacements. Also, they weren't exactly clear what frogs were used. I know alot about frogs, but I don't know which kinds can change their gender. For me, it just seems like that's the only reason for them to be breeding specifically Velociraptors on Isla Nublar, given that the very next scene informs us of the decimation of Nublar's previous pack of Raptors. That is a good explanation, but who's to say raptors were the only species bred on Nublar?