Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-4327179-20150721043154/@comment-25238001-20160325141509

98.150.196.253 wrote: Actually, yeah, Smilodon could live on Nublar's climate. Contrary to popular belief, Smilodon did not live on the cold ice age tundras, but rather the more warmer temperate and equatorial regions of North and South America, i.e. California and the the Grasslands of Plestiocene Brazil. Such areas were fairly warm, and Smilodon could totally live on Nublar.

The real problem here is the island is freakin' tiny. 22 square miles is roughly the size of Manhattan(correct me if I'm wrong), there's no way a large population large animals could support themselves there for any given time. Interesting. I didn't know that.

As for the problem of the size of the island, they aren't trying to support a large population. Even the biggest population, the Gallimimus, numbered about thirty animals. They aren't trying to support massive ecosystems or even breeding populations.