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Ralph was the name Lex Murphy gave an infant Triceratops in the Jurassic Park novel.

Story
The Triceratops that would be known as "Ralph" was created by InGen scientists in an InGen owned laboratory located in a village located in Isla Sorna. When the young Triceratops was old enough, "he" was shipped off to the neighboring island Isla Nublar like the other Triceratops that were cloned to live as an attraction for InGen's Jurassic Park. Due to "his" young age when he was shipped to Isla Nublar, "he" was assigned a surrogate mother.

During the InGen Incident, Ralph and "his" mother were present in the Sauropod Paddock. Because no Triceratops were known to inhabit this paddock, they could have traveled to the enclosure from the Ornithischian Paddock due to the power outage caused by Dennis Nedry. In the morning after the breakout of the dinosaurs, Ralph approached Sauropod Maintenance Building 04 where Lex Murphy, who had slept in the building for the night found "him" and fed the young dinosaur hay through the fence. This is where the juvenile Triceratops got the name "Ralph" because "he" reminded Lex of a classmate of her's.

After Dr. Alan Grant woke up and witnessed Lex feeding Ralph, Ralph's mother entered the area. Hearing the snorting of "his" mother nearby, the young Triceratops was alarmed to her presence and found that "his" head was stuck in the fence due to "his" frill. But Dr. Grant managed to get the Trike unstuck by pushing him out of the fence just before the mother of the juvenile Triceratops. The adult guided Ralph away from the building and Lex said goodbye to the young Triceratops.

While on the Isla Nublar River, Lex wondered about the whereabouts Ralph hours after her encounter with the young Triceratops. She noted that "he" probably died after she last saw "him". She had wanted to ride the juvenile Triceratops.

Ralph, as well as the rest of the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar, was later killed during the Costa Rica Napalm Bombing that occurred shortly after the InGen Incident.

Behind the scenes
The filmmakers planned to have a scene where Lex rode a baby Triceratops (possibly Ralph) and even made an animatronic infant Triceratops for the scene, but it was cut out of the script late in production; the animatronic itself was later used for The Lost World: Jurassic Park.