PRIMAL EP 9 REACTION
Added 2023-05-12 01:06:01 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay, but I was out of town at the time, making it hard to leave longer comments. To answer your questions: -At ~1:50, Fatman is referring to the nictitating membrane that many animals have in addition to (but not in place of) their regular eyelids. You can see both very well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yanCPvnRsqY -At ~11-11:20, those sounds aren't "punches", but wind-blown branches scratching against rock (though, to be fair, I had to go back to see the rock being scratched when I 1st watched this ep). -According to the Primal wiki, “the Night Feeder appeared to secrete or otherwise cover itself with a viscous tar-like substance that was foul to smell or taste. The substance may also contribute to its camouflage and/or serve as an aerodynamic lubricant to increase its running speed; however, it also appeared to be extremely flammable, which proved to be the Night Feeder’s undoing.” Hopefully, this answers your questions about why it's so fast (~18:05) & hard to see (~16:55). -At ~18:10, it's the sinew part of the spear ( https://askananthropologist.asu.edu/hafting ) that's on fire, not the rock part. Silly Fatman, IDK how he missed that :P -IDK for sure, but as far as I can tell, the Night Feeder is at least partly based on some 1980s ideas of what Therizinosaurus was like, especially given how much it's portrayal reminds me of this quote+illustration from a nostalgic children's dino book: “Very little is known about Therizinosaurus[…]But from what is known of it, some scientists think it may have been the most ferocious and terrible of all the meat-eating dinosaurs![…]With such claws, it seems as if a Therizinosaurus could have killed duckbilled dinosaurs, and perhaps even armored dinosaurs, as easily as a lion kills an antelope” ( https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-84MCtFZVpYQ/VfnTHEfhNBI/AAAAAAAAFDc/NFBQgEIh7VY/s1600/Therizinosaurus.jpg ). For more info about how ideas about Therizinosaurus have changed: https://nixillustration.com/science-illustration/2022/retro-vs-modern-14-therizinosaurus/
Herman Diaz
2023-05-24 21:43:51 +0000 UTC
