Most of the people complaining about racism are clearly joking, although that hasn’t stopped others from treating this as another example of political correctness gone mad. I can’t help feeling that this whole story has got completely out of containment. And it seems obvious that the writers of the film were unaware of the homophonic British racial slur. But the word pachycephalosaurus would be a bit of a mouthful for actors. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: this is what comes of giving dinosaurs nicknames. Actually, there is – a genus of sauropod first described in 2006, and so named because it was found in western Pakistan.
Since then a lot of people have taken to Twitter to express outrage at the very notion of a “pakisaurus”. I was boycotting it anyway, because it’s about dinosaurs. The Coventry comedian Guzzy Bear, in the guise of a comic character called Mobeen, posted a video calling for a boycott of the film. No.ĭid the whole context of the film not make it clear that she was talking about some dinosaurs? It did, but the line has still caused a bit of a stir. Triceratops - Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) Ceratosaurus - African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) Edmontosaurus - Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) Struthiomimus - Southern Ostrich (Struthio camelus australis) Huayangosaurus - Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) Dracorex. So what? It sounds as if she’s saying: “The Pakis are out of containment.” NatureRules1s video game spoof of the Jurassic World Evolution and sequel. True, but early on in the film, after some pachycephalosauruses have escaped their sector, a character utters the line: “The pachys are out of containment.”
How can a dinosaur be racist? It’s due to their appearance in the blockbuster Jurassic World.įrom what I’ve seen, the dinosaurs in Jurassic World are equal-opportunity devourers. What else are they like? Socially aggressive, accidentally racist. Thick-headed as in stupid? Well, they weren’t clever, but it’s really because they had spiky, domed skulls to protect their tiny brains. Green is yes single is fine, red is single is unacceptable by species standards.Appearance: Thick-headed dinosaur, hence the name, which means “thick-headed lizard”. The red and green bracket is solely for easy identification of which dinosaurs you can have a single species of and which you need multiple of the same species. It was an herbivorous creature which is primarily known from a single. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. wyomingensis, is the only known species.It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period (Maastrichtian stage) of what is now North America.
Their comfort levels drop very quickly and they begin to cause havoc. Pachycephalosaurus (meaning thick-headed lizard,) is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs.The type species, P. Though personally I have not seen it yet in any herbivores, carnivores often start to misbehave when it storms.