Raptor Red

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1. The novel I read was "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker. Published by
Simon &

Schuster, in 1995. Rapotor Red is a female raptor struggling to survive in a kill or be

killed world on her own after losing her mate.

2. The setting changes all throughout the book as Raptor Red migrates from one

place to another. In somesettings she is in thick rich mossy forests looking for plump

Iguanadons to eat, to other desert like lands where the sun is so hot she must sleep

through the midday and hunt late afternoon when the heat is bearable. Setting is a very

important because the authour must reconstruct the crustacoius period setting and all the

vegitation ,lust forests, muddy salt flats, sandy beaches, and dry temperate valleys. These

settings are all very vital to the book because it creates the prehistoric atmosphere and

brutal planet these giants once inhabited. One of the key elements to the book to make it

more realistic is how the author describes in detail all the other animals that Raptor Red

hunts and runs into in the book. The author puts great detail in how Raptor
Red stalks her

prey and kills her victims. Once you start reading this book and you see how intelligent raptors once were you really can't decipher Raptor Red's thinking to a modern day human hunter.

3. This book follows the life of Raptor Red and all the troubles a raptor would face

in it's life from good times to bad. The book starts off with Raptor Red hunting an

Ultrasaurus with her mate. They carefully select the dinosaur they will single out to kill.

They look for faults in their prey, like injuries, preoccupation with someting elese,

stragglers who want to rest for a while, just about anything to help assure a safe victory

without any injuries to themselves. Raptor Red and her mate single out an
Ultrasaurus

who is preoccupied with trying to mate rather than pay any attention to the fact that it

was being stalked by predators. Raptor Red and the mate kill the Ultrasaurus on a mud

flat, and the Ultrasaurus falls on it's knees and dies. While Raptor Red and her mate are

gorging on the larg animal her mate detects a scent of another kind of smalled raptors in

the area that want some of the kill. Raptor Reds mate lets out a fierce roar

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