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I think it is also dependent on the perspective in which the animals are portrayed. On the other hand, when I look at this tentacles, talons (Mesonchoteuthis has big chinitous claws), the giant eyes and the beaks, can´t I say they are true monsters? Even if they are not dangerous to humans, but only very large members of a kind of animal which mankind eats every day in millions? What can we call a monster at all? What is a monster? If I look at a giant squid or a colossal squid for example from the zoological view, I see huge cephalopods which are highly fascinating and sadly still not well-studied. On the other hand, perhaps to a distinct degree, such description can be justified (but of course I reject it in nearly all cases that such words are used to villainise predators, especially when this leads to increasing killings and antipathy for this species).
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Of course some crocodile species and shark species are dangerous to men, but in general there is just a stereotypic description as maneaters for all similar kinds, no matter if they are really dangerous or not. Especially crocodiles and sharks have still to suffer a lot from bad publicity, possibly most of all. I think the terms "monster" and similar words are really even today used much too often for some animals. What I found really somewhat gruesome, was that the trainers well knew that each of their polar bears was caught by shooting its mother. And there were of course big cats and normal bears too at other parts of the show. There were once sceneries we can´t hardly imagine today. In a time when you had at best a black and white movie in the cinema which showed you wild animals in their native habitat or zoo animals in tiny cages, a good circus with dangerous animals was of course great entertainment. It is really interesting to read how things were different in earlier times, sometimes only some decades ago. The polar bears for example are again and again named "white beasts". The view of animals at that time was very obvious. The earliest reports written in the book are from the late 19th cenutury, the more recent ones from the early second half of the 20th century.
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I just read an old book about animal training with a lot of highly interesting stories from circusses and the work with animals. Thanks, Andy, for the comic! Comic copyright Marvel. That’s OK for comic books and stories-after all, Dinotopia romanticizes dinosaurs both as allies and adversaries-but I don’t think marketing departments of science publications should use that angle, because it stands in the way of a more interesting scientific understanding. Perhaps we make monsters out of dinosaurs because they’re unknown enough to allow us to place them on a mythic plane. Perhaps people associate meat-eating with the moral evil of murder. Predators get kicked by prey, they get chased off a kill by other predators, and they starve. But real meat-eaters don’t have it so easy. Tyrannosaurs are shown in most movies-and most documentaries-as rampaging killing machines. But no one does that with living animals anymore because we understand them more fully as complex and vulnerable creatures. Why do we demonize meat-eating dinosaurs? If you read the old accounts of explorers in Africa, they used to refer to lions, tigers, gorillas and even elephants as beasts and monsters. So says the official National Geographic website.Ī recent Discovery Channel program about dinosaurs was called “ Monsters Resurrected.” “If dinosaur evolution were an Austin Powers movie, T. Here’s a 1978 Marvel comic called “Devil Dinosaur.”