Carnotaurus

Name: Carnotaurus
Meaning: Meat Bull
Time Period: Early Cretaceous
Native Land: South America
Height: 12-13 ft
Length: 25 ft
Weight: 2000 lbs
Diet: Carnivore; 50% young apatosaurs and 50% other species.
Genetic or Other Abnormalities: Color-changing ability has advanced even further.
Danger: Pretty dangerous
Info: Carnotaurus is one of the rarest and most bizarre carnivore on the island (along with the Ornitholestes). Its very well-known for its color-changing ability. It was discovered that it does orginal color-changing skills, but its more like a primitive chameleon's color-changing trait than the advance cuttlefish color-changing trait. It seems that the InGen scientists accidentlly advanced that trait to the extreme, without cuttlefish DNA or anything like that. No one knows how it came to be or how its sciencifically possible, but the Carnotaur of Isla Sorna and Jurassic Park is the result of the ordeal. According to recent studies, the carnotaurus is actually like a cheetah, fast and furious. So, it mostly hunts small animals at night (but it does have some competition with the Ornitholestes sometimes). But with its color-changing ability advanced, it can deal with the environment where there is loads of competition. They tend to live in life-long breeding partners and have about, if the all the young are succesful, 10 offspring in its whole life time. Their life span is around 25 years and are sexually-mature at the age of 18 years (and have about 1-2 offspring each year, for 5 years) and are sterile at 23 years of age. With the islands size and the number of sauropods (which are, as I mentioned before, it's main food source) on the island, this is a good survival skill. Not much else is known about them, as the are rare, nocturnal, and their advanced color-changing ability makes them difficult to spot.
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1)Ecosystem of Isla Sorna Cover: [link]
2)Map of Isla Sorna
3)Introduction Summary
4)Tyrannosaurus Rex
5)Maiasaura
6)Pachycephalosaurus
7)Procompsognathus
8)Apatosaurus
9)Stegosaurus
10)Triceratops
11)Parasaurolophus
12)Velociraptor
13)Carnotaurus(now here)
14)Other species
15)Conclusion

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