Wow, this game is hard!

http://www.addictinggames.com/fourleafclover.html

Find the four-leaf-clover in the field. Challenging!

I found six of them in the allotted time.

Such a clever girl.. :wink:

Slan,
D.

Isn’t that what the Jurassic Park gamekeeper said to the velociraptor just before it ate him?

..ate him?

..clever girl??

I must be missying something here :laughing:

Slan,
D.

All the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were supposed to be females so they wouldn’t breed. Didn’t work.

Were they lesbians? And if so, how did they have babies (assuming they did)?

Oh, that’s right - some people don’t watch movies! :slight_smile:

Some of the female dinosaurs mutated into males and then they bred.

You mean they didn’t even have to take hormones or have surgery? :stuck_out_tongue:

I think some female snakes and/or fish species can do that in real life (grow penes and make babies). I’m positive there’s a technical scientific name for female animals changing gender like that, but I forgot it.

That’s the excuse used in the book. There were several parallel themes running through the story, one of them being that nature/life always finds a way to survive. The guys restoring the dinosaur DNA in the story didn’t have complete gene sequences, so they used bits of frog DNA to fill in the gaps. As you noted, some frog species have the ability to change sex in times of need to ensure the breed continues, and that’s what happened to the restored dinosaurs. Like most other book-to-movie transfers, the book was far more coherent. The movie was done for eye-popping special effects.

djm

protandry and protogyny depending on the gender you’re changing into

You are so awesome for knowing that. I thought it was dysmorphsomething.

You could always look it up.

In the movie Jurassic Park, the gamekeeper was hunting some escaped velociraptors. He spotted one in the distance and was taking aim when a 2nd raptor poked her head out of the thick brush right next to him. He just had time to mutter “clever girl” before she pounced. Cue messy death for gamekeeper.

I tried but I didn’t know what to search for, not knowing the actual words.

Well, that’s the whole point of looking things up, isn’t it? To find out what the actual words are?

If you already knew them, then you wouldn’t have to look them up!

Try looking up “gender change” or “frog gender change.” Try several things until you start getting what you want.

The nice thing about looking it up on your own is that you get to learn a lot more than just the words themselves. You acquire interesting information along the way to those words.

Have you ever heard about “teaching someone to fish, as opposed to handing them a fish?” If you start looking things up yourself, you learn how to fish, so to speak. If you just sit waiting for someone to give you a fish dinner, all you ever get is the same old fish dinner . . . it’s usually cheap fish, it doesn’t always arrive on time, and you might not like the way they cook it.

Considering that you’re a vegetarian, learning to forage on your own would prevent you from having nothing to eat but those nasty fish dinners.

I tried that (but not with those exact words) but I still couldn’t find out what it was called. Protogyny is a very specific happening and not a very easy word to find. Forgive me, please.

Nothing is easy to find if you don’t know what it is. You need to learn more about searching, so that you can find things more easily.

Be grateful you have a computer. It used to be worse.

Here’s how to learn. Now that you know what the term is, look up protogyny. Learn about what it is. That should tell you what terms you could have searched for to end up with “protogyny.” Now use those to search. Yes, you already have the definition, but trying this again, in reverse, will help you learn for next time. You’ll learn how to search more effectively, so that you find what you need.

Does that mean you forgive me? :wink:

Not until you’ve looked this up and made some Useful Discoveries from it.