Okay, there have several requests for gravid females, but the number 5 was very specific, and very special. It was chosen because 42 divided by wisserteen equals 5, but wisserteen times 5 does not equal 42. As a result you have to use two of your choices for a breeding pair if you want more dinosaurs.
However, in reality I have no control over the selection process, so you may as well go ahead and ask for what you want.
Ok, for those of you who are planning to interbreed your herds (assuming more than one of you gets dinosaurs), I’d like to hear more about your plans. I can’t say for sure, but I think it’s highly probable your designated areas won’t be very close to each other. So tell us about the great dinosaur drive to get them from one place to another.
Also, important information for you, whether or not you get gravid females, you’ll only get enough free food to feed the original 5 dinos you choose. You’ll have to find a way to feed the progeny yourself.
Also, a detail related to the moving and feeding them, the free food will be deposited at a location of your choice about 1 hour after dawn, on a daily basis. You can specify different locations for each type of food. However, you must call in your order before midnight of the previous day, no last minute changes. Large amounts of Sauropod Chow are just dumped off a truck, so you don’t even have to be there. Some dinosaurs could get into the 55 gallon drums of HealThieropod food on their own, but there’s a big warning label that says not to let dinos open or eat directly from the can.
Y’know, given that dinosaurs (at least the currently-living ones) use the ZW sex chromosome system, where the females are heterogametic, you should be able to clone both male and female animals from a single female specimen. So you can go ahead and go for a variety, and still end up with a naturally-breeding population for all five species.
Possibly not. It looks like the current avian sex chromosome configuration may be exclusively avian (i.e, their dinosaurian ancestors may not have had the same ZW setup). From here:
NB: by “exclusively avian”, I don’t mean no other groups have them. Only that, among dinosaurs, it may be an exclusive arrangement. Or, it might not be…
Nah, frozen semen FTW. I’d assume trike mating is a bit precarious at the best of times.
Given that triceratops is a low-growth herbivore (unless they knocked down trees) I’ll just need to find some nice bracken-covered hillsides for my herd. It’s often undergrowth in redwood forests, so after I sell my first few progeny, I’ll buy a big place in the Santa Cruz Mountains, or, oo, up in Humboldt county. Free ranging might be good for young triceratops-es.
I’ve seen how they collect bull semen. They used a quick, yet small of stature, Hispanic man with gloves and what looked like a stainless steel Erlenmeyer flask. How do you suggest one collect semen from Fluffy the Triceratops.