20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jurassic Park

6. The Raptors Kill For Sport

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There's an interesting line in The Lost World: Jurassic Park where the expedition's leader Peter Ludlow reassures the terrified group that "the rex just fed, so he won't be hunting for a while". While that's a callous way to refer to the man whose just been eaten alive, it's also entirely correct.

Which makes the behavior of the Velociraptors in this movie quite curious. In the final act of the movie they kill Robert Muldoon and Ray Arnold - two fully grown adults who would likely feed a pack of Raptors for a number of days - yet continue to hunt Tim, Lex, Dr. Grant, and Dr. Sattler.

While it's never stated on screen, this is because they're not hunting to eat, they're hunting for sport. One of the franchise's many hints at their intelligence.

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