Night drive.

Sometimes when I'm driving home late at night, and there is no one on the road, I like to pretend that orca whales are swimming in the lane next to mine, jumping in and out from the asphalt, and, because my car is black and small, they think I'm one of them and they accompany me home.

Velociraptors: Cats in scales.

I recently finished watching Jurassic Parks I and II. I was watching the crew members behind the scenes, creating from bones creatures that had been dead for 65 million years (give or take) and they based the dinosaur movements off of relatives of dinosaurs that are alive today: elephants, giraffes, crocodiles, and rhinos. (It was awesome; they were all running around committing to being the animals.)

Anyways with this in mind I was watching the scene in the second movie where the velociraptors are hiding in the long grass (like the clever girls they are) and I immediately giggled out, "CATS!"to which my sister agreed. Its the way they whip their tails about and crouch down, stalking their prey. And I knew that the film was trying to be accurate and therefore that is definitely how raptors move and I am positive that cats are distant relatives of a direct line.

It makes sense. First, cats enjoy killing for fun. Second, cats stalk their prey. Third, cats eat things while they are still alive. Fourth, they walk on the balls of their feet (and would love heels).

I'm looking into their ability to hunt as a horde (as raptors are known to do).