Timeline for How could pirates reasonably transport dinosaurs in captivity, some of them enormous, across oceans?
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| Dec 13, 2019 at 0:42 | vote | accept | Mahab | ||
| Dec 5, 2019 at 22:20 | answer | added | Buck Thorn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 22:14 | comment | added | Buck Thorn | If Hannibal could get elephants (a warm-blooded mammal) to Europe (which presumably he did at the straight of Gibraltar), dinosaurs should be a cinch. I'd assume the dinosaurs were cold-blooded and put them in the hold with lots of ice. Then let the ice melt and see all hell break loose. | |
| Dec 5, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Drag and Drop | May I advice you try ARK. At first you will try to Punch the Dinos, then you will discover how easy it is to steal eggs. You will soon craft narcos to drug them and nest to bring them down. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 20:33 | comment | added | JAB | @M.A.Golding They aren't just smugglers, they're poachers. Poaching is taken very seriously in some places (to the point of "shoot on sight" policies in some nature reserves), as it often results in significant decreases of the population of endangered species in their native areas. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 15:20 | answer | added | GridAlien | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 13:06 | answer | added | Kami | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 10:31 | answer | added | Cyril D. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 21:46 | comment | added | Mahab | @M.A.Golding You make a good point there. It wasn't really relevant to the question so I didn't explain, but the pirates are not solely smugglers for the most part. In my mind, they aren't all evil. Sure, there are some very bad people in there, but really its a hodgepodge mix of traditonal 'pirates', outlaws, escaped slaves, free people in search of fortune, and of course - smugglers. The dinosaur thing isn't what defines them. In fact, the majority of them aren't into it or don't know about it. Generally its the people buying these creatures that are more on the evil end of the spectrum. | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 18:25 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @Mahab describing the persons who capture exotic animal s alive and transport them by sea as "pirates" is inaccurate. Pirates are evil criminals who attack ships and sell the goods they steal for profit. The main crime your animal transporters commit seems to be smuggling forbidden goods, which is much less evil than piracy. So if the characters who smuggle exotic animals are merely smugglers and not pirates they will be much less evil. | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:05 | answer | added | Roger | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | SRM | @user28434 or if the animals make and sail their own vessels, on which they are captured. :-) | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 14:02 | history | edited | SRM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 12:54 | comment | added | user28434 | @ths, if they capture animals from the vessels of others, they can | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 11:49 | comment | added | Mahab | Yes, roughly. I mentioned Roman rule to convey the technology level in the novel. The 'Romans' aren't actually Roman as this isn't an alternate history, but they are probably most similar to my ruling nation. If I'm honest I still need to do a good bit of research on naval capabilities of those times but for the sake of the story let assume the shipbuilding has progressed a great deal faster than it did in our world so we do have ships that can reliably cross oceans (though not without risk) | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 11:47 | comment | added | ths | can someone who is hired to capture animals really be called a "pirate"? | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | aloisdg | Ixalan 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 7:12 | comment | added | vsz | What is the level of technology? There were pirates in the bronze age, there were pirates with 18th century tall ships, and there are pirates now with speedboats and AK-47s. You mention Roman rule, so is the level of technology roughly late antiqiuty? | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 6:58 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 3, 2019 at 1:17 | comment | added | John | very relevant story. outsideonline.com/2086576/… | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 0:04 | answer | added | Halfthawed | timeline score: 140 | |
| Dec 2, 2019 at 23:38 | answer | added | Gustavo | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2019 at 23:33 | answer | added | Mathaddict | timeline score: 14 | |
| Dec 2, 2019 at 22:46 | history | asked | Mahab | CC BY-SA 4.0 |