Off topic again but.. just so you know, kindergartners are not 'stupid'.
Young children are able to learn things much easier/faster than older children/adults.. so they aren't stupid, perhaps ignorant of the truth about certain things, would be a better description?
They are starting to teach them foreign languages starting in kindergarten now. It just depends on what they have been taught. Many small children might be frightened learning about dinosaurs that young but dumbing it down doesn't help so they should just wait till later when they can handle hearing about what the dinosaurs really were, and that they didn't sing and the babies of all species didn't lay together like the land before time.. that those ideas are just pretend... they could tell them that.
Of course every kid is different.. my niece is 9 and has a pink room with fairies and butterflies and everything pink and HUGE poster of a T-Rex ripping the flesh out of a living Triceratops. lol.
I would love to bring my Pleos down to the local school when the students are learning about dinosaurs or if they ever learn about robots, like I used to do with my parrots, but I would want to have very accurate information about the real Camarasaurus and probably the other Dinosaurs that are out as robot toys right now since the kids probably have some of those.. We could talk about the differances in the robot and the real dinosaur.. That way they would actually learn something.
oh and allosaurus, : "
Think about this:
A large herd of ornithomimusaurs ("ostrich dinosaurs") are grazing on the tall ferns nearby. Little do they know that something is ambushing them, something about as fast as themselves, and far more cunning. The creature ambushing thm happens to be a Utahraptor. To be more specific, a small pack of four Utahraptors. When the time is right, the Utahraptors rush out of the bushes, and screech to eachother in complex calls, picking out an old and weak individual in the ornithomimusaurs. Two of the Utahraptors dart in front of their prey, using their feathers for an extra speed boost. They chase the ornithomimusaur to the other two Utahraptors, lying in wait in some very tall plants. They both jump out. The ornithomumisaur is surrounded. The lead Utahraptor jumps onto it, and even though it's still very well alive, they eat it anyways."
Lions do the same thing, so do wolves, so do coyotes, and while that sounds like an awesome scenario, it seems like we learn more and more about them every day, like feathers suddenly popping up (which explains why my parrots always loved watching Jurassic park??? Or were they mad because they secretly knew they got the dinosaurs wrong and from the wrong eras...hehehe)
So how do we even know that was something that could have happened.. just like them telling us T-Rex may have been more of a scavenger now.. Anyways we should start a post in the 'anything' section about real dinosaurs so we can talk about it and learn more about the real dinosaurs.
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Anyways.. I'm glad everyone is enjoying the robots that they prefer and while I have not personally interacted with this D-Rex Character.. they always depict him on TV as such a 'toy' and in the YouTube videos the huge feet bother me.. I'm sure they serve to keep him balanced so that they didn't have to make him bigger or something, but I prefer mine without remote controls also and I just don't think he's for me. I might get an aibo someday and I will probably get one or more of those other dinos you guys are talking about, like the D-Rex, and stuff, for Christmas this year for the kids unless they'd rather have another Pleo. Up to them.. then again, I am always interested in seeing interactions between the Pleos and other robots so if they interact, it might make me want to get one.
Also, My RB's do something new everyday.. I know mine aren't that old and some things will get repetitive, but it seems pretty balanced out.. they don't always respond to everything in the same way and different Pleos seem to react to different things in different ways.. Also, sometimes I get annoyed when my Jack Russell wants to play tug or catch 567 times in a row but that's who he is and even though it might be 'repetitive' I love him
- sarah
