Zookeepers Are Recreating Chris Pratt’s Jurassic World Raptor Training With Non-Extinct Animals

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Jun 17, 2015 02:37 pm

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I don’t think it’s presumptuous of me to say Chris Pratt and his Raptor Gang (as one entity) are the real stars of Jurassic World. But some fun-loving zookeepers may just be stealing their thunder.

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#raptorsquad #clevergirls #chrispratt #raptorshotremake

A photo posted by Susie Rodenkirchen Walker (@susiethefivetoedsloth) on Jun 17, 2015 at 7:23am PDT

We are recreating Chris Pratt's raptor control from #JurassicWorld – with our Southern White Rhinos! pic.twitter.com/ntnm1UsibJ

— Lion Country Safari (@LionCountry) June 17, 2015

And then an animal a bit closer to the raptor…

Nailed. It. #jurrasicworld #raptors #rheas #keeprlife #properclickertraining #zookeeper #chrispratt @prattprattpratt #goingviral #JurassicZookeeper A photo posted by Nicole Leslie (@leslieisthelastname) on Jun 16, 2015 at 5:03pm PDT

Jurassic Keeper. #jurassicworld #dinosaur #emu #jurassiczookeeper #animal #movie

A photo posted by Jon Ovens (@parrotman_jon) on Jun 15, 2015 at 11:13pm PDT

And then…

http://belladonnaq.tumblr.com/post/120993270014/nailed-it

#jurassiczookeeper @sacramentozoo

A photo posted by Mike Owyang (@ohmygoat1) on Jun 14, 2015 at 9:08pm PDT

But also, I’m kind of thinking this one is my favorite.

In which I try to train my stuffed toys at home. Chris Pratt will have more success than me, I guess. #JurassicZoo pic.twitter.com/G7W6TdY8y8 — Apple Writer (@applewriter) June 17, 2015

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."