User blog comment:GSFB/Velociraptor (Jurassic Park) vs Wolfen/@comment-5232784-20130810153027

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1. short range

While the Velociraptor has a long snout filled with serrated teeth, the Wolfe's jaws are short yet powerful, with  huge fangs on both upper and lower jaws. The Wolfen jaws are probably more powerful relatively speaking, but the Velociraptor jaws are so much larger, they can cause the more serious injury

EDGE: Velociraptor

2. Mid range

Both animals have razor sharp talons. The Velociraptor's hands and feet wield nasty claws, especially their giant toe claws, which can gut a man. The Wolfen claws are retractable, which keeps them sharp, perhaps even sharper than those of Velociraptor. Their claws and paws are so well developed that they defy evolutionary law: nothing in nature is as advanced as the wolfen fore paw and their claws, when it comes to killing. Still, Velociraptor has the longer range and more power to its leg strikes, and has larger claws on its limbs than the Wolfen, so they have a big edge

EDGE: Velociraptor

3. Intelligence

Velociraptor, accodirng to Dr Grant, are smarter than dolphins or (non-human) primates. They can send out a decoy aong their number to get their prey's attention, and then attack the prey from the sides before they know what hit them.

However, the Wolfen have human-level thought and emotions. They likewise will at times lure their prey at times with a decoy (one to run from their stalkers, say human or dog, and then the whole pack leaps down from the trees or darts to their stalkers, slaying them). They also will wound one of their prey in order for them to call out to others, so that more will arrive to help out. This is when they launch a surprise attack, a method used by guerillas today. They are so smart that they have remained undetected by humanity until the 1970's (the time perod of the book "The Wolfen"), save for the few exceptional souls who found them, and even these people were eliminated by the wolfen in order to keep their existence a secret. Wolfen eat their own dead completely whole in order to hide their existence. Their intelligence far surpasses that of Velociraptors.

EDGE: Wolfen

4. Speed.

Both animals are lightning fast.l Velociratpor achieves cheetah speed, 60-70 mph. In the book "The Wolfen", two wolfen run after two cops on motorcycles, and keep with them for a while. They eventually disengage, though the pack hints that the wolfen could have kept pace with the cops. This doesn;t mean that they could achieve the top speeds of a Police motorcycle (The setting in the Book is New York: with all the traffic around, all the people walking the streets, it would be nearly impossible at times to achieve full speed on a motorcycle, and there was traffic at the time this event took place). Still, this is indicative of super speed, perhaps Cheetah speed.

However, one factor that is worth noting is how quickly these animals can go from 0 to real fast. Velociraptor can achieve full speed in probably a few seconds. Yet Wolfen can go from 0 to astonishing speeds: when a cop sees them from a cross the street and pulls out their gun, they don;t just run away: its as if they dissappear in a flash. Withi one second, they are there, then they are gone. In another instance, a cop goes to get his weapon, but a wolfen maybe 10-20 feet away rushes and bites the cop's hand before he can touch his weapon.

Though both animals are very fast, I give this to the Wolfen due to attaining incredible speed much faster than Velociraptor.

EDGE: Wolfen

5. Strategy

This was mentioned in the intelligence section: while Velociraptor can utilize their own as decoys, the Wolfen do this and more, performing guerilla tactics in their hunts. What is very interesting about the Wolfen is that they can climb, both trees and some buildings (like a 4 story apartment building, etc). They can leap down, bringing death from above. We never see Velociraptor using this technique while hunting.

Though both utilize superb strategy (such as using the cover of vegetation to hide themselves from the eyes of prey), the Wolfen win out over Velociraptor by a long shot.

EDGE: Wolfen

6. Physicality

The Wolfe lose out here: while they can reach the size of large timber wolves, 180 lbs, the Raptors can reach 300 lbs at least. They are larger, stronger animals, and can take more damage.

EDGE: Velociraptor

To me, it comes down to speed and intelligence. The Wolfen can attain great speeds in quicker time than Velociraptor, and are more intelligent by far. They are sentient. Velociraptors are brainy, but they still have the minds of animals: the wolfen might as well be sentint beings from another solar system. They have their own language (facial expressons, gestures, noises, all combined into a complicated language on par with human language), they have guerilla tactics, they have remain hidden from humanity for countless millennia despite constantly predating on them, and despite living worldwide, wherever the food is...That takes amazing brainpower. They may not know how to use guns or understand elementary math, but in some ways they are smarter than human beings, and their intelligence simply outshines its enemy here, in spades. Speed plus intelligence equals an astonishing, overwhelming victory.

No contest.

WOLFEN WAYLAYS VELOCIRAPTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!