Well, let's get going. Time to see what's happening to our team.

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Eventually, the team notices the large herd begin to slow down. Curious, they circle around the herd to get a better look, careful to avoid looking suspicious to the plant eaters.

When finally manage to get around the herbivores, the results are stunning: Before them are so many animals of all shapes and sizes. Among them are horses, dogs, and even what appear to be mastodon. All of them surround a shrinking lake. A few weeks ago, it would have been huge, but now, it is barely larger than a cul-de-sac.

"Well, this is certainly spectacular," remarked Nigel. "Their are so many species here, it's truly a spectacular sight."

"So, what do we do now?" asks Alice.

"...Can we just take a moment to enjoy the view?" asks Violet.

"Well...actually, that's a good idea. Let's just watch," answers Alice.

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Meanwhile, a little ways away, the group's tail has also noticed the lake. The smell of fresh water proves to be a greater motivator than curiosity for the predators, for they abandon their observations and make toward the lake.

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The first thing that tells the team that something is off is when several of the drinking animals' ears suddenly go up at once. They are followed by several animals breaking away from their drinking and turning toward where the rhino and camel herd came from. Some animals become restless and start to move away.

Turning toward the path the had taken, the team finds themselves staring at a pride of cats. By the looks of it, they're saber tooths.

"What are those?" asked Tai.

"They're Machairodus," replies Nigel,"an early saber-tooth. These guys are the namesake of the saber-tooth family."

Despite their fearsome appearance, the cats have no interest in the herbivores. They simply find an open spot on the lakeshore and start drinking.

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Back at the park, Bob's hard at work making the new desert exhibits. Unfortunately, some of the residents are acting up.

Bob is moving a wheel barrel full of rough stones near a fence, only to be surprised by an angry Protoceratops.

And not by the most likely subjects.

"Argh, these little ones are nasty ones," remarks Bob. "It's funny, but even thought they were rescued with the raptors, they aren't really the problem. The raptors moved in just fine. The spend most of the day resting, so we hardly have any trouble from them. These little frilled fellas, though, really don't like me getting near their pen. I think they're building a nest. At least, Suzanne does."

Fortunately, Bob has a workaround.

A nearby keeper comes out holding a red flag. The ceratopsian shifts its attention toward the new comer, obviously agitated. Unlike bulls, the color red is agitating toward ceratopsids.

This gives Bob the chance to get his wheel barrow back and leave the area. By the time the dinosaur realizes what has happened, Bob has already left

Sometimes, old tricks still work.

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AN: Pretty short chapter, even by my standards, but I needed to make sure that I keep up my personnel schedule.

Also, some notes:

1. Machairodus really is the namesake of the saber tooths, as their family is called the machairodontines.

2. Velociraptor was mostly determined to be a nocturnal animal, hence why it is described as such in this chapter.

3. The protoceratops' behavior was based on modern boars, hence the aggression.

4. If you forgot, the Velociraptors and Protoceratops were rescued before the park was made, and arrived at the halfway point of Chapter 3.

5. Though it hasn't been mentioned yet, there is one other proboscidean by the watering hole in Miocene Arizona.

6. This is at Groudon65: While I do plan to rescue Deinocheirus, Tarbosaurus will not be rescued with it. I'm saving him for when I rescue a certain type of lambeosaur. ANd sorry, but it won't be called Speckles. Alioramus was already planned for that mission, though, and Saichania has been added to the roster.

7. This is at ZaneAkker: I don't have enough info right now to be able to rescue the Canadian variety of Dimetrodon (I need at least one other macro organism to rescue with it), and Plateosaurus is only a European genus (though their are prosauropod tracks similar to it from the Chinle formation), so I cannot oblige your requests.

Well, that's that.

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