Do you want to have a baby Triceratops live on your computer? If so, now's your chance! This little dinosaur comes complete with a watermelon, water, a ball, a figurine (the Sprite Library identified him as Sam), and monitors for hunger, thirst, and boredom. Just be sure to be careful with the numbers on the monitors. It's not like the creature will die when too much digital bodily and emotional stress is weighed on it. But when the level of hunger, thirst, or boredom goes above 0, feel free to support the dinosaur by clicking on the other sprites to lower it back down. Here is a guide to doing just that: Hunger: watermelon Thirst: water Boredom: ball, figurine Have fun!
I got the idea for this project after reading The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth. The main character is a boy named Nate living on a farm in northern New Hampshire and whose family owns a hen who, one day, lays a huge egg (hence the book's title.) But the real star of the book is what comes out of it: not quadruplet chicks, but a live baby Triceratops! Nate and his family nurtures it on the farm for most of the start of summer. When the Triceratops, named Uncle Beasley, gets too big for them to handle, Nate goes with it to the Smithsonian Zoo. Chaos ensues throughout the book. It was written in the 1950s, so there are scientific inaccuracies, but it's exciting anyway. Read it; you'll love it.
