With their cover blown, the dinosaurs abandon their attack and are not seen again. However, Sarah and Levine scare them off with flashlights. They then approach Thorne at the shed but are too large to enter.
When Levine turns on the lights to the building the rest were hiding in, the Carnotaurus were briefly exposed to the light before camouflaging again. Thorne was first to be aware of their presence, hearing them breathe when he was about to leave the shed. Later on, a pair of Carnotaurus come near an abandoned shed at the worker village where Levine, Arby, Kelly, Thorne, Sarah Harding, and Ian Malcolm are all hiding. Near the beginning of the second novel, a Carnotaurus kills Dr Levine's guide, Diego, by ambushing him, and dragging him into some nearby ferns, where it promptly kills him. A perfect example in the novel as to how little the scientist really know about the creatures, as they are perfect ambush predators but are too slow to actually give chase to prey that might become alerted to their presence. They have near perfect chameleon-like camouflage, able to replicate even patterns and shadows on their skin. Carnotaurus is encountered in The Lost World.
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