I was abducted by aliens, drifted in the black void of space, and then came back to Earth in the span of a year later. So, let's discuss what is coming to Scribbling Primate.
The sole two articles on this blog focused on Zoo Tycoon, but I plan to move away from Zoo Tycoon. Not because I grown to dislike nor I've lost interest in the franchise, I play the games weekly, rather I want to write about other subjects that I'm passionate about, and there is only so much things you can discuss about Zoo Tycoon before you run out of material unless you want to dig up decades old drama from ghost towns of forums if you're a truly deprived attention seeker.
Luckily for you, my passionate subjects most likely aligns with yours already. I have been returning to my roots in paleontology and zoology. These yearnings have become stronger and stronger and I figured that I can start writing about these subjects alongside my other interests like speculative evolution, ancient and contemporary history, and even looking into some nostalgic subjects for me like old paleo documentaries and pulp fiction novels like Tarzan and Conan the Barbarian - atypical interest for a person of Gen Z.
In the foreseeable future, I will be writing a retrospective about Kulindadromeus as the tenth anniversary of its describing is coming up on July 24th of this year - a truly special Kulinday!
The article will focus on this dinosaur shifting major views within the discussions around dinosaurs and feathers alongside them becoming overshadowed over the past recent years. Kulindadromeus will always have a special place in my heart, and it should deserve more love and appreciation that it got back in 2014!
Additionally, I do want to dive into the Tapanuli orangutan population in captivity, this stems from a paper on the genome of captive orangutans mislabeling numerous specimens, and the implications to the already complex captive breeding program of orangutans in zoos. Another article that I want to work on discusses about chimpanzees shifting from being Edenic creatures to violent monsters in the general public alongside the issues of seeing intelligent animals with a bluntly black and white moral views. The latter article will take some time as I will be reading and searching for older literature, articles, and books for the subject.
And coming out next year, there will be a retrospective article about the #buildabetterfaketheropod. I've always wanted to talk about this and I figured to write about it on the 10th anniversary. I think the entire #buildabetterfaketheropod shows a wonderful range of nostalgia and soft reboots as Hollywood's safety blanket, the overanxious worries from young paleo fans about misinformation but eagerness of practicing scientific communications, and personal grievances about the Jurassic World franchise.
These will not be the only articles I will write, rather these are articles that I have a grasp and very keen to write about them at the moment! And hopefully, other articles will start spurting on this blog over time. This is a hobby that I've accidentally forgotten about and I'm really eager to return to it. I am excited where this will take me!
