PREHISTORIC BY THE NUMBERS
Dinosaurs Alive’s new animatronic dinosaurs have taken the Calgary Zoo’s newly reopened and refreshed Prehistoric Park by storm. The 18 new additions join 13 dinosaur models already inhabiting the space. Creating these massive animatronic creatures involve some pretty impressive numbers. Here are some of the most fascinating facts to put these prehistoric beasts into perspective.
56
How many long, sharp teeth the Mama animatronic T.Rex has. Her baby T.Rex hasn’t grown into his full set of chompers yet, so he has only 52. Each tooth is set individually into the models’ jaws.
8,675
How many kilograms (19,125 pounds) the animatronic dinosaurs in Dinosaurs Alive weigh. If these dinosaurs were real-life versions, they’d weigh in at a whopping 86,170 kg (189,972 pounds) in total.
$1M
The combined cost of bringing the revamped Dinosaurs Alive back to the zoo. Approximately $400,000 of that money was spent renovating Prehistoric Park itself.
1937
The year Dinny took up residence at the zoo. The Apatosaurus statue is 9.75 metres (32 feet) and weighs 120,000 kg (264,555 pounds). The zoo plans to restore Dinny and relocate him to a central area.
320
Approximately how many times a day each of the animatronic dinos is activated. Out of the 18 new dinosaurs, 16 of them are equipped with sensors that trigger movement.