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Theropods will hang around a carcass like this for weeks, gorging and then sleeping their meals off for days at a time.

8 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:17:21 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Ah, it was hot and sticky. We were soon panting and sweating like horses, when I picked up the smell of carrion and heard the thrumming of the flies.

- We found a huge ceratopsian lying dead in a little hollow on the edge of the copse. He must have weighed six or eight tons alive.

- Why couldn't I have gotten him before he died? That would have made a darned fine head.

- Look, on your toes, chaps. The theropod that's been at this carcass is probably nearby.

- How do you know? You see how the hide's been ripped off and the bones are scattered?

- Theropods will hang around a carcass like this for weeks, gorging and then sleeping their meals off for days at a time.

- What do we do?

- Well, that's what we came after.

- Raja, you take Mr. James through that way and we'll parallel you forty feet distant.

- Now, keep your eyes open. He'll be hard to see in these woods unless you're right on top of him.

- We pushed through the edge of the copse, looking for the huge flesh-eater who'd been at the carcass.

- I could hear James and the Raja pushing ahead on my right.

[...]

X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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