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Robert Muldoon is the Jurassic Park warden. Along with Dr. Henry Wu and John Arnold, he bears responsibility for showing John Hammond’s early guests around the island. Muldoon grew up in Kenya and spent his early career as a guide for big game hunters. Subsequently, however, he changed paths and became a conservationist and wildlife consultant for zoos and nature preserves around the world. Muldoon doesn’t share Hammond’s or Wu’s easy assurance about their ability to control and contain the park’s dinosaurs. His experience with modern apex predators makes him cautious, and he feels that the dinosaurs that prove themselves to be particularly dangerous should be exterminated. In this way, Muldoon represents a more moderate and appropriate view of nature than the other park employees, since he recognizes his relative powerlessness—at least as long as he isn’t armed with guns and rockets—against poorly understood, massive, prehistoric predators.
Robert Muldoon Quotes in Jurassic Park
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Muldoon worried even more about the velociraptors. They were instinctive hunters, and they never passed up prey. They killed even when they weren’t hungry. They killed for the pleasure of killing. They were swift: strong runners and astonishing jumpers. They had lethal claws on all four limbs; one swipe of a forearm would disembowel a man, spilling his guts out. And they had powerful tearing jaws that ripped flesh instead of biting it. They were far more intelligent than the other dinosaurs, and they seemed to be natural cage-breakers. […] Raptors were at least as intelligent as chimpanzees. And, like chimpanzees, they had agile hands that enabled them to open doors and manipulate objects. They could escape with ease. And when, as Muldoon had feared, one of them finally escaped, it killed two construction workers and maimed a third before it had been captured.
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Robert Muldoon Quotes in Jurassic Park
The Jurassic Park quotes below are all either spoken by Robert Muldoon or refer to Robert Muldoon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Third Iteration: Big Rex
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Muldoon worried even more about the velociraptors. They were instinctive hunters, and they never passed up prey. They killed even when they weren’t hungry. They killed for the pleasure of killing. They were swift: strong runners and astonishing jumpers. They had lethal claws on all four limbs; one swipe of a forearm would disembowel a man, spilling his guts out. And they had powerful tearing jaws that ripped flesh instead of biting it. They were far more intelligent than the other dinosaurs, and they seemed to be natural cage-breakers. […] Raptors were at least as intelligent as chimpanzees. And, like chimpanzees, they had agile hands that enabled them to open doors and manipulate objects. They could escape with ease. And when, as Muldoon had feared, one of them finally escaped, it killed two construction workers and maimed a third before it had been captured.
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