![]() ![]() “I mean, what were they eating while they were reproducing? And how did they get to this huge population size with nobody noticing? There’s no confirmation whether these creatures are terrestrial or extra-terrestrial, but the filmmakers are making some massive presumptions about auto-intolerance. Real-life creatures with poor or no eyesight include: Cavefish, Blind Huntsman Spiders, Blind Flatworms, Star-Nosed Moles, Eyeless Shrimp, Texas Salamanders. The question is, how do you conjure that one?” Blindness: The species would have evolved in a completely dark environment. It was quite ridiculous that there were hundreds of millions of said creatures. ![]() ![]() And the thing with bats is that they reproduce incredibly slowly. One of the big problems I had with The Silence was that the only thing that’s similar to the creatures in that movie – which are essentially blind, carnivorous birds - are bats. “Well, the most likely explanation for loss of vision would be if said species had evolved in a completely dark environment, like a cave. How would a predatory species come to be blind? John, let’s start with the creature’s blindness. “You should also know that my favourite movie is Casablanca.” “I’ll try my best to explain how they might have come to be,” says John. In the absence of Sir David Attenborough’s dulcet tones, John will have to do. Spidery limbs propelling said creatures to astonishing speeds. We’ve come to talk to John because, with the release of A Quiet Place Part II imminent, we want to better understand the monsters that made the 2018 original such an unnerving watch. And we’re here for John’s ecological expertise rather than his movie knowledge. “But hey, the two plots sound extremely alike,” he says. He’s thinking of Netflix’s The Silence, a middling end-of-days Stanley Tucci vehicle, largely forgettable but for some good monsters and a decent Kiernan Shipka performance. Born in New Zealand, raised in England, John thinks he’s seen A Quiet Place… until he realises he hasn’t. John Anderson, a lecturer in ecology, animal behaviour and more, at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. “Bear in mind that I principally study seabirds,” laughs Dr. ![]()
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