Raptors tap their claws while hunting because they're excited to be hunting, doing what they're made for doing.

On-screen portrayals. The various creatures in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films were created through a combination of animatronics and computer-generated imagery (CGI). For each of the films, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has handled dinosaur scenes that required CGI.

It may come as a surprise to you then that the Jurassic Park dinosaurs were not accurate depictions of what the dinosaurs were really like and some of them (the velociraptors in particular) were deliberately different. Despite these inaccuracies, dinosaur fans continue to love and celebrate these movies.

So what all of these animals. Using their sickle claw in the same. Way. For the longest time sickle claws were interpreted as slashing weapons used against either their prey or other Raptors.

And some vultures.

Dinosaurs arose from small dinosauromorph ancestors in the Triassic period, when the climate was harsh and dry. They faced "competition from the croc-line archosaurs for tens of millions of years, [but] finally prevailed when Pangaea began to split," Brusatte told Live Science.

dinosaur Nigersaurus Bizarre 500-toothed dinosaur On our first day, we found bones of the long-necked dinosaur Nigersaurus. Nigersaurus, you might remember, we named for bones collected on the last expedition here three years ago. This sauropod (long-necked dinosaur) has an unusual skull containing as many as 500 slender teeth.

Velociraptor Deinonychus was the model for the “raptor” dinosaurs of the motion picture Jurassic Park (1993). The name raptor has come to apply to dromaeosaurs in general as a contraction for Velociraptor, a genus of dromaeosaur that was considerably smaller than Deinonychus.

Like other Dromaeosaurids, it had a long tail and large feet with three strongly curved claws similar to the wing bones of modern birds. It also had long, wing-like arms and a wishbone similar to those of modern birds, but they were not big enough to support flight.

When you look at a raptor's talons, what you are seeing is a hard covering made up of keratin that protects the bone underneath. This covering, or sheath, is made up of layers of keratin, a structural protein similar to human nails.

So what all of these animals. Using their sickle claw in the same. Way. For the longest time sickle claws were interpreted as slashing weapons used against either their prey or other Raptors.

When you look at a raptor's talons, what you are seeing is a hard covering made up of keratin that protects the bone underneath. This covering, or sheath, is made up of layers of keratin, a structural protein similar to human nails.