I mean, if you think of it - any wild animal, be it a bird, rodent, bug, lizard can go near to the plants and escape, spreading the plants outside of the ruin.
Unless, of course, this plant ONLY eats human flesh, which is a bit unrealistic - we are after all, mammals ourselves.
On a side note, if the plant is so deadly, why not just cover the entire ruin in gasoline and light it ablaze?
The animals probably had a 6th sense to stay away. Most are sensitive about bad places.
sharewas there any evidence of animals or birds being there? (its been a while since i saw it so can't remember). if i not i would suggest the birds and the bees knew better than to go there with animal/plant telepathy.
shareWhile I agree with burning the whole place down, it was mentioned amongst the characters about realizing that the animals learned to stay away from the ruins.
shareThey do mention in the film, "It's really old. Birds and insects know not to land here."
shareWell for a start the horses at the beginning were freaking out when approaching the ruins.
sharethe horses at the beginning were freaking out when approaching the ruins
In the book it mentions that they're surprised by the lack of insects on their way down the trail to the ruins. There is also a part where Jeff walks down the hill in the dark on the first night and the "birds" make loads of noise which tells the Mayans that he's coming, but it turns out that the vines are making the noise. There is a further part where Jeff and Mathias are talking (Mathias doesn't fall down the shaft in the book) and they're considering spearing birds with the tent poles, but the birds are too far away as if they know not to come anywhere near the ruins.
shareYeah sure animals have a sixth sense. How come dogs bumble across my path when I'm out running? Surely their normal senses would alert them.
Animals are as dopey as us.
LMAO!
sharelol I see your point, but our dogs are waaaay domesticated and not so bright when it comes to instinct. You wouldn't catch a wolf or a wild dog doing that.
...then whoa, differences...
I wonder the exact same thing about nerds who're jogging and riding in the middle of the road on their bicycles when I'm driving. Take your damn ear buds out, hipster.
"Outa the way, exercisers!!!"
I think that the flesh eating plants were somehow linked to the Gods that the natives believed in.
And they had to sacrifice humans in order to not have those plants overflooding the jungle.
I think potentially that the humans that become the sacrifice have to die under their own will or by their own action somehow, all the tourists deaths were caused by their own actions making them a valid sacrifice or whatever...
I mean that's the only sense I can make it, cause if the natives wanted to they could have killed them all from the gate, they were never gonna let them leave under any circumstances.
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