Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-25192437-20161016004656/@comment-16461120-20161025063030

I believe it's intentional, a variation of Henry Wu's Lysine Contingency from Jurassic Park, where he made the dinosaurs all lysine deficient so that without human handlers to supply the missing component, they would become comatose and die; however, in Michael Crichton's work, the animals are smart enough to find foods rich in lysine regardless of the geneticist's best effort at controlling their population.