Tranquilizer Weapons

Tranquilizer weapons are usually used to sedate animals for research or defense purposes. Biologists and medics are trained to use tranquilizers.

Sedative Effects
The effects of the tranquilizer drug in question will have different effects on different animals. The exact effect will be listed on the creature's page, but here is a general guideline for determining stats:

Size
In general, the smaller the animal, the faster a tranquilizer drug takes effect.

Ectothermic Animals
This includes any creature that is not one categorized in the below sections. They have an ectothermic metabolism (Often known as "cold-blooded"). The effects of tranquilizer drugs on these creatures is slower than usual due to their internal physiology.

Dinosaurs
Larger dinosaurs possess a metabolism that is known as "mesothermic". They have a metabolism that is intermediate between ectothermic (cold-blooded) and endothermic (warm-blooded) animals. As a result the effects of sedatives on these dinosaurs are somewhere in between the other two types. However, since tranquilizer drugs are not designed to work on animals with this metabolism (it is not found in the modern day) the effects may be erratic.

Smaller dinosaur species are fully endothermic, and such fall into the below category.

Endothermic Animals
This includes mammals, birds, and small dinosaurs. Sedatives are deisgned to use on these types of creatures, and so generally have the normal effects.