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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,478 Views)
CyborgIguana
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It's truly a freak of evolution!
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Fluffs
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Stan The Man
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A guy on QuizUp claims that deinonychosaurs were as intelligent as owls, however I'm very sure that they were actually as intelligent as ostriches, and from his other comments he seems very educated on dinosaurs. Anyone got something to add to this?
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Mathius Tyra
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I thought they were intelligent as hawks or eagle...

I might be wrong though. :P
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Similis
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From what I recall the estimates brain-to-body ratio would place them somewhere around a chicken in terms of intelligence :P
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Well, at least chicken can do some trick when lure with food! xD
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Jules
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Let's not forget that chickens are rather intelligent :P
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heliosphoros
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Of course, there's a world of difference between ostriches and chickens, with the former being exceptionally dumb and the latter being as cognitive as dogs.

I'd imagine deinonychosaurs would group with the former, being relatively basal "birds".
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Why would a basal bird need to be dumb, considering the ostrich is very highly derived and also very stupid, compared to the chicken which is both less derived and more intelligent?
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MrRabbid
Apr 7 2014, 12:39 PM
A guy on QuizUp claims that deinonychosaurs were as intelligent as owls, however I'm very sure that they were actually as intelligent as ostriches, and from his other comments he seems very educated on dinosaurs. Anyone got something to add to this?
QuizUp has a lot of info wrong. For instance, they say Tyrannosaurus isn't feathered, and they used JP raptors as Velociraptors.
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Dylan
Apr 7 2014, 07:37 PM
Why would a basal bird need to be dumb, considering the ostrich is very highly derived and also very stupid, compared to the chicken which is both less derived and more intelligent?
Ratites are some of the oldest bird groups, they are also the most distant to other bird groups, and having worked with a cassowary in a zoo before, I can tell you that they can be surprisingly smart, eg, hating us after splitting his enclosure (For a second cassowary), spitting out a new fruit in his food bucket, and the baby being inquisitive and playing with a water hose. Though the ostrich is the most derived besides the moas,rheas are the least derived, and their close relatives, the Tinamou, can still fly.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Ratites are primitive overall, not ostriches in their modern forms. Kiwis maybe.
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Similis
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Apr 7 2014, 01:11 PM
Let's not forget that chickens are rather intelligent :P
I should probably add that in the first place as I'm not sure if my post wasn't misunderstood:P From my own experience with chickens, aside from occassional instinct-fueled panic attacks the little buggers can be quite clever. Not corvid-level clever, obviously, but capable of solving problems that autonomously, some dogs would try to solve endlessly barking at.
Edited by Similis, Apr 8 2014, 01:28 AM.
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CyborgIguana
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And yet they are one of many animals with an undeserved reputation for being stupid.

BTW how smart are troodontids? I'm thinking somewhere around corvid levels, but I could be wrong.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 8 2014, 09:13 AM.
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Similis
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Just a little bit smarter than the dromaeosaurids :P IIRC most of their brain was responsible for processing the sensors.
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