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Re: dromaeosaurid intelligence

While I find it a little difficult to buy the idea that Velociraptor and it's kin might have had the intelligence of chimpanzees, I don't see how such a notion can be so easily dismissed.  Granted, even Utahraptor's brain isn't the same size as that of a chimpanzee, but is there a clear correllation between brain mass and IQ?

>From: Luis Rey
>Reply-To: luisrey@ndirect.co.uk
>To: farlow@IPFW.EDU, dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: Re: dromaeosaurid intelligence
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:24:07 +0100
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>James Farlow wrote:
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> > Based on my experience with emus, this means that, to take a scene from JP1, a person wouldn't have to worry about dromaeosaurids figuring out how to turn door knobs to get at tasty preteens hiding in a room.
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>Let alone having hands constructed so they would have been able to open them. If we were pushed to >really<
>portray them as intelligent as chimps(which is beyond laughable), we'd have to make them use the jaws to open the doors instead of those sideway-motion, wing-like folding hooks they had for hands.
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>But then... who's Spielberg to care? He only wants 'realistic' monsters, not accuracy. Get me Monty Python or Terry Gilliam anytime, they'd do a better job and the humor would be intentional!
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>Luis Rey
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>Visit my website on http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~luisrey
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