Re: smartest therapods?

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

> Wished I could say "tyrannosaurid", but while they were mental giants 
> compared to carnosaurs, they were lacking in the ol' neurological 
> department compared to maniraptoriforms (ornithomimosaurs, 
> therizinosaurs, alvarezsaurids, oviraptorosaurs,
> troodontids, dromaeosaurids, and birds). Of these  latter, the first 
> three have relatively small heads to body size (less so in 
> alvarezsaurids than first thought), so their EQ (encephalization 
> quotients) would not be particular big. Troodon comes out pretty
> well, but to be fair no oviraptorosaurs or dromaeosaurids were 
> included in those classic studies, and they might be comparable to the 
> troodontids.

Didn't the study that was recently posted to the list dictate that the 
most intelligent extant birds[by supposed IQ] didn't necessarily have 
the largest brain-to-body ratio?