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Stupid German Dinosaurs (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Sterile_Technique 64 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Random thought prompted by this thread...

So birds are basically just tiny descendants of dinosaurs, right? Parrots, corvids, and a few others are capable of mimicry.... were there any dinos that shared that trait?

Dude from Jurassic Park: "Clever girl..."

Raptor: "CLEVER GIRL! raptor bark sound thing CLEVER GIRL!" eats his face

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

bear in mind that birds are a specific branch of dinosaurs, closest related to stuff like velociraptor.

so it's a pretty good bet that raptors would make bird-like noises (though probably less complex and lower pitched), but doubtful that a stegosaurus would sound anything like a bird.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

If only! Imagine a gigantic stegosaurus or triceratops tweeting away sweetly like a song bird.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Idk man there are some birds that don't even sound like birds.

Imagine a dinosaur sized shoebill snapping it's beak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You mean like Terror Birds?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Annihilation flashbacks...

[–] TheBat 1 points 10 months ago

Hheellllpp mmeeee

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think i read somewhere that velociraptors were about as smart as a dog. Convergent evolution, because both are group-hunting predators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So are dolphins (group hunting predators). Pretty sure they rank a lot higher than a dog on the intelligence scale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

But they rank lower on the good boy scale so it evens out

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 10 months ago

"What the hell are you?"