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Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?



Graydon writes:
 > One of the most frustrating things about dinosaurs, at least from
 > my point of view, is that there are a whole huge range of
 > behavioural specializations that we're not ever going to see.
 > (Consider how you'd tell, from the skeleton, that a black bear
 > isn't social and that a wolf is.)

Or that a tiger isn't and a lion is.

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