yeah... a thinking T-Rex would be stupid cause T-Rex's werent smart animals. A thinking Velociraptor is comedy gold.
How can you call the most fierce and successful predator in the history of our planet not smart? The T-Rex was a very intelligent animal, however the Raptors were a bit smarter.
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I thought it was commonly believed that the T-Rex was more of a scavenger then a predator? That animals such as the Velociraptor would typically kill a dino, and then a T-Rex would come along and scare them off to eat their prey? I must admit that my knowledge of Paleontology is a bit limited, and my comments mostly come from visits to science centers and watching movies.
Since at least some of Tyrannosaurus's potential prey could move quickly, evidence that it walked instead of ran could indicate that it was a scavenger. On the other hand, recent analyses suggest that Tyrannosaurus, while slower than large modern terrestrial predators, may well have been fast enough to prey on large hadrosaurs and ceratopsians.
Other evidence suggests hunting behavior in Tyrannosaurus. The eye-sockets of tyrannosaurs are positioned so that the eyes would point forward, giving them binocular vision slightly better than that of modern hawks. Horner also pointed out that the tyrannosaur lineage had a history of steadily improving binocular vision. It is not obvious why natural selection would have favored this long-term trend if tyrannosaurs had been pure scavengers, which would not have needed the advanced depth perception that stereoscopic vision provides. In modern animals, binocular vision is found mainly in predators.
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Other evidence suggests hunting behavior in Tyrannosaurus. The eye-sockets of tyrannosaurs are positioned so that the eyes would point forward, giving them binocular vision slightly better than that of modern hawks. Horner also pointed out that the tyrannosaur lineage had a history of steadily improving binocular vision. It is not obvious why natural selection would have favored this long-term trend if tyrannosaurs had been pure scavengers, which would not have needed the advanced depth perception that stereoscopic vision provides. In modern animals, binocular vision is found mainly in predators.