All posts by PrinceVermilionOfTheSkywings
Also, how are you defining complexity and simplicity of the brain, and how does that correlate to the perceived "intelligence" of an animal.
Clearly "simplicity" of the brain doesn't have much impact behaviour or "intelligence," so I would in fact call it a stereotype to say they lack "intelligence" or the capacity for complex group behaviour.
Also, how are you defining complexity and simplicity of the brain, and how does that correlate to the perceived "intelligence" of an animal.
Why did you make a statement like the one you did, if you are not informed on the topic?
All you have succeeded in doing is propagating negative stereotypes and starting an unneeded argument on semantics. (I do agree that birds can be considered "reptiles" but the way you pressed the issue when it was clearly in reference to squamates seems very nit-picky to me).
None of this matters, it doesn't refute the initial statement I made. Which was regarding squamata. Do you have anything to say on that or are you going to continue arguing on semantics?
Are you really going to try pulling semantics on me right now?
Reptillia is a paraphyletic group of ectothermic amniotes, although the group is roughly equivalent with the monophyletic sauropsida, which contains traditional reptiles and the members of class aves.
What about them?
(You may or may have not stepped upon a landmine issue I have had for years...)
@11duckhunt there are modern day examples of advanced social behaviour(including family group-living) in squamate reptiles. We are barely able to understand how the human brain functions let alone other species.
Reptile intelligence is greatly undervalued and unresearched researched, and ignorantly calling reptiles "simple" or unintelligent does not help with this issue.
https://biology-assets.anu.edu.au/hosted_sites/Scott/2003chapplehm.pdf
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0200
Besides that, sociality has nothing to do with "brain complexity" or "intelligence." Reptiles just happen to have solitary lifestyles. Even the most "intelligent" reptiles, such as varanids and tegus are typically solitary animals.
Great auk, or megalania
Hypnovenator has been ruined for me...
Filling your flippers with a bunch of fingers is both disgusting and unnecessary.
Buy expensive skeleton and give it to a museum
Larger animals tend to get cancer less, and there are more small theropod species so I would guess theropods are most likely.
I need a shadow real tier for how absent I am usually 💀
Most modern reptiles have larger males, so I find it a reasonable projection.
Tupandactylus is way better
That drawing looks like the big rodan from GSP, nice
I prefer to use actinopterygii as my definition of "fish", but for the people who use fish for essentially all vertebrates I suppose so.
You do realise captive reptiles have only been captive for a few generations, right? They are the same as their wild counterparts, and definitively NOT domesticated. Also, how would domestication increase an animals intelligence? Your argument makes no sense.
As somebody who has pet monitor lizards, Amaga51 I can assure you that you are completely incorrect.