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animals I removed big dumb brute

Soraa Poseidon's brain is a thousand

times smaller than its body

just 1/8 the brain capacity of the t-rex

worse its cerebrum we're strategic

thinking takes place is barely developed

to mean these guys were frankly dumb is

a fencepost

sauroposeidon does almost everything by

instinct

including RiRi or more accurately not

really its children it may seem cruel to

just dig a hole and leave your eggs and

water drawn but it's a very effective

means of reproduction if you can afford

to make lots of babies

we know that the sauropods were not

taken care

we don't find the newly hatched babies

with the adults scientists believe Sora

Poseidon's gargantuan size makes

incubating eggs of physical

impossibility running say sixty eighty

feet in length and your eggs are only

about the size of a cantaloupe the size

difference makes it so hard to be gentle

I think sauropods like sauroposeidon are

just too big to be able to control where

their body mass is going to be you know

they aren't they don't have the brain

capacity to understand where their butt

is at the same time as where their head

is

with its mammoth size and limited

intellect sauroposeidon relies in a

totally different method than

Tyrannosaurus Rex to raise its young

when its lifespan

a mated pair of surface islands might

produce thousands and thousands of eggs

and only maybe a couple or three are

going to survive to adulthood so what

that tells us is that almost all of the

offspring are bein killed and eaten

basically flooding all the carnivores

with so much food that they can't eat it

all and so there's bound to be some

survivors

Soraa Poseidon's approach to its young

sounds brutish and cruel

something best left in Earth's distant

past

but it isn't

soare Poseidon like sea turtles for

example seems to have tried to overwhelm

the Predators with just sheer numbers of

offspring they're not just all laying

their eggs within a few weeks of each

other they're all trying to lay their

eggs

on the same night and one of the reasons

is that they can overwhelm the Predators

if you have a food resource that's

available in vast numbers but only for a

very limited time is hard for predators

to eat all of them

from the moment sea turtles hatch they

are on the road

Patchen time is a veritable feast

still the strategy years carnivores

munch down virtually every hatchling

a few though do make it

not even the most voracious readers can

kill them all

sauropods were in a predator rich

environment so I'm sure that many many

sauropod nests were found in destroyed

by predators before the babies can even

happen

sauroposeidon size is its main defense

when it reaches an adult weight of 50

tons

nothing can touch it

but maintaining this massive girth means

filling your belly almost constantly an

adult will eat almost anything that

grows they consume as much as 330

thousand calories almost a ton of

greenery every day to find that much

food herds roam far and wide

even if they had the brain capacity to

care for their young there just isn't

enough vegetation to let them stay by

the nest

how much of your resources do you put

into reproduction to producing the next

generation and it's always a trade-off

if you put in a lot of parental care

then you don't have the resources to

make lots and lots of babies or you can

go the other way and make tons and tons

of babies but you won't have the

resources left to take very good care of

them

taking care of offspring requires not

only brain power but also well-developed

senses

sauroposeidon has neither

it's eyes are separated located on each

side of its head so it has no ability to

judge depth

it's small brain has just rudimentary

centers of sight and smell and it's

hearing is severely limited as the

cochlear duct inside the inner ear is

tiny

so I'm presiding probably had a brain

about the size of a kittens because it

was not unfortunately a very smart

animal it didn't have to be it was a

food processing plant Sora fascitis five

senses are little more than a life

support system for the biggest stomach

the world has ever known

for a hatchling the situation is even

more dire

they lack even the most basic early

warning system the danger is present

herbivores are growing much faster than

the carnivores if they don't grow fast

they get eaten still it will be a decade

or more before this sauroposeidon is big

enough to join the herd and it will

spend all those years alone so where are

the smaller animals what did the

sauropods do until they were 1/3 grown

they weren't moving with

probably hiding out in the forest trying

to eat as much as they could get as big

as they could as fast as they could so

that they could join the herd

that's the best defense it doesn't

matter what else you're equipped with

hooli have horns your armor or whatever

the best defense is always to get big

and if you're a sauropod you've got

nothing else

so getting big is the only game in town

but for sauroposeidon every day spent

growing up

is a day trying to keep out of the

sights of this guy deinonychus is a

killing machine he was a preacher that

was small it was fast Deinonychus was

really one of the most remarkable

predators the earth has seen a

three-dimensional fighter a kickboxing

dinosaur

the weapon that defies dynamic is a

slashing 4-inch razor-sharp blade kept

upright during walking or running

constantly caught ready for a fight this

vicious claw can deliver 450 pounds of

force and rotate almost 180 degrees to

eviscerate prey Deinonychus uses both

its hands and these were animals that

had weapons everywhere you go a

ridiculous amount of weaponry for an

animal of its size closes enables

evolved for whatever reason to be able

to dish out a lot of damage for its size

or a juvenile sauroposeidon even a

juvenile the size of a polar bear

Deinonychus is trouble

and a whole pack of deinonychus means a

whole pack of trouble it's hard to

imagine how sauroposeidon survive in a

world where they face

savage killers all alone

but they do survive

and one day become almost indestructible

for Tyrannosaurus Rex the most advanced

carnivore that has ever lived

are even tougher

a t-rex nest the chicks are growing up

fast the female is far away on a hunt

trying to replenish her strength

the male stays behind to guard the roost

there's always this ideal at picture of

this female Tyrannosaurus guarding her

clutch of eggs may have been the male as

far as we know I mean the female could

have said buddy you caused the problem

you take care of them but the male needs

to eat - a warm-blooded carnivore can't

last for long without a meal as scent

travels on the breeze an aroma his brain

instantly recognizes a triceratops dead

and rotting

dinner just got one step closer and the

advantage of a carcass is that it can

there's this debate was t-rexes

scavenger and predator and the answer to

that is it was both any large animal

needs to be able to find food on a

regular basis and these guys were

warm-blooded they needed to eat

frequently but with both parents out

searching for food the nest is left

unguarded exposed danger lurks

everywhere

Triceratops may be a plant eater but

with a defenseless baby t-rex around

it'll make an exception Quetzalcoatl as'

is the largest flying carnivore in

Earth's history it eats 10 pounds of

flesh every day nearly the weight of two

hatchlings combine to survive these

chicks will have to keep a very low

profile

the mail is on the trail of a meal a

Tyrannosaurus Rex can pinpoint the exact

location of an odor su he's headed

straight for the dead Triceratops

the sense of smell was powerful in t-rex

the nerve that goes this sense of smell

is the biggest nerve in the dinosaur

head they could probably tell not just

if there was a dinosaur that had walked

past they could be able to tell that

that dinosaur walked past two and a half

hours ago

t-rexes knows like a laser guidance

system leads him directly to his target

what these advanced senses do not tell

him though is how his triceratops died

in the first place

the answer to that question is found in

the mouth of another t-rex

it turns out this predators massive jaws

with their bone-crushing teeth able to

bite down with enough force to bend

steel are just the beginning it's quite

likely that the teeth of carnivorous

dinosaurs have rotting meat little bits

of it caught in their teeth and

therefore a lot of bacteria and

therefore an infectious bite

the bacteria would have given t-rex

permanent morning breath there'd be many

reasons you would not want to be around

the mouth of a t-rex and smell would

have been one of them that bacteria

means a bite

the draws blood can cause a life threat

infection even if the animal managed to

survive the wounds generated from the

bite the prey dinosaur would get weaker

and sicker and the predator could then

hunt it down and kill it jump by a t-rex

and you're going down be it now or later

and once you're down Tyrannosaurus Rex

will find you and

the problem for this t-rex is that the

stench of rotting meat draws a curve and

while a hungry adult male fight for the

share of the Spoils

is unguarded hatchlings wait for his

return

ketse quadrants circles overhead

fifty million years before the first

t-rex walked the earth sauroposeidon

youngsters are already out in their own

huge numbers hatch each year but only

three out of 10,000 will survive to

adulthood the most dangerous times when

they're smallest the first few weeks

their best defenses to get as big as

they can as fast as they can

in order to grow very big very fast they

do something that appears to break the

most basic rules of biology for the

first few years these plant eaters are

meat eaters

probably many of them were bleeding

insects and small animals because it was

a ready source of protein very many

plant eating animals will also take

animal prey when they can get them

because is an important source of

nutrients that are really hard to get

from plants a young sauroposeidon

processes food in an entirely different

way than an adult digesting its food in

the stomach and small intestine

it's a digestive process more akin to

the carnivores and fears and

sauroposeidon has another trick for

growing two mammoth proportions hollow

bones its backbone neck and ribs have

walls just a fraction of an inch thick

even its limbs are far less dense than

the bones of many mammals so look at

these big sauropods like sauroposeidon

they're growing to 20 30 40 50 tons and

they're doing it in the space of just

two or three decades

sauropods grow in spurts depending on

their age the season and the

availability of food

we know this because their growth is

recorded as rings

just like rings in the tree trunk

for the first few years of essaouira

Poseidon's life predators are at every

turn

one of the most common deinonychus is

also one of the most deadly cunning

definitely cunning big brain smart it's

the sort of creature that seems very

adept for doing a lot of damage in a

very short amount of time

nasty Deinonychus is very very nasty

animal that you know you meet up with

one of these and your chances of being

disemboweled are pretty great for

something like Deinonychus swore

Poseidon would be a great meal for the

herbivorous or of this site

death by Deinonychus is neither

pleasant-nor-painful

it's a kill not unlike today's hyenas

one of the Serengeti 's most effective

predators when hyenas bite through the

gut of antelope its chest stops it's

functionally dead

while juveniles fight it out in The

Woodlands adult syrup aside are as

always foraging for food

with their tiny brains they live in a

world of oblivion

seeing unaware of the faith of those

Tyrannosaurus Rex though

in an entirely different

Wolfe's tell I Triceratops carcass those

powerful jaws smash into the meat of the

animals

gigantic teeth pierced down through

flesh of these well rooted teeth are

there to break into the bones scavenging

keeps t-rex alive maintaining strength

is essential his chicks are depending on

him left alone there is vulnerable as a

clutch of baby syrup asunder

and a Quetzalcoatl s has a voracious

appetite

soaring at 10,000 feet a sense of smell

is useless this wine reptile relies on

its fantastic eyesight to scan for

vulnerable youngsters on the ground it

could make the difference between a meal

and no meal its zeroes in on a target

a three-foot long baby t-rex appears on

the radar

it's gonna need to have really good

justice vision or feel to see just

generally where it's going and targets

on the ground

this t-rex is not a killer not yet and

these babies taste just as good as any

other little dinosaurs the dot the Lance

they would have been just about the

right size to be a snack four cuts of

koalas

luckily just as this massive flying

reptile approaches the news the male

senses trouble

his fault for sensitive olfactory lobes

pick up the distinctive scent of

Quetzalcoatl's this triggers a rush of

chemicals to the brain

to return to the nest

are fast and it only takes a split

second to launch their 400-pound body

sky

the other chicks might just make it for

another generation

dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions

of years they grew to almost

unimaginable sizes adapted to extreme

environments all

these animals were very successful and

really some of the crowning achievements

of evolution

and they do it all without much brave

dinosaurs didn't need to solve quadratic

equations they didn't need to play chess

they didn't need to learn how to build

rockets to go to the moon what they

needed to do was do the things dinosaurs

too

you really only need to be as smart or

smarter than the animals that you're

around it's animals that need to your

responses threats being its guard

they're young

might need to be doting parents in many

cases might even be able to find distant

resources but then let's decide I need

to comprehend philosophy the armored

dinosaurs in general and ankylosaurus is

no exception here we're not bright

dinosaurs pilot dumbest eyesores ever

live their brains are really small for

the size of their heads and their bodies

dinosaurs had just one job successfully

operate the advanced machines the Dino

bodies have evolved

and this is a jump they do extremely

well

they would have seen and smelled and

heard the world in ways that far and see

what we're able to do in a way

brain power just didn't cut me

the dinosaurs brainpower

carefully honed physical traits

and instinct itself

all work together the result dinosaurs

survived for over 165 million years 800

times longer than we've been on

they were on this planet for more than a

hundred million years and you know these

guys were very successful and they only

went out because of extraterrestrial

causes

it took a meteor to wipe out the dimes

the fact speaks to their incredible

stain

with their magnificent bodies and tiny

brains

dinosaurs were success stories like no

other creatures the planet has seen

before

or

including the human

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