Dinosaur EQ

Wow! Very interesting. I wonder where Spinosaurus would fit on this scale?

I'd probably put it at around .8-1. It is one of the more advanced spinosaurs after all.

So it was right under Rex then. Still pretty smart for a dinosaur.

I'd say most of the advanced carnosaurs were just under the tyrannosaur mark. Tyrannosaurs were probably around 1-1.5 while advanced carnosaurs were around .7-1.

Where are those values taken from? I have a hard time believing dromaeosaurids and troodontids would be smarter than chimps. Studies suggest their intelligence being at the level of a wolf, thing that would help them in social packs.

This is pretty intersting! :)

Very interesting, but I do have the same doubts as Dinosteve about the intelligence of Troodontids and Dromaeosaurs, everything else though I can perfectly see happening.

To define EQ...

Encephalization Quotient (EQ), or encephalization level is a measure of relative brain size defined as the ratio between actual brain mass and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size, which is hypothesized to be a rough estimate of the intelligence or cognitionof the animal.

I know what EQ means, I'm just wondering where are those EQ values coming from? Guesses? Speculations? Actual studies?

It seems really unbelievable for troodontids to have such an intelligence level. They were smart for dinosaurs, yes, but not that much.

Educated guess and studies. They can take the brain cases from the skulls of dinosaurs and go from there.

Interesting... do you think you could link me some scientific papers or articles about raptors intelligence? :D

I can try. The sources I found were an online database at school, so I don't know if that'll work. If you can access the same database, it might work.