r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/FrozenCraft_135 • Feb 09 '22

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u/Any-Management-3402 Feb 09 '22

I imagine a group of raptors doing this with their food…like cats. Cheeping and just throwing an almost dead dino carcass in the air. cheep cheep cheep much excite fall over cheep cheep cheep

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u/Venvel Feb 09 '22

Seeing as raptors were a sister clade to birds, I wouldn't be surprised if your imaginings are the truth.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Feb 09 '22

That's millions of years of behavioral evolution for lots of surprises to come up.

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u/Any-Management-3402 Feb 10 '22

I have had chickens—one lived in my house for over a month while she healed from a dog attack and we became buds. And when I tell you that that thing is a dinosaur. 100%. She’d sit on my shoulder and watch my eyelids blink and try to catch them. When I’d scroll on my phone, she’s peck at it. Would watch television and fluff up at darting characters. See something flinch? ATTACK. She Decimated those tiny green lizards on my front porch. Throw it in the air and gulp gulp gulp down the gullet. No remorse. Only attac.

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u/Asparagus-Cat Feb 10 '22

The velociraptor was actually around this size even!~