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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Wow, hey guys, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is Alison I don't know what, the science editor

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. And this is Robert Lamb,

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Speaker 1: science writer at how stuff works dot com. Alison, do

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Speaker 1: you know what April eighth is? I have a sneaking

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Speaker 1: suspicion it is Velociraptor Awareness Day, or at least that's

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Speaker 1: what the Internet tells us. It's kind of picking up

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Speaker 1: as like an Internet sensation, kind of a deal, kind

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Speaker 1: one of those mean things. It's all over Facebook that

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Speaker 1: a few pages up about it, and lots and lots

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Speaker 1: of followers. People are getting excited about it, defriending it.

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Speaker 1: They're saying they like it, and other people were liking that,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the stuff that goes on. People are

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Speaker 1: pretty into the raptors now. I don't think they have

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Speaker 1: any other dinosaur appreciation days. Do you know not that

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Speaker 1: I know this is special because of loco Raptor is

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Speaker 1: a special dinosaur. This is a this is a hip dinosaur,

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Speaker 1: or this is not a Diplodocus or anything. Stegasaurus and

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Speaker 1: a lot of people think velociraptors are pretty special. So

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Speaker 1: we've decided to vote this podcast to said dinosaur. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna talk about some of the awesome things

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Speaker 1: about the velociraptor that you should be aware of for

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Speaker 1: your awareness day. Um, most people are familiar with velociraptors

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Speaker 1: pretty much from Jurassic Park. I think that's really what

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Speaker 1: set it off, Michael Crichton's novel and the subsequent three

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Speaker 1: for at least three films more on the way, But basically,

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Speaker 1: this is the smaller dinosaur in the Jurassic Park, not

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Speaker 1: the tiny one, but the the smaller villainous dinosaur they're about.

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Speaker 1: They would tend to be like five ft long, uh

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Speaker 1: stand depending on how they're stooping, like three ft tall

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Speaker 1: or up to like five you know, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of a longish neck, uh, long tail, long tail,

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Speaker 1: kind of an evil birdish head. Um. Not super tiny

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Speaker 1: front arms, but you know, some smaller front arms, and

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Speaker 1: then their feet terminating these three point five inch retractable

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Speaker 1: clause like huge talents. Uh. And that's where really all

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Speaker 1: the fun is because they're like carrying into things with

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Speaker 1: those right to the whole movie and also in the movie,

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Speaker 1: they they're they're super smart right there, they're they're opening

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Speaker 1: doors and uh and sam Neils talking about how they're

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Speaker 1: smartest chimpanzees. And then there's that awesome scene where like

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Speaker 1: the really um um like cool Hunter is gonna gonna

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Speaker 1: shoot one, right, he's not because what he thinks he's

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Speaker 1: gonna walk into right into into arrange and then something

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Speaker 1: wrestles in the bushes by him and when what does

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Speaker 1: he say? Girl? Right? And then he gets eaten because

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Speaker 1: he's so cool that the moment before he's eating alive

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Speaker 1: by a dinosaur, he's like, oh, she's pretty smart, you know,

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Speaker 1: Like who does that? Who has that moment of clarity

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Speaker 1: before they're eating alive? Nobody? But but anyway, it's at

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Speaker 1: that moment especially has has really taken off among velociraptor fans.

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Speaker 1: You can get a shirt that says clever girl, that's

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Speaker 1: a velociraptor head on it. Yeah, so are they that clever?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that they are. And that's our first

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Speaker 1: cool awareness fact for the Raptor Awareness Day. How smart

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Speaker 1: are they? Well? Paleontologists and some other folks like to

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Speaker 1: use a measurement called the encephalization quotient, and and incephilization

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Speaker 1: use this technique, Well, because, I mean, we can't really

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Speaker 1: test the intelligence of dinosaurs, now, can we. We can't

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Speaker 1: put them in a cage and give them color blocks

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Speaker 1: or anything. Yeah, so the EQ tends to compensate for

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Speaker 1: the fact that large animals tend to have proportionately smaller

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Speaker 1: brands and small animals regardless of intelligence, And the velociraptor

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Speaker 1: what does this mean to you? Probably not much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that you're talking about eques on a

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Speaker 1: EQ of about seven. Your dolphins pretty smart teachers. They

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Speaker 1: have an EQ of about four or five, and chimps

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Speaker 1: maybe about two. And once again, velociraptor point to, yes,

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Speaker 1: the velociraptor may have been roughly comparable to the intelligence

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Speaker 1: of an ostrich and I have immense respect for the ostrich. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: airing Undiscovery, So clever girl, maybe not so much. Al right. Well,

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Speaker 1: they found clear indications of quill knobs. And these are

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Speaker 1: birds that are strong flyers. UM, so nobody's saying that

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Speaker 1: the Ostrich Awareness Podcast instead. I think Ostrich Awareness Days

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Speaker 1: to those three point five inch retractable clause. Previously, panatologists

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Speaker 1: But the whole purpose of this course is to actually

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Speaker 1: this case it was a pig, dead pig, all right,

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Speaker 1: So they would use hydraulics to drive it into the

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Robert and Manning suggested that the velociraptor used

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