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I was just thinking the other day about dinosaurs (big surprise), namely, their bird-like behavior. Why would a ground predator take to flying, and the prevalent theory to early dino-flight was they glided out of the trees. So why would they go into the trees in the first place? Now I know that Dienonychus came after Archeopteryx (and the other raptors arrived when more early birds were flying around China, so they're too late for the show), but he's my favorite dromeasaurid. Anyway, I imagined they would take to the trees with their kills, like leopards. I was also wondering if they would do this since they were pack hunters, but then I wondered about pack hierarchy amongst different animals. Wolves have the alphas leading the show, and they get the best cuts of meat from big kills. Lions are first-come, first-served, but they stay out of each others' hair (manes?). But there are no predatory pack-hunting birds that I know of. Eagles and hawks, also called "raptors," are mostly solitary but when they do come together to hunt they still catch food on their own because it's too hard to fly off with an elk carcass. So they have an "every bird for himself" mentality. Velociraptors were related to modern birds like that, but they had larger brains for more wolf or lion like behavior. I'm just speculating.

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I was just thinking the other day about dinosaurs (big surprise), namely, their bird-like behavior. Why would a ground predator take to flying, and the prevalent theory to early dino-flight was they glided out of the trees. So why would they go into the trees in the first place? Now I know that Dienonychus came after Archeopteryx (and the other raptors arrived when more early birds were flying around China, so they're too late for the show), but he's my favorite dromeasaurid. Anyway, I imagined they would take to the trees with their kills, like leopards. I was also wondering if they would do this since they were pack hunters, but then I wondered about pack hierarchy amongst different animals. Wolves have the alphas leading the show, and they get the best cuts of meat from big kills. Lions are first-come, first-served, but they stay out of each others' hair (manes?). But there are no predatory pack-hunting birds that I know of. Eagles and hawks, also called "raptors," are mostly solitary but when they do come together to hunt they still catch food on their own because it's too hard to fly off with an elk carcass. So they have an "every bird for himself" mentality. Velociraptors were related to modern birds like that, but they had larger brains for more wolf or lion like behavior. I'm just speculating.