What if dinosaurs clucked?
By Fleur
@Fleura (28941)
United Kingdom
March 26, 2016 5:16am CST
It is believed that birds (along with crocodilians) are the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs. As I’ve mentioned before, that makes you see chickens in a whole new light, especially if you imagine them ten feet tall!
We are continually finding out more about dinosaurs (for example it is now known that they had feathers) but so far we still don’t know whether they were able to make sounds and if so what sort of sound. In popular culture they always roar.
As I was feeding the chickens last night I suddenly thought – what if they had clucked? The film ‘Jurassic Park’ would have been a bit different.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
26 Mar 16
Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure and, until we find a fossil which has somehow preserved the soft tissue in the throat (which is very unlikely), we shall never know whether dinosaurs had developed the syrinx mechanism which birds have or whether they had a larynx as crocodilians do. We also know very little about dinosaurs' hearing ability. If we knew what sounds they were able to hear, we could, perhaps, surmise what sounds they might make.
Since birds are the closest relatives of some of the dinosaurs, it's more possible that they would have squawked, clucked, whistled and cheeped than that they would have had the roars which one hears them use in Jurassic Park.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
26 Mar 16
@Owlwings The part that has always seemed rather odd to me is that we are told
A: Dinosaurs became extinct due to a meteor strike on the planet.
B: Birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Obviously no creature can evolve from an extinct species.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
26 Mar 16
@owlwings I am aware that many forms of life are supposed to have survived the catastrophe, but I often wonder how. The Earth was surrounded by a dark cloud for an estimated couple of years, thus eliminating all plant life. This would make it seriously hard for many species to survive.
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@arthurchappell (45004)
• Preston, England
31 Mar 16
what if chickens roared like a T-Rex?
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@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
27 Mar 16
Haha I've thought of the link with little birds, but never chickens
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
26 Mar 16
I have a hard time seeing in my mind the dinosaurs clucking but who knows...they might have done that. Maybe even crowing too.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
26 Mar 16
You have a weird thought but who knows you are right.
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@toniganzon (72317)
• Philippines
26 Mar 16
It would be weird if dinosaurs and chickens sound alike . But who knows, that might be possible.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104688)
• United States
26 Mar 16
hmm peculiar. I imagine they made some sort of a sound, to attract prey, to deter other prey. I don't know about the plant eating dinosaur's though, what sound would they make?
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