Those of you specially interested in the behaviour and biology of Mesozoic dinosaurs will be well aware of the dinosaur cognition debate that’s been going on in the animal cognition literature… As discussed at Tet Zoo back in 2024 (go here), things started when neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel argued that such extinct dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus might have had primate-like numbers of neurons, and thus might have been similar to anthropoids in behavioural traits and overall intelligence...