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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5382920" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, not all of the mythical versions have dragons as intelligent.&nbsp; Some species would have it, others not.&nbsp;If you are going with the dinosaur ancestor route, then why not recall that there are already some stunningly intelligent dinosaur descendants: African Grey Parrots, for example, which in some ways seem to be cognitively equivalent to a 3 to 5 year old human.&nbsp; At least one has been known to have a vocabulary of 950 words (when over 70% of communication in English is carried out using only 7000 words), and able to greet Jane Goodall with the question, &quot;Got a chimp?&quot; based on seeing pictures of her with a chimp.First you'd have to define &quot;intelligence&quot;, and trying to do that is apt to start an argument.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5382920, member: 177"] Well, not all of the mythical versions have dragons as intelligent. Some species would have it, others not. If you are going with the dinosaur ancestor route, then why not recall that there are already some stunningly intelligent dinosaur descendants: African Grey Parrots, for example, which in some ways seem to be cognitively equivalent to a 3 to 5 year old human. At least one has been known to have a vocabulary of 950 words (when over 70% of communication in English is carried out using only 7000 words), and able to greet Jane Goodall with the question, "Got a chimp?" based on seeing pictures of her with a chimp. First you'd have to define "intelligence", and trying to do that is apt to start an argument. :) [/QUOTE]

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