Social Behaviour in Dinosaurs - with David Hone 

Many animals turn their backs to high wind and general lashing rain. You see horses doing it today. Maybe that's why they were all found facing the same direction when they died?

Paleontology was my first passion. As young as 6 years old I needed my parents to buy every dinosaur book I came across. I hogged the computer for hours just researching facts on long extinct creatures. I had damn near encyclopedic knowledge of the subject by the time I was 9. Then I got to middle school, and fitting in and making friends and conforming to their standard of “cool” became the most important thing in my life. I lost my passion. Now I’m a senior in college, about to finish my finance degree, and I find myself circling back to this stuff which intrigued me so long ago. I love this man. He’s like a mirror into what life could have been like if I had pursued something I truly loved over trying to fit in, be “successful” and make money. My peers all think I should get a job in finance, like my degree says, but I’m looking for ways to get back to the root of who I truly am deep down. I may never be a paleontologist, but I don’t want to settle for the 9-5, high paying soul crusher of the corporate world. I am not built for that life.

more dinosaur lectures, please!! 😊😊😊

David Hone is ace. He is everything a lecturer needs to be, keen, knowledgeable and funny. He is infectious.

Lovely talk! I've read his book "The Tyranosaur Chronicles" and it was amazing! He is very good at what he does and is truly inspiring! It makes me start to count the days until I can finally go to the Museu da Lourinhã (just 2 weeks to go), where I'm a volunteer and a fossil preparator.

This guy is good. Enjoyed every minute and I could easily have watched for an other hour or two.

Excellent lecturer! Interesting lecture delivered in such a lively manner. Would like to see more of this guy and his knowledge of dinosaurs.

David Hone is wonderful! This was a great lecture. More dinosaur and early man lectures, please!

we need more lectures this guy makes the topic 100 times mpre interesting

Always awesome, and thankyou very much for uploading these lectures and giving us all the ability to enjoy them. This lecture does raise the issue of investigating the differences between sociality and aggregation. Animals aggregate for practical reasons related to survival, but that involves communication and group dynamics, even on a very rudimentary scale. It would be interesting to examine the social dynamics amongst a wide range of species, and see the variations in behaviour. That kind of generalised approach might provide some insight into the dynamics of extinct species too.

29:10 I WANT TO SEE WHAT HES SHOWING SO BAD!! please dont make us miss interesting slides

enjoyed this talk by David Hone so much, thank you.

I feel like this man could successfully host a show called Last Era Tonight

Got damit, I love tho hear this guy talk. More david hone everywhere pls.

Wow, I can't believe I've just watched 3 dinosaur lectures in a row with great interest... and normally I've the attention span on parity with that of a goldfish.

I've spent the last couple days watching various videos on the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and this one was the best by far! Great presentation and very up-to-date information that other videos lacked!

Excellent presentation

This guy is awesome! Fascinating content, engaging delivery...I'm hooked!

excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing.

A breath of fresh air. He just relates the science and leaves the children’s stories to the guys in the funny hats🤠

Recommended right under the lecture which Hone ends with "I could go on about the social behavior of tyrannosauruses for days" :D Spot on.

brilliant lecture !

Great lecture

Great talk!

Really enjoyed this one!

That was bloody fascinating.

I love that desk!!

Couldn't play the video, but that glassesusa commercial sure played each time I tried. These un-skip-able commercials at the beginnings of videos mess up the play.

Thanks from the land of Sue here in Chicago, USA Dr. Hone. Looking forward to hearing more of your lectures. Is it likely the juveniles form flocking behavior as a safety mechanism?

I just love listening to your wise words David. I got mad love for you guys and girls. Nobody knows you dont get rich doing this sort of work. I do. Thank you for all you do.

great video

31:00 - The nearest living relative of the lion is the leopard, not the tiger, but the point remains the same.

This was really fascingsting and made alot of really grest points!

Just came across this great channel. Seems much like the British Ted talks

I can't believe the opening slide didn't say something like "Dinosaur Party in Mongolia!!"

He has no equal in paleontology.. A fantastic presentation, as usual. Great discussion.

OMG this guy is so good!

are there any updates to this subject by this speaker? anyone know?

What do you call a group of dinosaurs? A school...herd ... flock ... a pride of tyrannosaurs ... a murder of Pterodactyls ... a crash of triceratops ... what? We need a new/old names for these designations ...

I wonder, given how common T-Rex was, why no eggs have ever been found? Was T-Rex unique, could it have had live offspring? I know that his highly improbable, BUT?

Nearly everything predates on nestling, fawns, baby rabbits, and young carnivore. Hyenas will predate young lions, a cow will eat ground nesting bird nests (and it's contents). The young aren't as a rule, as fast or agile as an adult or adolescent animal. A puma seems to prefer younger animals (not as large and powerful as the adults).

0:54 that huge ornithischian is called "Shantungsaurus"

Awesome

I just noticed the demographic in the lecture, mainly over 50's, this is a shame and this subject needs more 'young blood' to take up the torch of this very broad and diverse subject for future generations.

He mentioned how we have some sex-determining methods in dinosaurs. What are some examples of these? I know of the work with medullary bone done on T. rex, but are there other methods known?

I like this.

Listening to that thing about inferring behavior rather than observing it made me think: why do people believe science about things like whether dinosaurs had feathers but not about how viruses work or climate change existing?

Given how the sand of those mongolian finds is not quite sand stone and barely stuck together sand, are the finds themselves actual bones, or the 'usual' minerals replacing the actual bone that is long gone?

'But it doesn't mean that we're just guessing, which a lot of people kind of assume' - Sore spot!! :-D

When the rest of the world is giving me the business, I just focus on dinosaurs.

Social dinosaurs. That title could be interpreted in a lot of different ways.

20:07 - Graboid's children from "Tremors 2".

I don't want this guy to stop talking about Dinosaurs.

7:20 Bita mails and fimails

You can only learn so much from the fossil record. We're about 70 million years too late

# letsbuydaveashirt Love him but been wearing the same shirt for at least 7 years. 🤣😊

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China is absolutely the hotspot for paleontology!

But it's very important to understand birds are only dinosaurs in the sense that they are dinosaurs in a single group. Just looking at the first major division of dinosaurs between the "reptile hip" dinosaurs and the "bird hip" dinosaurs, all birds belong in the reptile hip subfamily. It makes no sense at all to tell your audience "birds are dinosaurs" when there are almost no other theropods that had full feather coverage in adults and birds are almost the only theropods without any scales. It's a blanket statement like saying that humans are monkeys.

It's funny to think a pigeon is a dinosaur

'Look after your egg'. 'Because your egg will look after you'. Nah Dave, it's just 'Look after your egg'.

The juveniles are all together cause they're in school, ya nut!

Wow! ^..^~~

Did social dinosaurs use social media?

A thing I wonder about is that if birds are the descendants of dinosaurs, were there no actual birds around at the same time as them?

That's my problem, I am missing frills on my horns.

Ligs = ribs + limbs

They're moving in herds. They do move in herds.

So grade school, middle school, high school and adults

Are you sure they're not sheep eggs...???

americans wouldn't say 10 to 15cm, no we would say a foot to a foot and a half. a meter is easier for us, because it is so close to a yard, and we know what a yard is, just not a kilometer. we know what a mile is though. we failed on the hubble space telescope, because the scientists measure in metric, while all perkin elmer's, (who was a major machinery manufacturer), equipment was all standard.

Imagine if modern humans lived for 150 million years 0__o

“As I’ve said they’re close relatives of modern crocodiles and birds are the literal living descendants of the theropod carnivorous group of dinosaurs.” Uhh... what?

Lions feed in groups with the "lion"s share" going to Mr. Lion. No such thing as a "tiger's share" for good reason.

you spend a lifetime waiting for a fossil and then two come along at once. that must be annoying.

Nice talk,but there are still a huge margin for us to understand the social behaviour of any species of dinosaurs. All we can find in fossils are the physical appearance,diet and habitat of that creature that died for million of years. Remember behaviour is a kind of of spiritual aspect that can't be seen by rocks.All we can do is to find evidence and compare their behaviour with our modern organism.

i was sceptic,now i am less

My Grandma is a social dinosaur

Baby ducks all hangout together

I want to hug a T-Rex. And have a romantic evening !

"incidents" not "incidences"

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” ― George Orwell

A Social Mongolian Dinosaur....some how this sounds rather....i don't know....lol..

It's sad to hear a scientist trotting out the tired old "alpha male" myth 🤦‍♀️

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Social dinosaurs? I initially thought this would be about conservatives.

It's simple. You have to figure out if the dinosaurs are like tigers or lions. Which is smarter? Lions because they are social. Tigers are lone hunters for the most part. Their social skills are limited.

So,he's not 100 percent sure

Spinosaurs were definitely not social dinosaurs. Even during their juvenile years they led a solitary existence.

Lol everyone in the audience is so damn old.

Not really to my taste; just a bit too feverish in the presentation with many declarations and espoused "certainties", bordering arrogance. More often than not, it's better to tone down the excitement during educational lectures, so that the facts speak for themselves and the presenter doesn't lose credibility via sensationalism/emotionalism.

Of course this is all speculation.

Social behaviour in the human beings sounds very strange. In? You mean between? Or among? The? Which the? When scientists take a weird start, like this, how "in" earth can we expect something good?! Why do very very very very smart people write such nonsense without even SEEING this is weird? They lost contact with normal blokes?!

Aldus huxley would call this 'pesudo knowledge'

Adults still believing in dinosaurs......

What a load of tosh we no nothing of there habits, you can not tell this from bones

It is so incredible to me, that you can even think possible, that you know what happened thousands of years ago, let alone millions of years ago. This is the epitome of arrogance and narcissism. Oh, not to mention ignorance. Wow, just wow!