I'm always looking for books and documentaries about animals about whom I know little to nothing, so I was thrilled to learn of a new book by Dr. David Hone, one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, titled Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know. Many people write off these fascinating prehistoric animals as dullards or intensely aggressive animals because of the lack of detailed information on who they were and how they behaved, but this is highly misleading.

For example, in his eye-opening book, Hone describes behaviors across the whole range of species and groups, from feeding and communication to reproduction, sociality, and combat. Here's what he had to say about these highly diverse beings whose behavior can be seen in numerous extant animals.

Really to try and get to the heart of the problem of modern studies on dinosaur behavior. I've written two or three dozen scientific papers on this area and keep running into the same problems because there's a lot of vague and undefined terms leading to confusion, a lot of "either/or" type hypotheses being tested when there are animals that can do both, or overly strong conclusions based on limited evidence.

We do know, and can work out, a lot of........

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