Like I wrote in response to a comment here, a short story exploring this exact scenario was "Think Like a Dinosaur", later made into an Outer Limits episode [0]

Like I wrote in response to a comment here, a short story exploring this exact scenario was "Think Like a Dinosaur", later made into an Outer Limits episode [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur