"How would it know to do that?"

(Jurassic World spoilers)

The Indominus rex is shown to have some extraordinary abilities the humans around her seem to not have known about, and which prove quite useful for escaping and avoiding capture.

How did she realize to do all of this, and what exactly does she actually do?

Arming the raptor

 So, wings.

The bigger step that's eyes

 I used the end of a plastic straw (not the one I've cut into a feather stamp) as a cookie cutter to make a slit pupil out of black clay, and mixed red and yellow clay into an orange to accompany the yellow on the iris. Then I did my best to follow this cat eye toturial, so I made the colours into thin sheets to wrap around the pupil.

Inbetween bigger steps

More fluff to Skyefigure's tail, and widening the ribcage a bit. Some of the longer feathers added to the tail are again from the batch I made separately, attached with liquid clay. Wings are still unattached and the head still under construction.

Currently construction is adding brow archs and a bit more fluff to the face, too (with pretty much every previously mentioned tool I've used for drawing on clay), while leaving room for the eyes and just leaving the back of the head for later. Also adding a little bit of vaguely scale-like texture to the snout with... surface of a lemon juice bottle designed to look like a lemon.

Pipes

Raptor arms

Two pieces of 1mm aluminum wire bent at a few places.
Somehow I'll... make some wings... out of youuu!

Precarious