Humans: Ruining Everything Faster Than We Ever Thought Possible!
Well this is horrific.
I don’t even have anything else to say about it, except to mention that this is not the first discussion of this kind of thing; I blogged about another bird-and-plastics article more than ten years ago.
Honey, I Shrunk the Quail
You guys want to see the cutest birds ever?
Behold: BUTTON QUAILS!
(Photos from here.)
THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IN THAT MIDDLE PHOTO IS A BABY BUTTON QUAIL.
Have a video.
They had a button quail a while back at the pet store where we got Jazzy and it was super cute.
“Bambi…I didn’t know you could fly!”
Pretend for a second that you have no idea what a bird is. You know what beaks, feathers, wings, etc. are, but you don’t know what a bird is.
Now read the following:
Birds (class Aves or clade Avialae) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates.
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Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Extant birds have more or less developed wings; the most recent species without wings was the moa, which is generally considered to have become extinct in the 16th century. Wings are evolved forelimbs, and most bird species can fly.
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Birds are social, communicating with visual signals, calls, and songs, and participating in such social behaviours as cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators.
These are all from Wiki’s page on birds. You can’t tell me that from these descriptors that birds don’t sound fucking terrifying.
TOOTHLESS-BEAKED PREDATOR-MOBBING DEATH-BOMBS FROM ABOVE!
Okay, I’m done. Back to studying.
ALL BIRDS ALL THE TIME
I just discovered the meme in which people (poorly) Photoshop human arms onto birds. The more you know.
Examples:
(This is the greatest picture ever, in my opinion)
Sites/pages dedicated to this:
http://www.iywib.com/birds_with_arms.php
http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=305700903&x=Birds+With+Arms
http://birdswitharms.tumblr.com/
Oh, internet. Where would we be without you?
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