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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 25 天前

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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 25 天前
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    For those like me who wondered what their skeleton looked like:

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      Telescoping birb

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      25 天前

      Does this help them lunge out quickly to eat bugs?

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        Bugs, maybe, but fish, definitely!

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      Hmm so their esophagus is next to and behind their spine in this position? I wonder if they always wear their neck meat to the left or always to the right or it just goes either way.

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        Yeah, a front view as well would be helpful.

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    video of a green heron

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      Wait, WHAT?! i thought this was a meme! this bird is literally like this! Weird motherfucker

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        I love how its head is like 100% static while the neck and body wobble about.

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          A lot of birds do that - they can keep their head steady to focus on prey while their body moves around.

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            Saw I think it was a smarter every Day video on how birds doing this is effectively the same as our eyes being able to stay locked onto moving objects, but birds don’t have this ability, so they keep their whole head stationary when moving their body. That’s why most birds do that thing when they walk where they head has the jerky movement, while the body walks smoothly.

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              Interesting, didn’t know the reason for it!

              First, raptor eyes are large. They are so large they fill about 1/3 of the space in their skulls. Because this leaves little room, if any, for muscles to allow eye movements, raptors must turn their entire head to look around them. In fact, raptor eyes are held in place with a ring of bone called the sclerotic ring.

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      Me remembering birds are dinosaurs

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    This bittern erasure will not stand! Not only are they also mostly neck:

    They’re also fucking hilarious:

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      It is very rare I audibly laugh at a picture online, but this birb did it. Fucking hilarious is definitely the right thing to say about it

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      When you forgot to lock the stall!

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    !subscribeme Heron Facts

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      You’ve been subscribed to Heron Facts.

      Did you know that while they may move slowly, Great Blue Herons can strike like lightning to grab a fish or snap up a gopher?

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        I did not know that! Thank you Heron Facts!

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        Like flying sloths! They can move quickly when they really want to as well.

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          Unfortunately the only fly straight down, and they only stop after reaching the floor.

          Wait, those were regular sloths!

          :(

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            Is this shitty heron ‘facts’?

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      Created by Bayer, diacetylmorphine was marketed as Heroin based on the German heroisch which means “heroic, strong” (from the ancient Greek word “heros, ήρως”). Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but their scientists discovered ways to make it, and Bayer led the commercialization of heroin.

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        !unsubscribeme Heroin Facts

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          You have been unsubscribed to Heroin Facts!

          You’ll be back, they all come back.

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    👈😎👈 zoop

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      😎 mhm
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      Yesss!!! That’s my first thought too. Glad the 👉🏻😎👉🏻 ZOOP is still alive

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    I love herons. They’re my favorite birds. Such beautiful elegant creatures. Perfect symbols for patience too. Made one my logo.

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      They have the most beautiful call, nothing like shitting your pants in a kayak at dusk.

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    So basically they are ET from the Atari 2600 game…

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    My ears were burning.

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    I saw one of these this weekend but I had no idea it could do that.

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    This reminds me of the man-serpents in Elden Ring that can extend themselves!

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    Deploy periscope!

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