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With legs built for speed and power, the Secretary bird hunts snakes by stomping them with a force of 195 Newtons, enough to kill in milliseconds.

Despite their raptor status, they hunt mostly on foot and can walk up to 30 km a day.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Hands and a cigarette holder are missing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Gaslight, gatekeep, bird boss ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿพ

[โ€“] SatoruToru 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[โ€“] TRAHR 24 points 1 day ago

Aggretsuko!

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I love the scene where she ax kicks her bossโ€™s desk

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I really want to put an appropriately-sized sunhat on their head :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Slay, queen ๐Ÿ’…

[โ€“] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

legs for days, built-in thigh~~highs~~socks?.

woooooo!

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Fighting/Flying

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Divorced bird if Iโ€™ve ever seen one

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have never heard of this show. That's a hell of a link.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

it's a hell of a show. highly recommend (not even just for the married birds)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha this is the first thing I thought of. I didn't know what kind of bird she was tho. FilmCow is great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I miss r/divorcedbirds ...

[โ€“] mnemonicmonkeys 1 points 1 day ago

Be the change you want to see in the world!

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is that the bird's head looking left?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

no its a sad face, but now I can't unsee the bird ):>

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Imgonnatrythis 16 points 1 day ago

Please don't encourage

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The cruel and helpful birds from Flow!

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Link to the Wikipedia article. It's a featured article*, and there's a subsection that goes over how the species has recently become endangered.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the IUCN listed it as vulnerable in 2016 and then endangered in 2020. "As a population, the secretarybird is mainly threatened by loss of habitat due to fragmentation by roads and development and overgrazing of grasslands by livestock." So cars and animal agriculture โ€“ both largely unnecessary in modern society โ€“ fuck the planet at a micro- and a macroscopic scale. Not surprising, but tragic nonetheless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

brb, i gotta go cry

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

He was begging her for it

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Secretary bird doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Iโ€™ve had it with these motherfuckin snakes on this motherfuckin string.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's giving "distinguished middle aged woman at an art gallery"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Fuck yea, thats such a vibe

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This queen should be on the anti "don't tread on me" flag.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

"Please tread on me ๐Ÿฅด"

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I feel I see people mentioning these everywhere after the movie Flow came out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Well apparently they're known to fuck up a king cobra

[โ€“] pelespirit 4 points 1 day ago

Human dinosaur.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago