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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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[–] SatoruToru 96 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] TRAHR 24 points 1 month ago

Aggretsuko!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I love the scene where she ax kicks her boss’s desk

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Slay, queen 💅

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Divorced bird if I’ve ever seen one

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I miss r/divorcedbirds ...

[–] mnemonicmonkeys 1 points 1 month ago

Be the change you want to see in the world!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis 16 points 1 month ago

Please don't encourage

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that the bird's head looking left?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fighting/Flying

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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 – both largely unnecessary in modern society – fuck the planet at a micro- and a macroscopic scale. Not surprising, but tragic nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

brb, i gotta go cry

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The cruel and helpful birds from Flow!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve had it with these motherfuckin snakes on this motherfuckin string.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

He was begging her for it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

"Please tread on me 🥴"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck yea, thats such a vibe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Hands and a cigarette holder are missing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Gaslight, gatekeep, bird boss 💅🏾

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pelespirit 4 points 1 month ago

Human dinosaur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago