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The clattering noises of the shoebill stork resemble a machine gun, and the snarls are fearsome.
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They are pretty gentle and docile with humans though.
F
Don’t they respond well to bowing? Or am I misremembering something?
F
You might be thinking of the deer in Nara
G
Or the Loftwings in Skyward Sword Or Buckbeak in Harry Potter
F
Ah! Maybe you are right…
D
No, Shoebill Storks do respond well to bowing, but only with humans.
A
Nara is my pet tortoise name. Found out about the city in Japan called Nara and the cool deer they have
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Like a machine gun
W
Don’t look up how they treat their kids though lol
W
No this is a dinosaur.
X
Yes, all birds are
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Some are more obviously dinosaur than others. Shoebill and the Cassowary.
D
And chickens
D
I think about this a bit while I watch my chickens run around. I think flightless birds just read much more dinosaur than “normal” birds.
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Attach a long tail to a chicken and you basically get a t-rex. There’s a video on YouTube showing this.
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[science bitch](https://youtu.be/YMmgnpcaKyM?si=7pjSKYv0RZGksn1Q)
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oh shiit
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This is true.
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The modern day T-Rex
K
And Ground Hornbills
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I started up this game last night. Haven played it in years, but it’s one of my favorite from the series.
T
Goddamn turkeys
O
That’ll be my bandname!
K
Nah that’s like saying a dolphin’s a human because it’s a mammal. A bird is a bird. They evolved from dinosaurs, it’s called phylogenetic evolution.
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Show me where in the phylogenic tree there’s a dolphin branching out of a human. Birds are branching out of dinosaurs.
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It’s called a joke, bud, calm down
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Yes really.
M
All birds are dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs are birds.
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By definition they are.
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Lmfao. No. They literally are. Look up bird on Wikipedia.
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I would like a reboot of Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs all have feathers and move like birds. I think it would be at least 300% more scary.
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Dude, can you imagine the fuckin’ sounds this thing would make if it was 9ft tall and weighed 200lbs, that would be *horrifying*.
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If it was 9 ft tall, it would be more like 500 pounds and most of that would be in its legs and jaws. This thing would rip your face off with a peck. Realistic dinosaurs are a damn nightmare!
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I was guesstimating based on the 6ft cassowary weighing in at around 130-150lbs, a 500lb stork would be absolutely monstrous, if I heard that thing across the forest I’m either offing myself immediately or hoping I can climb real fast. I don’t want any of that smoke.
G
That bird seen some shit
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that tends to happen when you *do some shit*
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Isn’t it kinda strange how it feels like all land animals since then have gotten smaller? Like even Insects used to be huge…
M
Insects were larger due to higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere during the Carboniferous period. I don’t know if this extends to other animals as well though as far as sizing goes
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Dinosaurs had several hundred million years to evolve bigger and bigger, in an atmosphere with a higher oxygen partial pressure. Modern mammals evolved from creatures that topped out at about rat-sized, and haven’t had the sheer amount of time to evolve that the dinosaurs did (tyrannosaurs and stegosaurs lived farther apart in time than tyrannosaurs and humans).
M
Well there was various mega fauna that suspiciously died off when early humans rocked up on the scene.
M
I think the room is making it sound way worse than it actually is
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You can hear them quite a distance away, it’s just as terrifying up close as it is far away. Really does sound like machine gun fire.
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It is still fabulous. Imagine for a moment you are in a forest. It is night time. And you here this monstrosity. Absolute horror cinema. I love it.
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Or a jaguar… or was it a panther? The one that sounded like a woman crying/laughing, its honestly very fucking scary
K
I don’t remember which one it is, either. Wasn’t it a cougar? I need to Google it I hate the websites that make 500 words articles about such simple questions, just tell me which cat is it It’s mountain Lions and Bobcats
T
mountain lions, cougars, pumas, and some florida panthers are all once species. There are reports of jaguars and possibly ocelots and jaguarundis/ottercats also having made it to Florida, but I dunno how substantiated those reports are.
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Foxes sound like a woman screaming. Barn owls also sound screamy.
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Pizza delivery guy is outside ducking for cover
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