Call of the Shoebill Stork

Apr 13, 2020 8:45 PM

BrisbaneHorrorGal

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That thing looks and moves like one of those animatronic animals at Chuck E. Cheese.

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He makes me uneasy. It's the frickin eyes. Never seen a bird move it's eyes that way. Looks like a human guy in costume

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It's the predator sound. Creepy.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm 4'10. This thing is taller than me, nightmare fuel dinosaur

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those eyes look to smart for a fucking bird

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Excellent so if I ever hear one in the wild I'm instantly going to think I'm being hunted by The Predator.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

These birds look like something from an 80's Jim Henson production

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

You can't prove they aren't muppets that escaped the Henson lot and went wild.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nah fam. Not ok. I don’t like this bird whatsoever

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Where the hell are these things? I just started seeing them on here today.

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HOW BIG IS THAT THING?!

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Dinosaur, for sure

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Looks very primitive.

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That thing is real? Wow

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They belong to the Jurassic movie set.

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Pterodactyl

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7 ft tall?

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110 to 140 cm (43 to 55 in) ~ Wikipedia

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O dang didnt expect that

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s like rule 34b there probably an anime girl of it.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank god they’re derpy and don’t have the personality of geese

6 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

Geese are crazy!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's Cassowaries

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

These can fly

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ok yeah that would be terrifying if they were goose-natured. And thanks for letting me know.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So....machine-gun then.

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Like a semi downshifting

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Machine guns aren’t great on birds....ask the Australians

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Correct

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Did you fight in the great Emu wars soldier?

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

No I just read history

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I was mostly referencing your username.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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Ahhh the bend and snap!

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From "dignified dinosaur" to "derpy water floof" in half a second.

6 years ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 0

Kevin?

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If I had only ever seen this bird my whole life, and someone told me the "birds aren't real" theory, I would absolutely believe them.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Ok that’s just a grey chocobo

6 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Wark

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I was not expecting that

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I don't think any of us were

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's how I bathe, too. Like a two-year-old's tantrum, but in water.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He's playing the tutorial

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He's like, "what bitch"

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thats pretty damn similar to a gator call, pretty neat they're both dinosaurs

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Holy shit Animatronics are absolutely incredible these days, this is for the next drastic park movie ??

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh, look its my favorite animal. Absolutely astounding this beauty is.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Never forget this thing is an apex stick predator

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Thats a dinosaur

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Chocobo

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No that is the bird that Robin Hood dresses up as in the original Disney

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dinosaur having a bad hair day

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Was able to be 5ft away from one (with thin wire fence between us) and it was unreal. I was uncomfortable keeping eye contact with it.

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Technically all birds are but valid point

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My exact thought when I saw it move. Then it really clicked

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Kinda

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I think you mean loft wing

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That's a Muppet.

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Scientists often classify clade Dinosauria as avian dinosaurs, and non-avian dinosaurs. Colloquially "dinosaurs" = "non-avian dinosaurs".

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All birb are dinosaur

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Haha

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All birds are more closely related to dinosaurs than anything still living.

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It's not that they're related, but that they are literally dinosaurs. When paleontologists talk about the K-T event, they refer to the...

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extinction of "non-avian dinosaurs", because birds evolved directly from theropods.

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Philip, you learn new stuff all the time, therosaus, new name for me.

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Theropod, richard noggin!

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Except for maybe that chicken they genetically modified with teeth

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have news for you, chickens are birds too.

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I was saying a chicken with teeth is closer to a dinosaur than a shoebill is

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ahh, I misunderstood. But I will say both are not "closer" to, they ARE dinosaurs.

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all birds are dinosaurs

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This one is extra dinosaur

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Can confirm. My parrot sounds like a goddamn t. rex.

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Neat, how do you know?

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Well, it's like they say. You're only as old as you feel.

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Jokes aside they think trex made a very low frequency eerie hum. It's said that it likely made a sound like the start of the jaws theme.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It possibly didnt roar at all. Especially when hunting it would have been quite af. Its low enough that you'd feel it vibrating your body.

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