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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@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 month ago
[-] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Aggretsuko!

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 26 points 1 month ago

Slay, queen 💅

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago
[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Fighting/Flying

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Divorced bird if I’ve ever seen one

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago
[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Please don't encourage

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Is that the bird's head looking left?

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

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

I miss r/divorcedbirds ...

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Be the change you want to see in the world!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Hands and a cigarette holder are missing.

Gaslight, gatekeep, bird boss 💅🏾

[-] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago
[-] cattywampas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

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

He was begging her for it

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The cruel and helpful birds from Flow!

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

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

Fuck yea, thats such a vibe

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

brb, i gotta go cry

[-] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Human dinosaur.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago

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

"Please tread on me 🥴"

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