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[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago
[-] ptz@dubvee.org 44 points 3 months ago

Even our wildlife needs mobility scooters

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

but hey, we can always strap some fusion-powered mobility thrusters and it'll soar with the best of them, right?

(also, while we're at it, lets give them control of their shits and train them to shit on trump.)

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago
[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 59 points 3 months ago
[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I would welcome this reply in any thread. And from now on I expect to see it in every thread.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I hope to see it in the thread after the presidential debate.

TL;DR he ate a racoon

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Be the change you want to see in this world.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You're right. This is my calling...

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 3 months ago

While it is nice, I hesitated. This seems to be an independent site, and if their revenue model is visits/ads, I dont really want to take away from them.

That being said, for this one I felt like the headline was too clickbaity.

This could also be a convincing headline about RFK Jr

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 49 points 3 months ago

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

WHERE EVEN THE EAGLES ARE MORBIDLY OBESE

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In the early 2000s I worked at a company that had a small central courtyard in the middle of the building. All four sides of the courtyard were three or more stories high.

Pigeons used to congregate in the courtyard and pick for crumbs.

One day, a huge hawk came down and snatched himself a big fat pigeon.

He sat there for most of an hour picking at this bird. When he finally went to leave he couldn't clear the lowest wall.

We called animal control, they said if he's still there in 2 days let us know.

He crapped all over the place and by the end of day to was able to just fly out.

I'm not exactly certain that he wasn't hurt and just got better enough to fly out but it really looked like he just ate himself into a condition where he couldn't get back out of there.

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago
[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It was also the only approved smoking location anywhere near the building. So all the smokers crowded into the far corner of the courtyard while the hawk held down the other half.

He was big, probably just shy of two feet tall. Any squawked it anyone that was anywhere near him while he was eating his pigeon.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] potustheplant@feddit.nl 14 points 3 months ago

freedom noises

[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago

🎵God bless the USA 🎵

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Other than the word "eagle," this headline could be about me.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, I think pretty much every single other person is too fat/heavy to fly with our wings

[-] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 3 months ago

The bird was unable to fly after eating what is suspected to be raccoon roadkill.

"My ancestors hunted, but I mostly just sit by the side of a highway and wait for cars to do my hunting for me. They can even bring down deer."

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Bald eagles are in fact scavengers. They’re shit birds, are not majestic, fuck with the real birds of prey, and steal their kills. Also they eat road kill, and their cry is disconcertingly discordantly cringe.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I awhile back I saw an eagle eating roadkill and as my car approached, it grabbed the carcass it was eating and flew off into a field with it a few feet, dropped it, and sat down to start eating it again.

Had no idea eagles ate carrion. I figured that one was just young or something and having a hard time hunting, but I guess not?

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago

Basically, AFAIK, eagles can hunt fish from the sea. They eat other birds & various creatures. They look majestic AF & their eyes are amazing. But they're not the most intelligent birds around.

They also eat a lot of roadkill, carrion, trash. So looks aside, bald eagles are kind of disgusting. But hey. Something has to clean up trash...and if the bald eagles will eat rotting carcasses... technically that is being useful.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago
[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago

Insurance said no.

[-] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Convergent evolution. Some eagles are evolving into chickens. A new species of murder chickens.

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They're just re-evolving lost traits.

RETURN TO DINO

[-] prettydarknwild@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

WTF IS A KILOMETER!!!! RAHHHH 🦅 🔫

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I wonder if his insurance covers Semaglutide?

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I feel like Roger Alan Wade weren't singing about a God damn bald eagle, but never the less:

The ain't no wings on a pachyderm, it's too fat too fly
Ain't ko wings on a barn yard pig, it's too fat to fly
There ain't no wings on your fat ass and there ain't no wonder why

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[-] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 3 months ago

eagle eats too much burgers like real americans

this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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