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mildlyinteresting·Mildly Interestingbyickplant

This fierce beauty is the Secretary Bird, a bird of prey from sub-Saharan Africa with killer kicks and iconic lashes

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

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legs for days, built-in thighhighssocks?.

woooooo!

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ch00freply
lemmy.world

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

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

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Klearreply
lemmy.world

Is that the bird's head looking left?

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lemmy.world

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.

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

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lemm.ee

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

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

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

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