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JonsJava@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Bald eagle thought to be injured later deemed "too fat to fly"

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Bald eagle thought to be injured later deemed "too fat to fly"

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JonsJava@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Dickerson Park Zoo x-rays show evidence of raccoon roadkill inside the bird's stomach.
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  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
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    Merica

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      Even our wildlife needs mobility scooters

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        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
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      Fuck yeaa

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    TLDR; he ate a racoon.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      I would welcome this reply in any thread. And from now on I expect to see it in every thread.

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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        I hope to see it in the thread after the presidential debate.

        TL;DR he ate a racoon

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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        Be the change you want to see in this world.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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          You’re right. This is my calling…

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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        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.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      This could also be a convincing headline about RFK Jr

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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        Post it!

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    AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

    WHERE EVEN THE EAGLES ARE MORBIDLY OBESE

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    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.

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      deleted by creator

      • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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        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.

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    🎵God bless the USA 🎵

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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    Merica fuck yeah.

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      freedom noises

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    Other than the word “eagle,” this headline could be about me.

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

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    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.”

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      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.

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      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?

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    Get him a mobility drone.

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      Insurance said no.

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

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      They’re just re-evolving lost traits.

      RETURN TO DINO

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    WTF IS A KILOMETER!!! RAHHHH 🦅 🔫

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    I wonder if his insurance covers Semaglutide?

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    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

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    Relatable.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUs-6wVm3bQ

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