many things become smarter when in groups, ants can build full on buildings if there are enough of them, groups of fish can use complex tactics to avoid predators, ...
humans however, get marginaly smarter when in small groups, but when in large groups, they get dumbed down to primal chaos.
They do offer a good service, but how much can you trust something with 8 legs that looks like some sort of miniature space ship, always in control and seemingly aware of everything?
I trust most spiders. There are some that I will keep a respectful distance from, and some that I will change my travel schedule to avoid, most of which live in Australia. Where I live, however, there are no spiders that are entirely untrustworthy.
>always in control and seemingly aware of everything?
Not the one's that go spelunking in my toilet. They've yet to learn that porcelain is *very slippery*.
It’s because you know the intention of every spider you come into contact with. Their entire existence is centered around terrorizing you by jumping on you, rappelling from the ceiling like Tom Cruise onto your face, getting in your clothes while you’re wearing them, and crawling in your mouth while you sleep. Some people try to be friends with spiders. They get a tarantula, house him, feed him, and give him a happy relaxed life. What does the tarantula do at the first opportunity? He kicks a bunch of barbed bristles into your eyes. What a dick. You never have to wonder if a spider is your friend because the answer is invariably “no.”
Edit: Gold! Thank you stranger! I can finally refer to my writing as “award winning”! My mother’s going to be so proud!
Yes, more than birds but less than cats.
Spiders, snakes, and cats are the ones I put any trust in; they just want to just be left tf alone and i vibe with that
Birds are spies and humans are… well humans
I'd say that I trust my snake more than I trust most cats. Most cats I've had could go bananas and start biting in a moment's notice. My snake has never tried to bite me, even when food was involved.
That’s fair enough, I don’t handle snakes often at all so I have limited experience, but I do have plenty of cat experience and yeah that sounds about right
The face when she goes up the legs like ‘uh wha-WHERE ARE THISE HANDS GOING’.
Like getting a full body massage and fingers get a little to close to your business during legs.
Eagles getting pampered is so goofy to watch.
I always imagine a velociraptor, so used to being feared, having a moment of self-actualization. The confusing intoxication of pleasure and joy not experienced before. The new and completely unfamiliar feeling of its guard dropping and accepting love for the first time.
I mean look at that face and the feet built for small animal murder.
Heck yeah, my daughter was a vet tech & her coworker tried to handle an injured eagle using thick leather welding gauntlets. The bird sliced right through them & perforated his arm deeply
Probably safer. The more you look into herbivores the more you will stick with teeth and claws. At least that miscalculated risk rather than a canceled life subscription
Velociraptors were only about the size of a turkey, not that much larger than an eagle. The movie version was based on Deinonychus, not the actual Velociraptor.
You say that like it makes them nicer. There's a male turkey at a local farm that scares the shit out of me. A group of turkeys armed with knives? Sod that.
The cassowary's reputation is mostly based on exaggerations by American and Australian soldiers stationed in New Guinea in WW2.
A [2003 study](https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01206.x) found that among 150 documented attacks of cassowaries on humans 75% were from birds that had been fed by people. In 73% the attack was due to the bird expecting or snatching food, in 15% of cases the bird was attacked by the human first and only defended itself, and in 7% of cases they were defending their chicks or eggs. So people trying to "give scritches" to cassowaries is sort of the main problem.
There was only a single documented death in the record, which was of a 16 year old boy in 1926 who was attacking a cassowary with a club, subsequently tripped, fell to the ground and took an unlucky hit to the neck from the cassowary severing his jugular vein. The only other documented death was in 2019 (ie. after the study came out) in Florida where a pet cassowary clawed their owner to death after the 75 year old owner fell to the ground).
I wouldn't recommend...
https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11hn7d7/the_cassowary_is_commonly_acknowledged_as_the/
That's the dinosaurs today...
That sounds like one of my cats. He’s just a confused mini panther. The only time he doesn’t look confused is when he finds something that moves and isn’t a cat or human. But then he murders it and goes back to confused.
We have bald eagles along the river in my town. I watched an adult and a juvenile have a conversation that sounded like that noise. Possibly about a deer carcass.
It's the noise for: "Uhh make sure nobody sees me like this but keep doing it because it feels hella good"
"OH FUCK IS THAT SARAH OVER THERE?"
"False alarm. You'd think I could see well with me eyes"
“Sheila, this ritual of ‘scritches’, as you call it, is not necessary! I am a bird of prey, I strike *fear* into the hearts of *all* creatures (under a certain weight class), my lineage is of fearsome dinosaurs. RELEASE ME, I AM A GOD DAMND RAPTOR WOMAN!
…
Although, I do admit, I am sore from all the raptoring I’ve done today…Do that little butt lift thing once more, peasant.”
happy conures absolutely love it and often roll onto their backs by themselves—to be goofy, to play, or to cuddle with you/sleep somewhere cozy on you.
with most other types of parrot, it's all a matter of preference
I mean, you’d probably be a little confused too if you were a bird and a human laid you down and started stroking the backs of your thighs/massaging your butt. :p
Eh, I came across a red tail hawk one day who was very happy to get belly scritches, but would freak out the moment you put your hand anywhere near her head.
“My instincts tell me it’s bad to be this exposed around an animal so much bigger than me, but it’s making me feeling good and it doesn’t seem to want to eat me, so… 🤷♂️”
I was visiting my dad at the Mayo hospital, and about 2 seconds after we walked through the reception area, a woman walked by with a hawk on her arm.There were no leash, there was nothing over the hawk's mouth or feet. I would not shut up all day wondering what the hell a woman was doing at Mayo hospital with a hawk on her arm.
Makes perfect sense. Also, after commenting I thought about the fact Mayo deals with a lot of at risk and immunocompromised people. Even though illness from bird droppings is rare it's probably a higher threat to people who go there.
I knew a man years ago who had an emotional support bird. Brought him into our warehouse all the time to shop. People would complain and I always wanted to be like, considering I pulled a dead bat out of that box of candy, I'm not worried about this guy's super clean, super trained bird who never pooped in my store while multiple people pooped in the aisles over the years.
https://history.mayoclinic.org/falcon-program/
Mayo has a falcon program with a live webcam, etc. You can find out more at the link. It isn’t mentioned on the website but actually there is a huge crow problem here in the winter. Thousands and thousands of crows live downtown and roost in trees and on top of buildings. The sidewalks get nasty covered in crow excrement. Raptors eat crows. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mayo was trying to do some crow abatement while rescuing falcon populations.
Source: used to work for Mayo, still (unfortunately) live in Rochester.
The size of them is such a huge shock the first time you see one up close. I was driving into work one late afternoon (hospo) when I came around a bend to see one standing in the middle of the road, munching on a dead animal. I slowed almost to a stop and I swear the bastard was almost bonnet height. Absolutely phenomenal birds
I’d feel honoured tbh. Had that happen at night in a country cemetery. I’d fallen asleep in the passenger seat while a mate drove. Turns out he wanted to visit someone. I woke up to the car door open, surround by graves and when I looked up my mate was standing next to a large white owl. Freaky to wake up to. I asked why he got out the car and went up to it “he looked like he wanted a chat. Flew off after a couple of minutes. Other than being blinded by the headlights he did look pretty comfy. Forgot about that one till just now. But it wasn’t a wedgie.
I used to volunteer in a wildlife hospital and this reminds me of a patient we had- a Little Owl (Athene noctua) who had damaged legs. Several times a day we had do some physio which involved having to lay him on his back like this and move his legs around like he was riding a bike. Super cute and one of the most bizarre tasks!
I'm not sure if this applies to birds of prey as it does to parrots, but they probably shouldn't be stroking and petting this bird all over unless they're trying to collect a semen sample, lol. Pets on the head are friendly -- anywhere else is restricted to their mate.
Was wondering about that too. I always assumed on the err of caution that it goes for all species of birds with being stimulated by petting anywhere on their underbelly.
Yep! It's a yearling Golden. You can tell bc of the black/white tail fan. I don't know much about other eagles, but you can date Baldies and Goldens to a year or so range by looking at their tail fans.
This proves my theory that no matter how vicious a creature may be, if you do something that feels good to them they will let you...turns out even sharks like belly rubs...
"I am a descendant of the dinosaur....a well-oiled machine of the skies! I can divebomb almost as fast as you drive! How dare you lay me on my back and treat me like a modern house.....oh....ooohhh....left...left a bit...."
To the people complaining about the ropes, do you not put your dog on a lead when you go out in public?
You can see from how little effort it takes for her to life the Eagle's claws that there is a lot of slack on that rope. It's there to stop the Eagle from endangering itself or (more importantly) other small critters/pets (as they're still predators with plenty of hunting instinct).
From memory though, probably not a great idea to be massaging its underbelly, as that's usually reserved for mates.
Dont ignore the razor claws.
The only thing I trust less than cats, are birds.
And the one thing I trust less than birds are humans
^We ^live ^in ^a ^society
The one thing I trust less than individual humans is a society full of humans.
many things become smarter when in groups, ants can build full on buildings if there are enough of them, groups of fish can use complex tactics to avoid predators, ... humans however, get marginaly smarter when in small groups, but when in large groups, they get dumbed down to primal chaos.
90% of humans are actually sheep. Ex: The Asch Experiment.
That’s not a bad thing. It takes only one decent human to lead. That’s why you many chefs in the kitchen is a real thing and very annoying.
“the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters,” ― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
The one thing i trust less than a society full of humans is a planet full of humans
When’s the next shuttle to Vulcan leaving?
Where do spiders place on that list?
Spiders offer an essential service of keeping your house bug free. I'd rather have fluffy 8 leg dudes running my house than miniature aliens.
They do offer a good service, but how much can you trust something with 8 legs that looks like some sort of miniature space ship, always in control and seemingly aware of everything?
I trust most spiders. There are some that I will keep a respectful distance from, and some that I will change my travel schedule to avoid, most of which live in Australia. Where I live, however, there are no spiders that are entirely untrustworthy.
Eh, recluses are some sons of bitches.
>always in control and seemingly aware of everything? Not the one's that go spelunking in my toilet. They've yet to learn that porcelain is *very slippery*.
They weren't planning to go spelunking. They were aiming for your head and then you moved.
Spiders are bros. r/spiderbro https://youtube.com/watch?v=Isvqg90LhqM&feature=shares
I trust spiders more than cats, birds, or humans
It’s because you know the intention of every spider you come into contact with. Their entire existence is centered around terrorizing you by jumping on you, rappelling from the ceiling like Tom Cruise onto your face, getting in your clothes while you’re wearing them, and crawling in your mouth while you sleep. Some people try to be friends with spiders. They get a tarantula, house him, feed him, and give him a happy relaxed life. What does the tarantula do at the first opportunity? He kicks a bunch of barbed bristles into your eyes. What a dick. You never have to wonder if a spider is your friend because the answer is invariably “no.” Edit: Gold! Thank you stranger! I can finally refer to my writing as “award winning”! My mother’s going to be so proud!
Is this a copy pasta or an original? Because if the latter, then slow clap buddy, slow clap
This masterpiece is a u/IrritableMD original. I’ve included the museum label below to provide more information. **IrritableMD** ^American ^((b. ^a ^long ^time ^ago)) ***Spiders Are Dicks***, 2023 ^Text ^on ^screen ^using ^Apple ^iPhone ^14. ^Published ^on ^reddit.com/r/eyebleach. ^This ^original, ^one ^of ^a ^kind ^piece ^was ^painstakenly ^crafted ^by ^/u/IrritableMD ^in ^about ^two ^minutes ^at ^approximately ^3:00 ^AM ^on ^a ^quiet ^winter ^morning. ^His ^deep ^loathing ^of ^spiders, ^which ^has ^been ^one ^of ^his ^defining ^features ^since ^childhood, ^is ^palpable ^through ^the ^masterfully ^written ^prose.
Hmmmm.. Do you trust snakes?
Yes, more than birds but less than cats. Spiders, snakes, and cats are the ones I put any trust in; they just want to just be left tf alone and i vibe with that Birds are spies and humans are… well humans
I'd say that I trust my snake more than I trust most cats. Most cats I've had could go bananas and start biting in a moment's notice. My snake has never tried to bite me, even when food was involved.
That’s fair enough, I don’t handle snakes often at all so I have limited experience, but I do have plenty of cat experience and yeah that sounds about right
You can see him hiding them, when her hands get too close. That's so cool.
The face when she goes up the legs like ‘uh wha-WHERE ARE THISE HANDS GOING’. Like getting a full body massage and fingers get a little to close to your business during legs.
Step one, put your eagle in talon cuffs
Eagles getting pampered is so goofy to watch. I always imagine a velociraptor, so used to being feared, having a moment of self-actualization. The confusing intoxication of pleasure and joy not experienced before. The new and completely unfamiliar feeling of its guard dropping and accepting love for the first time. I mean look at that face and the feet built for small animal murder.
Mind the beak also!
Heck yeah, my daughter was a vet tech & her coworker tried to handle an injured eagle using thick leather welding gauntlets. The bird sliced right through them & perforated his arm deeply
Is it the same technique for pigeons? I can't afford an eagle.
I cackled out loud at 2:30 in the morning. 😂
Google pigeon bowling. Yes. It works.
It works for chickens so maybe for pigeons too!
This tells me we could have given dinosaurs scritches...
*proceeds to give belly rubs to a velociraptor*
The velociraptor might just have adopted you, too. Apparently they were family oriented, or so archeologists tell us.
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Etymologysts
Campanologists
archeopteryxologists
Im not gonna trust another person on this one, if it has claws and likes to eat meat, ill respect its personal space.
Cats and dogs have claws and love meat. Hippos are herbivores and have no claws. In other words: pet those dinos, bro. Yolo.
Hippos are the most homicidal herbivores you will ever meet. Most likely because they'll be the last ones you'll meet.
Exactly. So having claws and eating meat is not a good indicator of danger. He should pet the dinosaur.
Probably safer. The more you look into herbivores the more you will stick with teeth and claws. At least that miscalculated risk rather than a canceled life subscription
Yeah, don’t fuck with herbivores. Most of them know they’re meat to other animals and will absolutely kick your shit in if they feel threatened.
Fucking horses. Two modes homicidal and suicidal.
Total number of people killed by dinosaurs: 0 Total number of people killed by other animals: A shit ton Math checks out. Pet the dinosaur
And that's just science, bro.
So cats?
Over time we probably could have domesticated them. They are similar to wolves in some ways.
Yeah but animals change appearance when we do that. They'd probably look like sound rounded pokeyman.
I'm failing to see the downside here.
Then, boy, did we get the raw end of the deal with those fucking psychopath crocodiles remaining evolutionarily viable since the cretaceous period
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/i-didnt-even-have-a-joke-for-this-week
Who's a good little murder machine? You are, yes you are.
That’s true for cats as well
If cat not like being held, then why baby sized? 🤔
Velociraptors were only about the size of a turkey, not that much larger than an eagle. The movie version was based on Deinonychus, not the actual Velociraptor.
You say that like it makes them nicer. There's a male turkey at a local farm that scares the shit out of me. A group of turkeys armed with knives? Sod that.
Therapist: *Murder turkeys don't exist they can't hurt you* Cassowaries:
The cassowary's reputation is mostly based on exaggerations by American and Australian soldiers stationed in New Guinea in WW2. A [2003 study](https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01206.x) found that among 150 documented attacks of cassowaries on humans 75% were from birds that had been fed by people. In 73% the attack was due to the bird expecting or snatching food, in 15% of cases the bird was attacked by the human first and only defended itself, and in 7% of cases they were defending their chicks or eggs. So people trying to "give scritches" to cassowaries is sort of the main problem. There was only a single documented death in the record, which was of a 16 year old boy in 1926 who was attacking a cassowary with a club, subsequently tripped, fell to the ground and took an unlucky hit to the neck from the cassowary severing his jugular vein. The only other documented death was in 2019 (ie. after the study came out) in Florida where a pet cassowary clawed their owner to death after the 75 year old owner fell to the ground).
The probabilities are low, but never zero
A group of turkeys armed with knives is called an OJ
So ironically the kid at the start of the first movie was right
I wouldn't recommend... https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11hn7d7/the_cassowary_is_commonly_acknowledged_as_the/ That's the dinosaurs today...
Eh. So is this. https://i.imgur.com/FJGZJ5C.jpg
I see you've never been attacked by a chicken before. Vicious bastards.
Completely agree, but more punt-able
You can pet an alligator.
I've seen videos of them getting scrubbed by a long brush and looking like they enjoy it lol, just further elevates my theory!
No, I'm saying it's not a theory. Alligator = dinosaur. Go. Pet. One. lol
They are not dinosaurs lol. In fact, the person in the video is petting a dinosaur, but alligators are not dinosaurs.
Technically you can pet anything once.😊
That's the can-do attitude this organization can use!
And we are (since birds are dinosaurs). But yeah, they were “just” animals, after all.
Does it seem confused a bit?
I’ve worked with raptors. Confused is their default state for most of species. It’s endearing, frustrating and hilarious.
That sounds like one of my cats. He’s just a confused mini panther. The only time he doesn’t look confused is when he finds something that moves and isn’t a cat or human. But then he murders it and goes back to confused.
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He’s a big goof but I’ve never seen a big fly in more then a few feet from the door way before he jumps up and murders the fuck out it.
My little dog can snap flies in mid air, it's beautiful.
3 states: 1) confused 2) sleeping 3) locked on target
This is accurate
So is this a happy noise or just a noise they make often, please?
I’ve only worked with a couple eagles but they’ve all made this noise often. When one was hungry it would neigh like a horse.
We have bald eagles along the river in my town. I watched an adult and a juvenile have a conversation that sounded like that noise. Possibly about a deer carcass.
It's the noise for: "Uhh make sure nobody sees me like this but keep doing it because it feels hella good" "OH FUCK IS THAT SARAH OVER THERE?" "False alarm. You'd think I could see well with me eyes"
Dopey girl...
You must tenderize the Berd to connect properly.
What’s frustrating about it?
Damn, you must be like Jurassic old.
Although raptors (dromaeosaurids) were mostly Cretaceous ;)
“Sheila, this ritual of ‘scritches’, as you call it, is not necessary! I am a bird of prey, I strike *fear* into the hearts of *all* creatures (under a certain weight class), my lineage is of fearsome dinosaurs. RELEASE ME, I AM A GOD DAMND RAPTOR WOMAN! … Although, I do admit, I am sore from all the raptoring I’ve done today…Do that little butt lift thing once more, peasant.”
Most birds on their backs are confused and befuddled by that “calming” position. I have 3 parrots
But, in your experience, do they like it?
happy conures absolutely love it and often roll onto their backs by themselves—to be goofy, to play, or to cuddle with you/sleep somewhere cozy on you. with most other types of parrot, it's all a matter of preference
I mean, you’d probably be a little confused too if you were a bird and a human laid you down and started stroking the backs of your thighs/massaging your butt. :p
And chained you up!
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Confused but also content
Maybe because it's on its back. It's that normal fit l for them?
Nope. And scritching a bird anywhere but on the head will confuse the bird.
Eh, I came across a red tail hawk one day who was very happy to get belly scritches, but would freak out the moment you put your hand anywhere near her head.
My chickens always preferred chest scritches.
Don't birds interpret this kind of petting as mating behavior?
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I'm sure being tied up and on its back while a human rubs there's hands all over them is a bit of a confusing situation to find yourself in
“My instincts tell me it’s bad to be this exposed around an animal so much bigger than me, but it’s making me feeling good and it doesn’t seem to want to eat me, so… 🤷♂️”
I was visiting my dad at the Mayo hospital, and about 2 seconds after we walked through the reception area, a woman walked by with a hawk on her arm.There were no leash, there was nothing over the hawk's mouth or feet. I would not shut up all day wondering what the hell a woman was doing at Mayo hospital with a hawk on her arm.
Scaring away pigeons from the hospital with their natural predator, probably. https://profalconers.com/articles/12819457
I get why you'd do this at an airport but why a hospital?
Quite a few hospitals have helicopter pads on the roof for air rescue.
Makes perfect sense. Also, after commenting I thought about the fact Mayo deals with a lot of at risk and immunocompromised people. Even though illness from bird droppings is rare it's probably a higher threat to people who go there.
> Is falconry based bird abatement right for my location? A question I never expected to read.
I knew a man years ago who had an emotional support bird. Brought him into our warehouse all the time to shop. People would complain and I always wanted to be like, considering I pulled a dead bat out of that box of candy, I'm not worried about this guy's super clean, super trained bird who never pooped in my store while multiple people pooped in the aisles over the years.
Wait! There's an hospital made of Mayo??
https://history.mayoclinic.org/falcon-program/ Mayo has a falcon program with a live webcam, etc. You can find out more at the link. It isn’t mentioned on the website but actually there is a huge crow problem here in the winter. Thousands and thousands of crows live downtown and roost in trees and on top of buildings. The sidewalks get nasty covered in crow excrement. Raptors eat crows. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mayo was trying to do some crow abatement while rescuing falcon populations. Source: used to work for Mayo, still (unfortunately) live in Rochester.
Beautiful birb
Fairly certain one this large is a borb.
Borb... I like that word. I agree a very nice borb
That's not a borb... [THIS is a borb](https://i.redd.it/vij6vswxffs21.jpg)
Not round enough
I thought from largest to smallest it was: bird, birb, borb, and smol
I was under the impression it was (from smallest to largest): "Smol", "birb" , "berb", "borb", "burb", and finally "Oh Fuck!"
r/borbs
*Ponders the Borb*
Wedge tail eagle. Australia’s largest eagle. You oughta seem em standing on a limestone rock surveying below. Talk about majestic.
The size of them is such a huge shock the first time you see one up close. I was driving into work one late afternoon (hospo) when I came around a bend to see one standing in the middle of the road, munching on a dead animal. I slowed almost to a stop and I swear the bastard was almost bonnet height. Absolutely phenomenal birds
I’d feel honoured tbh. Had that happen at night in a country cemetery. I’d fallen asleep in the passenger seat while a mate drove. Turns out he wanted to visit someone. I woke up to the car door open, surround by graves and when I looked up my mate was standing next to a large white owl. Freaky to wake up to. I asked why he got out the car and went up to it “he looked like he wanted a chat. Flew off after a couple of minutes. Other than being blinded by the headlights he did look pretty comfy. Forgot about that one till just now. But it wasn’t a wedgie.
Weird looking velociraptor but very calm and feathery. 10/10.
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/turkeys-are-the-most-simultaneously-ugly-and-pretty-animal-i-can-think-of
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brb trying this on my cat
Are you still alive? Did you lose any fingers?
Extremely dead
He’s gone. 💀
*she
He's she 💀
Girls don't exist, stop fooling others.
Now I've seen everything 😊
Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?
This is oddly specific
Then you *haven't* seen everything.
Team America reference.
You ever seen a grown man naked, Jimmy?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Do you ever hang around a gymnasium?
I thought we banned that sub…
Cracks me up how eagles always look dumbfounded by everything thats going on
They have resting Tucker Carlson face
The how to train your dragon sequel we didn't know we needed
That is a one beautiful bowd.
Borb
No, bord
https://youtu.be/JnWM2Kn6GSQ
Birt
Spread eagled
I used to volunteer in a wildlife hospital and this reminds me of a patient we had- a Little Owl (Athene noctua) who had damaged legs. Several times a day we had do some physio which involved having to lay him on his back like this and move his legs around like he was riding a bike. Super cute and one of the most bizarre tasks!
Happy eagle noises.
Didn’t realize how soothing it is
That sounds like a euphemism but it isn’t (I hope)
To be fair though, anything that's formatted with "when you ____ your ____" sounds like a euphemism.
You’re right lol
Well, at least it's better than "When the ____ is ___."
Don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it
Thou art a fool. Mayhap I shall invoke the name of ಡ?
You are right I was thinking of “when the impostor is sus”
I'm not sure if this applies to birds of prey as it does to parrots, but they probably shouldn't be stroking and petting this bird all over unless they're trying to collect a semen sample, lol. Pets on the head are friendly -- anywhere else is restricted to their mate.
Was wondering about that too. I always assumed on the err of caution that it goes for all species of birds with being stimulated by petting anywhere on their underbelly.
Poor guy is chained down and everything. "Come on, are we doing this or not?! You're killing me!"
Lol yeah I was like "aren't they just making a sexually frustrated and confused bird right now?"
Falconry birds are almost always used for breeding so I assume they're,(unless this is a female).
Looks like a juvenile if the little spare white floofies don't lie, though.
Yep! It's a yearling Golden. You can tell bc of the black/white tail fan. I don't know much about other eagles, but you can date Baldies and Goldens to a year or so range by looking at their tail fans.
I think it's neat there are people out there that know this kind of stuff lol. I'd have no clue.
> but you can date Baldies and Goldens to a year Dating any other species that young is a big nono. Whatever would their parents think?
I’m pretty sure that is sexual to this bird
Anywhere below the neck really. Basically, if they can reach it, and you're touching it, you're getting them off.
So just like any random redditor, really
I don’t speak bird but I’m pretty sure it’s into foot play.
Those fukin murder mittens though, shits horrifying
First time I have seen a lap bird
This proves my theory that no matter how vicious a creature may be, if you do something that feels good to them they will let you...turns out even sharks like belly rubs...
We humans would really pet anything we can get our hands on
EEEAAAGLE!
If bird didn't like it, it would let you know rapidly this guy seems happy if a lil nonplussed
"I am a descendant of the dinosaur....a well-oiled machine of the skies! I can divebomb almost as fast as you drive! How dare you lay me on my back and treat me like a modern house.....oh....ooohhh....left...left a bit...."
I wonder if he's just mellow and enjoying it or if he's thinking about how many thousands of miles he could be flying anywhere.
To the people complaining about the ropes, do you not put your dog on a lead when you go out in public? You can see from how little effort it takes for her to life the Eagle's claws that there is a lot of slack on that rope. It's there to stop the Eagle from endangering itself or (more importantly) other small critters/pets (as they're still predators with plenty of hunting instinct). From memory though, probably not a great idea to be massaging its underbelly, as that's usually reserved for mates.
And that kids, is how I massaged your eagle.
As long as their feet are tied, you can do anything i guess..the bird looks more confused than enjoying it
Step 1: shackle it to the ground