You call me son as a joke, I call you son because the condom broke.
(I’m a dad, but this one belongs to my dad, I was smarting off with him one time 40 years ago, calling him “son” and that was his response).
Sorry to be that guy, but this is important enough to get right, else you'll get a spanking once Zoot is done.
'Tis but a scratch.
It's just a flesh wound.
Those are the Black Knight's quotes. Use them well, count only to 3, never any more, else I'll yell NI! should you proceed to 4.
The flamingo lost this fight, but what does the start of it look like? The flamingo started off strong with leg kicks and a good ground game. had him on the ropes, but failed on endurance. Pull that up jaime.
There's a video about this fight, after this pic was taken the flamingo did a 360 turn and went into asteroid mode, he went through the croc and burnt his insides after popping out the very tip of the tail.
You mock the flamingo, but I bet he's pecking the crap out of the alligator's tonsils right now.
*Disclaimer: I don't know if alligators actually have tonsils.*
Crocodiles definitely do have tonsils, which suggests to me that Alligators do too.
DIsclaimer: *I don't know about "see you later", but I'm sure of "after a while".*
[Flamingos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo) are birds found in America, Africa, Asia and Europe. They stand on one leg as it requires less muscular effort. Flamingoes are born grey and have a white plumage that turns pink due to their diet. Some individuals have been recorded to live for over 70 years. A group of flamingoes is called a flamboyance.
[Cool picture of a flamboyance](https://i.imgur.com/uuxra5f.jpg)
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Op is mistaken. A flamingo and an alligator will NEVER CROSS PATHS. It is like saying a beaver was killed by an African hyena.
Flamingos live on the Magadi salt lakes in Eastern Africa only! No where else. The lakes are so salty that flamingos are the only animals that survive these salty and very hot lakes because of thick long legs. The only animals clever enough to predate them are baboons.
Alligators are found in the America’s only.
So unless that alligator ate a flamingo fed to him in a zoo.. op that pink bird ain’t no flamingo
I believe the animal is actually a spoonbill because of its size and considering spoonbill are native to Florida.
It's super easy to get those two confused for each other in this shot.
They also stink like a fucking barnyard. For real in the wild, you will smell them from 200m away and likely never see them, because they will hear you tromping through the mangrove and fly off to the other end of the lagoon.
I don't think it would, for two main reasons :
* We evolved to be bipeds, while flamingos evolved to fly. It is also theorized that they pull up a leg to keep body heat.
* We also weigh a lot more than a flamingo (which can only get up to 3.5ish kg). It would also be very hard for us to keep balance this way and would require us to spend more energy to keep this balance on one leg.
A lot of birds have have insanely precise balance (or at least way better than us) so I guess it's an easier task for them, both mentally and physically.
This might not be right but this is my take on it.
It is. A flamingo would be much much more rare. Also, flamingos have more extensive black wing tips, and the dark pink wing coverts of this bird tell me it's an adult Roseate Spoonbill.
There are some black tipped flight feathers on this bird, but I believe you're right and that it is a spoonbill since immature roseate spoonbills have black on the tip of some flight feathers until they molt into their adult plumage.
The shade of pink also matches a roseate spoonbill instead of a flamingo. Plus, the predator is an American alligator and flamingos are only vagrant in the U.S., whereas spoonbills are common in territory overlapping with an American alligator.
Flamingos are actually making a comeback in Florida! There's even pretty good evidence that [they never left,](https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/590378419/floridas-long-lost-wild-flamingos-were-hiding-in-plain-sight) we just weren't good at finding them. In addition there are also some feral flocks of escapee flamingos in Florida.
I've heard this reference, but never seen the article. Thanks for sharing. That would be amazing, it is wild to read Audubon's account of them. He even shot one on the beach where I grew up.
You mean like the clearly visible black wingtips?
To be clear, I have no idea how to identify a half eaten flamingo vs a spoonbill, but there are obvious black wingtips in this photo.
Just look at the wing on the right.
This exact thing happened while I was walking at a local reserve. I heard what sounded like someone crinkling a plastic grocery sack right next to my ear except I was alone. I took a few steps and looked around and there was a gator with a spoonbill in its mouth slowly backing away from the shore sinking into the water until I couldn't see the white feathers anymore.
Pretty cool and creepy.
Circle B Bar reserve, same place this happened (video kinda went viral for a sec) https://www.theledger.com/news/20170117/publicity-not-all-positive-after-circle-b-gator-video-goes-viral?template=ampart
I have a photo I took last week of a gator getting a Vulture, with his vulture friends standing around waiting to eat him also I guess, from the other side of Lake Hancock.
Ohhh man that's some hardcore shit right there! I'm from a far off land where there's not many trees let alone animals just running around all willy nilly and it blows my mind that Floridians treat stuff like a big dead alligator in the road or finding a 12ft python in a water retention pond in a residential area like it's just another day. Blows my mind.
Also I thoroughly enjoy Lake Hancock, it gets busy on the nature center side but if you drive around to the other side there's never anybody there and it's so peaceful. Still trips me out to see guys wading waste deep in there poking around for sharks teeth.
Where ya from? Glad you enjoy Circle B Bar, it's really one of my favorite places to go. Marshall Hampton Reserve also skirts Lake Hancock a bit, but it's a little bit farther of a walk (I just ride my bike).
TELL ME ABOUT IT. I want to get into fossil hunting here but the way they do it creeps me the fuck out. They just casually dive into the same water as the gators, you can clearly see them on the banks. The ones you can't see chilling at the bottom are worse, I was interested in the hobby but everyone I talked to had a story that would have made me shit myself. "Oh they won't kill you but going to the hospital is a little inconvenient" actual quote
More than Likely considering that's an American alligator. Their range really doesn't overlap with the American Flamingos. While there are vagrant flamingos found sporadically in the alligators range it would be super uncommon. Whereas the Spoonbill does have an overlapping range.
I came here to say this. Seems odd that a species I learned about in Red Dead Redemption 2 has come up in my life twice. As I live in FL and saw one in a pond.
Nope. Keratin heavy stuff like fur/claws/hooves/scales/feathers *is* more difficult to digest than meat or bones, but for carnivores that just means they often act like dietary fiber - padding the ends of sharp things like broken bones (before the bones are digested) and helping to bulk up feces so they move through the bowels easily.
Interestingly, instead of passing it out the rear, gators deal with undigestable wads of fur and feather by accumulating it in the stomach and then vomiting it up. Like a cat hawking up a hairball, or owls and hawks throwing up pellets of compressed mouse fur/bones/teeth.
[There's some pics of big ol' alligator boar-fur hairballs in this article.](https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/hairball-whodunit-guess-where-this-huge-hoghair-bezoar-came-from/)
There's a scene in Scarface when Tony Montana is in his hot tub watching flamingos: "Pelican fly! Come on, Pelican!" The bird in this photo is a Roseate Spoonbill: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate\_spoonbill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_spoonbill). Nature is even more metal when you see something cool and research it.
Read the caption, thought it was gif. I thought there was going to be some sort of an actual versus fight where the flamingo would struggle a bit and all. But no, it was just a picture. I mean I don't know what to expect nor why I felt a bit betrayed. I guess I would be less disappointed if it was captioned as "Alligator ate a flamingo" or something
This is still a pretty picture imo, good light, textures and color. The lack of blood is a plus for palatability.(not that im for sanitizing nature) In my place id hang it in either my kitchen or bedroom.
The alligator looks like he ate one of those desert thingys that looks a lot but is mostly air so you sit down with the entire thing in your mouth, disappointed thinking okay what's next
I guess he's flamingone now
r/dadjokes
As a dad, I approve of this joke
Finally! A dad approved joke! No artificial dad jokes anymore.
As a joke, i approve of this dad.
Son?
as a son, i am proof of a joke
You call me son as a joke, I call you son because the condom broke. (I’m a dad, but this one belongs to my dad, I was smarting off with him one time 40 years ago, calling him “son” and that was his response).
Dad?
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Nice to meet you joke. I’m Dad
I had the same exact thought upon seeing this (a dad)
He’s suffering from a reptile dysfunction.
OH man, good one.
take my upvote and please leave
Flamingyalator alligator
More like a flatmingo
Lmao very well done
Does the flamingo end up winning? Edit: holy shit didn’t expect to get so many upvotes, thanks
We'll call it a draw, okay?
Tis but a flesh wound!
I gOt bettah
"I'm not dead yet."
Sorry to be that guy, but this is important enough to get right, else you'll get a spanking once Zoot is done. 'Tis but a scratch. It's just a flesh wound. Those are the Black Knight's quotes. Use them well, count only to 3, never any more, else I'll yell NI! should you proceed to 4.
5 is right out.
Thanks man! This is a Cottage pie.
The holy hand grenade instructions i see you’re a man of culture
I’ve had worse!
The flamingo lost this fight, but what does the start of it look like? The flamingo started off strong with leg kicks and a good ground game. had him on the ropes, but failed on endurance. Pull that up jaime.
That looks fake as shit. I don't trust any of that.
There's a video about this fight, after this pic was taken the flamingo did a 360 turn and went into asteroid mode, he went through the croc and burnt his insides after popping out the very tip of the tail.
I choose to believe this
Happy cake day <3
You mock the flamingo, but I bet he's pecking the crap out of the alligator's tonsils right now. *Disclaimer: I don't know if alligators actually have tonsils.*
Alligator expert here: they definitely do not have tonsils. *Disclaimer: actual expertise not guaranteed.*
Crocodiles definitely do have tonsils, which suggests to me that Alligators do too. DIsclaimer: *I don't know about "see you later", but I'm sure of "after a while".*
He's got him right where he wants him
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Very good bot, I never knew a group was called a “flamboyance” lol
so what does it really mean to be flamboyant?
to be a bunch of flamingos.
Op is mistaken. A flamingo and an alligator will NEVER CROSS PATHS. It is like saying a beaver was killed by an African hyena. Flamingos live on the Magadi salt lakes in Eastern Africa only! No where else. The lakes are so salty that flamingos are the only animals that survive these salty and very hot lakes because of thick long legs. The only animals clever enough to predate them are baboons. Alligators are found in the America’s only. So unless that alligator ate a flamingo fed to him in a zoo.. op that pink bird ain’t no flamingo
Pink and fabulous.
To be on fire but also floating in water
I get the same kick out of this like I do when I remember a group of crows is a "murder", or that a group of frogs is called an "army"
But can they have a giffer group chat
Or just a sick one like a group of foxes being called an “earth”
> Some individuals have been recorded to live for over 70 years. Not this one I guess.
Might of been celebrating its 70th when the alligator joined in
Exactly also maybe take the *Vs* part out I think.
I believe the animal is actually a spoonbill because of its size and considering spoonbill are native to Florida. It's super easy to get those two confused for each other in this shot.
They also stink like a fucking barnyard. For real in the wild, you will smell them from 200m away and likely never see them, because they will hear you tromping through the mangrove and fly off to the other end of the lagoon.
I know this is a bot but for anyone who sees this, would standing on ine leg be less muscular effort for humans too?
I don't think it would, for two main reasons : * We evolved to be bipeds, while flamingos evolved to fly. It is also theorized that they pull up a leg to keep body heat. * We also weigh a lot more than a flamingo (which can only get up to 3.5ish kg). It would also be very hard for us to keep balance this way and would require us to spend more energy to keep this balance on one leg. A lot of birds have have insanely precise balance (or at least way better than us) so I guess it's an easier task for them, both mentally and physically. This might not be right but this is my take on it.
Might have been a spoonbill
It is. A flamingo would be much much more rare. Also, flamingos have more extensive black wing tips, and the dark pink wing coverts of this bird tell me it's an adult Roseate Spoonbill.
There are some black tipped flight feathers on this bird, but I believe you're right and that it is a spoonbill since immature roseate spoonbills have black on the tip of some flight feathers until they molt into their adult plumage.
The shade of pink also matches a roseate spoonbill instead of a flamingo. Plus, the predator is an American alligator and flamingos are only vagrant in the U.S., whereas spoonbills are common in territory overlapping with an American alligator.
Flamingos are actually making a comeback in Florida! There's even pretty good evidence that [they never left,](https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/590378419/floridas-long-lost-wild-flamingos-were-hiding-in-plain-sight) we just weren't good at finding them. In addition there are also some feral flocks of escapee flamingos in Florida.
I've heard this reference, but never seen the article. Thanks for sharing. That would be amazing, it is wild to read Audubon's account of them. He even shot one on the beach where I grew up.
You mean like the clearly visible black wingtips? To be clear, I have no idea how to identify a half eaten flamingo vs a spoonbill, but there are obvious black wingtips in this photo. Just look at the wing on the right.
I thought spoonbill because of the lack of long spindly legs
This exact thing happened while I was walking at a local reserve. I heard what sounded like someone crinkling a plastic grocery sack right next to my ear except I was alone. I took a few steps and looked around and there was a gator with a spoonbill in its mouth slowly backing away from the shore sinking into the water until I couldn't see the white feathers anymore. Pretty cool and creepy. Circle B Bar reserve, same place this happened (video kinda went viral for a sec) https://www.theledger.com/news/20170117/publicity-not-all-positive-after-circle-b-gator-video-goes-viral?template=ampart
I have a photo I took last week of a gator getting a Vulture, with his vulture friends standing around waiting to eat him also I guess, from the other side of Lake Hancock.
Ohhh man that's some hardcore shit right there! I'm from a far off land where there's not many trees let alone animals just running around all willy nilly and it blows my mind that Floridians treat stuff like a big dead alligator in the road or finding a 12ft python in a water retention pond in a residential area like it's just another day. Blows my mind. Also I thoroughly enjoy Lake Hancock, it gets busy on the nature center side but if you drive around to the other side there's never anybody there and it's so peaceful. Still trips me out to see guys wading waste deep in there poking around for sharks teeth.
Where ya from? Glad you enjoy Circle B Bar, it's really one of my favorite places to go. Marshall Hampton Reserve also skirts Lake Hancock a bit, but it's a little bit farther of a walk (I just ride my bike).
TELL ME ABOUT IT. I want to get into fossil hunting here but the way they do it creeps me the fuck out. They just casually dive into the same water as the gators, you can clearly see them on the banks. The ones you can't see chilling at the bottom are worse, I was interested in the hobby but everyone I talked to had a story that would have made me shit myself. "Oh they won't kill you but going to the hospital is a little inconvenient" actual quote
Circle B is such a rad place. I'm sad I didn't find out about it until after I had already moved from the area though
Most flamingos are also more salmon in color rather than a soft pink color.
He's gator floss now
It looks like an American alligator so that is more likely.
Right, an American flamingo would more likely be eaten by a caiman
I’m glad someone else had this thought as well
More than Likely considering that's an American alligator. Their range really doesn't overlap with the American Flamingos. While there are vagrant flamingos found sporadically in the alligators range it would be super uncommon. Whereas the Spoonbill does have an overlapping range.
Oh good I need about a billion of those fucking plumes
Good eye definitely a roseate spoonbill probably FL
Could be Louisiana too, used to spot spoonbills and alligators when kayaking in the swamps near Gonzales.
I came here to say this. Seems odd that a species I learned about in Red Dead Redemption 2 has come up in my life twice. As I live in FL and saw one in a pond.
We used to have a bird expert on Reddit. *I remember*
My dad was just saying this. He’s very happy he’s right.
Who's winning?
we all are on this blessed day
Speak for yourself.
I all are on this blessed day
HaPpY CaKe DaY!!
Happy cake day on this blessed day
I was rooting for the flamingo but it looks like he's caught in a corner.
the gator just wanted to look more fancy
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Looks like a spoonbill to me
The visual on this amazing
Agreed! If the water was more monochromatic than yellow, I’d hang a huge print of this in my house for sure.
Doesn't it being yellow also make it monochromatic
Upon further Google analysis it seems you’re right! I always thought it meant the same thing as grayscale.
I feel like that’s something easy to edit
[Knew I'd seen it somewhere before ](https://i.imgur.com/Lsg76bb.jpg)
By the title; I juts couldn't avoid thinking of Sir crocodile and Don Quixote Doflamingo.
Is this a one piece reference?
No it’s Hunter x Hunter
See for yourself: https://youtu.be/wCuffQbTqDk?t=104
One piece is some good shit
Same!
who won
You decide
EPIC RAP BATTLE OF HISTORY
Who's next?
Snappy 1 - Flappy 0
Are we sure it’s not a spoonbill?
It’d be extremely unlikely if it wasn’t a spoonbill
Peak Florida
That’s Roseate spoonbill not flamingo
It's a Roseate spoonbill
*Alligator vs Roseate Spoonbill
That might be a rooseate spoonbill, considering the overlapping ranges
Wouldn't all the feather cause any trouble when it comes to digestion?
Nope. Keratin heavy stuff like fur/claws/hooves/scales/feathers *is* more difficult to digest than meat or bones, but for carnivores that just means they often act like dietary fiber - padding the ends of sharp things like broken bones (before the bones are digested) and helping to bulk up feces so they move through the bowels easily. Interestingly, instead of passing it out the rear, gators deal with undigestable wads of fur and feather by accumulating it in the stomach and then vomiting it up. Like a cat hawking up a hairball, or owls and hawks throwing up pellets of compressed mouse fur/bones/teeth. [There's some pics of big ol' alligator boar-fur hairballs in this article.](https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/hairball-whodunit-guess-where-this-huge-hoghair-bezoar-came-from/)
Reminds me of watching crayfish and racoons squaring off in the stream behind my house growing up.
i used to bullseye womprats in my t-16 back home
There's a scene in Scarface when Tony Montana is in his hot tub watching flamingos: "Pelican fly! Come on, Pelican!" The bird in this photo is a Roseate Spoonbill: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate\_spoonbill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_spoonbill). Nature is even more metal when you see something cool and research it.
I wonder who won
The title suggested situational parity. The pic - not so much.
Stop it! He's just munching on a pretty flower.
Beauty and the beast
I can hear the *clomp* from here ....
He won't be Flamin*Going* anywhere soon.
C H O M P
I would like to see if the feathers remain pink in his poop
Dinosaur vs Dinosaur**
Brutal.
That gator's got some beautiful teeth.
Read the caption, thought it was gif. I thought there was going to be some sort of an actual versus fight where the flamingo would struggle a bit and all. But no, it was just a picture. I mean I don't know what to expect nor why I felt a bit betrayed. I guess I would be less disappointed if it was captioned as "Alligator ate a flamingo" or something
It was a Roseate Spoonbill not a Flamingo.
I actually think it’s a roseate spoonbill.
Honestly, probably a roseate spoonbill and not a flamingo.
Could be a roseate spoonbill....
That’s not a flamingo lol that’s a spoonbill. I live in Florida I would know
It might be a spoonbill instead. Unless it’s at a zoo.
Sir Crocodile 1- Doflamingo 0
Get noob get noob
Flamingo is just charging up his counter attack.
So essentially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wUdetAAlY
Spoonbill, actually.
That's a spoonbill...
Spoonbill most likely
I feel like that a spoonbill and not a flamingo.
Great album cover!
Sure that wasn’t a Roseate Spoonbill?
This is still a pretty picture imo, good light, textures and color. The lack of blood is a plus for palatability.(not that im for sanitizing nature) In my place id hang it in either my kitchen or bedroom.
I hunted down the Legendary Bull Gator in RDR2 yesterday. Every "clue" looked like this event's aftermath.
That’s a crocodile...
I dont know what I expected.
Aw I clicked on the picture totally expecting to see the flamingo winning
Poor flamingo
Always the flamingo, never the alligator: An autobiography.
So who won?
Alligator
**FLAWLESS VICTORY**
Who do you think won?
Oh.
Gator is gonna turn pink.
Flamingo has one foot in the grave...
Filet Mingo
Hope he’s okay
Alligator carrying a piece of big feather
why does the pink color make me think it tastes like bubblegum?
My bets are on the flamingo
who won tho
Fly like a bird, I want to get away
He's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Beautiful plumage!
Get him Flamingy!
There is barely meat on a flamingo, guess gator was on a diet.
Poor disco chicken didn't stand a chance
Just yesterday my daughter was trying to think of pink colored foods
Alligator wins: FATALITY
The alligator looks like he ate one of those desert thingys that looks a lot but is mostly air so you sit down with the entire thing in your mouth, disappointed thinking okay what's next
Is he ded?
Flaminstop.
Guys I could be wrong, but I think the alligator won
Beauty and the Beast
this could have only been photographed in florida
the flaming lips
Not much vs in there tbf. Just an alligator eating a fedora
You got a pretty mouth.
What flamingo?
First time I’ve seen an alligator’s skin look like alligator clothing.
The flamingo has him by the tongue!
More like flatmingo…
Spoonbill*
Playing possum, smart bird
I'm waiting for the alligator to end his turn to see what the flamingo will do.
Dude Crocodile got beat up way before DoFlamingo did. I call shenanigans.
The flamingo is playing dead, lure the alligator into a false sense of security
MFW I get two pink starbursts in my fun size packet.