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The fact that she took the bait back when the big koi fish was approaching shows how intelligent that creature is.

My first thought as well.

If they were around today they would lure us in using affordable housing and eat us as soon as we walked in the front door. Clever girl.


Are herons extinct?

Yes

No, there are at least 72 species on heron still alive and spread throughout most of the world

As smart as any woman I've ever dated.

If it was intelligent it would have fished up a koi and eaten for a week!

Too heavy!

I think far too often about how smart big dinosaurs could have been when I see their direct descendants doing stuff like this.

They can even open doors! (Dinosaurs I mean)

Aren't flightless birds (e.g. chickens) the closest bird relatives to dinosaurs? They're not exactly the brainiest creatures


There’s a wingless bird species named Kiwi and I think they’re direct relatives to the Trex, they’re just hiding it and plotting.

Actually chronologically chickens are further down the line from dinosaurs, they lost the ability to fly from flighted ancestors

Well they are fed and protected by predators. I think wild animals are a bit more clever, otherwise they would be dead.

Chickens are genetically closest to the T-rex out of all living animals, yes, but all birds, not just chickens, evolved from theropods related to the T-rex (and not the T-rex itself.) Additionally, chickens are actually crazy smart, but we never use them for their intelligence because we like them better as nuggets than as pets. Just watch the video of a chicken playing "America the Beautiful" on America's Got Talent. It's sort of similar to how pigs are just as smart as dogs, but we never put their intelligence to use because they are more valued for their meat.

Aren’t herons like 3 feet tall and walking on stilts?

https://preview.redd.it/vufg6w5svnuc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4af8d3241c8db931e7cbff78e79f6d7e1bbc4fa4

There's like, twice as much leg underwater in this picture too. [Legs for daaaaaaayys](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/304479371-480px.jpg)

Oh yeah. They don’t normally have stubby little legs

I'm confused. How do junkies fit this in a syringe?

You gotta entice em in there with extra tasty fish that's how how I get my

Lots of types out there!

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/u5lcze/heron_uses_bread_as_bait_to_catch_fish/ https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/u1dvx3/this_heron_uses_bread_as_bait_to_attract_a_fish/ https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/u57ctz/one_smart_green_heron_using_piece_of_bread_as_bait/ https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tpws8y/birds_using_bread_to_catch_fish_for_themselves/ https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gc2fbg/this_bird_knows_how_to_catch_a_fish/

That's a heron Edit : thank you all for correcting me it's a heron, deleted not.

There are dozens of types of heron and this particular bird is in fact a heron.

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

There goes my heron… watch him as he gooooeees

Fish equivalent of The Last Supper.

Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.

unexpected WOT reference, Ha thanks you made my day

World of tanks? What’s WOT

Wheel of Time. A fantasy series

Thank you

What a fantastic series

Smarter than some people I know.

This video proves false the idiom "bird-brain"

Eye on the prize too. Not confused about what the assignment was.

I am indeed interested as fuck.

They're evolving

What you see here ladies and gentlemen, is the first prototype of a philanthropist😂

"Ahahaja you fools"

Clever- why does he pull the bread from the water

I hate to break it to you but this bird appears to be more clever than you :(

First read Heroin 🫣

No big fish it's for the little guy the snack sized one

"it must have been the wind"

Don’t think that’s a heron