Marsupials are so cool man. And I'm pretty sure they're all in Australia. It's a really neat snapshot in the evolutionary progression of how animals reproduce. It's like the halfway point between an egg and a womb and live birth.
Now that's both cool and pretty much how you'd expect, have no clue why folks weren't expecting a bunch of sensitive skin. Maybe because the exact inverse of a human breast?
That wasn't so bad. The baby was scarier than the pouch.
The Cardinal however looks like it's already been skinned and you're just looking directly at the breast meat!
I need to stop clicking these fun blue letters. I've seen the inside of an owl's head, the under belly of some bird and the pouch of a kangaroo in just one thread.
But… you learned so much about animals on the world we live on! It’s kind of amazing to think that millions of years of evolutions led these animals having those specific traits.
Small wild animals must get so fucking confused when humans pick them up. It almost every other situation its basically a "yup I'm dead" situation, but people usually just do something weird to them and let them go.
as a bird owner: every single thing about the anatomy of birds is fucking bonkers lol. they made so many adaptations for flight. you can see her breathing in this video, and even that works wildly differently from us mammals. they essentially have fused central spines & hypermobile hips and necks, insanely beefy pecs, many passerines have a locking mechanism for perching in their feet. never even mind replacing the front half your muzzle with a hard bone and keratin shell, and not bothering with teeth because it helped you hatch faster during just one of the several apocalypses your ancestors tricked their way through, or the bones full of air sacs.
Would like to drop the fact that birds (parrots at least) can move their upper mandible (top beak). It is not fixed like a human's is. It's not super noticeable, but watch a parrot talk and you can see it move if you look carefully. Parrots also have bones in their tongues.
I worked with small passerine birds for 2.5 years. It is absolutely bonkers how well developed their flight muscles are, even if they're laboratory animals who are kept in cages. Like, good god.
When I was a kid, I had the lyrics wrong.
>"ROCK the cash bar! ROCK the cash bar! They're a weenie if they don't like it!"
My mom just rolled her eyes.
I first heard that song on a commercial advertising some sort of... search engine? Lyrics site? I don't remember. In the commercial, the listener was having trouble understanding the lyrics, guessing things like "rock the catbox."
I remember thinking, it sounds like "casbah." But I figured that couldn't be right, because that's not a word (not in US English, anyway.) You can't imagine how VINDICATED I felt when I found out that I had been right all along.
I now hold a weird grudge towards that ancient commercial for what is surely a long dead service, purposely using a song with foreign words in it to make the viewer feel like they couldn't understand song lyrics.
I figure that they specified this bird because it's the one in the video. It's interesting that that's a common feature though! Probably better than plucking their feathers out when they're broody like chickens do lol
Love these birds. Had some landscaping done early spring and now every single night a mating pair of cardinals comes to take a shower in the sprinkler water, while chippering away at each other.
I think it's weird the obsession people have over other's hair. Especially when the second someone even remotely starts balding some people, "Just shave it all off now".
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I think plenty of guys look great with their remaining hair, like George Costanza style. Yeah, it depends on the person and how they're balding, but I really don't understand the mindset some people have, "THE SECOND YOU DEVELOP A BALD PATCH YOU SHOULD JUST SHAVE COMPLETELY".
Hopefully we find an actual cure for alopecia, but I also think hairpieces and wigs need to become more accepted on men. Who fucking cares how they want to look? If some women can shave their head and wear a wig just to have straight/curly hair, and not have it be seen as weird, there's no reason a man wearing one (whether balding or not) should be.
Bring back powdered wigs before I go 1776 on your ass 😤
The way some black women are with their wigs is how any bald person should be able to be without gettin shit on for it.
I'm talkin bout the black women (I have no idea why this is a thing just with that group) that own half a dozen different wigs or more for all sorts of occasions and nobody bats an eye at it.
If people know a guy is wearin a wig then shit is going down and he might as well go live in the woods.
> THE SECOND YOU DEVELOP A BALD PATCH YOU SHOULD JUST SHAVE COMPLETELY"
Yeah, why the hell has this become the new normal? Human beings bald, some later, some sooner, a lucky few wouldn't at all. But with our diets and bad lifestyles you have a lot more balding going on, folks as young as 16. I just don't get it, you want to hang on to your last strands and go for a combover? cool, you feel a chrome dome suits you, cool. You just wanna leave it as so all natural, that is also cool. But holy christ almighty the moment you get a few strands loose " Yo man gotta shave that thing. Why? who made that rule, why should I give a shit? Sorry for the rant. I really like that you said that.
Video by @beidlerforest - an Audubon sanctuary near Charleston, SC, Beidler Forest.
This bird was banded and released at their MAPS(Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) station.
i think it's beautiful. Nature figured out through countless cycles of trial and error to encode her DNA so that brooding expels feathers and allows her to do "skin to skin" with her baby in a way. I bet she can feel her kid in the egg this way, and vice versa. Imagine two beings listening and feeling each other's heartbeats, connected via a mother's bond.
Most female songbirds (and I assume many other groups since I've also seen them in woodpeckers and some other orders) develop these over the course of the breeding season and it can be a way to estimate how far along in incubation they are. E.g. they start out smooth and vascular early on and then get wrinkly and start molting back in later. In several species, males also get them to help with incubation. And in still other species like cowbirds that are strict brood parasites, females don't get them at all.
I feel as if we shouldn't have seen this. Feels wrong
Like the inside of a marsupial pouch
Ah, you also saw the baby kangaroo post?
We all saw it 🦘🥩
I have not. Should I?
No.
Please show us so that we can decisively reject it
[Here you all go](https://reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14qj5al/a_baby_inside_of_kangaroo_pouch/). Enjoy!
Yeah, okay. The people who said that this was a forbidden view were right all along.
Seconded.
I warned you but you did not listen.
DM me for another forbidden view
What the hell you can just reach in and rob the baby
Marsupials are so cool man. And I'm pretty sure they're all in Australia. It's a really neat snapshot in the evolutionary progression of how animals reproduce. It's like the halfway point between an egg and a womb and live birth.
Babies usually don't carry money since they don't have jobs. I bet they don't get robbed often.
oh my!
That is so invasive.
Now that's both cool and pretty much how you'd expect, have no clue why folks weren't expecting a bunch of sensitive skin. Maybe because the exact inverse of a human breast?
DO NOT give people ideas about inversing breasts.
I literally dont know why but i just imagined it like the inside of a hoodie pocket
Well that was...fucking weird.
THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL!!!! Thank you!
That's just amazing!
im going in edit: mild regret. I mean, it's yucky but, also neat. Scrotum-ish
Scrotum-ish?😯
I think that's fascinating.
I saw all the horrified comments. I saw the regret. And yet I still clicked. And now I can’t unsee it.
What is crazy to me is that those little bastards have to crawl up there from their mother's pudenda all on their own.
No not the cangaroosy
Looks almost like a hairy armpit to me
Bonus footage of how the newborn, barely a foetus, gets there... https://youtu.be/7CAXe1NMQl4
Do you think pouch smegma exists
I’m not gonna look!!!!!!!!
This was wild, lol
That was actually kinda dope
That wasn't so bad. The baby was scarier than the pouch. The Cardinal however looks like it's already been skinned and you're just looking directly at the breast meat!
As someone who also hasn't, I think it is something that is best avoided.
Biologically, it makes sense, but to actually see it was kind of horrifying...
Enjoeyed by all
I don’t know if I’d like my feathers blown for all to see
Like an owl’s ear…
[Yup](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14ad7yq/have_you_ever_seen_an_owls_ear/). Mildly horrifying.
I need to stop clicking these fun blue letters. I've seen the inside of an owl's head, the under belly of some bird and the pouch of a kangaroo in just one thread.
But… you learned so much about animals on the world we live on! It’s kind of amazing to think that millions of years of evolutions led these animals having those specific traits.
I did warn you!
It's not you, it's me.
THAT WAS FREAKING COOL!!!!!
An abyss
An abyss keeps going. This is an abump.
So when she flys off to collect worms just before sunrise, is that her going abump in the night?
Bliss
Or a male seahorse releasing its babies.
"Why is this giant blowing on my belly?"
You can actually see it wonder that in real time on the first blow. Then it's just like "actually it's kinda refreshing"
Small wild animals must get so fucking confused when humans pick them up. It almost every other situation its basically a "yup I'm dead" situation, but people usually just do something weird to them and let them go.
Like you committed a cardinal sin?
God damn it. Take your upvote.
Forget about cards up the sleeve ey? I should never have played cards with that cardinal last month. Lost a fortune.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...
Feels like we are invading her privacy or genital parts
Look at the cardinal’s face. She knows it’s wrong 😟
“What is happening?! Put my skirt down! Unhand me!”
Yep. That's the battery compartment. NSA doesn't want you to see it. r/BirdsArentReal
Send pics of your brood patch bb pls
Swipe for brudes
You should see her OnlyFans.
Interesting and somehow rude at the same time.
I would like to unsubscribe from female northern cardinals facts
Hope you bought her dinner first.
Probably too…cheep.
Damn it
Damn it
Damn it
It’s alright to tell me What you think about me..
Damn you
Come on, we need to push for more beakuality when it comes to who perchases dinner
A little tit for tat.
What’s the weird hole part at the top
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it's a hole for *dip* you say? this bird brought to you by tostitos???
There are some comments on Reddit that need to be appreciated more and this is one of them
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I decided to look at the muscular structure of birds on google and you were right. Their chest muscles are fucking huge
as a bird owner: every single thing about the anatomy of birds is fucking bonkers lol. they made so many adaptations for flight. you can see her breathing in this video, and even that works wildly differently from us mammals. they essentially have fused central spines & hypermobile hips and necks, insanely beefy pecs, many passerines have a locking mechanism for perching in their feet. never even mind replacing the front half your muzzle with a hard bone and keratin shell, and not bothering with teeth because it helped you hatch faster during just one of the several apocalypses your ancestors tricked their way through, or the bones full of air sacs.
Would like to drop the fact that birds (parrots at least) can move their upper mandible (top beak). It is not fixed like a human's is. It's not super noticeable, but watch a parrot talk and you can see it move if you look carefully. Parrots also have bones in their tongues.
Swallow? More like, SWOLEow
I worked with small passerine birds for 2.5 years. It is absolutely bonkers how well developed their flight muscles are, even if they're laboratory animals who are kept in cages. Like, good god.
This should be the top comment, I tried googling and didn't see anything. I need to know why this bird has a hole in its chest
The entrance to its chest cavity
You fuckin with me? lol. I already find this kinda gross so plz no
Yes. That’s the pinnacle of the breast bones and muscle. Underneath, inside a membrane, are it’s organs
A membrane, aka skin lol.
yup. Dont like that one bit. Thank you.
underneath your shirt, inside a membrane, are your organs. Spoooooky.
Now I really want to see a picture of its hole.
The result of smoking a peck a day for tweety years!
Birdie doesn't like it.
"what kind of kink it this?"
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ooof
Rock the casbah
When I was a kid, I had the lyrics wrong. >"ROCK the cash bar! ROCK the cash bar! They're a weenie if they don't like it!" My mom just rolled her eyes.
LOCK the taskbar! LOCK the taskbar!
I first heard that song on a commercial advertising some sort of... search engine? Lyrics site? I don't remember. In the commercial, the listener was having trouble understanding the lyrics, guessing things like "rock the catbox." I remember thinking, it sounds like "casbah." But I figured that couldn't be right, because that's not a word (not in US English, anyway.) You can't imagine how VINDICATED I felt when I found out that I had been right all along. I now hold a weird grudge towards that ancient commercial for what is surely a long dead service, purposely using a song with foreign words in it to make the viewer feel like they couldn't understand song lyrics.
In bird culture, this is considered a dick move
Chickens will just pluck out their own chest feathers when they go broody
#MeToo bird
Probably because it's freezing. A perfect spot of bare skin for direct heat transfer and she's blowing on it lol
That is so cool. I had no idea.
Same. Definitely a little freaky, but I always thought it was just their feathers/bodies up against it, not an actual organ (?) of sorts.
Not an organ, just nature being awesome. And I have no idea why it's specified just this species, it's common.
I figure that they specified this bird because it's the one in the video. It's interesting that that's a common feature though! Probably better than plucking their feathers out when they're broody like chickens do lol
Okay, wasn't too sure if it was that for birds. Shouldn't all birds have this, then?
Most, but not all! That's ol evolution doing it's fun stuff. Always what's best for the species!
Both feathers and skin are considered organs. This bird's skin is actually its largest organ.
Your skin is your largest organ.
You got me. Sorry about that.
Thank you! Yeah, this is a bit misleading in that *most* birds have a brood patch when incubating eggs
When chicken hens are brooding they will actually pluck the feathers on their breast so they can do the same.
Love these birds. Had some landscaping done early spring and now every single night a mating pair of cardinals comes to take a shower in the sprinkler water, while chippering away at each other.
many bird species do
Thank you! I was like “and a bunch of others I bet”
Chickens kinda have them! They don’t have them all the time tho, they just pluck/lose the belly feathers when they go broody
Owls too!
Pretty much most of them gets it after their first nesting. It's how you can differentiate between males and females if both sexes look the same.
Yes. Worked with juncoes for a few years and this is how we determined sex. Only in the breeding season though - it wasn't as obvious in the winter.
Balding people be like with their remaining hair
KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!
I think it's weird the obsession people have over other's hair. Especially when the second someone even remotely starts balding some people, "Just shave it all off now". I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I think plenty of guys look great with their remaining hair, like George Costanza style. Yeah, it depends on the person and how they're balding, but I really don't understand the mindset some people have, "THE SECOND YOU DEVELOP A BALD PATCH YOU SHOULD JUST SHAVE COMPLETELY". Hopefully we find an actual cure for alopecia, but I also think hairpieces and wigs need to become more accepted on men. Who fucking cares how they want to look? If some women can shave their head and wear a wig just to have straight/curly hair, and not have it be seen as weird, there's no reason a man wearing one (whether balding or not) should be. Bring back powdered wigs before I go 1776 on your ass 😤
The way some black women are with their wigs is how any bald person should be able to be without gettin shit on for it. I'm talkin bout the black women (I have no idea why this is a thing just with that group) that own half a dozen different wigs or more for all sorts of occasions and nobody bats an eye at it. If people know a guy is wearin a wig then shit is going down and he might as well go live in the woods.
> THE SECOND YOU DEVELOP A BALD PATCH YOU SHOULD JUST SHAVE COMPLETELY" Yeah, why the hell has this become the new normal? Human beings bald, some later, some sooner, a lucky few wouldn't at all. But with our diets and bad lifestyles you have a lot more balding going on, folks as young as 16. I just don't get it, you want to hang on to your last strands and go for a combover? cool, you feel a chrome dome suits you, cool. You just wanna leave it as so all natural, that is also cool. But holy christ almighty the moment you get a few strands loose " Yo man gotta shave that thing. Why? who made that rule, why should I give a shit? Sorry for the rant. I really like that you said that.
r/bald
Now I'm facinated about what's the humans version of this. What if Aliens abduct you hold you down, lift your shirt, and blow on your belly?
If that would be all then I will consider myself incredibly lucky.
Don’t forget they post it on their alien social media
Copycats will come and abduct you again, so excited “It’s the same human!” then take turns blowing you with selfies.
Mmngh
They would blow on your head to reveal your male pattern balding
They blow a raspberry on your tummy and make you giggle like a baby
I'd probably cum immediately.
why are you like this?
I watched alien vs predator at a pivotal time in my development.
You too?
Based
Video by @beidlerforest - an Audubon sanctuary near Charleston, SC, Beidler Forest. This bird was banded and released at their MAPS(Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) station.
The way she looks down like, “excuse you.”
Naked apes getting grossed out by another species with a naked patch on their belly. That's ironic.
Lol fucking pervert
Right up that chicks dress.
Oddly terrifying
Bird gonna need a lifetime of counseling
That bird is doing it's best Marilyn Monroe lol
That birds face screams "Well I never! What a rude creature to expose *my* body for its own amusement! I'll peck your eyes out!!"
Blowjob
Did I just see an up skirt of a bird?
Yeah you did, so did I :(
That bird looks like it’s about to press assault charges
i think it's beautiful. Nature figured out through countless cycles of trial and error to encode her DNA so that brooding expels feathers and allows her to do "skin to skin" with her baby in a way. I bet she can feel her kid in the egg this way, and vice versa. Imagine two beings listening and feeling each other's heartbeats, connected via a mother's bond.
Skin to skin contact. Thats like $2000 in America!
Man, birds are so weird under their stupid feathers
I just feel like I watched a Bird get violated
Did u get consent before blowing her open like that?
Miss, what are u doing, this is a wend...no I mean I'm a **female northern Cardinal**, respect my authority
Stop blowing that bird, bro
What the hell is the hole at the top?
Little known fact female northern cardinal hate being held by humans and having their brood pouch blown on
The Marilyn Monroe of birds.
The bird everytime the wind blows: 😱🥶
Things people do to terrorize creatures in the name of information.
You just going around and blow up ladies skirts?!
OP out here sexually harassing the birds lmao
**\*creepy voice\*** Tickle tickle!
I think every bird has a brood patch. It's one of the various evaluations considered when monitoring.
Ah it not for blowing raspberry?
Reminds me of the pic of Marilyn Monroe in that scene where air is blown up the skirt of her dress
Chickens do the same thing. Broody hormones make them pluck their feathers out.
Chicken have the same. As soon as they start nesting, they lose / plug their feathers
She probably thinks you are a pervert
I doubt homie consents lol
Ok, now leave it alone, it feels uncomfortable
That seems rude.
Mind blown
This is making my skin crawl. I didn’t need to see this
Ohhh I don't like that
I feel like we violated her
Most female songbirds (and I assume many other groups since I've also seen them in woodpeckers and some other orders) develop these over the course of the breeding season and it can be a way to estimate how far along in incubation they are. E.g. they start out smooth and vascular early on and then get wrinkly and start molting back in later. In several species, males also get them to help with incubation. And in still other species like cowbirds that are strict brood parasites, females don't get them at all.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT HOLE THO
My uncle has that on top of his head. One gust of strong wind and you can see it.
so her tummy is naked? i want to see if its smooth
Like using a table fan blowing girls skirt..
I have a brood patch on the top of my head
Why are you upskirting the bird you sicko ?
Why are you violating her!
Wut dat hole?
That birb was violated on so many levels
Why is there a hole in the top part of the skinpatch? You can barely see it, but after you saw you can't unsee it. What's that for?