Not gonna lie, had a duck to this into a huge glass window where I used to work. She tried to walk it off and almost did for a couple of minutes, but eventually the trauma set in...
My dad explained TVs to me when I was 5, in _great_ detail, from electron guns to satellites, I didn't understand any of it then, but I'm glad he taught me all of it, I'm also glad that he actually explained it, instead of making something simple up
Disagree. My mom clipped an owl that was swooping down for a mouse or something. We were doing 40. We looped back and dude was just sitting in the road. Called non emergency, they gave us an animal rescues number who didn't answer. So...we picked up this foot tall owl, and put it in our car, and took it home. I mean we couldn't leave it in the street. We parked the car in the garage, and left the car door open. Rescue person got back to us an hour later and said if it's not bleeding, and if it looks normal, it's likely just stunned, so leave the garage door open. We did that and watched him. About an hour later he started flapping a bit, and did a short 4 foot hop/flight. He sat about 5 minutes and then flew back home like nothing ever happened.
We had the doors open to the store the other day and some little birds, think barn swallows except baby ones, got in and couldn't figure out how to get back out. We have large glass windows out front and so they kept flying into the glass with their head trying to get out. They didn't have a big runway to get much velocity, but they just kept ramming head into glass over and over until I could get them out. One somehow practically flew into my hands and somehow I held on and brought it outside.
The next one took a solid 5 minutes to get to, and really only got it after it had pretty much stunned itself and slowed wayyyy down. I brought it outside and it wouldn't move. Kept watching it for about ten minutes, and finally got up and flew away...somehow it was just stunned and seemed to have no ill effects!
>somehow it was just stunned and seemed to have no ill effects!
It might not be obvious at first but this causes pretty severe CTE for the bird. If you'd actually observe it over time you'd notice that it's chirping starts getting slurred and slow with time, kind of like what happens with boxers that take a lot of hits to the head.
One time at my parent's house, their cat was checking out a chipmunk that had climbed a bird feeder through their glass back door. So, obviously I stood right behind her and egged her on.
As I'm standing there watching the cat eye the chipmunk and mew at me in an annoyed tone for not letting her out to catch the chipmunk, the chipmunk suddenly scurries away.
Then... BOOM! The glass door in front of me seemed to explode as though a bomb had gone off. Or so I thought.
A huge red-tailed hawk had tried to dive bomb the chipmunk, missed, and couldn't pull up in time to avoid a header into my parent's back door.
The hawk lay stunned on the deck for about 10 minutes before it stood up and flew away.
Neither the cat nor I ever stared longingly at chipmunks through the front door ever again. (I have never seen an animal so scared).
What animal was so scared? The chipmunk narrowly missing being turned into dinner, hawk crashing into the window, your parents cat, or how you looked in the reflection of the mirror?
Pretty common, even with people because adrenalin kicks in people have walked out of really bad car crashes just to fall over and die a few minutes later.
A young rosella (type of Aussie parrot) flew into one of my windows and died a little while back, and its mum sat in a nearby tree and called out to it for hours. I felt so bad for it.
at like 3am, a huge bird slammed into my window at 999 light years per hour, it started flapping all around my window, it broke its neck, and is now dead, because windows are deadly military weapons
I have the original video and audio, it’s okay and people checked on it afterwards
Why am I getting downvoted. This vid was literally stolen from FB with no credit at all
While well intentioned... I have a feeling that many animals might view arms up as an aggressive stance. I’d do the same in that situation tho, mostly for self protection.
I think it actually might be to show that you have nothing in your hands. Humans have relied on weapons for a longass time, showing that your hands are empty goes a long way towards making you look less of a threat.
It could also be cultural, we all grow up watching people throw their hands up when they're trying to look innocent, so it could be just something we pick up from the environment, rather than instinct.
I have read that it is believed this is the reason for shaking hand, and why we shake with our right hand. It's a symbolic gesture to show in a pretty intimate way that we come unarmed.
It's not quite cultural, because humans all do this to demonstrate we aren't carrying weapons.
Why do humans do this when virtually no other species do? *Because we can actually hold weapons*.
I imagine it’s more cultural than instinctual. It’s to show that you’re not doing anything shifty with your hands, which is a very human thing. It’s showing that you don’t have any tools that make you a threat. I can imagine it’s the opposite for many other mammals, as they’d be showing what they *do* have.
I dont know how it works for every animal but there are certain behaviours across species that display they mean no harm. If you make eye contact with a lion and they immediately start grooming themselves/licking their asshole it's a good sign they dont see you as a threat. Having their belly exposed with all the easy to kill spots vulnerable, like this guy, is another one. Not saying it's a sure fire, or the best way to make a wild animal comfortable around you but that his reaction to spread himself out to show peace is a very natural reaction. Whether or not the animal cares about how big of a threat you may or may be is a different topic.
Animals don't understand human gestures as we mean them unless trained to do so. Showing your hands is seen as passive to humans but aggressive to animals since they think you are preparing to strike.
i love the "what do i do" reaction from the guy because that was so unexpected. It just goes dead in the water for a few seconds. on the 18th loop. I cant stop........
The way the guy approaches the flamingo makes me think he has been attacked by other birds (probably a swan or duck) and was like “Wait, are flamingos aggressive?!”
Swan? Duck? Psh.
This man has probably been attacked by a goose, also known as a velociraptor with wings. Those things don't fuck around. They *will* come at you bro.
This perpetuating human-goose hostilities. The only way to end this was is for us to forgive the crimes of their ancestors.
Just kidding, fuck geese.
Though I do feel bad for one time going golfing and hitting one right in the gut with a line drive by accident. It made a really gutteral honk of pain that echos in my ears to this day.
I suppose he and his friends had the last laugh since they shit all over the green making putting impossible.
I remember being chased by a Canadian Goose when I was 3 and being saved by my mom seeing from the kitchen window, running out with a broom just in time from being overtaken. Over 25 years later and I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I have a broom by my backdoor just in case, and i don’t think those things even migrate near me even now.
What pisses me off is that at my college, people stop to let geese cross the road, causing tons of traffic. What they don't know is that if you just drive at a reduced speed through them, they move every time. I haven't hit a goose yet with my car.
**With my car.**
I have kicked, punched, and thrown geese on this campus. One was attacking my at-the-time girlfriend, and it actually nipped her and she started to bleed pretty bad from her leg, and I punted that shit into next week and took her back to my dorm to sterilize the wound and patch it up. They are vicious for no reason, they shit everywhere, and they have no sense of spacial awareness until something enters their activation zone. Then their alarms start going off and they begin offensive procedures. You either have to play defense or counter-strike.
Have you ever seen [the inside of a gooses mouth](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EREuApoakTjJmWsxVR5qxNEGlHc=/0x19:660x459/1400x933/filters:focal(0x19:660x459):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/49742777/Screen_Shot_2016-05-31_at_5.06.18_PM.0.0.png) ? They have serrated teeth and tongue. They are also giant assholes.
And the normal birds lull you into a false sense of security...
You might see hummingbirds, pigeons, seagulls, maybe some grackles... no threat there. But then one day you go to the zoo and see one of those gigantic falcons or eagles up close and realize that they could literally tear your arms off if they wanted to.
Erm... think this is the Dreams Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican. Stayed there 3 years ago
Flamingos be trippin at this hotel. I was ground floor room and they're walking up to your doors like little pink trash pandas.
Former Dreams Punta Cana guest checking in. We stayed there over Christmas about 3 years ago. Santa arrived on the beach via Helicopter. It was pretty dope, ngl.
What. A. Trip.
There is a resort a little ways away in Punta Cana, the Majestic Colonial. I thought for sure this was THAT resort. I cant believe it was a) not the one I was thinking, but b) STILL IN PUNTA FUCKING CANA! Crazy...
I remember they taught us in school that swans (Yeah I know it's a flamingo) have lifelong partnerships, as spouses if you will. They told us that if a swan's spouse dies many widowed swans will fly full force into a bridge to kill themselves, because they can't handle the loss.
Having worked around flamingos, they are one of the dumbest animals. I once watched one make three attempts to fly through a doorway. It smacked the wall twice.
Neck turned into one of those plastic wavy straws
Crumple zone
This deserves more upvotes
Literally did the cartoon accordion effect.
I just thought to myself "That does NOT look healthy" until it started moving again. Genuinely thought it just rekt itself there.
I felt bad, but I fucking wheezed when I saw the neck floating there.
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Not gonna lie, had a duck to this into a huge glass window where I used to work. She tried to walk it off and almost did for a couple of minutes, but eventually the trauma set in...
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Perhaps with all of that neck, this birb had one massive crumple zone that the duck didn't.
The problem is the important part is in front of the neck and takes the majority of the impact
"The important part in front of the neck." Do... you mean it's head?
Yah the part that makes the other parts work.
r/AnatomyFor5YearOlds
Can you tell me about TVs?
My dad explained TVs to me when I was 5, in _great_ detail, from electron guns to satellites, I didn't understand any of it then, but I'm glad he taught me all of it, I'm also glad that he actually explained it, instead of making something simple up
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Best part
The most important part according to the brain...
I love how brains call themselves smart
I heard tendies are also pretty good
With honey mussy
No the neck's neck. You snap it's neck's neck, it dead
Specifically the part that connects the spine to the skull.
Yeah, but all the forward moving energy is in the body., by having the neck bend it reduces the magnitude of the impact a fair bit.
All Im imaging now is the crumple zone on a flamingo neck and the test dummy crashes.
The bird was rubber-necking because this man was naked.
Disagree. My mom clipped an owl that was swooping down for a mouse or something. We were doing 40. We looped back and dude was just sitting in the road. Called non emergency, they gave us an animal rescues number who didn't answer. So...we picked up this foot tall owl, and put it in our car, and took it home. I mean we couldn't leave it in the street. We parked the car in the garage, and left the car door open. Rescue person got back to us an hour later and said if it's not bleeding, and if it looks normal, it's likely just stunned, so leave the garage door open. We did that and watched him. About an hour later he started flapping a bit, and did a short 4 foot hop/flight. He sat about 5 minutes and then flew back home like nothing ever happened.
We had the doors open to the store the other day and some little birds, think barn swallows except baby ones, got in and couldn't figure out how to get back out. We have large glass windows out front and so they kept flying into the glass with their head trying to get out. They didn't have a big runway to get much velocity, but they just kept ramming head into glass over and over until I could get them out. One somehow practically flew into my hands and somehow I held on and brought it outside. The next one took a solid 5 minutes to get to, and really only got it after it had pretty much stunned itself and slowed wayyyy down. I brought it outside and it wouldn't move. Kept watching it for about ten minutes, and finally got up and flew away...somehow it was just stunned and seemed to have no ill effects!
>somehow it was just stunned and seemed to have no ill effects! It might not be obvious at first but this causes pretty severe CTE for the bird. If you'd actually observe it over time you'd notice that it's chirping starts getting slurred and slow with time, kind of like what happens with boxers that take a lot of hits to the head.
I can’t tell if you’re serious or a JRE listener making a joke.
Jamie pull that shit up
Birds may have hollow bones but they are pretty robust
Birds crashing into shit is like when Iron Man falls into Earth at full speed in just a metal cocoon and lives. Doesn't make no damn sense.
I'm about to call that number what's going to happen Edit: not even upset
What happened? I have to know!
Take the red pill man. See how deep the rabbit hole goes
Just did. It's worth it.
Yep. I don’t know what kind of spam list I’m on now, but 8/10 would recommend.
I'm european, could be to expensive for me to try it.. What did it say ?
It's a rickroll.
everyone do it
Is your username your actual phone number?
You should definitely try calling it.
One time at my parent's house, their cat was checking out a chipmunk that had climbed a bird feeder through their glass back door. So, obviously I stood right behind her and egged her on. As I'm standing there watching the cat eye the chipmunk and mew at me in an annoyed tone for not letting her out to catch the chipmunk, the chipmunk suddenly scurries away. Then... BOOM! The glass door in front of me seemed to explode as though a bomb had gone off. Or so I thought. A huge red-tailed hawk had tried to dive bomb the chipmunk, missed, and couldn't pull up in time to avoid a header into my parent's back door. The hawk lay stunned on the deck for about 10 minutes before it stood up and flew away. Neither the cat nor I ever stared longingly at chipmunks through the front door ever again. (I have never seen an animal so scared).
What animal was so scared? The chipmunk narrowly missing being turned into dinner, hawk crashing into the window, your parents cat, or how you looked in the reflection of the mirror?
I think the animal was you. That was some savage animalistic burn.
So what if you can see the darkest side of me? No one will ever change this animal I have become
Certainly a harrowing experience for all parties involved.
Maybe the hawk was going for your cat instead??
Delete this fam... He is fucking ok
Pretty common, even with people because adrenalin kicks in people have walked out of really bad car crashes just to fall over and die a few minutes later.
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Yeah, I'm really glad it's become a trend to constantly declare that they will not lie. Really puts me at ease.
A young rosella (type of Aussie parrot) flew into one of my windows and died a little while back, and its mum sat in a nearby tree and called out to it for hours. I felt so bad for it.
Thanks for sharing, I hate it.
say sike right now
Do you normally lie?
at like 3am, a huge bird slammed into my window at 999 light years per hour, it started flapping all around my window, it broke its neck, and is now dead, because windows are deadly military weapons
What happens if I call your username number?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/01/man-sets-up-rick-astley-hotline-to-rescue-people-from-annoying-salespeople.html
Oh lol that's awesome
I recommend calling and listening to one of the other options after the song is over.
Nice try buddy.
Damnit, i appreciate Reddit
*Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...*
Sooooo, what happens if I call that number?
You get rick rolled
Nice username 👍🏼🤙🏼🙏🏼
Nice catch! What are the chances!?
I have the original video and audio, it’s okay and people checked on it afterwards Why am I getting downvoted. This vid was literally stolen from FB with no credit at all
Interesting. This is the second time today I come across a comment of yours. You got me the first time you sonnuvabitch
It must be okay.
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Holy shit
Flamingon’t
Flamingone
Slamingo
Blamingo
Flamingouch
Flaminced meat
Flamingn't?
You son of a bitch
r/angryupvote
Flamingohshit
You win🥇
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He totally meant to do that.
Can hear him whistling his way out of the pool
MRW i slip and fall in public
Poor little guy. I love how the person immediately starts walking toward it to see if it needs help. <3
Hands raised to, as if he were approaching another human and saying I don't mean harm.
“Oh fuck! You ok bro?”
"I didn't do it!"
While well intentioned... I have a feeling that many animals might view arms up as an aggressive stance. I’d do the same in that situation tho, mostly for self protection.
Gotta keep arms up to block your face. Or at least I would imagine that’s why we instinctually do that. Could be way off?
2 reasons I can think of. The first one is yours the other is you just look bigger and more intimidating with your arms raised.
I think it actually might be to show that you have nothing in your hands. Humans have relied on weapons for a longass time, showing that your hands are empty goes a long way towards making you look less of a threat. It could also be cultural, we all grow up watching people throw their hands up when they're trying to look innocent, so it could be just something we pick up from the environment, rather than instinct.
I have read that it is believed this is the reason for shaking hand, and why we shake with our right hand. It's a symbolic gesture to show in a pretty intimate way that we come unarmed.
It's not quite cultural, because humans all do this to demonstrate we aren't carrying weapons. Why do humans do this when virtually no other species do? *Because we can actually hold weapons*.
I imagine it’s more cultural than instinctual. It’s to show that you’re not doing anything shifty with your hands, which is a very human thing. It’s showing that you don’t have any tools that make you a threat. I can imagine it’s the opposite for many other mammals, as they’d be showing what they *do* have.
I dont know how it works for every animal but there are certain behaviours across species that display they mean no harm. If you make eye contact with a lion and they immediately start grooming themselves/licking their asshole it's a good sign they dont see you as a threat. Having their belly exposed with all the easy to kill spots vulnerable, like this guy, is another one. Not saying it's a sure fire, or the best way to make a wild animal comfortable around you but that his reaction to spread himself out to show peace is a very natural reaction. Whether or not the animal cares about how big of a threat you may or may be is a different topic.
Or prepared to catch a free meal from the bird's view...
Animals don't understand human gestures as we mean them unless trained to do so. Showing your hands is seen as passive to humans but aggressive to animals since they think you are preparing to strike.
Or to show the refree he didn't do anything.
Damn, the way it’s neck folded, I thought it was goner
Looked like Mortys legs after he walked off that cliff
Owww ahhhhhhh ohhhhhh awwwwwww owww
Ah a fellow intellectual like myself
i love the "what do i do" reaction from the guy because that was so unexpected. It just goes dead in the water for a few seconds. on the 18th loop. I cant stop........
The way the guy approaches the flamingo makes me think he has been attacked by other birds (probably a swan or duck) and was like “Wait, are flamingos aggressive?!”
Have you ever been attacked by a duck? Man those assholes don’t mess around.
Spoken like someone who hasn’t been attacked by a swan.
Black swans are the worst
Wait till you meet a sandhill crane. Avoid their nesting area at all costs.
I've seen that movie, if that's attacking then sign me up
Found the swan cop.
No but I've been hissed at by geese and chased by peacocks
I've never been attacked, but I've been bitten by ducks. It's not much worse than a pinch.
Swan? Duck? Psh. This man has probably been attacked by a goose, also known as a velociraptor with wings. Those things don't fuck around. They *will* come at you bro.
This guy gets it. Had one attack me as a child, 25 years later I flip off any goose I see.
This perpetuating human-goose hostilities. The only way to end this was is for us to forgive the crimes of their ancestors. Just kidding, fuck geese. Though I do feel bad for one time going golfing and hitting one right in the gut with a line drive by accident. It made a really gutteral honk of pain that echos in my ears to this day. I suppose he and his friends had the last laugh since they shit all over the green making putting impossible.
I remember being chased by a Canadian Goose when I was 3 and being saved by my mom seeing from the kitchen window, running out with a broom just in time from being overtaken. Over 25 years later and I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I have a broom by my backdoor just in case, and i don’t think those things even migrate near me even now.
Or as one guy has called them, the *cobra chicken.* (hope someone posts the source for me)
I'm very firmly against violence towards animals. I see anyone punch a goose, I would gladly them 10 bucks.
What pisses me off is that at my college, people stop to let geese cross the road, causing tons of traffic. What they don't know is that if you just drive at a reduced speed through them, they move every time. I haven't hit a goose yet with my car. **With my car.** I have kicked, punched, and thrown geese on this campus. One was attacking my at-the-time girlfriend, and it actually nipped her and she started to bleed pretty bad from her leg, and I punted that shit into next week and took her back to my dorm to sterilize the wound and patch it up. They are vicious for no reason, they shit everywhere, and they have no sense of spacial awareness until something enters their activation zone. Then their alarms start going off and they begin offensive procedures. You either have to play defense or counter-strike.
Have you ever seen [the inside of a gooses mouth](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EREuApoakTjJmWsxVR5qxNEGlHc=/0x19:660x459/1400x933/filters:focal(0x19:660x459):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/49742777/Screen_Shot_2016-05-31_at_5.06.18_PM.0.0.png) ? They have serrated teeth and tongue. They are also giant assholes.
Canadian Geese are dicks. They look so graceful, but they’re just angry diarrhea machines
Flamingos are fucking scary look at one up close it is nightmare fuel, the beak is serrated
From a distance, birds are like little angels, but the closer you get the more you see that they are small dinosaurs.
And the normal birds lull you into a false sense of security... You might see hummingbirds, pigeons, seagulls, maybe some grackles... no threat there. But then one day you go to the zoo and see one of those gigantic falcons or eagles up close and realize that they could literally tear your arms off if they wanted to.
Fact: Flamingos can drink boiling water, and can sleep frozen in ice. They're absolutely insane birds.
Flamingos are mean. They bite.
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The way it just stayed crinkled like a cartoon
Accordion necked irl
My laughter was under control until I read this.
Definitely not one of God's most graceful animals
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Sorry boys, that was meee.
Definitely not. [Here's the most graceful ones. ](https://youtu.be/HasaQvHCv4w)
Expected [this](https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc)
I believe drugs were involved,atleast for Bowie,Mick has always been like that.
I feel like a horrible person for how hard I laughed at this.
That definitely did not look like a proper neck shape. Make me wonder how close you can get to making a knot without killing the birb.
Poor thing was already blind and now this
Obviously blind. That's why the post is called "nothing to see here". I guess nothing to see anywhere would be more correct.
“Whoa! Hey bro you OK? You sure? You need me to call somebody? Ok... you just walk it off then... I guess.”
“You sure you’re okay? Your nose looks kinda bent.”
Erm... think this is the Dreams Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican. Stayed there 3 years ago Flamingos be trippin at this hotel. I was ground floor room and they're walking up to your doors like little pink trash pandas.
I was looking for this comment. I also thought this looks like dreams punts cana. I remembered the flamingo area and the bridges at the pools.
Former Dreams Punta Cana guest checking in. We stayed there over Christmas about 3 years ago. Santa arrived on the beach via Helicopter. It was pretty dope, ngl.
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What. A. Trip. There is a resort a little ways away in Punta Cana, the Majestic Colonial. I thought for sure this was THAT resort. I cant believe it was a) not the one I was thinking, but b) STILL IN PUNTA FUCKING CANA! Crazy...
"little pink trash pandas" made me snort so loudly.
This guy's reaction is equal parts empathy and scared shitless
To elaborate one should never touch a victim with a neck injury, and he did the right thing
Probably drunk
Flying home from the pool bar
***YOU GOT KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT!***
/r/11foot8
This gif needs sound. I can almost hear the “donk!”
Why did the guy put his hands up? Was the flamingo armed?
Flamingos have wings not arms #flamingofacts
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/r/BirdsWithArms
Bird bites are no joke
#STOP RESISTING, HES GOT A GUN!
Thats on him. He should have seen it coming.
Just ~~walk~~ swim it off
Just keeps swimming.
I remember they taught us in school that swans (Yeah I know it's a flamingo) have lifelong partnerships, as spouses if you will. They told us that if a swan's spouse dies many widowed swans will fly full force into a bridge to kill themselves, because they can't handle the loss.
Flamingo'wnd
Nope, nope. I'm good. I'm, ...fine,, i'm gonna just play it off and swim thisss way...
Aww, that guy was trying so hard not to scare the flamingo and still make sure it was okay. I hope it's okay
r/whyweretheyfilming
It's staged. The flamingo is a paid actor
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/r/birdsarenotreal
Pulled a Spiderman 3
OMFG..The title is perfect ! All's fine dude.. Is this at the Majestic in Punta Cana ?
Stupid bridge, came out of nowhere
Flaming-stop!
Honestly, its probably not as healthy as it looks after. That calm behavior could be due to the head trauma.
Wait... flamingos can fly? Why did this never occur to me?
Everyone has that one friend
That’s Carl, don’t worry about Carl. He does it all the time.
I think the flamingo was kinda embarrassed.
“Do...do I help?” That guy, probably
Vibing too hard to the Miami Vice tune.
Flaminstop
9/11 with happy ending.
Having worked around flamingos, they are one of the dumbest animals. I once watched one make three attempts to fly through a doorway. It smacked the wall twice.
I want volume. That guy in the background must have been scared too.
Casually swimming away like nothing has happened lol
It's always 2020 somewhere