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This fierce beauty is the Secretary Bird, a bird of prey from sub-Saharan Africa with killer kicks and iconic lashes
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With legs built for speed and power, the Secretary bird hunts snakes by stomping them with a force of 195 Newtons, enough to kill in milliseconds.
Despite their raptor status, they hunt mostly on foot and can walk up to 30 km a day.
Aggretsuko!
I love the scene where she ax kicks her boss’s desk
Slay, queen 💅
Divorced bird if I’ve ever seen one
but she's happily married!
I have never heard of this show. That's a hell of a link.
it's a hell of a show. highly recommend (not even just for the married birds)
Haha this is the first thing I thought of. I didn't know what kind of bird she was tho. FilmCow is great.
*hi-5*
I miss r/divorcedbirds ...
Be the change you want to see in the world!
I wanna fuck that bird
Go get it, tiger!
Please don't encourage
🤮
<:(
Is that the bird's head looking left?
no its a sad face, but now I can't unsee the bird ):>
That's a Pokemon.
Fighting/Flying
Link to the Wikipedia article. It's a featured article*, and there's a subsection that goes over how the species has recently become endangered.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah, the IUCN listed it as vulnerable in 2016 and then endangered in 2020. "As a population, the secretarybird is mainly threatened by loss of habitat due to fragmentation by roads and development and overgrazing of grasslands by livestock." So cars and animal agriculture – both largely unnecessary in modern society – fuck the planet at a micro- and a macroscopic scale. Not surprising, but tragic nonetheless.
brb, i gotta go cry
I really want to put an appropriately-sized sunhat on their head :)
The cruel and helpful birds from Flow!
It's giving "distinguished middle aged woman at an art gallery"
Fuck yea, thats such a vibe
This queen should be on the anti "don't tread on me" flag.
"Please tread on me 🥴"
Why is the snake tied up?
Secretary bird doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt.
I’ve had it with these motherfuckin snakes on this motherfuckin string.
He was begging her for it
Gaslight, gatekeep, bird boss 💅🏾
I feel I see people mentioning these everywhere after the movie Flow came out.
Well apparently they're known to fuck up a king cobra
Human dinosaur.
Ms. Bellum