Birds with hands
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Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
borth@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
How does this make more sense? They can’t bend their beaks the same way we can bend our thumb and finger
EscanortheArrogant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Touch the tip of your index (also known as fore finger)to the tip of your thumb. There is no bending involved and you can generate a decent amount of force and pick things up that way.
lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This changes everything. Only going to use my beak for eating now.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some kind of can. But not really the same way.
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
If you think this is fucked up, birds have tiny little deformed hands on their wings kind of like how animators will reduce the scale of a bone for something they want to hide.
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
From the foundational textbook “Garden of Earthly Delights” by H. Bosch et al
Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m sorry I still don’t totally understand. I don’t mean to be dumb, I just really wish they labeled the different parts.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 6 months ago
I looked closely at it, comparing it to the pigeon currently nesting in our windowbox, and I can definitely say they do not look the same.
EscanortheArrogant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
See my reply to the other person in this thread.
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
But where’s the mouth functionality?
EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I just want to know if birds go around thinking, “Crushing your head! Crushing your head!”
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Has science gone too far? Find out in the scattered audio logs left behind in the mysteriously abandoned research complex.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ah yes because so many birds have prehensile beaks lol
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A bunch of birds have prehensile beaks; it just means “grasping”. Macaws, parrots, and cockatoos for example.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Before AI, we just had insane people.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
Before AI we have Silent Hill.