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Molting (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 139 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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    • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    “Skeksis want peace!”

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    • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Why do he beak like that though?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Probably mites.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    Don't know why the beak be like that.

    I have yet to see missing feathers like that myself and I have a BUNCH of cardinals and blue jays. I do see the young "punk rocker" cardinals.

    But the Internet says molting feathers is true!

    The only dark horror I witnessed was when a murder of crows came into the neighborhood and used my bird bath for their dark rituals for 2 weeks.

    Maybe I didn't see this kind of cardinal because they didn't complete the rites to summon it?

    Tap for spoiler*Edited for being a moron and not reading OP

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.

    The person you responded to was referring to why his beak looked weird, not to the lack of feathers on his head. But I didn't see anything in the article you posted about beaks.

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    • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Honestly shocking that we didn't discover that birds \subseteq dinosaurs until recently

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's not that shocking given that all birds have feathers, and almost no dinosaur fossils had feathers until fairly recently (and they're still rare as I understand it).

    The connection was made in the 19th century, it just didn't become mainstream until the 60s.

    And pet peeve: "birds are dinosaurs" is only true cladistically speaking, but ordinary English is not cladistic. There is such a thing as a fish and anyone who says there isn't can fuck off.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly I'm of the opinion that "fish" should only refer to bony fish anyway; sharks should be their own thing. But also yeah, let people live lmao

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yeah I totally agree. It's like grouping humans in with rhinos because we're both mammals and have 4 limbs. Sharks are so ancient they diverged extremely early and are weird as fuck. I keep learning new and interesting ways sharks are almost alien compared to bony fish. Like how they use high urea content in their blood to lower the osmotic gradient dehydrating them (salt water sucks water out of your gills) so they turn ammonia into Urea to keep some dissolved compounds around to balance the osmotic pressure.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    "\subseteq"?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    LaTeX way of writing "is a subset of"

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    "Look at me! I told you I was a dinosaur!"

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Ngl, the first time my hen molted, I was verklempt. She didn't get that bad, as she tends to st it in waves rather than all at once, but I was anxious as fuck all wondering if it was molting or some kind of disease

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It’s been a while since I’ve seen the dark crystal

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Juvenile skeksis!

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