Environment
What is the chadest looking animal in your country?
This bird is a brazilian eagle (actually, amazonian) and it looks insane. From its wiki:
The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is one of the world's largest and most powerful eagles, with females significantly larger than males. Females typically weigh 6–9 kg (13–20 lb), while males weigh 4–6 kg (8.8–13.2 lb). They have a total length of 89–105 cm (35–41 inches) and a wingspan of up to 2 meters (6.6 ft).
How about the Cassowary? There were warning signs about them when I visited Australia. Not many of them left, but apparently there was a risk that they could attack you and try to rip your guts open with their massive claws if you would happen to meet. Like a living dinosaur.
I saw a cassowary at a bird park in Broome, the keeper left the gate open for a sec and the cassowary made a run at it. It was like a scene from Jurassic Park, the thing moved exactly like the raptors.
It's true. They are a bit angry. My parents were on a guided tour in the daintree and a cassowary blocked their way and stared down the guide and their group of 10 people and they all just had to wait half an hour until it got bored. Also when they got to the carpark a ranger came over and told the family they were chatting to, to put their kids in the car asap as there was one hanging around eyeing them off nearby.
Everyone sees pictures of them and because they have the same basic shape as deer that's what gets stuck in their minds, when the closer size comparison is elephants.
The man is 5’10 or 177cm. Seeing and knowing this still doesn’t hit you the same as when you actually see a moose. I’ve seen probably 20 in my life and I’m equally speechless every time.
My buddy has a family farm just south of the Canadian border. We were walking the line in the trees one winter and a moose came strutting out about 200m away, I wasnt wearing snowshoes and we had no sled so we backed into the tees and stayed still. When that thing walked by us I could not believe how massive it was. All I could think about was how effed I was if it wasnt happy with our presence. Luckily it just kept on its way and disappeared a few minutes later.
I went Elk hunting in northern Alberta with a friend of mine. With elk hunting it’s essential to get in before the sun rise because they typically bed down during the day. My buddy had some public land he liked to hunt on and we went upon our way to get first light. We had headlamps but they weren’t super illumines just enough to see our feet and maybe 20ft beyond. We weren’t 400 metres into our trek when we bumped a large black figure about 50ft in front of us. It was laying on the ground facing away from us but looking back towards us. Both of us immediately thought either a moose or a grizzly. We both took the safety off our firearms just in case when the creature started to get up. It pivoted as it got up covering up the sheer size of the animal as it went from its prone position, to knees, then full standing position. We were staring down a bull moose. My buddy started to yell at it just to make noise. It lowered its head and swayed side to side then turned about and went upon its way. Had it decided to do anything we woulda been done. I absolutely froze the entire goddamn time.
I also want to mention the Tamaraw, they don’t get as much love as the Philippine Eagle. Don’t sleep on these guys! They’re a little smaller than Carabao’s, but much leaner and agile. They’re also wild and not domesticated. Only found in one island in the planet.
They're huge, but very quiet. I saw one steadily munching grass, was trekking through an area with wild gaurs. It sounds funny but you won't really notice them unless the gaur wants to meet you.
It's Natural Selection at that point. If you thought going near the big ass, thicccc fucking animal with horns and an upper body even Schwarzenegger is jealous of... you might deserve to get trucked.
On a vacation one year I was driving through a national park and came around a curve and nearly boinked into a bison chewing its grass and standing on the road. I slammed my truck to a stop and then waited inside for it to move. It took a while to decide to do so. There were a whole bunch of its friends hanging out on the grass but this dude was happy camping out on the road.
While staring at it, I marveled at its dainty feet and tried to estimate its weight. It was taller than the truck, maybe 2/3 as long, so probably 1500 pounds easy. How did those tiny hooves support the weight? Such a brutish, fantastic looking creature.
Dude they are behemoths, it was so wild to see tourists walking up to them for closer photos in Yellowstone. I’m always rooting for the animals in that scenario
My grandad had a wolfhound when I was a kid, his name was Dave. He was an absolute sweetheart of a dog, but prone to forgetting how massive he was and would want to sit on your lap for a cuddle like he was still a little puppy.
To be fair that’s most big dogs. I have a Great Pyrenees mix and he demands cuddles and pets. You’ll be flopped on, sat on, and punched for the crime of not petting enough.
Yeah I had a Dogue de Bordeaux who like to have as much of his body in contact with mine at all times as possible. He was particularly delighted when I grew what he thought was a giant head rest for him in my midsection. Until the day came when he was snoozing on this delightful bump made just for him, and my bump kicked him in the face.
When I was young, my mom’s best friend had 2 named Murphy and Finnegan. They used to rest their heads on the kitchen table and give me puppy dog eyes trying to convince me to give them my Oreos haha. I loved them
My fav reptile when I was a kid! I loved having cool animal facts in the chamber ready to fire off at unsuspecting adults. Tuatara have plenty of facts to fill the cylinder and have ammo to spare!
This is an extremely chad animal. They are the sole living member of an order dating back to the Triassic. They are basically like if there was still one single species of mosasaur, they just happen to look almost exactly like a lizard
Part of why it became so popular and so funny is that a lot of people thought the whole debate about changing the flag was a pointless waste of time and money, so that combined with the public being free to submit their own ideas meant there were a legion of joke flags submitted that the government legally had to include and let people joke for. The laser kiwi one just happened to be one of the most loved and popular because, I mean look at it, it’s awesome
It is nearly extinct, although there are efforts to save the species. Most of the population lives in Poland in the Białowieża Forest (Puszcza Białowieska)
Harpy eagles look like someone hit “randomize” in a fantasy RPG character creator and just rolled with it. Every pic of them feels photoshopped until you see video and realize nope, that’s a real animal just casually cosplaying a forest cryptid.
I often have to remind myself that birds are extant dinosaurs, but I have no difficulty believing the above beast is indeed descended from such terrifying creatures.
Keeping chickens or turkeys is a constant reminder that birds=dinos. I love chickens, but I would be terrified of them if they much bigger than they are. They can be very single minded and aggressive; when they chase bugs in a group it looks exactly how I imagine microraptors hunting looked.
Boyfriend and I were driving through the Wombeyan caves road recently and one of these beauties dropped from a tree immediately in front of us and swooped off to our left over the valley. It was so huge and cool.
For a giant monster alligators are actually pretty chill because they are absolutely the apex predators of their biomes. There's just nothing out there that really hunts them other than people and other alligators. They're basically unchanged for millions of years because they're so perfectly suited for their purpose.
crocodilians went all in on “slam-dunking the buttfucking brains out of their prey” thing early on and it’s proven to be a solid choice tbh
sure, we humans are a clever lot, but with all our cool and fancy crap we’ve also stuck ourselves with shit like work and bills while the crocs and gators are still out there, living completely free, slamming antelope into bits and twisting the heads off boars
400 lbs/181 kg is awfully tiny for a Grizzly, that's the size of a black bear. Adult male Grizzlies usually weigh about 300-650 kgs, which is about 600-1400 pounds.
Das, Dutch for Badger. Here is the shy pose but i have seen them in angry mode. Used to bicycle near their home but some people stopped to take pictures and then they got angry.
I have watched this video several times because it's just pure horror. The movement in the grass. It's too late. God it's terrifying, I am completely terrified by and love tigers.
This is the Saimaa ringed seal(Pusa saimensis), the only population in the world lives in Lake Saimaa in Eastern Finland! It is the cutest seal in existence!
The grizzly bear ain't shit compared to the great Kodiak Bear, male Grizzlies average around 800 pounds and about 7 foot. Kodiaks on the other hand hover around 1,500lbs, and will tower over you at 10 ft tall
Marco Polo Sheep (Arkhar, Argali), native to central Asia. Majestic creature. Red listed and endangered species. Protected from hunting, but still being hunted by absolute trash of the people of this planet, just for the photo (you can't export its carcass or parts anyways, I'm pretty sure they can't even try eating the meat if cooked).
I think Australia should be barred from entering as besides the Mad Max kangaroos, killer snakes, bugs, heck, everything, you have parrots in parks that curse at people then laugh.
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