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salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agosome shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. These larders have multiple functions, attracting females and serving as food stores.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 months ago
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Netflix?
inbeesee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)
dorron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Endymion / Rise of Endymion was a great sequel too
Mac@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Highly underrated.
And I get why: it’s just totally and completely different but it was still enjoyable on merit.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought it was even better than the first series. There’s so many neat and unique concepts going on in that book. From the ultra-fast ship that decimates its passengers and then rebuilds them, to the concepts related to the philosophy of Pierre Tielhard DeChardin, it’s a wonderfully thought provoking series all around. The AI and their machinations in that series is the best AI storyline I’ve ever read.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
One of the serial killers in Hannibal as well.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also the name of the guy who ran the gang that Han Solo was in as a kid.
HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Among the best sci-fi I ever read, incredible.