TIL cassowary eggs are vibrant green.
No, I don't know what a rabbit is, nor do I care.
Submitted 2 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I wonder at which point ‘where did I leave my eggs?’ becomes a greater evolutionary pressure than ‘I need to hide my eggs’, because I’m assuming cassowaries haven’t had to worry about the latter for a while!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
All (chicken, at least…probably other species too) eggs start out white…but pigments get added near the end of the egg development process.
That’s how my girls have eggs in many different colors.
Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Same, those are crazy looking!
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Whoever took this picture is lucky to be alive. Cassowaries are incredibly dangerous
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You stare at her, and she just stares right back. And that’s when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
My favorite bird of all time!
BIRD FACT: The name Cassowary is derived from the Papuan kasu weri, which translates to ‘horned head’.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
When I first saw this very small picture (in my vision of it, by my current means), I thought I saw a Mantis on the green neck of some other creature. I had to handle the means to scrutize the pic and see what it was. That tree to feather coincidence of angel photography came off as an AI before I understood what the pic was really of.
I also just saw that Pink Mantis so it was your mentioning of the horns the lead me to even go that far into figuring it out at all.
Coincidence chain of coincidences, in deed.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, I completely missed the head for all the colours and wondered what eldritch horror I was looking at
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 2 months ago
every time i see one of those birds, i think of how far cry 3 made me passionately hate them
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Speiser0@feddit.org 2 months ago
Stupid birb, poops its green eggs on brown floor.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
When you’re a fucking dinosaur who’ll rip someone’s guts out, you don’t care
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
I got green ham too.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cassowary killed my colonist!
(Rimworld not colonialism, ew)
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Well this is a Science Com so I am going to explain it. A rabbit is a particle that is periodically generated as a form of radioactive decay by tophats.
mtpender@piefed.social 2 months ago
adhocfungus@midwest.social 2 months ago
THESE ARE NOT JOANNA EGGS!!!
N0MAD@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just stretch out your arms and tell the Cassowary to stay calm. Always works!
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a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, you tell the fucking cassowary what to do. I’m headed in the other direction.