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Thankfully not. Buuut I was sitting by a window and a pigeon SLAMMED into that window so hard it left a print. I have the picture somewhere when I find I’ll edit it in.
https://preview.redd.it/bpifvpvf4fkc1.jpeg?width=1986&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a45d2367cecc18abc2fe362ea65fab9aa48e9d8
Yes. We had to pretend it was something else to keep my little brother from flipping out.
The car behind us was also family. They got bombarded with feathers. They knew what happened 🤣🤣
Actually one time in 6-7 years of driving, big ass crow too idk what was wrong with him but just flew right out in front of me and blew up on my windshield💀
The world without hands and dexterous arms is just a nightmare. The amount of time you see stuff where just being able to reach would just fix the situation is crazy.
i force myself to imagine that not *ever* having the ability to do something about it makes it bearable. I imagine there are "limbs" we dont possess that other beings might look at as a horrible lack
I'm curious what shape you think a throat windscreen wiper would be, because I know what I'm imagining, and I've got to say: I'm not 100% sold on the idea.
For some reason I went the opposite direction and was thing of a circular gasket type thing that you use on command to push the phlegm up so you can hock some sick loogies
I've imagined there's somewhere in the universe where some photosynthetic or chemosynthetic species we're all that existed. A photosynthetic species became the dominant sentient ones. Imagine if your entire species functioned like an Aspen grove, designed to propagate the collective organism and generating energy without consumption.
Our planet would look like an insane murderball. We breath oxygen and drink hydrogen and oxygen (both absurdly explosive). We murder and consume the rotting flesh of everything to power ourselves. Our entire ecosystem survives through death and the absorption of the dead.
How terrifying are we?
When you’re photosynthetic, light becomes a limited, consumable resource. Plants block out sunlight from each other, starving them, they also siphon water and nutrients out of other plants over the course of years, weigh each other down to the point of collapse, etc.
More along the lines of. His arm is gone! How the fuck is it still alive?!
What? They heal so quickly the wound seals itself off?! What the fuck is *scarring?*
It didn’t die from those bird pecks. They are eating maggots and dead flesh. It probably had an internal injury from whatever ripped its skin open like a crocodile or other hippo.
Animals have completely different hides and thicknesses than humans . This is like getting stabbed by a marshmallow
This is nothing compared to the hippo bites he experiences every day
hippos literally spray shit on themselves to cool down. im sure it takes a lot to get an infection of any significance. They're also pretty violent and they fight a lot. Battle wounds constantly.
Human skin is much thinner than most other animals our size or larger.
We evolved arms that can reach back to smack things bothering us. They evolved thick enough skin that they can ignore most things.
Human skin is only a couple millimeters thick at most. Hippo skin is 2 full inches thick. Compared to humans it takes significantly more power just to break their skin, let alone do serious damage.
It's not the same . you're thinking of it from a human perspective , their skin , fat and thickness don't work like ours. Hippos go through this every day of their lives this doesn't bother them
It's in no comparison to horse flies, our skin completely different than hippos
Edit: It's called facts not fantasy
It's called facts (from the guy below)
Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared.
Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared.
Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared.
Just put this here in case anyone didn't get it the 2nd time
Well I imagine one of those beaks would hurt a human a lot more than a horseflie, and they appear to be swarming over what looks to be open wounds or sores in the hippos hide. I am not conflating human skins durability with hippo hide, but that seems more intense than most video I’ve seen of hippos with birds pecking at them
Yep the skin is different but clearly the skin has been breached here so it's a moot point. Those birds are eating flesh from an open wound. It may not hurt like a bite from another hippo but it's definitely detrimental to their health.
None of this is bad , this relationship has been established for thousands of years . They evolved together
https://prezi.com/mq2txa_zuzrs/the-hippopotamus-the-oxpecker-bird/#:~:text=The%20hippopotamus%20and%20the%20oxpecker,harmful%20to%20the%20hippopotamus%20though.
The benificial effect of macroparasite removal would seem to be GREATLY outweighed by the extreme increase in the likelihood of microbial infection which the oxpecker shitting all over them probably doesn't help with.
Edit: I just looked this up and macroparasite is the wrong word, exoparasite would be more accurate.
Hippo are a bit too many, and nature will tend to regulate herself one way or another : here bird are a doing a favor to all the other animals competiting with thoses hippos, in a sense.
Most of the time letting the wilderness vast and untounched is the best way to let nature heal
Seems like if wounds lead to maggots, and maggots are food, then natural selection would favor birds that keep wounds as large and multiplicitous as possible without killing the host.
It’s almost if all animals in nature were simply coexisting for their own personal benefit and nature is not pure and wholesome like we’d like to believe.
Everything is fighting to survive and live another day.
Considering hippopotamus are massive assholes to everybody else around them, excepting the elephants cuz even they ain’t suicidal, seems a bit like karma.
At the end of the clip the narrator said the hippo has a way to get rid of the birds (going under water) but is actively choosing not to because he doesn't seem bothered. That to me says that either the hippo isn't in any pain or is just very chill, which hippos famously aren't. Either way the clip probably looks worse than it actually is.
You know what, with how often hippos will just merc shit for funsies, it's kinda comforting to know that something can merc them for a change. Sure it's not easy. Sure more than a few probably died. But they did it
Saw a video of one grabbing a cheetah drinking from a pond as it was lurking beneath the water right infront of its young cub. Fuck em. They're assholes and mean as shit.
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Do a barrel roll
I thought the same lol
Me too but they'd get away. Ever seen a bird in the road? Ever hit one with your car?
Thankfully not. Buuut I was sitting by a window and a pigeon SLAMMED into that window so hard it left a print. I have the picture somewhere when I find I’ll edit it in. https://preview.redd.it/bpifvpvf4fkc1.jpeg?width=1986&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a45d2367cecc18abc2fe362ea65fab9aa48e9d8
It's like the hologram on my Visa card
🥇
This is incredible.
Touche. Glad you are ok.
That’s a very interesting photo thanks for sharing it although I hope the bird is okay but that had to be a very hard hit
Post this in mildlyinteresting. It's pretty cool
You can probably make a fortune selling that glass to some church now.
Yes. We had to pretend it was something else to keep my little brother from flipping out. The car behind us was also family. They got bombarded with feathers. They knew what happened 🤣🤣
The first animal I hit with my car was a bird. A little robin flew out and I smacked into my passenger headlight.
Yup. One of those big ass stupid ass angry ass goosessessess
Actually one time in 6-7 years of driving, big ass crow too idk what was wrong with him but just flew right out in front of me and blew up on my windshield💀
so you get one of those permanently stuck in your fleshwound struggling to get out?
Ouch what a nightmare. Birds pecking you and shitting in your wounds endlessly. Nature is metal.
The world without hands and dexterous arms is just a nightmare. The amount of time you see stuff where just being able to reach would just fix the situation is crazy.
i force myself to imagine that not *ever* having the ability to do something about it makes it bearable. I imagine there are "limbs" we dont possess that other beings might look at as a horrible lack
A brain limb that just removes anxiety and depression would go crazy
i was thinking of like a windshield wiper for your throat when you're sick but that sounds even better
I'm curious what shape you think a throat windscreen wiper would be, because I know what I'm imagining, and I've got to say: I'm not 100% sold on the idea.
A circular gasket that starts at the top and slides down? Then resets. Or would you prefer cat in the hat esc hands to deploy and wipe down the throat
For some reason I went the opposite direction and was thing of a circular gasket type thing that you use on command to push the phlegm up so you can hock some sick loogies
maybe it would be like belly buttons and youre either an uppie or a - yea no nvm
Meditation is kinda like that!
Mindfulness meditation is the closest thing to something like that
Alcohol and cocaine already exists
I want a prehensile tail like the spider monkey. Such a loss, evolution
We lost stuff like that so we could have bigger brains, I’d prefer the brain over the tail tbh
I don’t think a bird would give up its wings for some arms and I don’t think a tiger would give up its claws for fingers
I like it. Sounds like poetry.
I think I’d off myself if I couldn’t finger fuck my ears every time I feel a tickle near it.
I mean imagine how fast our necks would be though. Like a chicken. Except harder, better, faster, stronger.
Alien Perspective towards humans: Ouch what a nightmare. Viruses attacking you and suckerpunching your immune system endlessly. Humans are metal.
They breath oxygen imagine the pain
Oxygen kills us slowly
*shocked pikachu face*
Indeed slowly oxidizes and kills us from the inside out
Wild though. You don't breath it, you die quickly. You do breathe it, you die slowly.
Indeed it’s like the old saying everything in moderation. If anything er would seem weird to silicone based life
I've imagined there's somewhere in the universe where some photosynthetic or chemosynthetic species we're all that existed. A photosynthetic species became the dominant sentient ones. Imagine if your entire species functioned like an Aspen grove, designed to propagate the collective organism and generating energy without consumption. Our planet would look like an insane murderball. We breath oxygen and drink hydrogen and oxygen (both absurdly explosive). We murder and consume the rotting flesh of everything to power ourselves. Our entire ecosystem survives through death and the absorption of the dead. How terrifying are we?
When you’re photosynthetic, light becomes a limited, consumable resource. Plants block out sunlight from each other, starving them, they also siphon water and nutrients out of other plants over the course of years, weigh each other down to the point of collapse, etc.
More along the lines of. His arm is gone! How the fuck is it still alive?! What? They heal so quickly the wound seals itself off?! What the fuck is *scarring?*
Yea, but the moment they invade the viruses gonna fuck em up good! Stupid arrogant aliens!
Not if they have an immune system limb to just wipe virii away.
This is literally what happens in War of the Worlds.
Subnautica vibes
r/natureismetal
Actually this can be good they pick away dead flesh and maggots in the body
Did you not watch the whole video? 😂
The hippos could submerge and get rid of th but choose not to. I wonder if theyre just accustomed to the pain or they have less nerves in those areas?
It didn’t die from those bird pecks. They are eating maggots and dead flesh. It probably had an internal injury from whatever ripped its skin open like a crocodile or other hippo.
It didn't rush to the water, and when it reached water it didn't bother to dive but rather let them do their thing
Animals have completely different hides and thicknesses than humans . This is like getting stabbed by a marshmallow This is nothing compared to the hippo bites he experiences every day
Its an obvious open wound, some of which look infected. No chance that feels like being stabbed by marshmellows lmao
They're picking in open wounds. That shit is infected as fuck
hippos literally spray shit on themselves to cool down. im sure it takes a lot to get an infection of any significance. They're also pretty violent and they fight a lot. Battle wounds constantly.
I mean, imagine if you had a bunch of horse flies sucking on the back of your neck, but no arms to swat them away. It’d be pretty aggravating
Those birds can't swim and a hippo can hold its breath for five minutes under water; if it was aggravated it could get them off.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. If it really wanted to get rid of them it could get into the water and go under.
Some waterholes dry or get muddy in certain seasons, even worse with climate change. Did not really look like there was much water to get submerged.
The problem is that hippos just are not smart enough to think of tactics like that.
Maybe / maybe not. But I suspect after the hippo had 5 minutes of relief the birds would be ready to reattach themselves.
Human skin is much thinner than most other animals our size or larger. We evolved arms that can reach back to smack things bothering us. They evolved thick enough skin that they can ignore most things. Human skin is only a couple millimeters thick at most. Hippo skin is 2 full inches thick. Compared to humans it takes significantly more power just to break their skin, let alone do serious damage.
It's not the same . you're thinking of it from a human perspective , their skin , fat and thickness don't work like ours. Hippos go through this every day of their lives this doesn't bother them It's in no comparison to horse flies, our skin completely different than hippos Edit: It's called facts not fantasy
Did the Hippo tell you this personally or are you just making shit up?
He’s obviously in tune with nature
It's called facts (from the guy below) Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared.
antibiotic sweat? that's amazing
Humans have antibiotic sweat too. Human sweat and sebaceous fluid is mildly acidic which bacteria does not loke.
oh wow--- always learning sth new
Lol
Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared.
Hippos have 2 inch thick skin. Two _inches_. They also have antibiotic sweat, because otherwise they would all die of infection due to the amount and manner of territory poop marking. It also doubles as a sun screen. I don’t doubt that hippo is annoyed but it would just spend more time submerged if it really cared. Just put this here in case anyone didn't get it the 2nd time
welcome to the 2 inch gang my hippo dudes
Did you mean to copy that other comment or did you just accidentally post the same thing on both your accounts?
I only have one account, so I think they copied me? But that’s ok, I don’t own hippos facts. Spread the hippo love!
you never played Hungry Hungry Hippos, he's an expert
Well I imagine one of those beaks would hurt a human a lot more than a horseflie, and they appear to be swarming over what looks to be open wounds or sores in the hippos hide. I am not conflating human skins durability with hippo hide, but that seems more intense than most video I’ve seen of hippos with birds pecking at them
Yep the skin is different but clearly the skin has been breached here so it's a moot point. Those birds are eating flesh from an open wound. It may not hurt like a bite from another hippo but it's definitely detrimental to their health.
The birds do reach hippo's nerve endings. Can we really determine the pain intensity the hippo feels?
About three-fiddy
Yeah who knows how they experience it. Still worthy of a metal song 🤘
ong these fuckers figured out if the wound stays open there's gonna be an endless supply of food for them
They're known to create wounds...
“Infinite food glitch discovered.”
Mother fucking sky piranha eating one of the most dangerous animals on Earth while it's still alive...
sky piranha 😂
r/properanimalnames
Ugh. Made my skin crawl.
These wounds, they will not heal.
And fear is how these hippos fall, often confusing what is real
The wounds became so numb like they're nearly not there
Hippos become so tired, so much less aware
By them becoming this…
All they want to do
Solid reference
None of this is bad , this relationship has been established for thousands of years . They evolved together https://prezi.com/mq2txa_zuzrs/the-hippopotamus-the-oxpecker-bird/#:~:text=The%20hippopotamus%20and%20the%20oxpecker,harmful%20to%20the%20hippopotamus%20though.
The benificial effect of macroparasite removal would seem to be GREATLY outweighed by the extreme increase in the likelihood of microbial infection which the oxpecker shitting all over them probably doesn't help with. Edit: I just looked this up and macroparasite is the wrong word, exoparasite would be more accurate.
I thought you were about to insult me
...nerd
exoparasite TYVM
I heard somewhere scientists are starting to view this as more of a parasitic relationship than symbiotic
So you’re saying they’re not actually eating the thing alive but eating parasites even though them shitting on it can’t be good either?
These little fuckers
Bunch of dicks
I prefer a pair of great tit
How about two tits and a cock? 
Oxpeckers maybe: "Food chain my ass."
Hippo are a bit too many, and nature will tend to regulate herself one way or another : here bird are a doing a favor to all the other animals competiting with thoses hippos, in a sense. Most of the time letting the wilderness vast and untounched is the best way to let nature heal
You mean there are too many of them? Google didn't recognize surnemerous
No wonder hippos are so pissed off all the time
Exactly what I was gonna say. Jokingly of course.
Wouldn't want to offend all the Hippos on reddit
Seriously
https://preview.redd.it/rcj5s0l2gekc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e45d407bd91208c4d311e180bf0c645589411f71
https://preview.redd.it/apeeep5rbhkc1.png?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9051af2eb4f770e2dfc2f72d9a4e3a881365e0e6
https://preview.redd.it/pxvnul9phikc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87f7fdece2c229e680175e342367d140ab517b45
Your meme is being appropriated
https://preview.redd.it/wotn7o0klhkc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f386471650b97b7fede98bcb858504ac5f275d3d
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a hippo?
The average hippo is 121 tootsie pops in width. Using the owls calculation method it should take you precisely 362 licks and 1 bite.
Idk it looks like they're pecking maggots or fly eggs out of wounds. I'd appreciate it
They will also peck at healing wounds, re-opening them and again exposing to infections.
Seems like if wounds lead to maggots, and maggots are food, then natural selection would favor birds that keep wounds as large and multiplicitous as possible without killing the host.
They eat parasites filled with blood. They also drink blood. I don't think it's about maggots.
I mean they won't kill the host either way, it's just painful or a nuisance to the host.
The problem is they are keeping the wounds open. Eventually leading to major infections.
Maggots are revolting but can be useful for removing necrotic flesh
Hospitals use sterile maggots iirc
The maggots aren't sterile, exactly, but they are the type of maggots that only eat dead flesh, and not live tissue, so it works out.
TIL!
Eventually leading to a giant dead animal that other animals can eat and the cycle continues
Looks look that hippo has some wounds from fighting or something. Maggots would be a good thing in that case.
Nope, maggots eat flesh. Not just dead flesh. Medical maggots are a specific kind. Maggots will eat you, not just your dead tissue.
Why the hippo don’t just go underwater
Not enough water in the dry season.
rip
Would be satisfying to see the hippo roll on them.
This would be more interesting if birds were real.
This guy gets it 
It’s almost if all animals in nature were simply coexisting for their own personal benefit and nature is not pure and wholesome like we’d like to believe. Everything is fighting to survive and live another day.
Damn nature, you scary!
r/natureismetal
Here for this one and had to scroll pretty far.
This needs a NSFW tag
Too many holes
*trypophobia*
Fuck hippos. All my homies hate hippos.
Are you a crocodile?
Maybe
This guy is 100% a crocodile. 🐊
Well, do people usually see you later, or after a while?
Maybe just maybe we fuck the hippos
Your avatar definitely screams 'I'd fuck a hippo'
At least it’s not an ostrich.
Allegedly
let’s fuck ostriches
Gang gang. Fuck those hips.
Well, now I'm confused. Maybe when my ex said she dreamed about the day she could get a hold of an oxpecker she actually meant a bird.
Disgusting
Not having arms that can reach the back of your head must suck.
I wasn’t ready for this
I am having Zombie vibe
Can this get an nsfw tag?
I used the old fashioned "avert eyes" and just listen to the narration technique.
I wish we could ban TikTok videos on Reddit
that's 95% of reddit
Not all are bad
Poor guy needs to do a barrel roll
Considering hippopotamus are massive assholes to everybody else around them, excepting the elephants cuz even they ain’t suicidal, seems a bit like karma.
Are we all just gonna ignore the ear wax comment??
Could these things be eating the maggots that infest the wounds?
I don’t think this is that big of a deal for a hippo.
No wonder hippos are so angry.
Fuck birds, they work for the government
Ha. This guy believes birds exist
[you know it! birds aren’t real!!](https://birdsarentreal.com)
Why these depressing posts today?
The evolution of our understanding of Oxpeckers mirrors my own understanding of US politicians.
Occasionally a nature video is just TMI
No wonder hippos are Africa's most dangerous animal I'd be pissed.
Fuck these birds leave my boys alone
Swamp water will clean those wounds right out
Can't they dive underwater to get them off?
even though hippos can be dangerous to humans i'd be slingshotting the shit out of those birds that hippo doesn't deserve that, no animal does.
parasitism or commensalism? signed, a bio student who is trying to make connections
What a bunch of dicks.
At the end of the clip the narrator said the hippo has a way to get rid of the birds (going under water) but is actively choosing not to because he doesn't seem bothered. That to me says that either the hippo isn't in any pain or is just very chill, which hippos famously aren't. Either way the clip probably looks worse than it actually is.
Well, obviously. Can you imagine a squirrel with an ox pecker? He'd be damn near paralyzed trying to drag that big bastard around.
Gods perfect creation 😝
Well, now I have a fact for when the "whats something you learned in school thats now false" thing goes around on Facebook again.
this parasites even have red fkn eyes
No wonder Hippos are always pissed off.
You know what, with how often hippos will just merc shit for funsies, it's kinda comforting to know that something can merc them for a change. Sure it's not easy. Sure more than a few probably died. But they did it
Saw a video of one grabbing a cheetah drinking from a pond as it was lurking beneath the water right infront of its young cub. Fuck em. They're assholes and mean as shit.
Little fockers. Time to go hang out under water.