Someone tried to impress me by showing me the Great Potoo, but having been exposed to #PicaTheCat I'm not that impressed:
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Someone tried to impress me by showing me the Great Potoo, but having been exposed to #PicaTheCat I'm not that impressed:
* Huge goofy eyes?
* Convincing wood-grain texture?
* Absurdly large mouth that opens out of nowhere like a Muppet?
* Haunting eerie noise at night?
* Eating bugs just because they are there?Maybe I should call her "Potoo The Cat"
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Someone tried to impress me by showing me the Great Potoo, but having been exposed to #PicaTheCat I'm not that impressed:
* Huge goofy eyes?
* Convincing wood-grain texture?
* Absurdly large mouth that opens out of nowhere like a Muppet?
* Haunting eerie noise at night?
* Eating bugs just because they are there?Maybe I should call her "Potoo The Cat"
@futurebird
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the really weird part, is that Potoos belong to a group of birds that contains several other nocturnal bird families - the nightjars, the frogmouths, the owlet-nightjars, and the oilbird ... and swifts and hummingbirds. As a bonus, the swifts and hummingbirds are most closely related to one of the nocturnal groups, the owlet-nightjars, and deeply nested among nocturnal birds. -
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@futurebird
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the really weird part, is that Potoos belong to a group of birds that contains several other nocturnal bird families - the nightjars, the frogmouths, the owlet-nightjars, and the oilbird ... and swifts and hummingbirds. As a bonus, the swifts and hummingbirds are most closely related to one of the nocturnal groups, the owlet-nightjars, and deeply nested among nocturnal birds.@llewelly @futurebird if you told me these were all the names of monsters from D&D I would have believed you
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@llewelly @futurebird if you told me these were all the names of monsters from D&D I would have believed you
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@futurebird @Eliot_L
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well, oilbirds roost in caves, they echolocate (like bats, but not as precise), and as they feed on oil-palm fruits and tropical laurels, they are so oil-rich they are flammable, especially when young. And there are historical accounts of cave explorers using them as torches.
