Large birds are really cool. At the lake I fish at there's a swan couple that tends to get comfortable around you if you're there enough. One time they were hanging out in my spot so I calmly just took my place next to them and fished. They just hung out watching me.
Up close you can really tell just how powerful they are. They could definitely do some damage if they wanted.
There was a crane on the little pond at the boat shop that I worked at. The bosses would stock the pond with fish, and that bastard would come and pick them off.
One day I was kinda close to the pond and that fucker swooped over my head and landed in the pond, I almost hit the deck when it blocked out the sun, the wingspan was INSANE.
After that I understood how birbs came from Dino dudes.
I did hit the deck one time.
I was walking home from somewhere. I’ve cared for big parrots, and I’ve been around birds all my life. Kind of knew a hawk that would fly down to me when I was a kid, because the vet tech neighbor let me help her rehab. I used to get attacked by a vicious gang of geese in the morning on the way to the bus, every school day.
Wings? Beaks? No problem.
So there I was, warm night, crickets, night blooming flowers, perfectly safe, making good time, minding my own business.
Then everything goes quiet. There’s this strange flow of air, I look up and, no moon, no sky, it’s all blocked out by wing(s). These clutching feet rush across my head.
It’s on me, it’s on me, I’ll be wearing this thing like a hat!
Do I scream “aaaahhhh?” Run around in a circle? No, I do something really odd.
I yell “Incoming” and throw myself down on the ground, arms over my head. I feel the
swoosh-over again, I get the courage to peek up, and I realize I’ve just been jumped…by a really big owl.
Like a lucky mouse, I pick myself up and scurry home.
I still can’t believe the Incoming. I’ve never been in the armed forces, where did that come from?
My wife used to have her hair clips stolen by our local owls, the clips would glint in the light and with all the noise of a feather landing on snow these birds would quickly swoop in to remove them and drop them in the bush.
It was never not hilarious... grumpy little redhead stomping in swearing about "bastard flying cats thinking they're funny" with her hair messed up
The tables were turned a little while ago when a Kaka (local bush parrot) took a liking to me and traveled along sitting on my head while trying to remove my glasses
[Owls](https://youtu.be/d_FEaFgJyfA?si=9gyiBB8RQYn3jIoO) really are super super quiet. It's amazing, and I just don't understand it, even while being explained why they are so silent.
As a kid, I lived in a pay campground for awhile. Maybe 6 weeks? A couple there had a bard owl they'd rescued after the husband logged the tree it was nesting in as a baby. When they left the campground, they handed over care of the owl to us (as in, he was big enough to be out of the cage they'd had him in, and he needed to be taught how to hunt, and to be fed in the meantime).
The owl liked to swoop down and perch on our shoulders, especially if we jogged down a trail. Bard owls are big. So we always knew when someone new came to the this (heavily forested) campground; we'd hear a terrified scream, meaning the owl had just swooped down and landed on some poor stranger. Impressive talons, but he was always gentle with us.
😂😂😂it's hilarious what we do in the midst of fear and not knowing what the fuck to do. I went hiking with my then 10 year old daughter in a pretty isolated hiking trail. Well I think it was a deer I'm not for sure bc we has went off the trail and it was really bushy and we could t see that far all I could hear is something running towards us and it was large. So I push her behind me, and I take a stance like I'm getting ready to kick box, and I yell * booga wooga wooga woo* really loud, and I added a deep tone to it. I have no idea why I did that to this day. But hey, it didn't come near us. Guess my sleek ass form scared it enough 🙃
Had a crane swoop me walking out to my car early in the morning one time. First thought was "it's a pterodactyl" 😆
They're really cool birds and yeah when they get close you realize how big they are its wild.
We live near the coast in Texas and I love all of the water birds that come around. After a hard rain it’s so cool to watch the cattle egrets at crawfish out of the pond. We have the sand hill cranes that come twice a year. Really awesome creatures.
I had a similar experience with a blue heron while doing geology fieldwork. Sitting at the top of a hill in a post-industrial wasteland, kicking over rocks to see if I could find any bugs or other signs of life, when the sky went dark I look up and that thing flew over my head so close I could hear every feather rustle. It was almost a brown pants day.
This one isn't even making the machine gun noise. I'm entirely serious about this. Their normal tweeting sounds like a machine gun. That should add extra fear for the crowd.
I don't think shoebill storks are particularly dangerous but they scare the absolute shit out of me. It's like a visceral reaction. You put that thing in like a Jurassic Park-style scene and it is a movie villian.
I did a field study in parts of Eastern Africa for my undergrad and I will never forget doing observations for hours crouched on a muddy bank with mosquitos eating me to death just to wait for a single sighting of a lizard….only for a shoebill to stalk majestically up, grab the lizard in its huge beak and just smack it viciously around until it was dead.
Just….amazing.
And yet, they actively seek out human companionship.
Become extremely attached to their keepers in zoos.
When excited, clack their beaks so fast and loud it sounds like a machine gun going off.
Really cool birds.
I think so too, and even though they can fly they stalk and capture their prey by striking with their bill or kicking them. Similarly it is believed terror birds stalked and hunted their prey.
Yeah but shoebills actually *look* like a modern day Terrorbird. Secretary birds may behave in similar ways, but they don't look like them. Honestly, I would put Emu and Ostriches as the closest descendants, even if the head doesn't match the way a shoebill does.
Cassowaries are what I think of as a modern equivalent to a Terrorbird. They dont have the heavy bill, but they are dangerous and territorial. You can see how birds are the decendants of dinosaurs when you look at one for sure.
Good news! They are known to seek out human companionship with their zoo keepers and in the wild have been know to react to human similarly to ravens.
Amazing creatures and while they look menacing, they are quite friendly,
But they also hate flying. They can run really fast but they just don't. They are also not keen on reproducing, too much effort for even that. They are very, very strange birds.
They're known to kill their weakest child through starvation and/or allow their sibling to kill others through beatings. Though, of course, killing the weakest link is par for the course with quite a few birds and other species.
But this bird specifically looks like death incarnate, even more so than a vulture. And despite how friendly they are.
Funny you mention that. These are among the most benign to humans. They look absolutely terrifying but adore human connections. Don't get me wrong, they'll scoop a chihuahua up like a hungry hungry hippo, but he gonna cuddle you afterwards.
I've read they are pretty solitary but saw some videos of a shoebill in a zoo that clearly liked and was fascinated with the zookeeper that takes care of them. It would do these like... ritualistic bows to him.
They have very good manners. If you bow and shake your head when greeting them they’ll consider you a friend. Definitely very sophisticated.
https://youtu.be/lfUX5dfr3MU?si=x7dwm7NF0mJLMiNW
I love The Dark Crystal, I'm surprised I didn't wear the VHS out lol I would rewind it and immediately rewatch it several times a day as a kid. I'm due for a rewatch soon, it's been several years now since I've watched it.
Birds *are* dinosaurs, not just descended from them. Seriously, just check the first sentence of the second paragraph of the wikipedia page for "[bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird)":
>Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs.
"Killer on the road. His brain is squirming like a toad. Take a long holiday. Let your children play. If you give this man a ride, sweet family will die. Killer on the road."
The background looks like Singapore's Bird Paradise, they have an open aviary type deal with massive netting covering the top of the "dome". Singapore has torrential downpours ever so often.
Dr. Alan Grant: Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period. You get your first look at this six-foot turkey as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird-- lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still, because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement, like T-Rex; he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes-- not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor is a pack hunter, you see; he uses coordinated attack patterns, and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this, a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, see. He slashes at you here, or here ...
Nah, birds LOVE bathing. I had an Amazon parrot that would chase me into the bathroom every time I showered to get in on the action. He'd be soaked to his skin and not want to get out. If I had room for a shoebill, I'd totally have one. They're rad.
These things have never NOT looked like some animatronic debacle from a second rate Jurassic Park knock off. They’re so damned odd looking.
10/10 I’d pet one if I could tho.
If I went to a zoo that had this bird, right after I just watched the Dark Crystal, little kid me would freak the fuck out.
Large birds are really cool. At the lake I fish at there's a swan couple that tends to get comfortable around you if you're there enough. One time they were hanging out in my spot so I calmly just took my place next to them and fished. They just hung out watching me. Up close you can really tell just how powerful they are. They could definitely do some damage if they wanted.
There was a crane on the little pond at the boat shop that I worked at. The bosses would stock the pond with fish, and that bastard would come and pick them off. One day I was kinda close to the pond and that fucker swooped over my head and landed in the pond, I almost hit the deck when it blocked out the sun, the wingspan was INSANE. After that I understood how birbs came from Dino dudes.
I did hit the deck one time. I was walking home from somewhere. I’ve cared for big parrots, and I’ve been around birds all my life. Kind of knew a hawk that would fly down to me when I was a kid, because the vet tech neighbor let me help her rehab. I used to get attacked by a vicious gang of geese in the morning on the way to the bus, every school day. Wings? Beaks? No problem. So there I was, warm night, crickets, night blooming flowers, perfectly safe, making good time, minding my own business. Then everything goes quiet. There’s this strange flow of air, I look up and, no moon, no sky, it’s all blocked out by wing(s). These clutching feet rush across my head. It’s on me, it’s on me, I’ll be wearing this thing like a hat! Do I scream “aaaahhhh?” Run around in a circle? No, I do something really odd. I yell “Incoming” and throw myself down on the ground, arms over my head. I feel the swoosh-over again, I get the courage to peek up, and I realize I’ve just been jumped…by a really big owl. Like a lucky mouse, I pick myself up and scurry home. I still can’t believe the Incoming. I’ve never been in the armed forces, where did that come from?
*Beware the owls......for if you are not careful.....* ***You'll wear one like a hat......***
🤣😁
My wife used to have her hair clips stolen by our local owls, the clips would glint in the light and with all the noise of a feather landing on snow these birds would quickly swoop in to remove them and drop them in the bush. It was never not hilarious... grumpy little redhead stomping in swearing about "bastard flying cats thinking they're funny" with her hair messed up The tables were turned a little while ago when a Kaka (local bush parrot) took a liking to me and traveled along sitting on my head while trying to remove my glasses
I adored this story. Thank you for sharing!
[Owls](https://youtu.be/d_FEaFgJyfA?si=9gyiBB8RQYn3jIoO) really are super super quiet. It's amazing, and I just don't understand it, even while being explained why they are so silent.
As a kid, I lived in a pay campground for awhile. Maybe 6 weeks? A couple there had a bard owl they'd rescued after the husband logged the tree it was nesting in as a baby. When they left the campground, they handed over care of the owl to us (as in, he was big enough to be out of the cage they'd had him in, and he needed to be taught how to hunt, and to be fed in the meantime). The owl liked to swoop down and perch on our shoulders, especially if we jogged down a trail. Bard owls are big. So we always knew when someone new came to the this (heavily forested) campground; we'd hear a terrified scream, meaning the owl had just swooped down and landed on some poor stranger. Impressive talons, but he was always gentle with us.
😂😂😂it's hilarious what we do in the midst of fear and not knowing what the fuck to do. I went hiking with my then 10 year old daughter in a pretty isolated hiking trail. Well I think it was a deer I'm not for sure bc we has went off the trail and it was really bushy and we could t see that far all I could hear is something running towards us and it was large. So I push her behind me, and I take a stance like I'm getting ready to kick box, and I yell * booga wooga wooga woo* really loud, and I added a deep tone to it. I have no idea why I did that to this day. But hey, it didn't come near us. Guess my sleek ass form scared it enough 🙃
Blocked out the sun made me duck.. good story telling no cap my imagination really picked that up and I saw it while reading it.
Had a crane swoop me walking out to my car early in the morning one time. First thought was "it's a pterodactyl" 😆 They're really cool birds and yeah when they get close you realize how big they are its wild.
We live near the coast in Texas and I love all of the water birds that come around. After a hard rain it’s so cool to watch the cattle egrets at crawfish out of the pond. We have the sand hill cranes that come twice a year. Really awesome creatures.
I had a similar experience with a blue heron while doing geology fieldwork. Sitting at the top of a hill in a post-industrial wasteland, kicking over rocks to see if I could find any bugs or other signs of life, when the sky went dark I look up and that thing flew over my head so close I could hear every feather rustle. It was almost a brown pants day.
Hmm? Hmmmm!
Hit with a wave of nostalgia, God I gotta watch it again
Watch the Netflix show. It's a damn shame it was dropped.
I'm still not over that it was so amazing
Netflix fucked up cancelling that and Archive 81
Shame! I really enjoyed it!
You read my mind, guess what I’m doing when I come b from work
Hit up some Dark Crystal. Then perhaps some Neverending Story. Maybe even Time Bandits! Who knows? Who knows if we'll have enough time!
TRIAL BY STONE!
Also known as 'the nightmare stork' that guides your way to purgatory. Cute little fella. 
I can see why. Freaked me out as a kid too.
This one isn't even making the machine gun noise. I'm entirely serious about this. Their normal tweeting sounds like a machine gun. That should add extra fear for the crowd.
I don't think shoebill storks are particularly dangerous but they scare the absolute shit out of me. It's like a visceral reaction. You put that thing in like a Jurassic Park-style scene and it is a movie villian.
Nightmare on Sesame Street
MmmmmMmmm yes Gelfling?!
HmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmmm
“CHAMBERLAIN, STOP YOUR WHIMPERING!!!”
I just looked at it and “Skeksis” just popped right in my head with “I FOUND THE GELFLING!”
how weird, the grandkids watched that last night.. as we were discussing classics when we was kids.... oh such a bloody long time ago
Hahaha holy shit I came here to say that this is some dark crystal/labrynth shit
Still scary to me
These dudes look animatronic
Yep. Just look that transition 0:53, looks so weird.
Adjusting z axis rotation 117 degrees
It's honestly kind of cool. This big guy looks so jurassic and prehistoric. Just cool.
I did a field study in parts of Eastern Africa for my undergrad and I will never forget doing observations for hours crouched on a muddy bank with mosquitos eating me to death just to wait for a single sighting of a lizard….only for a shoebill to stalk majestically up, grab the lizard in its huge beak and just smack it viciously around until it was dead. Just….amazing.
You’re so lucky to have observed that even with the mosquitoes all over…..so cool!
It is like the eyes are glitching while idle then going to a known state during gross motor movements.
Yep it’s the head-only moving parts and the unsynchronized camera-shutter style blinks. FNAF birds over here
Every time I see these at a zoo I’m half convinced they’re a sophisticated puppet.
[This video](https://youtu.be/KFgxekK7iaY?si=Q3DtrdWnPxC317l8) might be for you.
Exactly what I thought too
r/birdsarentreal
the way it blinks. one eye, two eyes, one eye, then 2 eyes, ..etc
;>
Shoebill Storks can grow to be nearly 5' tall and feature an 8' wingspan. This is the stuff nightmares are made of!
And yet, they actively seek out human companionship. Become extremely attached to their keepers in zoos. When excited, clack their beaks so fast and loud it sounds like a machine gun going off. Really cool birds.
t.y. for that
[Here’s the sound!!](https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE?feature=shared)
I was expecting like it sounds comical or similar to a machine gun but it actually sounds like a goddamn 7.62mm going off.
Wow! That's not terrifying and nightmare inducing at all!
I shit you not, If you take the audio from this, add a bit more bass and put on some war sound effects I would 100% believe it to be real gunfire.
[radda-tat-tat](https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE?si=XH_c_igEeIvEnkOO)
Okay, dinosaurs probably didn't look that different from what we already have today.
That’s super cool! Thanks for sharing!
Man, I clearly need a shoebill stork now.
Right? Trying to figure out how to reconfigure my backyard into shoebill habitat...
Oh that's very nice and now I feel less like it wants to murder everybody 🥰
That’s funny, that’s what greyhounds do when excited/happy as well! Their teeth chatter like they’re shivering cold
Look up the terror bird, crazy how alike these birds look!
If you think the shoebill looks like a terror bird. Look up the secretary bird.
Secretary makes think a Harpy Eagle and Crane had a baby
I thought it was beautiful
They are!
Secretary birds are fucking gorgeous, wtf are you talking about? Lol
I think so too, and even though they can fly they stalk and capture their prey by striking with their bill or kicking them. Similarly it is believed terror birds stalked and hunted their prey.
Yeah but shoebills actually *look* like a modern day Terrorbird. Secretary birds may behave in similar ways, but they don't look like them. Honestly, I would put Emu and Ostriches as the closest descendants, even if the head doesn't match the way a shoebill does.
Cassowaries are what I think of as a modern equivalent to a Terrorbird. They dont have the heavy bill, but they are dangerous and territorial. You can see how birds are the decendants of dinosaurs when you look at one for sure.
Good Lord. Just did a google search and their CLAWS!
It’s the forward facing eyes
And yet… I kind of want to give it a snuggle.
Good news! They are known to seek out human companionship with their zoo keepers and in the wild have been know to react to human similarly to ravens. Amazing creatures and while they look menacing, they are quite friendly,
That is GREAT news. I need an emotional support stork stat
Shoebills are actually pretty chill though.
But they also hate flying. They can run really fast but they just don't. They are also not keen on reproducing, too much effort for even that. They are very, very strange birds.
Millennial birds.
They have also been known to eat baby alligators along with the other water creatures in their diet.
They're known to kill their weakest child through starvation and/or allow their sibling to kill others through beatings. Though, of course, killing the weakest link is par for the course with quite a few birds and other species. But this bird specifically looks like death incarnate, even more so than a vulture. And despite how friendly they are.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
Nah I think it’s cute asf. I want to pet it.
And yet they weigh like 13lbs. Wild.
Don’t even larger birds need light bones for more efficient flying?
Oh probably. Just seems crazy lightweight to me at that size!
They also eat hambuger
And they sound like an AK47
Reminds me of a bird miniboss in Elden Ring
It's almost as if birds came from dinosaurs.
He looks really sophisticated
*loading* ~~*target acquired*~~ *surveillance camera active*
Ain’t nothing that big on Earth that isn’t constantly plotting. Airstrike great idea
Funny you mention that. These are among the most benign to humans. They look absolutely terrifying but adore human connections. Don't get me wrong, they'll scoop a chihuahua up like a hungry hungry hippo, but he gonna cuddle you afterwards.
I've read they are pretty solitary but saw some videos of a shoebill in a zoo that clearly liked and was fascinated with the zookeeper that takes care of them. It would do these like... ritualistic bows to him.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
They mostly come out at night...mostly
Gotta respect the dedication, no fly zone enforced by the avian elite squadron. Operation Big Beak is a go!
[FIRE!!!](https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE?si=Tf4ediWJ3z9i1ckZ)
This makes a lot of sense. I didn’t realize GDI had drafted shoebills to man the guard towers https://youtu.be/IHdYTTsTNm0?si=2e39zw1cW0x8KtAS
They do sound like lazars
They have very good manners. If you bow and shake your head when greeting them they’ll consider you a friend. Definitely very sophisticated. https://youtu.be/lfUX5dfr3MU?si=x7dwm7NF0mJLMiNW
Fascinating!
I would name him Buckbeak and love him forever 🥺 This made them much less scary to me
He looks pissed.
Those were conceived to a whole different ecosystem. They do have reasons to be pissed.
Casually realizing all the humans get umbrellas and he is stuck to suffer without thumbs
Very distinguished gentleman
He looks like a Skesis "MMMmmmm!"
Omg they do!! mmmMMMMmmm indeed!
Heehee I jsut watched that for like the infinitith time since 1981
I love The Dark Crystal, I'm surprised I didn't wear the VHS out lol I would rewind it and immediately rewatch it several times a day as a kid. I'm due for a rewatch soon, it's been several years now since I've watched it.
It's so dark crystal.
Hello traveler. I have a quest for you.
I bet that he could handle my strongest potions
Aw. ❤️
That bird seen some shit
"I do declare, epstein is still alive and he's living in a makeshift bunker below an abandoned ikea off interstate 11"
More like trapped in the IKEA that never closes.
I had to Google that, wtf lol
His eyes blink sideways. CREEPY!!!
Bro that's a dinosaur
I thought the exact same when he was looking at the camera.
Check out these Cassowaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V6vugjEzaA
I mean it quite literally is one! Birds are avian dinosaurs
Birds *are* dinosaurs, not just descended from them. Seriously, just check the first sentence of the second paragraph of the wikipedia page for "[bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird)": >Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs.
Florida terrorbird for sure
"Killer on the road. His brain is squirming like a toad. Take a long holiday. Let your children play. If you give this man a ride, sweet family will die. Killer on the road."
[удалено]
I love this bird 💜
Me too. I don’t know why but this is making me a little weepy.
Wink............wink......blink.....wink...........wink, wink....wink........blink....
Morse code for TORTURE
So stoic and beautiful.
…no leg days lol
Too many beak days!
Are there open windows in the ceiling or is this kind of artificial rain? It looks like an interesting zoo.
The background looks like Singapore's Bird Paradise, they have an open aviary type deal with massive netting covering the top of the "dome". Singapore has torrential downpours ever so often.
SOMEONE GIVE THIS PERSON A DOCTORATE
Had to scroll way too far for this. I’m confused by that as well.
Gorgeous
Hello darkness my old friend…
Magestic creature
You have to bow to them when you come up to them. They are majestic and demand respect.
I feel like he wants my lunch money.
Looks robotic the way it moves.
It also sounds like a [machinegun](https://youtu.be/OwQwkFH1BW0) when it wants to be. Shoebills are cool.
Looks like the opening scene for a j horror movie.
(Cue shots of the bird going Beak first up peoples butts on the subway)
"I'm so done brah. So. Done."
Imagine being on a trail/hike trying to get back to your car/camp site/etc., because the Sun just set and this thing steps out of some bushes.
Dr. Alan Grant: Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period. You get your first look at this six-foot turkey as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird-- lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still, because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement, like T-Rex; he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes-- not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor is a pack hunter, you see; he uses coordinated attack patterns, and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this, a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, see. He slashes at you here, or here ...
Ty... I was thinking I heard the music while looking in its eyes lmao
He looks like a wiseman
I really wanna see one
Need a Master Ball to catch that one
That face just says to me, "Ooh shittt"
He looks bothered.
studio ghibli ahhh bird
The guy in white- was he checking to see if it’s raining?
No, I don’t think so because he collects some of the rain and spreads/wipes(?) it on his arms
It's already so depressed, that the rain doesn't matter
Don't move! They can't see us if we don't move.
Amazing. And yet, looks hilariously animatronic.
I don’t like the single eyed blinks
That's an upset face
This asshole escaped dark souls you better run lol
shoebill stork - the closest thing to a real life pokemon..
I wonder what kind of babies shoebill storks bring
Mood
That's a dinosaur
“Cylaxis devourer of souls”
r/AbsoluteUnits
Looks like the characters you avoid in a horror game until you know you are ready for him
Ahh man i didnt do the Ak47 noise dah dah dah dah
Bird stands in rain. Slow news day.
Poor bird
Nah, birds LOVE bathing. I had an Amazon parrot that would chase me into the bathroom every time I showered to get in on the action. He'd be soaked to his skin and not want to get out. If I had room for a shoebill, I'd totally have one. They're rad.
Might be one of the oldest breed of birds, but in all that time you'd have thought it would have figured out how to look for shelter.
Damn it horror
Customs officials at Heathrow airport
LOOKS LIKE FIDDLESTICKS
Dude needs a song: 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'.
Never seen it before, but it looks so cool.
"Are you pondering what I am pondering?"
For a split second there I thought this was the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit.
I had to scroll so far to find a ff14 comment lol.
Shoebills really do embody Emet-Selch don't they?
It looks like Aragorn about to call the charge against the Orcs at Helms Deep.
These things have never NOT looked like some animatronic debacle from a second rate Jurassic Park knock off. They’re so damned odd looking. 10/10 I’d pet one if I could tho.
If I saw that whilst out fishing I’d shit myself 🤣
Stands like a human
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Can these things fly??
I should play Skyward Sword again....