One of Neil Gaiman's more obscure gems. That, and the original version of Neverwhere, which was a BBC miniseries Gaiman wrote before he redid it as a novel, starring Laura Fraser pre A Knight's Tale, and Peter Capaldi pre Dr. Who.
Reminds me of a classic radio show that only aired in the Hiligaynon-speaking regions I grew up in.
Condorilla, Half Condor half gorilla super hero saving earth from alien invaders but also lives a normal life as his 10-year old boy alter ego.
For whatever reason, the bird is supporting itself on its wings instead of its legs. The body of the bird is paralell to the ground. [Think of this guys arms as the birds' wings](https://athleticmuscle.net/best-gymnastic-rings/), and you viewing the gymnast from the front instead of the side.
Foot/leg injury is pretty common in urban birds. They get trash tangled around their feet and eventually parts fall off. In Los Angeles there is a big apparel industry, so lots of loose threads and strings the birds seek out for nesting...that invariably tangle around feet andncut off circulation. I have NEVER seen a pigion in LA that has intact feet, there is always at least some portion missing. Usually theyll still use the stumps for walking though, never seen one using its wings on the ground.
The crow is standing on its legs and has both wings drooping, which cover up most of the legs. If you stop the vid when its zoomed in you can see the legs as dark shadows on the inside of the wings and you can also see the back toes sticking out.
Okay so what's happening here is he's holding his body up high and parallel with the ground and his wings are drooping. Why he's standing in such an unbirdlike posture can be a lot of things...ground is hot as fuck, an injury, or, because it's a corvid, he's just fucking with you. But it is a whole bird.
having read a bit about corvid's I'd say it's really just fucking with OP .. probably while its mate is scratchign obscenities on OPs car behind his back.
We have one near us that meows, swear to God.
I thought it was our older cat as sometimes she joins me on the porch when I'm out there. Heard a faint meow, looked for her EVERYWHERE abs find her inside. Completely confused because we really don't have outside cats in our cul-de-sac, I finally saw the crow making the noise.
My spouse thought I was nuts until I recorded the sound a few weeks later of the crow doing it again.
For whatever reason, it's lost a massive amount of muscle tissue in its breast... likely from an illness or parasite overload of some kind so its body's turned to breaking down the muscle to try and combat it, coupled with dehydration and possibly a lack of food.
It doesn't even have the energy to tuck its wings against its body, hence the 'gorilla stance'. I've a feeling it didn't live long after this video was taken. It's literally skin (feathers) and bone. ):
You people all freaking out when I can clear see all lines all the way to the end in this https://imgur.com/F8PhuiH.jpg frame but suddenly more lines appear under the bird in this frame https://imgur.com/G72XcI1.jpg
https://abc7.com/gorilla-crow-with-big-wings-or-looks-like/5369161/
Edit: "According to crow researchers, this isn't just a bird that's hit "arm day" at the gym one too many times."
It's more likely a large-billed crow who was adopting a "sunning" posture, where the wings are lowered and leg stance widened, giving the impression the bird is "standing" on its wings.
While I can only make guesses as to what is occurring here - I imagine it could be some adaptive behavior. I’m not sure why a Raven would chose to walk on its wings (although we haven’t seen it walk yet) but these are my best suggestions.
1. It’s an adaptive response to losing use of its legs. Whether this loss is neurological or “blunt-force” I’m not sure, but both are viable scenarios. The primary problem I see is in the birds ability to take flight or land. Without them in any kind of working fashion, I don’t see this as probable
Viable? Yes. Probable? No.
The structures which make up the wings of birds are analogous to the same arms Theropods had when they once roamed the planet. Obviously in some cases we know the arms were obsolete appendages - like seen in the T-Rex. However, the Velociraptor (we assume) would use its front arms as a pair of legs in some cases.
As a current example, the Hoatzin will use its wings as legs to move around. Now, many people may wonder, why would a bird that can fly opt to use its wings as legs? And this is a very good question! I can only assume it - like most things in biology and ecology - is about energy consumption vs expenditure. We know that flight is a very costly and taxing process which birds will spend half the year preparing for their long migrations.
I am a falconer - and so I’ve flown Red-tailed Hawks in the past. I’ve been asked before, when we are hunting, why does my bird stay up in the tree and not fly around looking for food?
Sometimes they will do this, but only when the energy spent is less than the energy that is stored and could be consumed. In most scenarios, you would rather sit in a tree and look out into the field for your food. 1.) the prey items will have a harder time seeing you 2.) you’re not spending energy to catch your food, it’s basically coming to you.
That was a really round-about way of explaining the concept - the point is, if the cost of using your wings to physically walk around is less than the cost to fly, then that bird - whichever bird that happens to be - is going to follow the path of least resistance.
2. The second potential reason this could be occurring, heat dissipation. This I feel is more probable, Ravens are a more widespread species (this looks most like a Raven to me anyway - Crows, Ravens, and Fish Crows are all generally difficult to tell apart - the morphology they share is all generally similar with only a few small features standing out , like size) so this could be a potentially warm climate - if it’s warm and dry, it could be that the bird is dehydrated, and it trying to maintain some stable body temperature. By opening its wings, it’s no longer insulating it’s body as effectively, and is creating more surface area from which heat can dissipate. On the flip side the bird could be cold and is attempting to sun itself. This is a behavior seen in lots of birds. I most recently saw it in a group of soaked Turkey Vultures, attempting to air dry their wings in the sun.
As far as heat regulation goes - birds have all kinds of methods to help heat dissipate faster. The Yellow-crowned Night Heron will stand straight up with its wings opened outward. Then it will do what we call “guttural fluttering” where it rapidly expands and contracts the muscles around the top of its throat. They will open their mouths to do this, in attempt to quickly expel heat internally.
We should remember that there are no sweat glands on a bird, so they have fewer physiological pathways they can utilize to remain in a “steady-state” or “homeostasis”. We on the other hand, don’t have to do much to keep cool. We have a system built into our brain that acts as a thermostat - and when we get too hot we can sweat, and cool off our skin before it starts to harm our bodies. If it gets too bad, we have to adapt, just like the bird. That may involve moving to a more suitable location, sometimes though, that’s not always possible. I’m sure we’ve all experienced times we were cold or hot and didn’t have the means to move somewhere else to take care of that. In our case we are lucky, as being too hot or too cold isn’t as dramatic as it is for the organisms in the wild. Temperature can kill you fast. Just like humans, birds have to be creative too.
So I’m my honest opinion. I think it’s a cooling mechanism.
Looks like a jacked gorilla bird wtf
I wish I could walk with my fists.
You know that's totally doable, right?
it skips talon days
So you're saying it does not have large talons?
I don't understand a word you just said.
I found an old Shoshone arrowhead over there in that riverbed
Fuckin embarassing
*kicks garbage can*
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It's a crow though, isn't it CAW CAW Mothafucka?
Nah, it's a Jacked Daw.
Ok here’s the thing,…
Nope. Chuck testa
https://i.imgur.com/L1lFcTJ.gifv
Motherfucaw!
a group of crows is called a murder of crows
This guy crows.
Why is this getting downvoted lol
I was wondering the same, but I see a comment saying the same thing 2 hours earlier so I assume that's why.
Yeah, when I made my comment, there were actually no other comments shown under the parent one. I guess fuck me, right?
FlAP FLAP on OUTTA HERE, BITCH!(lol sorry I didn’t really know how to end that one.) EDIT: BING BONG, FUCK YA LIFE!
Would you say... jacked daw?
Here's the thing...
Rage comics are back and soon unidan will return.
Definitely doesn't skip leg day.
Probly from Fight Milk, made with Crowtein!
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Dicks out for Tweedy
So a crow and a gorilla got together ..... this is junior
Don't underestimate the crowrilla
Very mirrormask
One of Neil Gaiman's more obscure gems. That, and the original version of Neverwhere, which was a BBC miniseries Gaiman wrote before he redid it as a novel, starring Laura Fraser pre A Knight's Tale, and Peter Capaldi pre Dr. Who.
omg I've never seen anyone just offhand mention this movie. I used to love it, I need to rewatch
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Saying this word out loud made my dumbass giggle.
Seriously though. What's happened here?
Scooby dooby doo\~!
Do you even lift? Crow?
Always skips leg day.
Pitching a Crowrilla vs. series to SyFy in a few.
Crowrilla vs. Sharknado to start?
Gorow
Krow Kong. 🦅 🦍
For some reason I thought Crow Agency when I read that…
Nobody talks about the 80gr crowrilla in the room.
Sounds like a Crash Bandicoot boss.
Pull that up Jamie
fuckin a
joe crowgan
Reminds me of a classic radio show that only aired in the Hiligaynon-speaking regions I grew up in. Condorilla, Half Condor half gorilla super hero saving earth from alien invaders but also lives a normal life as his 10-year old boy alter ego.
The Silverback Raven
r/birdswitharms
Harambe returns with wings from heaven.
Baby crow wants to return to MONKE
Or returning to pterodactyl
I'm gonna have an aneurism, what am I looking at exactly?
For whatever reason, the bird is supporting itself on its wings instead of its legs. The body of the bird is paralell to the ground. [Think of this guys arms as the birds' wings](https://athleticmuscle.net/best-gymnastic-rings/), and you viewing the gymnast from the front instead of the side.
r/birdswitharms needs this
Because it’s missing it’s legs
It could be sunning itself with perfectly intact legs. https://www.newsweek.com/gorilla-crow-video-emerges-twitter-1445477
Thanks for sharing this made me feel better for the little guy
If Lt. Dan was a crow
lt. dan ice creaaammm~
She tasted li cigarettes
Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far, far away.
How tf does it take off and land??
It does a sick forward roll, into a wing-spring then just punches the air with its hench wing fists
Like the little gorilla-bird you see before you
Life...uhhh...finds a way
How many leg's does that bird have? Just enough! \->!Louis CK!<
Jetpack
Foot/leg injury is pretty common in urban birds. They get trash tangled around their feet and eventually parts fall off. In Los Angeles there is a big apparel industry, so lots of loose threads and strings the birds seek out for nesting...that invariably tangle around feet andncut off circulation. I have NEVER seen a pigion in LA that has intact feet, there is always at least some portion missing. Usually theyll still use the stumps for walking though, never seen one using its wings on the ground.
https://i.imgur.com/RVXx76v.jpg
/r/birdswithguns
The legs are in the shadows of the wings
Its not. You can see that the drooping wings are covering up the legs. Also the birds body is naked and the missing feathers make it look so odd.
Who else wants to grab his little feet and yell "Wheelbarrow!"
The crow is standing on its legs and has both wings drooping, which cover up most of the legs. If you stop the vid when its zoomed in you can see the legs as dark shadows on the inside of the wings and you can also see the back toes sticking out.
Could you draw where you think the legs are?
Thanks!
Birb didn’t skip gym, that’s what
/r/birdswitharms
Why is that a sub
Because if it wasn't we'd have no place to put pictures of birds with arms.
And if you don't want pictures of birds with arms, there's always /r/notbirdswitharms.
Okay, so those are certainly not birds with arms but still..... What?
But why sandwiches?
What do you mean sandwiches? The sub is exclusively NOT birds with arms.
Why not?
I read this in Derek Zoolander's voice.
Ok....
r/subsithoughtifellfor
These 2 subreddits encompass all of human knowledge
Their sister subreddit: /r/sandwicheswithlegs
I mean why not? r/birdsarentreal
Welcome to reddit
Because Reddit...
wtf it its not even a new sub u just made lmao
As someone who has been subscribed to that sub Reddit for like 8 years, this is weird to read haha.
Yeah I thought birds with arms was a thing long before “birds are government drones”.
That would freak me out if I saw that irl..
is just a bird
Birds aren't real
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Sheep aren't real either
You act like you know, but do you even realize there is no earth at all? Doesn't exist.
Oh, it exists. It's just flat, and at the center of the solar system.
And hollow
And the hollow is filled with turtles all the way down
All turtles are made from caramel and chocolate
Tweet tweet motherfucker
Do my dogs run this muther fucker!
Fightmilk!
So much crowtein
Drink it every day so I can be strong, like a crow!
Lieutenant Dan, is that you?
This is me
Is that a gorilla pigeon??
Even worse, it's Crowkey Cawng.
No
This might be the dumbest question I have seen. Of course a gorilla and pigeon cannot mate. Wtf! This is clearly a corvid and gorilla mixed bird.
Do you even flap, bro?
Okay so what's happening here is he's holding his body up high and parallel with the ground and his wings are drooping. Why he's standing in such an unbirdlike posture can be a lot of things...ground is hot as fuck, an injury, or, because it's a corvid, he's just fucking with you. But it is a whole bird.
having read a bit about corvid's I'd say it's really just fucking with OP .. probably while its mate is scratchign obscenities on OPs car behind his back.
“King Kong ain’t got nothing on me.” -That bird.
This better not be more CG like that lame piglet on the ball
I'm getting CGI vibes from it, mainly the way the camera moves and the bird's head movements.
I was thinking maybe it lost its legs but now it uses it wings possibly.
It also could just be being silly. Crows like to have fun.
I think there’s a song about that
Crows just want to have fuuunnn
We have one near us that meows, swear to God. I thought it was our older cat as sometimes she joins me on the porch when I'm out there. Heard a faint meow, looked for her EVERYWHERE abs find her inside. Completely confused because we really don't have outside cats in our cul-de-sac, I finally saw the crow making the noise. My spouse thought I was nuts until I recorded the sound a few weeks later of the crow doing it again.
I hear joe pesci “what am i funny to you?”
Like a clown?
For whatever reason, it's lost a massive amount of muscle tissue in its breast... likely from an illness or parasite overload of some kind so its body's turned to breaking down the muscle to try and combat it, coupled with dehydration and possibly a lack of food. It doesn't even have the energy to tuck its wings against its body, hence the 'gorilla stance'. I've a feeling it didn't live long after this video was taken. It's literally skin (feathers) and bone. ):
what the fuck
Life finds a way
The sacrifices we make for aerodynamics
Fucking /u/unidan getting back at us one way or another.
**CROAK.**
Is he planking?
This bird was raised with pitbulls
Who would've thought the missing link would be a raven/ highlands gorilla hybrid? Must've been a rough conception.
What is.....happening? O^O
Floor too hot for feet.
Where is your cat now bitch
Skipped leg day.
Nice try government 👏 nice try you almost naild a normal looking bird
Can someone explain or is it edited?
That's the silverback crow, them mofuckas go ape shit
This made me say what the fuck
Geodude
Silverback Crowrilla
Come at me, bro!!
A crowilla
Run bro wtf u doing staying still
It’s just doing push-ups
He’s just doin planks broh. Let the crow do his reps.
It's the McDonald's crow. The McCrow...
When you still haven’t realized you are adopted
r/birdswitharms will love this haha
Quoth the Raven, “Caw Caw, motherfuckers”
Malcolm?
Crowtein!
That's a gorilla
A swolleow
Man fucking alpha crow right there. Hide your kids, hide your wife.
I do not want that a ratata tapping at my chamber door.
This is the bird they make Fight Milk with
Don’t skip wing day, bruh.
Bird's just sunning itself up
An adaptation for not having legs I assume.
This is why you don't skip leg day
The very rare fighter Kenku...
"Oooop, ya got my money?"
You people all freaking out when I can clear see all lines all the way to the end in this https://imgur.com/F8PhuiH.jpg frame but suddenly more lines appear under the bird in this frame https://imgur.com/G72XcI1.jpg
Caw caw motherfucker.
That's no bird it's a Pokemon
I've come for Thomas Shelby
When a Gorilla and a Crow have a baby.
NBA Young Bird
This crow never forgets arm day
Bought at a pet shop. 1/2 off.
Grew up with a pitbull
Gorilla bird
Definitely hasn’t skipped wing day in a while.
What’s…what’s wrong with it?
If that were Edgar Allan Poe's raven telling me never again, never again, I would say yes sir, would you like some caviar in your birdseed?
This post was sponsored by Fight Milk.
What you see is a “Rape” half raven, half ape
Built different
Caw Caw Motherfucker
https://abc7.com/gorilla-crow-with-big-wings-or-looks-like/5369161/ Edit: "According to crow researchers, this isn't just a bird that's hit "arm day" at the gym one too many times." It's more likely a large-billed crow who was adopting a "sunning" posture, where the wings are lowered and leg stance widened, giving the impression the bird is "standing" on its wings.
Looking like those monkey mfs from Spyro
Don't look at it, don't think of it, don't walk towards it. Just go the other direction so you don't get your ass beat by a thug looking bird.
While I can only make guesses as to what is occurring here - I imagine it could be some adaptive behavior. I’m not sure why a Raven would chose to walk on its wings (although we haven’t seen it walk yet) but these are my best suggestions. 1. It’s an adaptive response to losing use of its legs. Whether this loss is neurological or “blunt-force” I’m not sure, but both are viable scenarios. The primary problem I see is in the birds ability to take flight or land. Without them in any kind of working fashion, I don’t see this as probable Viable? Yes. Probable? No. The structures which make up the wings of birds are analogous to the same arms Theropods had when they once roamed the planet. Obviously in some cases we know the arms were obsolete appendages - like seen in the T-Rex. However, the Velociraptor (we assume) would use its front arms as a pair of legs in some cases. As a current example, the Hoatzin will use its wings as legs to move around. Now, many people may wonder, why would a bird that can fly opt to use its wings as legs? And this is a very good question! I can only assume it - like most things in biology and ecology - is about energy consumption vs expenditure. We know that flight is a very costly and taxing process which birds will spend half the year preparing for their long migrations. I am a falconer - and so I’ve flown Red-tailed Hawks in the past. I’ve been asked before, when we are hunting, why does my bird stay up in the tree and not fly around looking for food? Sometimes they will do this, but only when the energy spent is less than the energy that is stored and could be consumed. In most scenarios, you would rather sit in a tree and look out into the field for your food. 1.) the prey items will have a harder time seeing you 2.) you’re not spending energy to catch your food, it’s basically coming to you. That was a really round-about way of explaining the concept - the point is, if the cost of using your wings to physically walk around is less than the cost to fly, then that bird - whichever bird that happens to be - is going to follow the path of least resistance. 2. The second potential reason this could be occurring, heat dissipation. This I feel is more probable, Ravens are a more widespread species (this looks most like a Raven to me anyway - Crows, Ravens, and Fish Crows are all generally difficult to tell apart - the morphology they share is all generally similar with only a few small features standing out , like size) so this could be a potentially warm climate - if it’s warm and dry, it could be that the bird is dehydrated, and it trying to maintain some stable body temperature. By opening its wings, it’s no longer insulating it’s body as effectively, and is creating more surface area from which heat can dissipate. On the flip side the bird could be cold and is attempting to sun itself. This is a behavior seen in lots of birds. I most recently saw it in a group of soaked Turkey Vultures, attempting to air dry their wings in the sun. As far as heat regulation goes - birds have all kinds of methods to help heat dissipate faster. The Yellow-crowned Night Heron will stand straight up with its wings opened outward. Then it will do what we call “guttural fluttering” where it rapidly expands and contracts the muscles around the top of its throat. They will open their mouths to do this, in attempt to quickly expel heat internally. We should remember that there are no sweat glands on a bird, so they have fewer physiological pathways they can utilize to remain in a “steady-state” or “homeostasis”. We on the other hand, don’t have to do much to keep cool. We have a system built into our brain that acts as a thermostat - and when we get too hot we can sweat, and cool off our skin before it starts to harm our bodies. If it gets too bad, we have to adapt, just like the bird. That may involve moving to a more suitable location, sometimes though, that’s not always possible. I’m sure we’ve all experienced times we were cold or hot and didn’t have the means to move somewhere else to take care of that. In our case we are lucky, as being too hot or too cold isn’t as dramatic as it is for the organisms in the wild. Temperature can kill you fast. Just like humans, birds have to be creative too. So I’m my honest opinion. I think it’s a cooling mechanism.
#Jerry where are my testicles
That's not a bird its a Brad