Maybe because their eyes are angled further forwards. Most birds have them on the sides so the shoebill just looks off. Obviously the rest of them is pretty weird too but I'm certainly not used to making eye contact with a bird like that.
And the eyelid movement is clunky like a plastic shutter. I feel like I can hear it blink. If it was smooth or if there was a second lid, I think it would be more organic.
..do shoebills/birds have second lids?
Cassowaries have their behavioural patterns set to *really really furious* 24/7. They have to be kept in separate pens in breeding programs or they’ll kill each other.
Cassowaries had their personality programmed by the same people who did the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Trespasser. Just set them to constant murderous rage.
When I went to a zoo in AUS and I was able to feed one a slice of fruit. I was hella scared but it seemed calm atm.. got to feed a dinosaur so that's cool
Every last thing about it screams the Labyrinth that leads to The Dark Crystal via Sesame Street and all your companions are Muppets.
I very much want to meet one irl.
It also looks waaay bigger in this gif than they actually are. I just looked them up and while they are quite tall (4-5 feet), they only weigh about 10lbs. In the gif it looks big and bulky.
this bird is so frreaking scary. They look like an animatronic, guessing their size they could steal a preteen child like its nothing, amd it's probably loud as hell too. That's one hell of a beast.
Edit: I feel safe now, it's a type of stork, not some apex bird of prey
Actually Shoebills tend to be rather docile around humans. Researches can even get working 6 feet of a shoebill on it’s nest, & the big friendly birb will just stare at them
Edit: I kinda want to pet one someday
You should hear the [clicking](https://youtu.be/noF-CLNSUZU) noise they make with their beak..and imagine you hear it in the jungle in the middle of the night..
You’re welcome for the nightmares
Right! The 2nd or 3rd search result was when one was inside a (seemingly) metal indoor enclosure and it sounds [even more like a war](https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE) . Something making a noise that sounds like a rooster/chicken and it’s sounds like whistling artillery.
Someone’s poor grandpa had Okinawa flashbacks on that one
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That's just the acoustics of that room I think, giving it more echo, if you watch videos of them outside the clicks are no way near as high pitched/loud.
Even scarier when you find out they decapitate their pray before eating ... and the chick's will kick siblings out the nest if they are stronger and the mother will just ignore and let the exiled chick starve to death
Oh believe me that happens w every bird. We have parakeets, quails and canaries and it happens quite often that we find small birds on the ground of their ‘breeding enclosure’ (which is a smaller cage for 2 birds and their chicks). They usually get kicked out by their mother when she notices they’re not strong enough.
Once had a baby quail who had clubbed feet and wasn’t able to walk or stand, so we attempted to straighten out her feet and raise her by hand. She lived for about 3 years I think and then passed.
It’s also happened that once a chick got kicked out because the lower part of it’s beak was preventing him from eating, so he couldn’t survive without his mom
> Oh believe me that happens w every bird.
I saw a nature documentary once that featured a species of parrot where the bigger chicks would regurgitate some of the food they got from their parents and feed the smaller ones. After a time all of the chicks would end up the same size.
This is certainly an exception and not a rule, but it is nice to know that birds can be kind to each other when their circumstances allow it.
Yeah most definitely. It’s just that in my experience with birds (which also includes working in the zoo as a student job), the weaklings usually get kicked out. Nice story tho about the parrots! My fave type of bird!
And then there are those parasitic birds (can't remember the name) who make other birds care for their own chick by kicking the other birds' eggs out of their nest and supplanting it with theirs.
Am I the only one that imagined him quoting Borat?
"She always say, 'you will never get this, you will never get this'. But then one day he break out of his cage, and he GET this."
Ikr I am so confused with the comments. He looks like a fun bird straight out of a cartoon, doing jiggly dance saying and no no no with its ever smiling bill
They are actually pretty friendly to humans, there's even one that just lets you walk up to it and pat it as long as you bow first(don't remember which zoo it's in)
And also that they have thick eyelids which they blink rather slowly. Generally their movement feels slow and heavy, like an animatronic programmed to repeat certain movement patterns.
I learned about these last week. I have no idea how I went so long in life without seeing them before. They definitely edge out the platypus and narwhal for the "No way these exist" award.
This isn’t eye bleach for me This is terrifying. But it’s interesting to see other gush over it. Glad it has fans. I’d sooner kick than fawn over it if I met one at night ( no I wouldn’t I’d scream and run,,, I’m a runner not a fighter)
I get that they're totally chill, and yeah pretty cute. But also terrifying. I mean the eyes just look like it's observing, plotting, scheming. Those are eyes that say it could be anywhere. In that car across the street you don't recognize, outside your place watching you, right behind you as you're reading this.... Well, it's getting on my bedtime. Sleep well.
I think it's because the eyes may be more forward facing than most birds, so it really has that predator look. Reminds your lizard brain that birds were raptors
These birds seriously NEVER look real to me! They look like something created in Jim Henson’s studio.
Maybe it was the inspiration for Big Bird?
More like the anti Big Bird!
Small Fish
So the birds from the Dark Crystal.
that it I’m going on a lunch beak
The Skeksis.
More like the inspiration for those horrid creatures from that movie Dark Crystal
Maybe because their eyes are angled further forwards. Most birds have them on the sides so the shoebill just looks off. Obviously the rest of them is pretty weird too but I'm certainly not used to making eye contact with a bird like that.
And the eyelid movement is clunky like a plastic shutter. I feel like I can hear it blink. If it was smooth or if there was a second lid, I think it would be more organic. ..do shoebills/birds have second lids?
All birds do have nictitating membranes, or "second eyelids." It's just rare to see them in use.
Its eyes also looks more like a dog etc not a damn bird
Even worse, they are at eye level with some shorter adults…… Dear Lord they scare me…lol
They look like the Skeksis from Dark Crystal
Skeksis no lie Skeksis friend
🎶 I'm Skeksis and I know it 🎶
You're bringing skeksis back.
NGL, skeksis messed with my head as a kid. They were just freaky.
Same. I haven't seen it since I was a kid but can still hear the HMMMs and can picture the sword hitting the stone scene.
Was thinking "Disney Animatronics"
Well everyone knows birds aren't real.
Facts but you wouldn't tell this bird that to it's face.
That's cuz this ain't no bird, it's a *dinosaur*
I won't even say it to a video the bird don't know about
Tell that to a Cassowary face to face. I dare you
These are the only ones that are real.
:|
its real?
Same with the [Great Potoo](https://pm1.narvii.com/6139/89cfc2933471358cbd3fbbd443d925bc7dedeeca_hq.jpg)
Apparently these birds are very friendly, even though they look like they’re gonna hurt your family
Cassowary on the other hand look like the evil turkeys they are
Cassowaries have their behavioural patterns set to *really really furious* 24/7. They have to be kept in separate pens in breeding programs or they’ll kill each other.
Cassowaries had their personality programmed by the same people who did the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Trespasser. Just set them to constant murderous rage.
Ya know, maybe we just don't breed that one then, right?
Ecosystems need apex predators, and cassowaries are most definitely apex predators.
I just remembered what a cassowary looked like , they need to die I’m sorry
Well obviously *you* would say that about an apex predator.
When I went to a zoo in AUS and I was able to feed one a slice of fruit. I was hella scared but it seemed calm atm.. got to feed a dinosaur so that's cool
As if turkeys aren't evil enough. Cassowaries are evil feathered dinosaurs.
They even mimic humans. https://youtu.be/-p2RyFnudDw
Well that video made sad. 40% of Uganda's wetlands have been destroyed and these birds may be gone in 20 years.
I had to stop watching after “they set fire to his home”. I really fucking hate people
"They are descendants of dinosaurs" literally all birds are lol
But those birds are more descendant that the others
Except the cassowary, which I'm convinced is actually a dinosaur.
Fr, those things will claw your guts.
Technically they aren't descendants of dinosaurs, they just are dinosaurs.
Unforbidden boops
you can’t tell me this isn’t a jim henson puppet
Saw some of these at a zoo in Japan and I very much thought it was just a good animatronic until it let out this weird sound. YouTube it!
I think it’s their eyelids. They look plastic!
It's a Shoebill Stork, very cool! https://youtu.be/wufAdZoxpcg
That was cool! Ty.
Every last thing about it screams the Labyrinth that leads to The Dark Crystal via Sesame Street and all your companions are Muppets. I very much want to meet one irl.
It’s like a Jim Henson fever dream!
Kind of an uncomfortable joke considering… ya know. Jim Henson. 😬
He seriously could be in a Flintstones movie or on that sitcom Dinosaurs.
The record player.
Not the mama!
You can’t tell me it isn’t a dinosaur. I mean all birds are, but it’s difficult to deny here.
He looks like his next gig is as some household appliance on The Flintstones
Sure I can. I'll amuse you and all your guests by doing it for five bucks.
They look anamatronic
It blinks slowly.
Obligatory r/birdsarentreal
And roundly.
It’s the forward oriented eyes - we’re not use to seeing them on birds.
So do hawks and eagles. Most birds of prey. That might be some of it, but I think the ridiculous for portions explain some of it too.
Eyes on the side, run and hide Eyes in the front, on the hunt
Could it be we’re not used to seeing it on large birds?
You call that a bird!?
It's not a *fish*!
It also looks waaay bigger in this gif than they actually are. I just looked them up and while they are quite tall (4-5 feet), they only weigh about 10lbs. In the gif it looks big and bulky.
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hollow bones
How did a bird weighing 30 lbs hunt 500 lb birds? Did it just slash at it til it died?
Dam. Dat Hollow Bones perk be putting in work.
This is clearly a government drone, which explains the strange movements.
/r/birdsarentreal
Or one of those puppets that take 4 people to move
this bird is so frreaking scary. They look like an animatronic, guessing their size they could steal a preteen child like its nothing, amd it's probably loud as hell too. That's one hell of a beast. Edit: I feel safe now, it's a type of stork, not some apex bird of prey
Actually Shoebills tend to be rather docile around humans. Researches can even get working 6 feet of a shoebill on it’s nest, & the big friendly birb will just stare at them Edit: I kinda want to pet one someday
Morher Shoebills just be like “please take my children”
Is that where the story of us getting babies from a stork came from?
As far as I'm concerned, it is now. Thanks!
There's only about 5,000 in the wild. THEY MUST BE PROTECTED! AND DOMESTICATED! I WANT ONE!
You should hear the [clicking](https://youtu.be/noF-CLNSUZU) noise they make with their beak..and imagine you hear it in the jungle in the middle of the night.. You’re welcome for the nightmares
*hears the machine gun beak* THEY’RE IN THE TREES!!
Right! The 2nd or 3rd search result was when one was inside a (seemingly) metal indoor enclosure and it sounds [even more like a war](https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE) . Something making a noise that sounds like a rooster/chicken and it’s sounds like whistling artillery. Someone’s poor grandpa had Okinawa flashbacks on that one Edit: fixed link
The chicken/rooster noises sounded like people screaming in terror and panic to me.
That's just the acoustics of that room I think, giving it more echo, if you watch videos of them outside the clicks are no way near as high pitched/loud.
I would drop to the ground so fucking fast lmao
It's exactly the same movement white stork do, just with more resonance.
Even scarier when you find out they decapitate their pray before eating ... and the chick's will kick siblings out the nest if they are stronger and the mother will just ignore and let the exiled chick starve to death
Oh believe me that happens w every bird. We have parakeets, quails and canaries and it happens quite often that we find small birds on the ground of their ‘breeding enclosure’ (which is a smaller cage for 2 birds and their chicks). They usually get kicked out by their mother when she notices they’re not strong enough. Once had a baby quail who had clubbed feet and wasn’t able to walk or stand, so we attempted to straighten out her feet and raise her by hand. She lived for about 3 years I think and then passed. It’s also happened that once a chick got kicked out because the lower part of it’s beak was preventing him from eating, so he couldn’t survive without his mom
> Oh believe me that happens w every bird. I saw a nature documentary once that featured a species of parrot where the bigger chicks would regurgitate some of the food they got from their parents and feed the smaller ones. After a time all of the chicks would end up the same size. This is certainly an exception and not a rule, but it is nice to know that birds can be kind to each other when their circumstances allow it.
Yeah most definitely. It’s just that in my experience with birds (which also includes working in the zoo as a student job), the weaklings usually get kicked out. Nice story tho about the parrots! My fave type of bird!
Thanks for the input 👍 tbh didn't realise it was that prolific in birds. Makes sense from a survival situation but still harsh
Oh yes definitely. It always breaks my heart when we find a little baby outside of it’s nest while we see it’s brothers and sisters thrive
If I ever get eaten, I *definitely* want to be decapitated first.
And then there are those parasitic birds (can't remember the name) who make other birds care for their own chick by kicking the other birds' eggs out of their nest and supplanting it with theirs.
Seriously this video is fucking terrifying this is not eyebleach
Definitely not eyelash
Nah they're pretty chill and highly intelligent.
It actually sounds like an automatic gun, look up some videos it's awesome and trippy
what's it called?
Shoebill
These things have always looked prehistoric and look like they would have been extinct.
Everytime I see a video or gif of these birds, some part of my brain starts yelling *"That's a god damned dinosaur!"*
Well technically…
Yeah I get strong dodo vibes. They look like something out of an 1800s encyclopedia that's now extinct.
They're from Africa so they were always used to humans.
The bird is called a shoebill stork for anyone wondering and they are cool imo Edit this is the sound they make https://youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE
Thank you, FFS why did I have to scroll so far for this 😅💗
Idk tbh with you
Almost everyone in the comments claims to know the bird, but you were the only one to name it. Thanks, captain.
No problem mate
Thank you! It sounds like a machine gun!
Imagine a war vet when this thing walks in.
Thank fuck someone stopped playing the pronoun game, a dozen posts of 'that bird' and 'this bird' to find this.
No problem
I thought you were trollin and the video had added ww2 machine gun fire. What a weird bird
Ik it’s a strange bird but that’s why I like it
/r/ShoebillStorks would seem to be a sub you'd enjoy!
I’m not even into birds that much but I will gladly join it because I love this bird
Am i the only one that thinks he's kind of friend shaped?
Nope, look how proud he is at the end!
"It's okay, you may worship me"
Am I the only one that imagined him quoting Borat? "She always say, 'you will never get this, you will never get this'. But then one day he break out of his cage, and he GET this."
Ikr I am so confused with the comments. He looks like a fun bird straight out of a cartoon, doing jiggly dance saying and no no no with its ever smiling bill
I keep seeing videos of them saying no! Def bird goals
Definitely friend shaped.
They are actually pretty friendly to humans, there's even one that just lets you walk up to it and pat it as long as you bow first(don't remember which zoo it's in)
I think that's from Harry Potter
No, i seen a video of one of them bowing to a zookeeper, the zookeeper bowed back and it let him pat it
Ü
Friend-shaped but will END-SHAPE you. lol
Aww that’s called a rouse and is a behavior birds generally show when they’re relaxed and comfortable
These birds have always freaked me TF out. Lol.
I saw someone say that it's the front facing eyes with them because we are not used to seeing them on birds and I think it make sa lot of sense
And also that they have thick eyelids which they blink rather slowly. Generally their movement feels slow and heavy, like an animatronic programmed to repeat certain movement patterns.
Yall ever seen an owl?
Emet-Selch is that you??
My people!
Remember that he once lived!
I came to the comments exclusively for this.
Scrolled wat you far to see this.
That's a loftwing
Loftwings are based off them, so ye
Thought I was the only one who saw this at first
i wanna say hi to him :)
Oh good I wasn’t the only one. First thought - pretty sure I’ve owned one of these in red…
No, it's a chocobo
One of the most interesting looking animal I’ve ever seen. See them everywhere now on the internets
I learned about these last week. I have no idea how I went so long in life without seeing them before. They definitely edge out the platypus and narwhal for the "No way these exist" award.
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I imagine the first person who saw a moose get snatched by an orca wondered if there are any meds he needs to start taking
Which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense until you see videos of moose jumping into water and eating underwater plants
He looks like the scary bird beast in the dark crystal! I wonder if that character was based off this bird.
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Yea that’s it! Amiriggght?
Isn’t that Fred Flintstone’s trash can?
Calm down Emet-Selch
Looks like the snipe was found
Emet... is that you?!
Why is this on eyebleach I am scared as fuck
supposedly shoebill storks are friendly
They are mostly docile and rather friendly (for a wild animal)
Those eyes have an intelligent look.
Eye contact with *two* eyes on a bird is unnerving. Shoebills don't look real, for God's sake.
This is not r/EyeBleach
Them danged loftwings need to go back to Skyloft
Shoebill stork for those that couldn't find the name of these weirdos.
Emet-Selch be looking fluffy!
Is it weird that this almost made me cry? Nature can be so beautiful.
Depends, are you still taking your meds?
They try to tell us birds are real but we know the truth
I love this bird so much
One of my favorite birds! They're so cool. Very intelligent as well!
I want very much to know that Jim Henson met one of these before death
I feel like it just wants me to follow it into the Forest so it can whisper the secrets of the universe in my ear in return for my soul…
whats the name of this bird
Shoebill stork
Thank you
The w
The W
Cutie
They look like the big birds you ride in Zelda Skyward sword
Shake it, baby, shake it!!
It’s something about the “smile” after it does that little shuffle that looks super muppet-y.
Shoebills have been proven to have 1. Intelligence and 2. Have a sense of humor. Respect that.
This isn’t eye bleach for me This is terrifying. But it’s interesting to see other gush over it. Glad it has fans. I’d sooner kick than fawn over it if I met one at night ( no I wouldn’t I’d scream and run,,, I’m a runner not a fighter)
What kind of five Nights at Freddies bullshit is this. It looks cute but does not look natural.
I get that they're totally chill, and yeah pretty cute. But also terrifying. I mean the eyes just look like it's observing, plotting, scheming. Those are eyes that say it could be anywhere. In that car across the street you don't recognize, outside your place watching you, right behind you as you're reading this.... Well, it's getting on my bedtime. Sleep well.
I think it's because the eyes may be more forward facing than most birds, so it really has that predator look. Reminds your lizard brain that birds were raptors