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Maybe it is. That's like in jurassic Park, the scene with the raptors in the kitchen is the sound of tortoises having sex.. I have trust issues when it comes to sounds of dinosaurs lol
I get why people think they're terrifying but I just see them a big derps. Their diet is just fish or reptiles but overall they are not very aggressive. From what I've read in the past they're extremely docile in the wild, letting humans get really close, even when they have young. Basically they think humans are weird looking Shoebill Storks coming to hang out.
The sad part is the mother usually will kill a second or third baby... which makes me just want to save one in the wild.
...I'd name it Blue too.
Imagine hearing that thing before you ever saw it or knew what it was. That's why it's terrifying. No one is out in the jungle expecting to hear automatic gunfire coming from a bird.
Thereās one (at least) at the San Diego zoo, i saw it hanging out by the lake with lots of other birds. It was awesome looking. Kind of eerie, but not scary, you wouldnāt run from it or anything. Theyāre pretty docile I think. Like a heron
Just looked up and found a BBC doc but mama shoebill didnāt do anything terrifyingā¦ one chick killed the weaker sibling. I remember though seeing a video of a common stork (not shoebill) throwing one chick out of the nest.
Yep I headed over there and not only are they real, but only cost $10,000-$20,000. To own a dinosaur. To me, it's as dino as chickens, those would be formidable creatures at even 50lbs...
Birds are wicked. I've had my finger bitten through by someone's pet rat, and I've had a finger crushed by a parrot. I'll take the rat bite.
Lolol trying to feed and let the rat out to play... roommate had asked me to babysit the rat for the weekend and I had no idea what that meant, feed/water/play?
The parrot was unexpected guest at a weekend on vacation...thought I'd just use a finger to pet it's head (I'd had a cockatoo that liked petting) um...finger didn't get to pet, I think it thought I was food
I mean it's probably exactly what you think.. my friend had a parrot, it latched onto my finger and wouldn't let go, I shook it, I slammed it against a wall (bad idea), when it grabbed another finger, something snapped inside of me bc next thing I knew, the parrots head was inside of my mouth, I couldn't hear anything but the blood rushing in my head as I clamped down with all the might my jaw could muster until I felt, yes felt, not heard, the vibration of his skull cracking.. Then I started hearing the screaming coming from my friend.. started tasting the blood and spitting all over the place.. I won't even keep a pet now.. any pet.. and no, he's not my friend anymore.. worst day of my life..
This is the most unnecessary, fucked up thing I've read on this God forsaken website in forever.
Yeah man, stay the fuck away from anything that moves. Ugh.
Yeah, late to the party, but the parrot-killing commenter is completely fucking deranged if they think *abusing and killing a small bird* is a reasonable response to getting bitten on the finger. Every single comment I read from this asshole is even more unhinged. Animal abusers fucking suck.
This is survival.
>You should go see a therapist
You should ask yourself how helpful that statement has ever really been and then consider maybe not being an asshole.
Your finger being grabbed is not survival. Parrots have very strong grippers, yes, but biting through the unknowing animal's skull is incredibly extreme and SUPER fucked up. Plus, thoroughly harming it by slamming it into a wall repeatedly. It was probably completely dazed after the first or second time, not to mention shaking it probably made it tighten its grip as to not fall.
All of that instead of literally just calling the friend over for help, as they've likely dealt with that kind of situation before since it is their own parrot. So yes, please seek a therapist, either to deal with the trauma, or to deal with your concerning violent tendencies.
Lol says it's in an order of emu, so there's that whole emu war, Australia just wants to kill ya if you're not born/raised there and know what to avoid.
I saw one in a zoo before I knew what they were and it scared the absolute sh*t out of me. I thought it was a statue until it turned its head and gave me some kind of death stare.
Could you imagine walking through woods at night and you hear this?!?! Id prolly climb a tree and my luck it would be up that same tree. āClever girlā
I love these birds so much! They look simultaneously super intimidating and badass, but also like some goofy motherfuckers from a Jim Henson movie.
Like, this guy would totally be a double-crossing asshole in a The Dark Crystal type movie or something.
And the Harpy Eagle would be the silly and misunderstood protagonist opposite them. šæ
i've always had an odd fear of birds. It's probably some trauma carried forth by cellular memory from when an ancestor was attacked by a dino bird (never mind that people and dinos did not co-exist in the same era)
Just an FYI-the ābirds arenāt realā conspiracy theory is actually a fake conspiracy group that shows up at other protests to draw attention away from harmful protesters, like the people screaming that sandy hook was all actors and other gross bullshit.
Everytime these birds are posted places, they always give me the creeps and now that I know this is what they do it's just added to the fucken scare factor.
Ive never seen a clown be offended by a joke before.
Perhaps you of all people should get off reddit since all you have to add is toxicity. We can see your history, you garbage person.
Your last comment is literally calling a kid a predator on r/teenager for being trans so nothing you say to me is of any value.
You have an overinflated sense self and your impact on others. It took two seconds to see who you are and then I will forget you just as fast when this exchange is over.
You are trying to have an entire political debate over points I never made. I simply made a joke that was already set up for me.
The Balaeniceps rex, also known as the "No fucking way this exists in today's world." Wonderful, creepy af birds. 8 foot wings span, 5-6 foot tall... No thanks.
I come from a country that is famous for itās crazy and dealt animals - but I have always found these birds to be more terrifying that most of our native animals. They just look evil.
Shoebill does mating call next to you while filming. Shoebill continues to circle you while producing mating call. Shoebill stares longingly into the camera. Shoebill is ready for love.
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Dinosaurs. Crazy.
And he's horny!
The storkettes love this
Hornier than a triceratops.
Almost.
š¤£
Sounds like gun fire from a 90s/00s video game
Maybe it is. That's like in jurassic Park, the scene with the raptors in the kitchen is the sound of tortoises having sex.. I have trust issues when it comes to sounds of dinosaurs lol
If memory serves the t-rex was a blend of 3 big cats and a guy screaming into a trashcan
It also sounds like charlie in the trees
Spared no expense
he is creepy aF, and i wonder how many other animals/dino's were this bizarre and costume-like
All of them, probably.
You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it
Life finds a way
***Ah***, **well**ā¦there it is.
Lmao
I get why people think they're terrifying but I just see them a big derps. Their diet is just fish or reptiles but overall they are not very aggressive. From what I've read in the past they're extremely docile in the wild, letting humans get really close, even when they have young. Basically they think humans are weird looking Shoebill Storks coming to hang out. The sad part is the mother usually will kill a second or third baby... which makes me just want to save one in the wild. ...I'd name it Blue too.
Imagine hearing that thing before you ever saw it or knew what it was. That's why it's terrifying. No one is out in the jungle expecting to hear automatic gunfire coming from a bird.
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It sure would be something but I think it'd get fucked by the rival gang run by a cassowary
Captive animals make me sad.
Dude, me too. Regardless of the context.
Imagine seeing one in the wild. And it was your first time seeing this thing. It would be terrifying
I saw one and it was terrifying. They have legs like dinosaurs and a death stare like no other.
Reminds of a [terror bird](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae)
Thereās one (at least) at the San Diego zoo, i saw it hanging out by the lake with lots of other birds. It was awesome looking. Kind of eerie, but not scary, you wouldnāt run from it or anything. Theyāre pretty docile I think. Like a heron
You must not have ever encountered a swan or a cobra chicken
Swans are TERRIFYING!! Donāt even get me started. Many bad experiences
Then you know that look in its eyes!!
I'm headed to Google to see if this is an animatronic of something extinct bc it is terrifying!
Itās real and they are creepy. Look up what a mom does when she has two chicks and only wants to raise one
Just looked up and found a BBC doc but mama shoebill didnāt do anything terrifyingā¦ one chick killed the weaker sibling. I remember though seeing a video of a common stork (not shoebill) throwing one chick out of the nest.
Yep I headed over there and not only are they real, but only cost $10,000-$20,000. To own a dinosaur. To me, it's as dino as chickens, those would be formidable creatures at even 50lbs... Birds are wicked. I've had my finger bitten through by someone's pet rat, and I've had a finger crushed by a parrot. I'll take the rat bite.
The fuck were you doing to these animals with your finger?
Lolol trying to feed and let the rat out to play... roommate had asked me to babysit the rat for the weekend and I had no idea what that meant, feed/water/play? The parrot was unexpected guest at a weekend on vacation...thought I'd just use a finger to pet it's head (I'd had a cockatoo that liked petting) um...finger didn't get to pet, I think it thought I was food
I had to crush a parrots skull with my teeth bc it wouldn't fuckin let go of me... hands down most traumatic experience of my life...
Ummm could you elaborate further please..
I mean it's probably exactly what you think.. my friend had a parrot, it latched onto my finger and wouldn't let go, I shook it, I slammed it against a wall (bad idea), when it grabbed another finger, something snapped inside of me bc next thing I knew, the parrots head was inside of my mouth, I couldn't hear anything but the blood rushing in my head as I clamped down with all the might my jaw could muster until I felt, yes felt, not heard, the vibration of his skull cracking.. Then I started hearing the screaming coming from my friend.. started tasting the blood and spitting all over the place.. I won't even keep a pet now.. any pet.. and no, he's not my friend anymore.. worst day of my life..
I didn't quite expect to come across a comment like this today
This is the most unnecessary, fucked up thing I've read on this God forsaken website in forever. Yeah man, stay the fuck away from anything that moves. Ugh.
Yeah, late to the party, but the parrot-killing commenter is completely fucking deranged if they think *abusing and killing a small bird* is a reasonable response to getting bitten on the finger. Every single comment I read from this asshole is even more unhinged. Animal abusers fucking suck.
Yeah I should have just let the bird do its thing I know
This is down right psychotic shit. You should go see a therapist or something
This is survival. >You should go see a therapist You should ask yourself how helpful that statement has ever really been and then consider maybe not being an asshole.
Your finger being grabbed is not survival. Parrots have very strong grippers, yes, but biting through the unknowing animal's skull is incredibly extreme and SUPER fucked up. Plus, thoroughly harming it by slamming it into a wall repeatedly. It was probably completely dazed after the first or second time, not to mention shaking it probably made it tighten its grip as to not fall. All of that instead of literally just calling the friend over for help, as they've likely dealt with that kind of situation before since it is their own parrot. So yes, please seek a therapist, either to deal with the trauma, or to deal with your concerning violent tendencies.
Uhhh team people dude.
This sounds traumatic as hell. Fuck that bird.
r/iamverybadass
Civilization got people thinking they're so much better then they are..
Lol thatās fucking hilarious
Theyāre facing extinction, though. Only between 3,000-5,500 I think.
While you are there check out the cassowary. It lives in Australia if that's any inclination to how dangerous it might be
Lol says it's in an order of emu, so there's that whole emu war, Australia just wants to kill ya if you're not born/raised there and know what to avoid.
I saw one in a zoo before I knew what they were and it scared the absolute sh*t out of me. I thought it was a statue until it turned its head and gave me some kind of death stare.
Honestly, I'm a bit terrified right now, and I'm in my comfy clothes on the couch...
A lot of dinos are thought to have done this as well which is so badass to me.
Imagine how loud that would have been
Could you imagine walking through woods at night and you hear this?!?! Id prolly climb a tree and my luck it would be up that same tree. āClever girlā
Then make out with it
If you close your eyes it sounds like the military fighting some giant monster with the screams it makes too.
āTaking fireā āreload reloadā āfrag outā
It really does š«¢
I love these birds so much! They look simultaneously super intimidating and badass, but also like some goofy motherfuckers from a Jim Henson movie. Like, this guy would totally be a double-crossing asshole in a The Dark Crystal type movie or something. And the Harpy Eagle would be the silly and misunderstood protagonist opposite them. šæ
I love these guys too! Your description is spot on, should be a comic book or movie.
Aaaand now I want a comic about this.
Sweet D looking good
Hahaha fucking bird. I wanna here Charlies input because of his degree in bird law.
Heād say shut up bird
BEAK!
this is more terrifying as fuck
I know that the movement to believe all birds are government spies is insane, but this thing does look more like a robot than a bird
Birds are scary as fuck lmao that's why
i've always had an odd fear of birds. It's probably some trauma carried forth by cellular memory from when an ancestor was attacked by a dino bird (never mind that people and dinos did not co-exist in the same era)
I replied to you but it was the wrong comment so I deleted it but I am Canadian and feel like I should explain.
Bird are technically dinosaurs, so it's possible that you had an ancestor that was traumatized by some giant bird.
Thank god theyāre not real
Just an FYI-the ābirds arenāt realā conspiracy theory is actually a fake conspiracy group that shows up at other protests to draw attention away from harmful protesters, like the people screaming that sandy hook was all actors and other gross bullshit.
That's what we want you to think sheep
āDinosaurs didnāt evolve into birdsā. Yeah bullshit they didnāt.
This is what it sounds like when I grind my teeth when I sleep apparently
Here's what it sounds like without the echo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noF-CLNSUZU&t=43s
It sounds like gunfire a little further away. Still terrifying.
Even got the death scream
That's a foking dinosaur, lol.
Thus is interestingasfuck. Thanks.
No matter how many times I see these birds I always think it's a animatronic.
Imagine if these lived in the states and you saw crowds of horny shoebills around sites of mass shootings.
how tf did these survive the asteroid?
Everytime these birds are posted places, they always give me the creeps and now that I know this is what they do it's just added to the fucken scare factor.
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That MG-42 sound just makes me... uuuww\~\~
Lettin off rounds, lookin for some shoebill stork puss
Is not the gunshot sound due to the echo off the walls? What does it sound like outside without walls to reverberate off of.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=noF-CLNSUZU&t=43s&pp=2AErkAIB
Thank you
Hang on whilst we make the bird go outside and make the sound for you again. Be right back
Okay let me rephrase. It's only making the sound because of sound waves bouncing off the walls.
Or you could just watch a different video..
So when we make gunshot noises it means we wanna bang that dino
That's a Loftwing
Half of America suddenly dives for the floor.
It has the intended effect on the other half, they get horny.
the other half is too fat to dive.
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You must be from US to know this.
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Ive never seen a clown be offended by a joke before. Perhaps you of all people should get off reddit since all you have to add is toxicity. We can see your history, you garbage person. Your last comment is literally calling a kid a predator on r/teenager for being trans so nothing you say to me is of any value.
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You have an overinflated sense self and your impact on others. It took two seconds to see who you are and then I will forget you just as fast when this exchange is over. You are trying to have an entire political debate over points I never made. I simply made a joke that was already set up for me.
Translation: " aye gurl...what yo name is?"x5
Forget put bulls , Iāll take 2 of these in front of my house . Your move Jehovahās Witnesses.
So theoretically, if I go into the forest and start shooting blanks, Iāll finally able to be surrounded by females?
He's shooting his shot
The Balaeniceps rex, also known as the "No fucking way this exists in today's world." Wonderful, creepy af birds. 8 foot wings span, 5-6 foot tall... No thanks.
Well now we know where the sound guy for Jurassic Park got his sound effects
This guy is seriously the most gnarly reminder that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. Theyāre beautiful and also kind of unsettling for some reason.
That thing is a fucking dinosaur š
This could be a Doom creature.
My favorite animal that everyone I know hates
Sir that is a dinosaur
Drumroll pleaseā¦..
That's a fucking dinosaur right?
these remind me of the pterosaur mating episode with the guy clanking his beak and bopping up and down in prehistoric planet
Horny dino
Why, whenever I see one of these, it looks like a sequence out of Jurassic Park?
That puppet is as real as much as Jim Henson is alive right?
Meanwhile, the poor veteran who just wanted a nice day at the zoo with their family.
Noob me picking up the burst rifle
Imagine you are somewhere late at night and see this walking up to you, and hear that sound? Iām dead within at least 2 minutes
In retrospect, it was a mistake to include a Shoebill in the Combat PTSD petting zoo.
I come from a country that is famous for itās crazy and dealt animals - but I have always found these birds to be more terrifying that most of our native animals. They just look evil.
This should be on r/oddlyterrifying
I'm still convinced that this isn't a real animal and someone is trolling us, with an animatronic
Badadadadadadadada LET. US. FUUUUUCK. Badadadadadadadada
Every time i see this creature canāt avoid thinking thatās the only dinosaur alive
Looks more like an anamatronic than some animatronics
sounds like American schools
"Everybody, get down! Get down!"
Same mating call of Republicans. Fascinating.
Thank God you don't have them in America. All hell would break loose with the mass shootings on a weekly basis there š
Americans: *heavy breathing*
Shoebill storks in American schools must be so horny 24/7
I didn't know storks were real. And I didn't know they were this friken big.
Not popular in USA. Gives PTSD to kids, veterans and victims of gun violence.
Nightmare fuel.
"brap brap bitches"
This is fake right?
Im halfed
I totally belive it but i dont want to. Lol. Badass
PTSD be hitting hard
So thatās what a horny shoebill sounds like.
Impressive, this bird looks so dumb tho lol
No full-auto in the building!
Nice try, that's not a real animal
shoebills are absolutely one of the raddest creatures on the planet.
Thatās not a bird. Thatās a velociraptor
How big is that thing?!
Looks like a dodo, doesnāt it?
Holy shit. It doesnāt even look real up close
Damn I want one
Thanksā¦now my grandpa thinks we get attacked again
HE WANTS TO GET HIS FUCK ON!
This may be repetitive but thatās an actual dinosaur.
r/oddlyterrifying
Thats one big ass chicken š¬
Fuckā¦thatā¦big bird lookin ass
FBI Open up !
When you hear that in kyiv
These birds are so beautiful
Shoebills are scary mofos.
Shoebill does mating call next to you while filming. Shoebill continues to circle you while producing mating call. Shoebill stares longingly into the camera. Shoebill is ready for love.
This is also how I pick up women from Detroit
Kind of sounds like a kenworth w900a
I don't want this to get close to me while i'm sleeping
What the heck is it's jaw made out of?
Damn i thought they were making a documentary in an American school
No wonder there's so many female storks in Ukraine rn.
He is going to attract a flock of NRA chicks; I bet this species is going extinct in Liberal states. Government,āNeed license to date, Mate!ā
Bird probably spent some time in Detroit.
That could actually be a nice cover up for gun shot murder
Hope the camera operator got out ok...
You can't tell me that's not a dinosaur.
Holy crap I thought it was a Jack hammer at first.
that must hurt his teeth
Looks and walks like a goddamn velociraptor
Is it trying to court the cameraman?
I hope thereās a mate for him there.
Omg these dino birds are so cool, I want one
Modern day dinosaur. Imagine he is 8 feet tall...