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Bearded Vulture rejects your comparison of feathered dinosaurs to chickens. She demands you compare them with her instead. Why? Because she is the most awesome looking bird in all the world. Obviously.Nah but really bearded vultures are such cool looking birds, they truly do look like dinosaurs, so if you're going to compare a dinosaur with a bird, compare it with this species instead of some inbred farm animal... Just look at them!
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I SAID LOOK AT THEM
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That is a friggin dinosaur if I ever saw one
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Every single falcon, eagle, kite, buteo, accipiter, tubenose, shoebill, owl, and roadrunner objects to dinosaurs being compared to chickens.
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What about cariamas and crows?
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All of those birds are pretty nasty.
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"CALL ME CHICKEN AND YOU'LL SEE YOURSELF FALLING OFF A CLIFF!
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Just send in a giant petrel...birds that dismember other seabirds while alive and eat them from the inside out.
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Basically a flying Velociraptor.
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Actually, closer to a flying pygmy Allosaurus.
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Wait, do Allosaurus eat things alive?
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It has more to do with the way they use their jaws.
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Wait, so they're ax-bills...
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No, they don't use their heads like an axe, but what they do after they make contact is similar. Use serrated tongue/serrated tooth to saw through prey, killing it or eating it alive.
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Yikes...
And I thought their penguin slaughter was messy due to having no weaponry...
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It's messy because of the way they use their weaponry.
That same cutlery exists in phorusracids, terathornids, New and Old World vultures, and even the Haast's eagle. Two serrated ridges on the palate (visible in terror bird fossils or eagle and teratorn skeletons), aligning with the serrated tongue.
What that petrel was doing in that viral video was that it was basically cutting out the rectum and intestines of the penguin or scalping its head using that system, causing fatal injuries.
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Oh, wow. All of these birds give pretty nasty deaths.
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The best way to describe it would be "great white shark x hyena", or "industrial rib slicer x intestine screw".
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That latter description, though...
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CHICKEN!!!
(I had too lol, I love bearded vultures)
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Bearded vultures are the most dignified raptors
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Come on, vulture. I think we both know people compare dinosaurs to chickens instead of vultures like you because they're so pitifully flightless. Clearly you outclass them both with your astounding aerodynamics.
Man, those vultures are crazy looking. Great picture of this bird!
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Bearded vulture is my favorite bird, hands down.
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I've noticed that the favorite bird (or extant dinosaur) of almost every single paleoartist on dA is the lammergier. Interesting.
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Yes, Lammergeiers certainly do look like non-avian dinosaurs, especially like Velociraptors.
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Aren't they? And thanks for your comments
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You're Welcome and have a good afternoon!
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I think the issue is that some artist keep giving massive theropods turkey waddles, overly warty skin; and rooster combs. Its their artistic choice yes, but I think that helps in starting some of this nonesense about the 'Feathers = Chicken' argument. I'm somewhat of a reservist on scales vs. feathers, and even though eagle-escue depictions of raptors look amazing; even I think a Rex sporting turkey wrinkled skin and a waddle just looks wrong. I can't really show that to a friend I try to get interested in dinosaurs, it would look too silly (granted, no offense to the artist)
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I can understand that. On a related note I feel the same way when people add a ridiculous amount of spikes and the likes, massive claws and depict their dinosaurs as constantly ripping each other apart - you know - where dinosaurs stop being real animals and are turned into movie monsters and fantasy animals instead. These days, I tend to prefer depictions of dinosaurs that look like real animals and act like real animals - it's sad this doesn't appeal to the public - I guess they are used to the way dinosaurs have usually been shown - it seems no documentary can show dinosaurs without blood and violence and gore!
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I know what you mean. Feathered dinosaurs can be just as vicious as fake scaly ones anway (actually they would probably be more terrifying, since feathers = endotermic = can run faster and farther without tiring and reguires much, much more food to survive).
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this is a very dinosaur-like bird.
(goodness, that's like saying this is a very mammal-like marsupial xD)
also, emus, ostriches and other ratites are a lot like (extinct) dinosaurs as well.
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I guess those people in denial or that just don't want to fully grasp the fact of feathered dinosaurs find it easier to ridicule the idea by comparing them to poultry instead of the myriad of different species of birds in existence... People saying that they look like giant, over-sized chickens and turkeys really need to go out more, go to a zoo or get a book on birds of prey
Anyway, love the expression on this guy (or girl? o.O). Good job, bearded vultures need more recognition!
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Yep yep. It's a very poor argument saying birds aren't awesome looking - just shows they know nothing about birds to begin with!
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Honestly, I agree with you - my mom breeds fancy chickens of various breeds and they are so pretty and proud and all that but most people don't see that part, they just think of the broilers commercial egg chickens which is not a good representation of a proper awesome dino-bird
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It isn't ;n;
We need a majestic chicken.
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I think Steller's Sea Eagles would be pissed to hear this too! xD
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A lot of birds probably would be! Oooh like the osprey, another good example... or arctic owls, sighhh
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And freaking peregrine falcons.
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Wow, those birds are enormous! I must agree with you, they look very much like dinosaurs!
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