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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the kereru, who are mildly infamous in NZ for getting drunk on berries and then falling on your roof with the elegance and grace of a brick. Look at this adorable idiot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The thing about kereru is they are thiccc. Even when they aren't drunk flight is a serious challenge for them on account of their very low chonk-to-brain-cell ratio. When they fly, they make a really loud fwop-fwop-fwop noise as they use their sheer girth to pull themselves through the air against gravity, natural law and common sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

very low chonk-to-brain-cell ratio

That would be a very high chonk-to-brain-cell ratio, no? Or a low brain-cell-to-chonk ratio?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I remember this part of my Ornithology textbook, bro quoted it word for word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Lol the slow motion fall is great.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I love that getting shitfaced drunk likely predates humanity and even primates by hundreds of millions of years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How can birds get drunk if they aren't real?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because the government-led "explanation" of "drunk birds" covers up malfunctions in the automatons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Magnets...

Edit: I just saw that OP's diagram below actually had a magnet labeled; I'm not sure how I missed that last time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

At the college I used to go to, there's a line of fruiting crabapple trees in front of the dining hall, while eating I'd enjoy watching the squirrels eat the fermenting fallen fruit and stumble around drunk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a great comic that I CANT RECALL THE NAME OF. But I love his work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

False Knees! I love them, too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Now that I think of it, animals have far greater excuses to get drunk intentionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Narrated by David Attenborough, almost.