Alt text: a bird calmly sitting on an electrical wire, but there’s an arrow going straight trough its body. The caption says: “Until death, all defeat is psychological”

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    That is also why barnacle geese are called barnacle geese; they thought the adults died in winter and new adults emerged fully formed from barnacles in the spring.

    Why barnacles? Apparently the barnacle shells attached to driftwood resembled bird shells to people.