• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If any bird still acts like it thinks it’s a dinosaur, it’s those goddamn Canadian Geese.

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      9 months ago

      When i was a kid, there was this lady who lived on my way to school. Dhe had a nice, fenced garden and two huge dogs and like 10 geese. I was never scared of the dogs, vut the geese were vicious. Sometimes they were on the lose and my way home turned into a survival horror game. They never stopped chasing. Dometimes i took some bread with me to throw and run away. One day they were chasing me i ran like a motherfucker around a corner and threw my last breaf. there was this young family with two little kids, and i was so relieved, because that was an easy way to lose them and at the same time i hoped that they were good runners. I honestly don’t even know what would’ve happend if they ever caught me and i’m glad i never found out. I really miss these fuckers.

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      9 months ago

      Geese, ducks and chickens had all already evolved when the dinosaurs went extinct. They are all tough hombre.

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        9 months ago

        Have you not been reading this thread? Dinosaurs never went extinct. A sparrow is descended from the great raptors

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          9 months ago

          If they know that the gallinoansera clade had already emerged before the K-T extinction, they most likely also know about birds being dinosaurs. Specifying “non-avian” everytime is a pain and saying “K-T extinction” is not understood by all, no need to correct them for semantics when their wording gets the point across.