The specific type of bird represented in the picture is different, in that it does have live birth, so the joke works.
But it would still work regardless, because a joke doesn’t have to be scientifically accurate - it can play off the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so a “big bird with little birds inside it” can still be a mother instead of the logical explanation that it’s a predator, and this unexpected shift in view point (ruthless predator who just ate a bunch of babies, to the loving aspect of motherhood) is what makes it funny.
This might be a woosh on me but laying eggs means this isn’t true, right?
Look again…
No I see the cat, just that the last comment implies birds have live birth, which they don’t, so the joke doesn’t work?
The specific type of bird represented in the picture is different, in that it does have live birth, so the joke works.
But it would still work regardless, because a joke doesn’t have to be scientifically accurate - it can play off the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so a “big bird with little birds inside it” can still be a mother instead of the logical explanation that it’s a predator, and this unexpected shift in view point (ruthless predator who just ate a bunch of babies, to the loving aspect of motherhood) is what makes it funny.
We’re overanalyzing this…
On lemmy? No such thing.