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Hopping along like a little bouncing ball (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Region-locked to all across Asia around 45°N ('stans, Mongolia) and in spots all over Europe, especially Poland. A very interesting range, including the Mediterranean coast and Himalayas.

Good luck taming one, though. Also, only males are “bearded”.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Given their range, I wonder if their bulkiness functions to reduce their surface area to volume ratio. Since small birds need to eat a shittone of food compared to their body weight.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Probably. Also, it likely helps that they are omnivorous, and they chonk up for the winter. Some also migrate relatively short distances (blue on map).

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I need to use Stans for regional definitions way more often.

The canadian Lynx stans most of Canada sans their arctic islands , and Alaska.

I need to hear this on ZeFrank and CasualGeoraphic.

[–] wieson@feddit.de 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is a misunderstanding or if you're deliberately using an additional second meaning for comedic effect.

But @ChaoticNeutralCzech meant 'stans' as 'central Asia' because of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgisistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah the second meaning is also 'Stan'. It got popularized five? years ago now when there was some superfan of a celebrity called Stan who knew everything about them. So if you're super into something like Eminem or a KPop group, you'd say, I stan Taylor Swift.

So if an animal stans the Himalayas, that means they love it so much they live there.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I need to hear this on ZeFrank and CasualGeoraphic.

ZeFrank is suddenly way more active than he used to be. I thought he'd quit YouTube but apparently he's back now.