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Fuck I wanna hug that guy so hard.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
ebird.org is everything I wanted from twitter and more!
They do the splits too, not a joke:
Very cool bird. :) https://birdfeederhub.com/facts-about-bearded-reedlings/
Eat your heart out, Van Damme.
"Can I help you?"
Mathematicians and physicists like this.
Nah, too much air
That can be neglected.
Chorb
careful, you might start validating physicists. "Assume for the sake of simplicity that the bird is a sphere"
“Assume a spherical bird in a frictionless vacuum”
Can we assume that all vacuums are frictionless? Makes the math easier.
Makes cleaning harder, though.
The runners on my vacuum are fucked so not in my case, no.
Borb
They are in their own taxonomic family but that still does not stop people from calling them “bearded tits”.
We Brits like to use the original name:
https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts/bearded-tit
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bearded-tit
Big fan of tits.
Please tell me it flies like a balloon.
It flies like a balloon.
Thank you for your service
Would you say it looks.... angry?
I read this in John Oliver's voice
This bird looks like it came straight out of angry birds
One time I was in a bird enclosure at a zoo and there was this Asian pigeon in there which looked like a short, fat peacock (but without the long tail). It was by far my favorite thing in there because of how squat and round it was.
Oh lawd he roun
Me, a physics educator: “Interesting!” takes note
This bird is in a black metal band
An actual Pokemon
Rotund.
Am I the only one thinking it looks like Dr robotnik?
What a beautifully rotund creature
Known as a Bearded Tit round these parts.
Nonsense, these three are clearly more spherical (Eagle owl)
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AC9BAX/eagle-owl-eggs-in-nest-three-bubu-bubo-spain-AC9BAX.jpg
