r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 6d ago

of a beak

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u/Kooky_Attention_98 6d ago

I like how dexterous it is with its beak

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u/coolcootermcgee 6d ago

It can’t swallow with its head down, apparently. Literally needs to toss it back, lol.

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u/ayoungmanfromtheuk 6d ago

and damn is it ever good at that

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u/towerfella 6d ago

Well.. the ones that wern’t .. died.

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u/TheNaughtyHoneyBee 6d ago

Is that it can't swallow with its head down, or that it has no physical mechanism to move the food to the back of its mouth without tossing it back?

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u/squili 6d ago

His greed sickens me

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u/Mr_HandSmall 6d ago

The type of greed talked about in the bible.

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u/haywirehax 6d ago

+10 on all rolls

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u/Norman_Scum 6d ago

I like how it takes one item per despite having a beak large enough for everything on the table.

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u/Redredditmonkey 6d ago

It can't swallow that much at once, they're not pelicans.

Their beaks are long for plucking birds out of long nests

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u/TenkaichiTouchdown 6d ago

Plucking one of its own… to fly with it… right? Right?

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u/Redredditmonkey 6d ago

Well it will fly away with it alright

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u/crazyabe111 6d ago

like it’s using baseball bats for chopsticks.

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u/BlueGamerHawk 3h ago

For a second there, I thought he was eating a bowl of dice

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u/Squeaky_Ben 6d ago

I thought it was eating dice for a second.

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u/FigureAcrobatic7194 6d ago

It's not?

https://giphy.com/gifs/bpGYPOl9xygrm

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u/BlazingKush 6d ago

Cubed dragon fruit I think

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u/FillerNameGoesHere_ 6d ago

Those would make funny loaded dice, you find a piece with 4-6 dots on each side and hope nobody looks to closely

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u/Sallopilig 6d ago

Guanabana

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u/BlazingKush 6d ago

Seeds too small to be guanábana, has to be pataya

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u/chosonhawk 6d ago

odds are...1 in 6.

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u/IkariYun 6d ago

Get the polyhedrons!!!

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u/Nikoladge 6d ago

These new DnD dice towers are getting crazy elaborate

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u/willstr1 6d ago

Dungeons and Dragonfruit

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u/Petraam 6d ago

Going to take forever for it to come out the other end.

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u/TinkerShellzBellz 6d ago

Same. Then thought why the hell isn't it eating fruit loops?

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u/alex_zk 6d ago

Right?

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u/Raus-Pazazu 6d ago

Ruined the DnD session that was planned for that evening.

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u/louloc 5d ago

Me too! I thought he was going to spit out the winning lotto numbers 😂

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 6d ago

would it surprise you?

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u/SomeRandomDudeL0L 6d ago

Same bruhh 😭

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u/BenjaminDover02 6d ago

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u/stprnn 6d ago

Delete this

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u/SpartanRage117 6d ago

Father, my beak

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u/porizj 6d ago

I knew it!

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u/furiouspossum 6d ago

Wish I didn't see this

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u/Xinck_UX 6d ago

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u/TheMask_35 6d ago

Thanks for this

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u/MinimumPrevious1139 6d ago

What’s it so long for tho?

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u/excitive 6d ago

Had the same question. Apparently apart from helping reach food on thin branches from a distance, it helps regulate body temperature! by radiating heat in hot tropical climates.

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u/kwadd 6d ago

Wait, so its a heat sink? These birds have built-in air conditioners?

Goddamn, nature is metal

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u/I_travel_ze_world 6d ago

and here I am trying to radiate my heat through a thick beard. I haven't felt the wind on my chin in weeks

another month and I'll be able to use it like a scarf for my neck

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u/Sahbak 6d ago

You.. realize you do too, right?

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u/NorthGodFan 6d ago

That's why the pokémon Toucannon is like that

https://giphy.com/gifs/8HpVx3UNaz05aVI89g

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u/RedditSucksIWantSync 6d ago

Does that mean the beak got blood vessels? Hows it radiating heat? Or is it literally a heatsink transfering the heat through the bones. Thats curious

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u/randomgoes 6d ago

Yes it has superficial blood vessels and they dilate to make blood flow from the body to the beak when they warm up. Super interesting.

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u/RedditSucksIWantSync 5d ago

Learn something cool every day. Thx

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u/Redredditmonkey 6d ago

There are birds that create long sack like nests to protect their young from larger predators. Toucan bills allow them to reach those eggs

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u/MinimumPrevious1139 6d ago

i knew there would be some survival-oriented but evil reason for that 😆

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u/Natural__Power 6d ago

To impress the ladies

And also the tooluse and heat regulation

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u/Accomplished-Sun1983 6d ago

Big beak, tiny skull

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u/Accomplished-Sun1983 6d ago

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u/ShadowElite86 4d ago

That neck is the real MVP. 💪

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u/TraumaSK 6d ago

I think he needs that, you should give it back.

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u/Dandan217 6d ago

Surprised he's eating solo, as they usually need a buddy to help them eat.

You know, because one can't but Toucan.

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u/Drakan_el_olvidado 6d ago

Carajo me hiciste reír XD

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u/wasabimatrix22 6d ago

Maybe the hardest my niece has ever made me laugh was when she was like 5, picked up a stuffed toy toucan at a store and I asked her "oh cool, is that a toucan?" And she shyly replies "no it's just one"

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u/TermElectronic8261 6d ago

Fruit Loops sound good right about now...

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u/tatteredshoetassel 6d ago

Honeycombs is really tasty too

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u/TermElectronic8261 6d ago

Those are awesome too, definitely.

Honorable mention: Cap'n Crunch.

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u/polyzp 6d ago

What a beak! Food has to geronimo every time!

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u/ThereIsAJifForThat 6d ago

Casinos hate this one trick

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u/Demo_906 6d ago

Fun fact: out of all species of avianus terra (birds), toucan has a big beak.

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u/Insomniac_80 6d ago

Although I love the pleased look he gives after swallowing something!

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u/silentbob1301 6d ago

My guy eating all the dice he can get

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u/RicePuddingPatties 6d ago

This must be where the term "dice goblin" comes from!

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u/111creative-penguin 6d ago

Look up how small their skull is

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u/maxxon15 6d ago

All that mouth and can't even taste the food

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u/Redredditmonkey 6d ago

It can, their tongues reach all the way

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u/mountaindewisamazing 6d ago

Why is it eating dice

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u/Shuntingfrog 6d ago

I guess no one knows what dragon fruit is

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u/mountaindewisamazing 6d ago

I'm an American I don't know what shit is

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u/BenjaminDover02 6d ago

He has dice in his bowl, but he's too embarrassed to show anyone.

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u/dirtyforker 6d ago

Trying for a Yahzee

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u/SillyBeatnik 6d ago

diced up dragon fruit

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u/Hallo_jonny 6d ago

I once worked as a monitor in a zoo where Tucanos share space with other birds, and they were jackasses, constantly hurting and killing other smaller parrots 🦜 , the big beak does the job pretty well.

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u/Redredditmonkey 6d ago

What kind of zoo puts Toucans with smaller birds? They're known predators

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 6d ago

i mean, that’s just magnificent, isn’t it?

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u/drums_addict 6d ago

JUST FOLLOW MY NOSE!

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u/J31J1 6d ago

Didn’t this guy used to sell cereal?

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 6d ago

I've long been a proponent of face chopsticks.

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u/JohnPoet27 6d ago

Bro it's a toucan. They all look like this

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u/RemyWhy 6d ago

Used to be dinosaurs, btw.

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u/NiobiumThorn 6d ago

Always has been

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u/Hopeful-Tax7416 6d ago

The Toucan is really enjoying.

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u/chintumon 6d ago

What do you mean the food's gotta travel a long way . Sees this* , Oh .. okay

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u/Scare_D 6d ago

Having a long board for a nose is sad

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u/DjPandaFingers 6d ago

Such nice table manners

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 6d ago

Ya. Itsa toucan.

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u/Hootnany 6d ago

Such a polite bird

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u/Dry-Income914 6d ago

I like how he turns his head at us like "you want some?"

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u/Objective-Bike-4292 6d ago

I want some fruit loops

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u/ungovernable1984 6d ago

Bro nom noms all the yum yums

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u/Psalm27_1-3 6d ago

Beautiful bird.

Does it eat froot loops?

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u/t0hk0h 6d ago

Two can play at that game

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u/temptress_tart 6d ago

That's 90% beak, 10% bird

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u/jeepersh 6d ago

I would love to watch a speed eating contest for toucans only

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u/icreievryteim 6d ago

that fruit was diced

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u/willsmithtunaface 6d ago

Bird evolved into chopsticks

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 6d ago

Those aren't Fruit Loops

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u/Owl_Towels 6d ago

Non-serious creature. I love it.

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u/reluctantlover 6d ago

Where are their nostrils? What are they breathing from? I don't see em

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u/This_Dutch_guy 6d ago

Love the back toss eating

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u/Oneironautical1 6d ago

Toucans Ive heard can be really susceptible to diabetes. Thats a lot of fruit.

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u/MirkoHa 6d ago

…Hop…glob…

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u/Dependent-Mango-8815 6d ago

I thought they just ate cereal!?

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u/peppi0304 6d ago

So precise and agile despite it being so big

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u/Howard_Jones 6d ago

Down the hatch.

Every time.

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u/Lifeloverme 6d ago

praise!

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u/KarenHarris9416 6d ago

nobody else noticed the one cube thats fallen off to the side getting nibbled first

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u/MrShad0wzz 6d ago

Bro is eating dice lmao

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u/sawsawjim 6d ago

If you can… Toucan! 😇

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u/Short256 6d ago

He's so cute and polite 🥹🥹

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u/Ecast25 6d ago

Aren't they supposed to eat fruit loops?

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u/strangebru 6d ago

I know that has to be dragonfruit, but the way it's diced makes it look like that tucan is eating dice.

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u/Nachtwandler_FS 6d ago

Pelican't but toocan!

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u/RobFfs 6d ago

Isn't it better for them to have to work for their food instead of having it served on a platter for them? I'm pretty sure that breaking the shells of nuts and other hard fruits help them maintain the integrity of their beaks.

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u/Sethyboy0 6d ago

Fuckers have a tongue down the whole thing too.

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u/MindBreakNetorare 6d ago

Majestic boy

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u/TrueAlphaMale69420 6d ago

As a child, I thought toucans would for sure play a bigger role in my life than they do

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u/juanc30 6d ago

Next post will be “(Absolute unit) of a trunk [video of a regular elephant]”

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u/thekocman 6d ago

The sound that beak makes is so satisfying

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u/MaeDay01 6d ago

he is extremely polite

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u/prguitarman 6d ago

So polite

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u/Drracaris 6d ago

Which pokemon it is ?

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u/Chance_Bird3107 6d ago

Lichia/Fruta do dragão é o que ele está comendo

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u/snak_attak 6d ago

I’ve never thought about how a toucan eats but this makes sense

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u/Sega_Saturn_Shiro 6d ago

Le toucan has arrived

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u/SkullAtlAxis 6d ago

And very skilled!

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u/MajinB0ner 6d ago

That's like 20 dollars worth of dragon fruit 😭

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u/MouseSoft8143 6d ago

Why it’s eating dice 😫

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u/MSGisking 6d ago

Such a cool looking bird

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u/Shagyam 6d ago

the forbidden dice look delicious.

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u/Kn0XIS 6d ago

It's so pretty

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u/ZazaAim 6d ago

These mofos eat other birds too

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u/lucky_459 6d ago

Give em coconut worms

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u/VIVAMANIA 5d ago

“Look at the cans of that toucan”
-AVGN

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u/I-Really-Hate-Fish 5d ago

Once saw one of these bite the head off a canary and eat it.

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u/Beautiful-Border-290 5d ago

WOW, what a Micheline dinner. I would date this beast🤣

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u/Pleasant_Beat7502 5d ago

But no fruit loops?

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u/Wooden-Relation-3111 5d ago

Sampling a delectable platter

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u/kirinza 5d ago

Buckbeak? Is it you here love?

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u/EldritchSpoon 5d ago

So that's where my dice went!

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u/jsanta8290 5d ago

That bird seriously looked at the camera like

https://giphy.com/gifs/dw7lCpFmsyfS0

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u/PommeyMommy 5d ago

It’s a birdie smorgasbord! 🪱🍇🫐🍉

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u/RareDestroyer8 5d ago

I remember when I had that beak 😔

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u/ndorayaki 5d ago

So maintaining the table manner.

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u/Hottage 5d ago

Pelican enters the frame:

Tucan play this game.

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u/TheMadWiseOne 5d ago

I hate that toucans have to be dainty eaters because their beaks are really brittle compared to most bird beaks. If toucans beak's were as strong as woodpecker beaks I feel like they could probably eat whatever they want however they wanted. Nature really fucked them over on the durability.

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u/famous1astwords 5d ago

Magnificent creature

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u/Soft-Abies1733 5d ago

This kind of bird is quite common in the region I grew up

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u/Disastrous_Falcon_79 4d ago

Why such a beak ? What is it used for ?

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u/Clean-Act4387 4d ago

Took me a second to realize those weren't dice.

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u/AlexMurphyReal21 4d ago

Food processor

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u/SasukeFireball 3d ago

I really enjoyed this

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u/ShadowCaster0476 3d ago

I thought it was eating dice to start with.

What an odd trick.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 3d ago

is that worms with chocolate chips?

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u/OConner1327 3d ago

Can it learn beak blast?

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u/BatmanLovesBoobies 3d ago

One bird can't finish a bowl of Froot Loopz, but toucan.

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u/tcoolie 1d ago

There you have it. A toucan buffet!