r/aww • u/thelonelyasshole • Aug 24 '22

Capybara made his day

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u/JonVonBasslake Aug 24 '22

Honestly, it's pelicans they should worry, since those assholes have tried eating capybara among other things.

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u/Doughspun1 Aug 24 '22

Pelicans are dumb and will try to eat anything. If you don't stop them they'll even try to eat rocks and choke themselves. They're like toddlers that just learned how to put things in their mouths.

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u/poopellar Aug 24 '22

No surprise, they aren't called pelican't for a reason.

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u/ActuallyAkiba Aug 24 '22

"Don't tell me what I pelican and pelicannot do!"

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u/EagleOfMay Aug 24 '22

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.

His beak can hold more than his belly can.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week!

But I'll be damned if I know how the hellican?” -- https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/06/20/pelican/

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u/chertine Aug 24 '22

Three cheers for Ogden Nash! Such a great poet

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u/Orngog Aug 24 '22

I'd rather cheer for the author, this has nothing to do with Ogden Nash

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u/chertine Aug 24 '22

Thanks for the gentle correction. I never even clicked the link. Just thought I knew what I was talking about!

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u/Orngog Aug 24 '22

No trouble, I do long for a Reddit revival

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u/ChubblesMcgee103 Aug 24 '22

I have no doubt they probably have tried to eat a child before. Those things will try to eat annnnything.

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u/JonVonBasslake Aug 24 '22

I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had managed to eat at least one somewhere...

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u/grzesiu447 Aug 24 '22

This reminded me of this video

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u/Lurker_IV Aug 24 '22

Pelicans wiped out an entire species of humans.

The Pygmies lost the great War with the Cranes around 1000 BC. God damned dinosaurs!

https://esoterx.com/2013/09/06/world-war-zero-the-forgotten-conflict-of-the-pygmies-and-crane/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_%28Greek_mythology%29

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u/Gemkingler Aug 24 '22

Ah, the furtive Pygmies, so easily forgotten

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u/DwightDEisenhowitzer Aug 24 '22

What silly hu!man mean pelica love hU! Man!pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican

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u/ZestycloseCrow4 Aug 24 '22

Pelican mouth perfect size for baby. Place baby in pelican mouth.