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Took it four hits though. That duck just looking around like
OOH. Something bit me a bit.
AH, it got me again! Where the fuck is that...
ACK! COMING FROM? I DON'T SEE ANY..
*splat*
*extra splat for good measure*
I thought so too but the comment I was responding to referred to it a duck and it does look too small to be a goose. I don't think the video gives us a clear enough look at the beak to be able to tell for sure.
My sweet summer child... The duck (and the comment about it) is the green fella at the start that got one hitter quitted, his head came clean off. The goose is the giant white thing that took 4 hits to down.
So there was a duck, and a chicken too.
I am aware there were two. I was specifically referring to the Whote one which is what I described in my comment. I already told you that I thought it was a goose but as White ducks absolutely exist, and I've seen plenty of them, when the person I first commented to describing the same hit said 'duck', I didn't think that uphoenix&sid of it.
Tl;DR: OOPS Happen. You can let it go now
It's compressive vs shear strength. A rolled up newspaper will easily bend but takes a lot of force to buckle if you push the end of the roll against a surface. In the same way, the force of the falcons strike is transmitted along the length of their thin leg bones, which is the direction where they have the most strength.
EDIT: u/Box-o-bees also linked a good askscience post in another reply about how bird bones are reinforced hollow structures
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight.
TIL bird bones are lungs.
And chickens aren't very good flyers. Chickens spend most of their time on the ground and have denser leg bones than most birds that fly more.
Bird bone density Isn't the same in every species, and not all bones in a given species are equally hollow, or air pocketed. Look at albatross bones and they are much less dense than a chicken, and completely flightless birds like emus or ostriches have denser bones.
You still will find hollow/air pocketed bones in a chicken though, in it's ribs, and wings, areas where flight muscles are attached and more oxygen dispersion needs to happen.
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight.
TIL bird bones are lungs.
Yes they do. Hollow bones allow for more surface are for oxygen to be diffused in the bloodstream and used by the muscles. This is important because flight requires a lot of oxygen to be used by the body as quickly as possible. Also not all the bones are hollow, mainly the ones in the breasts and wings.
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight.
TIL bird bones are lungs.
not all its bones are equally hollow, Its mainly the ones flight muscles are attached to, because that is where most oxygen needs to be absorbed. The legs evolved to be more robust on raptors who hunt like this. A songbird will have pretty delicate legs though as it Isn't striking prey and barely has to support any weight.
I wondered the same thing. I looked it up, and it's all about the structure of the bones aparently.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8lm12v/comment/dzhknxv/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8lm12v/comment/dzhknxv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I'm convinced these videos deliberately show/name the wrong species in so that they will get engagement from the people who get mad about it being wrong.
I'm so sick of all these videos narrated by text to speech or whatever.
But then again, I also will turn off a YouTube video just because I don't like the person's voice... So maybe I'm just a dick.
No these AI voices suck. They always sound slightly off and they're used so much on videos that are absolute bullshit that I just assume that any video with the AI voice is not true now.
Half the time the robot voice is just making stuff up/says stuff that’s just straight up wrong too. I saw one video where someone was trying to push together magnetic rocks that were repelling each other. Did the voice say the poles are facing each other and like charges repelling? No! It called them “reverse magnets”.
They have special nose channels so they can breath while in a dive otherwise from the insane speeds their lungs would blow up.
Did a report on them in school ha
I used to live near Omaha, and there were Peregrine falcons who would build nests on one of the high-rise buildings downtown. Walking around the downtown area, you would occasionally find a full pigeon wing lying on the sidewalk - the falcon's hit would literally sometimes cause body parts to come off. One of my co-workers was high enough in their company's building that she actually witnessed an attack outside her window.
Peregrine falcons are amazeballs.
The goose in the desert. I would feel confident saying this was a rich guy in Dubai allowing his Falcon to “hunt”. The goose was most likely brought there and released while the falcon was in the sky. I hope not, but the odds are not low.
A peregrine and I scared each other one time on a big climb in Yosemite. I came up to a ledge that had a flake with a kind of cave behind it. I heard some noise and then this little dude rocketed out of there. Some climbing areas have closures for peregrine falcon breeding times but not generally on El Capitan.
One of my favorite memories from Squamish is being up high on the Chief and having the peregrines chopping through the air nearby. It’s so cool to be near them. (Not during nesting season tbc since Squamish does close sections down for peregrine breeding / nesting every year).
https://preview.redd.it/4ynb16hq0rxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bca215ff14f871ddb8dcefbf0f06c9faad88d2f
And that if you didn’t know, is the B-2
I saw a pigeon explode once. I imagine there was some sort of raptor involved but it was too fast to see. Just a "PFFT" and a spray of feathers wafting to the ground.
I went to a Notre Dame - Air Force football game back in the early to mid 90s and Air Force brought their trained Falcons to perform. It was insane and the people who stayed in their seats at halftime saw something unforgettable. The place was up for grabs and those fans who went to get food or to use the restroom had to hear the crowd roars and wonder what in the world was going on.
I have useless knowledge which is awesome for this video!
Animals use the distance AND speed an object is moving toward them to determine when they should run away or react. It lets them react earlier for faster moving objects, or react when a faster moving object is further away, so the relative reaction time allows them to get away. Fast objects get reacted to further away, slower objects reacted too closer.
Birds determine when to run away based only the distance the object is from them. Which is why fast moving objects can breach the distance the bird will flinch or react to, but the speed the object is moving closes the distance from that point too fast and the reaction is too slow.
I’m not biologist, but I assume the advantage here is amongst other obvious reasons like increased force with speed, but also at a certain speed a bird just won’t react at all before it gets hit. Hence that duck getting clobbered.
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That duck was confused af
Took the head clean off..
Took it four hits though. That duck just looking around like OOH. Something bit me a bit. AH, it got me again! Where the fuck is that... ACK! COMING FROM? I DON'T SEE ANY.. *splat* *extra splat for good measure*
That's a goose mate.
Should of ducked though
I was always bad at that game
I thought so too but the comment I was responding to referred to it a duck and it does look too small to be a goose. I don't think the video gives us a clear enough look at the beak to be able to tell for sure.
My sweet summer child... The duck (and the comment about it) is the green fella at the start that got one hitter quitted, his head came clean off. The goose is the giant white thing that took 4 hits to down. So there was a duck, and a chicken too.
I am aware there were two. I was specifically referring to the Whote one which is what I described in my comment. I already told you that I thought it was a goose but as White ducks absolutely exist, and I've seen plenty of them, when the person I first commented to describing the same hit said 'duck', I didn't think that uphoenix&sid of it. Tl;DR: OOPS Happen. You can let it go now
Alright alright..... Keep you hair on. The whote one it is then.
Probably tied down or in some ways incapacitated by the falcon’s owner. That wasn’t a wild hunt.
I don't see anything to suggest it wasn't. Do you see something I don't?
I was confused finding out a bird was the weapon
Rush hour vibes!" Which wanna yall hit me"
If that duck is British you know it’s thinking “Falcon Hell”
I wanna know how the falcon doesn’t break its leg impacting something that fast…
Especially with hollow bones
It's compressive vs shear strength. A rolled up newspaper will easily bend but takes a lot of force to buckle if you push the end of the roll against a surface. In the same way, the force of the falcons strike is transmitted along the length of their thin leg bones, which is the direction where they have the most strength. EDIT: u/Box-o-bees also linked a good askscience post in another reply about how bird bones are reinforced hollow structures
Hollow bones aren't any more fragile than ours. They make up for the hollowness through density as the hollows are just to store oxygen
I think you've been watching too much one piece. Bird don't blow or store oxygen in their bones.....
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight. TIL bird bones are lungs.
I doubt it's a vacuum though
Have you never seen the inside of a chicken bone when eating? It’s marrow…
Yes 100% marrow no bubbles of any sort
And chickens aren't very good flyers. Chickens spend most of their time on the ground and have denser leg bones than most birds that fly more. Bird bone density Isn't the same in every species, and not all bones in a given species are equally hollow, or air pocketed. Look at albatross bones and they are much less dense than a chicken, and completely flightless birds like emus or ostriches have denser bones. You still will find hollow/air pocketed bones in a chicken though, in it's ribs, and wings, areas where flight muscles are attached and more oxygen dispersion needs to happen.
Nice I love that you know this haha
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight. TIL bird bones are lungs.
Yes they do. Hollow bones allow for more surface are for oxygen to be diffused in the bloodstream and used by the muscles. This is important because flight requires a lot of oxygen to be used by the body as quickly as possible. Also not all the bones are hollow, mainly the ones in the breasts and wings.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA this comment killed me. One Piece, hahahaha brilliant!!!
Pretty sure they mean blood🩸
Why do they need to store oxygen?
Air sacs are attached to the hollow areas in a bird's bones. Essentially, their lungs extend throughout their bones. This helps birds take in oxygen while both inhaling and exhaling. This adds more oxygen to the blood, providing a bird with extra energy for flight. TIL bird bones are lungs.
not all its bones are equally hollow, Its mainly the ones flight muscles are attached to, because that is where most oxygen needs to be absorbed. The legs evolved to be more robust on raptors who hunt like this. A songbird will have pretty delicate legs though as it Isn't striking prey and barely has to support any weight.
I wondered the same thing. I looked it up, and it's all about the structure of the bones aparently. [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8lm12v/comment/dzhknxv/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8lm12v/comment/dzhknxv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Doesn’t skip leg day
How ant not die when dropped from high..?
ants have too low terminal velocity to do any damage
The actual Falcon PAWNCH
Bird on bird violence. I had no idea!
"Show me your moves"
 Inspired the B2 design.
Other way around. Rocket falcons were inspired by the B2
Lmao
Closeup at 00:08 is a Goshawk, not a Peregrine.
I'm convinced these videos deliberately show/name the wrong species in so that they will get engagement from the people who get mad about it being wrong.
lol it worked then
Beat me to it.
The thing is...
I'm so sick of all these videos narrated by text to speech or whatever. But then again, I also will turn off a YouTube video just because I don't like the person's voice... So maybe I'm just a dick.
At least there isn’t a stupid face in front of it holding some tiny little mic
For real. Like just lemme watch the clip of whatever video you're showing me. Why do I need to see your goofy face covering up all the action?
You sound just like the folks asking reaction content makers to be quiet. Their reactions are the point.
Reaction content is stupid.
Or single words in the middle of the screen that make me want to throw up
Both things can be true
No these AI voices suck. They always sound slightly off and they're used so much on videos that are absolute bullshit that I just assume that any video with the AI voice is not true now.
Half the time the robot voice is just making stuff up/says stuff that’s just straight up wrong too. I saw one video where someone was trying to push together magnetic rocks that were repelling each other. Did the voice say the poles are facing each other and like charges repelling? No! It called them “reverse magnets”.
They have special nose channels so they can breath while in a dive otherwise from the insane speeds their lungs would blow up. Did a report on them in school ha
I wonder how many of them blew up their lungs before unlocking that evolutionary skill tree
One punch bird
100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run!
Don’t forget no ac in the summer
If you notice, looks a lot like a stealth fighter on side view, not an accident.
Enough testing with aerodynamics, and you're back to nature's design. If that wasn't the inspiration in the first place
B2 bombers have a chined nose for rcs reduction, peregrine falcons have a beak, results in similar side profile
Japanese bullet trains too use falcons measurements at the front to cut off noise
It doesn't look like a stealth fighter.. a stealth fighter looks like it
True - by design.
Biomimicry baby!
The government is not creative. They just shrank the big spy plane to make a small spy plane. #BirdsArentReal!
At least they dont look like the F-117, would be like an old PS1 character.
I used to live near Omaha, and there were Peregrine falcons who would build nests on one of the high-rise buildings downtown. Walking around the downtown area, you would occasionally find a full pigeon wing lying on the sidewalk - the falcon's hit would literally sometimes cause body parts to come off. One of my co-workers was high enough in their company's building that she actually witnessed an attack outside her window. Peregrine falcons are amazeballs.
The hospital I work at has a Peregrine Falcon program and we have a very small pigeon population as a result.
You think these birds fast? Should see me on those scooters omw to sideswipe a pedestrian
Who felt bad for the prey on this one? They don't even stand a chance.
The goose in the desert. I would feel confident saying this was a rich guy in Dubai allowing his Falcon to “hunt”. The goose was most likely brought there and released while the falcon was in the sky. I hope not, but the odds are not low.
Yeah, I think you're right
Maybe if the duck had a lucky evade, the falcon might go splat on the ground
A peregrine and I scared each other one time on a big climb in Yosemite. I came up to a ledge that had a flake with a kind of cave behind it. I heard some noise and then this little dude rocketed out of there. Some climbing areas have closures for peregrine falcon breeding times but not generally on El Capitan.
One of my favorite memories from Squamish is being up high on the Chief and having the peregrines chopping through the air nearby. It’s so cool to be near them. (Not during nesting season tbc since Squamish does close sections down for peregrine breeding / nesting every year).
https://preview.redd.it/4ynb16hq0rxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bca215ff14f871ddb8dcefbf0f06c9faad88d2f And that if you didn’t know, is the B-2
https://preview.redd.it/1gu019tyzuxc1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fd0cfaea827bea2418801943d330d55c113d7a7
Duck: aight imma head out
This ai stuff is crazy . That's a goshawk at 00:09. A very different bird.
SHOW ME YOUR MOVES!
I saw a pigeon explode once. I imagine there was some sort of raptor involved but it was too fast to see. Just a "PFFT" and a spray of feathers wafting to the ground.
How does the falcon not get wrecked also?!?!
They have on board warning system to remind them to pull up.
"CAW, CAW, CAW, CAW" That means pull up in their avian language btw
😁I know that they have top tier avionics, I mean why don’t they get hurt from the collision? Nature can be fucking amazing.
Titanium alloy bones, of course
SR-71 Bird
Fake plastic submarine
Had one of those come in and snag a mouse or something right next to me when I was hiking. Barely had time to even react and it was gone.
Kez ya bastard
feels like the camera person placed those goose and duck as targets.... they don't seem to be in their natural habitat
Now that’s interesting.
Stuka
Now thats a proper boom and zoom
To think the US used the diving body shape on a bomber.
Reminds me of playing a video game in first person. What in the hell keeps hitting me?
holy fucking shit
I went to a Notre Dame - Air Force football game back in the early to mid 90s and Air Force brought their trained Falcons to perform. It was insane and the people who stayed in their seats at halftime saw something unforgettable. The place was up for grabs and those fans who went to get food or to use the restroom had to hear the crowd roars and wonder what in the world was going on.
Nature evolved wings so birds can fly away from predators. Also nature.. let's use that to hunt those flying ones to balance it out.
Mean bastards.
*FALCON PUNCH!*
https://preview.redd.it/3n30mwazhtxc1.jpeg?width=384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ef292c71e44f1c83180561c64c45080d452945b
Reupload #17272
Super badass
Snoot Droop
Did a report on these in sixth grade solely on the fact they were fast
Mike Tyson of Raptors
Works 100% of time, minus those 52 where the falcon miss and crash into his death
Irl brave bird. Super effective even against flying types.
Nature is truly beautiful
It is amazing the amount of wing strength they have to fly back up after a dive like that.
Stoop is the weakest sounding name for such a powerful move.
I hope thier target isn't my head
How tf do you defend against that?
Animorphs taught me all of this when I was on the 5th grade.
That's just freaking awesome
I have useless knowledge which is awesome for this video! Animals use the distance AND speed an object is moving toward them to determine when they should run away or react. It lets them react earlier for faster moving objects, or react when a faster moving object is further away, so the relative reaction time allows them to get away. Fast objects get reacted to further away, slower objects reacted too closer. Birds determine when to run away based only the distance the object is from them. Which is why fast moving objects can breach the distance the bird will flinch or react to, but the speed the object is moving closes the distance from that point too fast and the reaction is too slow. I’m not biologist, but I assume the advantage here is amongst other obvious reasons like increased force with speed, but also at a certain speed a bird just won’t react at all before it gets hit. Hence that duck getting clobbered.
Train these for attack falcons
The b2 bomber took inspiration from the peregrine falcon unless that was just some bullshit someone told me.
r/BirdsArentReal
B-21 bomber of the bird kingdom
Falcooon Punch!
That downwards plunge is a lot like the German plane in World War Two. Just as terrifying early on.
Where was this character on Angry Birds World Tour?
Brave Bird
CORVIKNIGHT, USE BRAVE BIRD!
Feathered stukas
"rocket falcon"?? You mean, a peregrin? Anyway, moving on... (unlike those victim birds, I guess...)
Damn nature crazy af
Fun fact, biggest US population is in NYC. They love high altitude roosts, in this case skyscrapers.
I can hear the sonic booms. Amazing.
Really natural to clip wings and do the fowl equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel to human amusement.
o7 at these camera operators!!
Would this be too gruesome for the Slow Mo Guys?
The goose video is pretty twisted.
So it’s a Pidgeot using Air Slash and Brave Bird attacks, and rolling a critical hit
Do they hit with their beaks or legs?
Falcon PAUNCH!
youd think it like slices the preys throat or something but no it just punches it really hard in the face 😂
Nature is so fucking brutal
See where the shape of the B-2 came from?
Wouldn’t the impact damage the falcon too?
Pause at 0:27. Bird looks exactly like a B-2 bomber.
Me grabbing the last biscuit 😀
Guess I know why they call it the “falcon punch” 🥊 now sheesh
lol at the last 🪿
Apex predator of birds
Is this entire sub just "Nature is cool/cruel now?" I don't hate it but, like, it's all I see now.
Where are these desert geese?
been my FAVORITE animal since i was 10 lmao
Holy fuck
Op what is a rocket falcon
Has someone saw it nailing a swan, by chance?
What a dick head that falcon is.
Oh my God how many similes was that in a row?
Looks exactly like our stealth bomber
Hey I remember this boss battle. It was megaman or something.
NSFW please. Nothing brings me down like seeing an animal snuff film.