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Chocobo

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Cassowary feet
- Cassowary head
  
  Cassoway = Velociraptors if they could also fly short distances.
  Though fortunately generally non-aggressive unless you piss them off.
  
  You should hear the sound they make. Thumping bass that you feel as much as you hear it.
- he have an onlyfans?
- Clever bird...

My favorite dinosaur is the Ayam Cemani AKA the big black cock
- Ahh, the goth chick
- You S.O.B!
  I just tried to find more info, and now I feel bad about myself...
- None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.
- NSFW
- What a big boy!
- Hmm, I got different results using a search engine...
- This better not awaken anything in me.
- Simple; beautiful; classic.

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?
- 100% they absolutely were.
  Give geneticists 20 years, we'll have lab grown T-Rex in the grocery store
  
  I suspect T-Rex (like carnivores in general) isn't such a good choice if meat is your goal. Sauropods on the other hand? Tons and tons of meat from a single herbivore animal. You might even be able to use existing cattle feed.
  
  “Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!”
  
  Great, can't wait to hear beards gatekeep ancient flavor.
  "T-Rex is soooo gamey. I prefer Diplodocus veal" "Have you tried pteranodon wings? Like buffalo wings from real buffalo"
  
  Can't wait for brontoburgers.
- "tastes just like chicken"
  
  Many of them probably would
- I just need to know which one would be best with stuffing and gravy for Thanksgiving.
  
  Forget the turducken. This year we're having brachiotyranotriceradilophovelociturducken.
- Would they taste like chicken, or like lizard?
  
  Most birds don't taste like chicken though

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

(Potentially) [NSFW] ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
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Edit: This one's been floating around the net for long enough that I'd forgotten what the feathery chap in the back left was up to!
Hidden behind a spoiler for those who don't want to see an owl swallowing an entire rat(!)
- Owls really are basically cats.
  Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don't mind but others will.
  
  Good call - not sure you can tag images in comments as NSFW (to get the auto-blur), but I've hidden it in spoiler tags.
- It's not what it seems to be!

So your favorite bird genre is birds as a whole? Nice, me too!

Birds don’t just look like dinosaurs they are dinosaurs, scientifically speaking.

How do you call this species?
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove-billed_ani
  
  Ani are you groove-billed?
  Are you groove-billed, Ani?
  
  Thank you so much, I just learned there's a blue version
  
  Thanks!

All birds are.

I shall name him Kweh-vin.

When did and why did dinosaurs go from giant fangs to beaks? Or are reptiles more direct descendants of those dinosaurs
- Birds are the only direct descendents of dinosaurs. Reptiles were around at the same time as dinosaurs and evolved independently. There are huge differences, scales instead of skin and feathers, cold blooded instead of warm, etc.
  Why Do Birds No Longer Have Teeth?
  
  TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.
- fwiw there were plenty of non-avian dinosaurs with beaks, ceratopsids for one.
- Fangs are still pretty rare in reptiles. Most lizards have basically some form of serrated beak.

Bird genre?

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