• GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
    46·
    10 months ago

    I loved having chickens, but sometimes you can tell they’re little dinosaurs. One time I was doing something near the chicken run, and all six of them suddenly went quiet and dead still. Then a wasp flew through the run and one of the hens jumped about 2-3 feet off the ground and knocked it right out of the air. Another hen ran over to where it landed and ate it. It was all over in about 15-20 seconds, the birds went back to acting normal and I’m just standing there going, “Damn!”.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    10 months ago

    If any bird still acts like it thinks it’s a dinosaur, it’s those goddamn Canadian Geese.

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      131·
      10 months ago

      When i was a kid, there was this lady who lived on my way to school. Dhe had a nice, fenced garden and two huge dogs and like 10 geese. I was never scared of the dogs, vut the geese were vicious. Sometimes they were on the lose and my way home turned into a survival horror game. They never stopped chasing. Dometimes i took some bread with me to throw and run away. One day they were chasing me i ran like a motherfucker around a corner and threw my last breaf. there was this young family with two little kids, and i was so relieved, because that was an easy way to lose them and at the same time i hoped that they were good runners. I honestly don’t even know what would’ve happend if they ever caught me and i’m glad i never found out. I really miss these fuckers.

    • Maco1969@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Geese, ducks and chickens had all already evolved when the dinosaurs went extinct. They are all tough hombre.

      • psud@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Have you not been reading this thread? Dinosaurs never went extinct. A sparrow is descended from the great raptors

        • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          If they know that the gallinoansera clade had already emerged before the K-T extinction, they most likely also know about birds being dinosaurs. Specifying “non-avian” everytime is a pain and saying “K-T extinction” is not understood by all, no need to correct them for semantics when their wording gets the point across.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    If you’ve ever seen what roosters do to hawks, chickens do do mice or, heck, other weak chickens, then you’d know that they do remember.

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      10 months ago

      Debatable, but the common consensus is that T-Rex had little to no feather. At the very least, the feathers couldn’t have covered all of the body because T-Rex skin imprints have been found without feathers, tho they’re not of all the skin, so there still may have been some feathered parts.

      The idea that T-Rex had feathers didn’t come from nowhere tho : We have many evidence of feathered dinosaurs from many groups. The T-Rex is niched within the coelurosauria clade, which includes many dinosaurs that are mostly covered in feathers (and even modern birds). There’s even a close relative of T-Rex, Yutyrannus, with evidence of wide feather covering.

      The reason why T-Rex didn’t have that much feathers is likely the same reason why elephants aren’t hairy : Big animals have less problem keeping heat, and may even at some point have problem evacuating excess heat (and yes, many dinosaurs were warm blooded). So as T-Rex got bigger, feathers became more of a hindrance.

      • Jorgelino@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’ve heard that they might’ve been covered in feathers as children, but didn’t grow any more as they got older, so they’d be spread out, not covering much, which is also how it works with elephants and hair.

  • not_again@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    Rhode Island Red or a hybrid thereof (e.g. Golden Comet).

    Great egg layers (the hens of course, not the roo pictured) and very mild mannered.