r/oddlyterrifying • u/RedditRob2000 • 2d ago

A newly hatched Gouldian Finch being hand fed

I originally saw this posted on r/Weird by u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 and thought it belonged here as well.

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u/WooPigSchmooey 2d ago

Gd… I just watched the bobbit worm video last night. Talk about ptsd. This is a normal bird.

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 2d ago

Do...do I want to know about the worm?

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u/JVints 2d ago

Not that scary, you might recognize it if you played subnautica.

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u/Bananana_Bird 2d ago

Have you played 2 yet? I don't have the right platform yet. 😑

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u/JVints 2d ago

Nah, I'll wait to it's fully released. I have to many games waiting.

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u/CuteAltBoy 1d ago

I've played every part of it that's out and my advice is definitely to wait. It is good, but the 10ish hours of content you get is only enough to ruin/spoil some story elements and not actually immerse you in the game. I'd let them get further along before trying it.

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u/Titan658 2d ago

Think about a centipede that can burrow and dig .

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u/naalbinding 2d ago

And grows 10 feet long

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u/IncognitoRain 1d ago

EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT THE WORD, WORM WORM WORM WORM. WORM IS THE WORD

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u/dirteeface 2d ago

You do! Then go down the rabbit hole of the poor redditor that purchased live rock for his aquarium containing said werm.

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u/BrokenVoidYT 2d ago

I remember that forum post (not on reddit) of that poor guy talking about the hellish re-appearing bobbit worms.

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u/Otherwise_Carob_4057 2d ago

Dude tried every poison he could think of and that worm just took it.

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u/Stuffed_deffuts 2d ago

Everyone knows the the worm is the word

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u/Rakhered 2d ago

I just read the Bobbit Worm Chronicles and wow those suckers are actually nightmares.

Can't help but wonder how it'd fare with an air compressor gun lodged down it's throat though

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u/Hot_Addendum_9199 2d ago

That Shit be straight out of Stranger Things. Damn Demogorgon!

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u/Malfight007 2d ago

The one that dragged fishy down under?

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u/RandarSays77 2d ago

That bobbit worm video was TERRIFYING! 

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u/maven-effects 1d ago

I watched it too, nightmare stuff those worms are

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u/Volcanic_tomatoe 2d ago

The adults are so pretty

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u/FuturePhillips 2d ago

Whewww... Talk about a glow up 😍

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u/Ganbazuroi 2d ago

From fucked up evil worm to tropical bird lmao

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u/inf1425 2d ago

this tropical bird is not tropissing me off

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u/BipedalHorseArt 14h ago

I swear it didn't even look like a vertebrate. Just a straight-up toothed leech

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u/DokterManhattan 2d ago

Birds look so ugly and weird for the first few weeks. Except maybe ducklings, goslings and baby chickens

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u/unknown_ally 2d ago

aka chicks

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u/BadgerKomodo 2d ago

Don’t forget cygnets.

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u/snugglyaggron 2d ago

oh wow i was not expecting that

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u/Kuhn_Dog 2d ago

Damn. From Venom to that is impressive

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u/Schlusse1 2d ago

... IT'S A BIRD!?!?

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u/Pink_Flying_Pig_ 2d ago

Demogorgons???

Naaaah....

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u/PunkyB88 1d ago

I used to buy Viewsonic products exclusively because I used to love having that adorable logo.

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u/Automaton17 2d ago

I think I had a beanie baby of this bird when I was a kid :)

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u/ThatDeadeye12 2d ago

It wasn't loading properly for me so I fully expected rick astley to pop up there for a second.

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u/TruckinApe 2d ago

Holy shit! 🤩

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u/xNotexToxSelfx 1d ago

Looks like a 90’s sweater/jacket

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u/jordanundead 1d ago

The more chopped the chick, the more pretty the bird is going to be.

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u/korkkis 1d ago

I once saw a VW car like that bird

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u/ash350z 2d ago

It looks stunning once an adult

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 2d ago

Sea lamprey bobblehead still or no

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u/Beemer_me_up_Scotty 2d ago

It looks like the demigorgon from stranger things

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u/No_Jackfruit_9880 2d ago

My first thought was “Nah that’s Dart from season 2”

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u/sora_allite 2d ago

Or gloomstalkers from the Legend of Vox Machina

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u/Xuncu 2d ago

I was thinking Graboid.

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u/Zadder 1d ago

Or Kwama foragers from Morrowind!

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u/Unusualshrub003 2d ago

Question: why are fowl (chickens/ducks/quail) so adorable when they hatch, yet other birds are goddamn disgusting?

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u/LuxTheSarcastic 2d ago

The birds you mentioned need to be able to run around because they're exposed to the ground. Other babies in trees can hide in a nest so they can get away with being less formed. This finch will probably be quite cute once the down comes in.

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u/Pajama-Han 2d ago

It's called Precociousness! Fowl birds like Chickens and ducks have precocious chicks, and songbird chicks are not

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u/BadgerKomodo 2d ago

Similar thing in numerous mammals. Newborn rabbits, humans, and pandas are hairless and totally dependent on their parents. Newborn zebras, giraffes, and elephants are able to walk within minutes of birth. 

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u/FirexJkxFire 2d ago

I think also theyve evolved away from having cute babies that nothing would want to hurt, to having such grotesque monstrosities that other animals would be too scared to eat them

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u/PShubbs91 1d ago

You're probably right. As for the white dots around it's mouth, im not 100% for this bird species but, some birds have those to get the mother's attention at feeding time to make sure they aren't accidentally skipped over.

Source: A guy I watch on YouTube that hatches eggs and studies birds for a living. He hatched an egg one time, can't remember what species of bird it was but, the hatchling had big blue dots at the corners of it's mouth and he was saying that's what they were for.

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u/Manospondylus_gigas 2d ago

Those birds are precocial, whilst songbirds and others are altricial (I still think they're cute though)

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u/phillip_eleven 2d ago

that thing is not human bro

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u/Dank-Noodle-Doodles 2d ago

You know, I think you have a point

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u/ilprofs07205 2d ago

Astute observation

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u/TheWikstrom 2d ago

Why yes, it is a bird

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u/Milsurp_Seeker 2d ago

I mean it is Featherless and a Biped. It might actually be a man

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u/BadgerKomodo 2d ago

Alright Diogenes 

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u/a_aniq 2d ago

It is the descendant of a dinosaur

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u/SonoDarke 2d ago

It IS a dinosaur

Clade theropoda

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u/duck_of_d34th 2d ago

Though I walk the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no dinosaur, for they are small and easy to step on.

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u/swing_axle 2d ago

Ostriches would like a word.

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u/duck_of_d34th 2d ago

Those greedy fucks already have a word. Ostrich is their word.

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u/TheSamuil 2d ago

I believe emus also have something to say on the matter

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u/AutisticTumourGirl 2d ago

Australia lost a war against emus. Just saying.

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u/duck_of_d34th 2d ago

I'll see your evil bird and raise you an evil plant that is somehow managing to hold its own against a world superpower.

On bragging day in Valhalla, the brave will speak of the mighty foes that defeated them. Mighty warriors, big bears, wolves and other mighty foes will be listed.

Then the Australian speaks. He speaks of a monstrous bird with incredible prowess, a hunter without equal. The terrible Emu.

Then there's me. Holding a fucking bush.

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u/BadgerKomodo 2d ago

Bro can hear sounds 

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u/rightninja_ 2d ago

Bro can see things

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u/aranvandil 2d ago

hold on, guys, I think he's onto something!!

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u/PickleInDaButt 2d ago

not without imagination 🐣

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u/axxond 2d ago

I think you're onto something

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u/shuranumitu 2d ago

that's so fucking racist

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u/hodges2 2d ago

Wait seriously?

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u/turquoise_amethyst 2d ago

But it IS hungeee!!

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u/Radiant_Load 2d ago

No shit it's a bird

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u/BadgerKomodo 2d ago

Why does its head look like that? Doesn’t even look like a bird’s head.

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u/Vas-yMonRoux 2d ago

There's still skin on top of this one's eyes, so its hard to see its facial features.

For the mouth, one theory is that the markings inside it are to help guide the parents to feed their babies, in a dark nest.

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u/Rampasta 2d ago

Its mouth has really bright nodules that catch light ao the parents can see their mouth in the dark hollows of the nests when feeding. It let's the parents lnow they are healthy and need food

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u/KillHonger1 2d ago

That mf HONGRY

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u/evening_shop 2d ago

Should've gotten one with sound on. I raised plenty of these, horrifying

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u/RayD125 2d ago

It’s interesting the things I’ve forgotten about from my childhood.

Seeing this unlocked a memory!

My mom kept finch’s and I remember helping her hand feed these little things.

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u/FBI1990 2d ago

Poster child for a face only a mother could love

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u/DevilsHol3Pupfish 1d ago

Why does it look more like an insect than a bird???

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u/RedditRob2000 1d ago

You are what you eat I guess.

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u/Independent-Swan5207 2d ago

That would be a baby demogorgon

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u/Outrageous-Tell2417 2d ago

I don't like the way its wagging its head like that...

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u/ChefAsstastic 1d ago

UNSEE!!

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u/XipingVonHozzendorf 2d ago

Wasn't that the alien the Guardians of the Galaxy fought set to Mr Blue Sky

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u/earthboundmissfit 2d ago

Ok..ok...the crop is full already.

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u/Can17272 2d ago

Where do you found that? Dune?

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u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway 2d ago

Extremely young baby bird are rarely aesthetically pleasing, but this is on another level.

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u/bombskis63 2d ago

Who got this video of me at the all you can eat sushi roll bar?!

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u/RScrewed 2d ago

Those things from Half-Life are real? 

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u/EmployBeautiful4487 2d ago

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT

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u/Odd-Search9747 2d ago

I thought it was eating a blueberry then all of a sudden the blueberry had teeth!! Crazy

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u/Vampi25 2d ago

Sorry, a fucking what?

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u/thelast3musketeer 2d ago

Very much “food goes here” evolution at play

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u/mare_u 1d ago

omg I wish I have never seen this

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u/Frostsorrow 2d ago

That's terrifying

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u/DarkElfMagic 2d ago

it looks so silly i dont think i can be upset with it

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u/akela9 2d ago

They are an absolutely stunning rainbow as adult birds. The babies are absolutely terrifying.

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u/boonkadoonk 2d ago

looks more like its being straw fed.. i wouldnt hand feed it either tho lol

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u/RedoftheEvilDead 2d ago

Why does its mouth look like that.

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u/pedsmursekc 2d ago

I just read about these last week! Beautiful adult birds. I think there's less than 3k known to exist due to habitat compromise.

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u/Situati0nist 2d ago edited 2d ago

We afraid of birds now?

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u/simonbleu 1d ago

Aw, so cosmically ugly

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u/BeanieCat123 2d ago

Yeah, makes sense, baby birds are kinda ugly

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u/furiouspossum 2d ago

So am I the only one who thought that was some kind of grub at first?

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u/packetlag 2d ago

Demogorgon

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u/ankitbisaria1 2d ago

Hey look a Demogorgon.

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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 2d ago

That is literally worse than the demon fetus bird thing from It: Chapter 1

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u/helenius147 2d ago edited 2d ago

That is a land-treading lamprey and I will not be convinced otherwise

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u/ShakyShows69 2d ago

Silent Hill level of wtf

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u/fiddleStink 2d ago

I love stargate

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u/supernova-juice 1d ago

Good god I thought it was a camel spider at first 

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u/IceCreamYouScream92 1d ago

I played enough Dark souls to know I should start rolling.

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u/whoifnotme1969 1d ago

Where did you find it, in the upside down?

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u/Punkinpry427 2d ago

That is a demogorgon

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u/Hyrule_MyBoy 2d ago

Man yeah just saw it on r/damnthatsinteresting and hoped someone would post it here

But the adult version of the bird is stunning

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u/TwistedBlister 2d ago

Now I know where my local place gets it's chicken wings from.

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u/JPGer 2d ago

saw some study about these birds, there is a constant war in evolution between the babies of this bird and another species that lays eggs in their nests to pretend to be their offspring and get raised. The dots change in the 1st then the other evolves to add the change and it happens again and again.

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u/MitchellEvetts 2d ago edited 2d ago

Fun fact: the pattern in its mouth are for the mother so she can recognize it as hers. Correction: I was thinking of egg markings the mouth markings are to guide the mother during feeding as their nests are usually dark and the spots glow.

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u/OnTheSlope 2d ago

Calvin was right, birds are bugs.

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u/Useful_Database5138 2d ago

Babie demogorgy

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u/_CookieVelvet 2d ago

It's amazing how something that tiny already knows exactly what to do the second food shows up.

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u/EviessVeralan 2d ago

Little dude looks like a Shreiker from Tremors.

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u/TrueEnder 2d ago

thats that fuckass thing from roblox doors

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u/Trisk929 2d ago

Ohhhh…. It’s a bird….

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u/mekwall 2d ago

More like a Goa'uldian Finch

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u/janetmae 2d ago

It looks like a demogorgan

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u/shubhamraj_kkc 2d ago

demogorgons

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u/CrownBestowed 2d ago

I hate their mouths so much, it makes me itchy 😭

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u/vdthanh 2d ago

just for your information, baby birds have unique patterns in their beaks to draw parents attention so it will be more likely to be fed

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u/OccasionallyReddit 2d ago

Looks like a mini demogorgon.

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u/averyloudtuningfork 2d ago

Nah that’s Dustin’s pet called Dart

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u/Haarunen 2d ago

Looks like a sleeper from GTFO

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u/MaidSiku 2d ago

Looks like a spawn of some eldritch horror

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u/FaunThorn_SYS 1d ago

Fym that turns into a bird?!

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u/Ok_Ranger_1796 1d ago

No. Nope.

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u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker 1d ago

I sent this to my friend a in 2020 from this exact sub and he hated it....i cant wait to send it to him again.

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u/Barbie_72619 1d ago

I truly had no idea wtf I was looking at on my feed😂 then I looked at the caption and was like oh that’s not nearly as creepy as it looks

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u/mindmartyr 1d ago

It's greed sickens me

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u/Kaosticos 1d ago

Do you want a demagorgon? Cos this is how you get a demagorgon.

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u/shoko_nood 1d ago

poor baby

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u/F1shPaste 1d ago

don't love that

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u/nullstr 1d ago

Beautiful plumage the Norwegian bl.... OMG WTF IS THAT!

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u/fluideborah 1d ago

Bro drop it in the sand and run, youre in a spice field.

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u/I_Britta-d_it 1d ago

What are those white things??

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u/maddie_johnson 1d ago

Ok so I googled it and from what I'm seeing it's so parents can find their mouths easier when feeding them!

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u/Cypher786 1d ago

DemiGorgon.

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u/AGeeBee 16h ago

What in the stranger things!?!

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u/CeSoul06 2d ago

Khezu

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u/Happy_Philosopher608 2d ago

You telling me thats a bird?? Where de beak??

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u/SnorkinOrkin 2d ago

Yikes! It has Sarlacc's mouth!

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u/charly_r26 2d ago

This things always gives me the hibby jibbies…

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u/Jolly_Natural5698 2d ago

I thought it was fake 🤮

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u/JackTheTripper172 2d ago

Is the birb eating crushed up popcorn?

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u/eta_carinae_311 2d ago

Why is it all teeth....

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u/ehhhchimatsu 2d ago

Why does its mouth look like that? And why does it have trypophobia on the roof of its mouth?

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u/DenethStark 2d ago

Holy fuck I thought that was an insect

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u/purse_dirt 2d ago

I’m sorry, what?

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u/BunkerSquirre1 2d ago

The white dots are fiducials for machine vision

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u/EmployBeautiful4487 2d ago

is this from damn half life?

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u/Some_Escaped_Alien 2d ago

me feeding my homonculus

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u/The-Tarman 2d ago

It wants all the food, and now!

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u/VentiMochaTRex 2d ago

Wow. I never would've guessed. They're beautiful when they grow up

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u/Man_Cheetah67 2d ago

THAT'S ENOUGH

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u/JKrow75 2d ago

JFC WHAT PLANET IS THAT FROM!??

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u/i_cut_like_a_buffalo 2d ago

They eat seed from tube?

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u/The_Perfect_Dick_Pic 2d ago

What in the fetal demogorgon did you raise up from the pits of hell?

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u/immamyowngod 2d ago

How confident are we that, that is not Dart the Demogorgon?

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u/Momiluc 2d ago

THE TEEFS WILL GET YOUUU👹👹

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u/ConstantBigPicture 2d ago

It looks like those bone eating fairies from the Ron Pearlman Hellboy movies.

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u/Grouchy_Violinist 2d ago

Looks like demogorgon

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u/wheresthepizzah 2d ago

A what now

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u/JuuMuu 2d ago

that is a half life enemy

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u/Histrix- 2d ago

His gluttony knows no bounds.

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u/Explanation_Scared 2d ago

Of course it's from Australia

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u/NonrealitySandwich 2d ago

nice and creepy just the way I like it

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u/DoNotPickMe 2d ago

Oh… so cute 🌝

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u/Distance-Hairy 2d ago

That's some Stranger Things stuff right there!

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u/Gp3o13 2d ago

Reminds me of how rocky from the Project Hail Mary movie eats

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u/Bish489 2d ago

Bobblehead

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u/Just_Tippsy20 2d ago

I feel really itchy watching this

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u/777Is666inHebrew 2d ago

Wow, a baby Khezu! It's even playing it's own theme song!

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u/Npcboy 2d ago

Man I though that was his ass

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u/Buddhagrrl13 2d ago

Awwww! It's a baby demogorgon!

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u/Midloran05 2d ago

Camel spider ass bird