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From Tommy Eliasson

Great Grey stuck in heavy rain.

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[โ€“] anon6789 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've got twice the neck vertebrae than we do, and they're a bit coiled like a spring. The blood vessels and airways are also similarly coiled inside so they don't suffocate themselves contorting like this. Those would have been some interesting generations to observe while that was evolving! ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Haha. Just imagining the prehistoric owls twisting their neck going "Okay. Okay. Nope, too far. There goes my neck."

And that one smug owl who of course got the biggest twist angle giving the smug owl look.

[โ€“] anon6789 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I imagined them looking around too fast and blacking out and falling out the tree in a cartoonish manner. Somewhat like so:

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Yes, you get the comedic potential. Man it works Jane been hilarious.