all i want is a partner who is way out of my league but thinks that i’m way out of their league and we’ll live together in perfect confused harmony with a dog
there’s a bird called the hoatzin that lives in south america that looks like this:
it looks really cool kinda like a feathered dragon??
but the coolest part about this bird is the juveniles!! the babies in this species have claws on their wings that help them climb until they’re old enough to fly, and by that time the claws disappear!!
you can see the tiny claws in this pic!! it’s so cool because birds are living dinosaurs and these little baby hoatzins look like baby raptors with their claws!!
idk i just had to post about this bc this is a rly cool birb that deserves more attention!!!
Expanding on bizarre aspects of hoatzin:
they are the only truly folivorous bird species, subsisting entirely on leaves
they are one of the few bird species that is monotypic in its order. A truly unique creature.
because of their leaf-eating, they have the longest digestive tract relative to body size of any bird
also because of their leaf-eating, they produce a lot of methane gas (like cows)