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Shoebills!

I know you all have seen the intimidating shoebill gifs going around…it’s typical of them to look like that, by the way. Even the first time they were described, they were called “menacing”!

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. IV. 1849.

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    we saw one of these in Dallas and it looked like some kind of malcontented muppet
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    “Bitch, please.”
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