Pigeon
-Rejects the extravagances and hypocrisy of late-stage capitalism
-Doesn’t care what you think anyways
-The only god is chaos pic.twitter.com/jlEwd1ubUz— Ferris Jabr (@ferrisjabr) May 7, 2020
Science writer Ferris Jabr studied bird nests to see what they say about the bird itself. Or something along those lines. You know how we judge people by the homes they choose and the way they keep them? This is sort of like that.
Penguin
-It’s fine, I put some blubber on it pic.twitter.com/ROADdRsGcj— Ferris Jabr (@ferrisjabr) May 7, 2020
Some birds are perfectionists, while others take the easy way out.
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Megapode
-Uses compost pile, sunbaked sand, and geothermal energy to warm eggs
-Possibly the most ecologically intelligent species
-Literally one with the Earth
-Megapode 2020 pic.twitter.com/CaTTKW9m02— Ferris Jabr (@ferrisjabr) May 8, 2020
See lots more of these, from robins to toucans to ostriches to potoos, in a Twitter thread that was so popular he published part two as well. -via Metafilter
Source: neatorama