Like many other creatures that dwell in the depths of the sea, the bodies of assfish are soft and flabby, and their skeletons are light and reduced. This is likely to have resulted from a lack of food and the high pressures which accompany living at such a depth, making it difficult to generate muscle and bone.[6]
That's a shame, no one likes a flabby ass.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
I think there's a German source about what are "acceptable" birds for each social class
As I remember it, an Emperor should hunt with an eagle, kings should hunt with a gyrfalcon
A sparrowhawk would be for someone lowly I think
Yeah I was just reading this stuff the other day, it's from the Book of St. Albans (which is also the origin of all of those delightful groups of animals like murder of crows and parliament of owls)
The Ars Magica roleplaying game added the acceptable bird for wizards, which is the lammergeier, or bearded vulture:
Harry Potter would have been a lot more metal with these buggers delivering mail
Their diet is mainly bone marrow, and while they feed on carrion like other vultures, they'll also pick up living animals and drop them from a great height
Also the head colouring is cosmetic, so the different houses could have had colour-coded lammergeiers
I was going to say, tynic, that your look would be very much complimented by a sparrowhawk perched on your arm
But I feel like it would probably be complimented even more by an achy, dare I say even slightly grumpy, Sparrowhawk perched on your shoulder or perhaps nestled on top of your head as you sit and browse the forum
I think that's quite a pleasing concept
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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I guess I never really thought through the implications of the name "sparrowhawk," but now this thread has me imagining a medieval priest spending his day off hunting sparrows. "Not today, you horrible little fluffballs."
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Huh, never really thought much about it but apparently the common depiction of the Dodo bird we've all seen is kinda actually bullshit?
The stuffed Dodo in London is a Frankenstein's monster of plaster and a few other birds designed around a handful of descriptions that had no real evidence to back them up.
I had just kinda accepted we knew what these things actually looked like but I guess it ended up being one of those weird historical blips that everybody just went with.
The Dodo definitely existed we just somehow did an horrendous job of actually documenting it.
It went out just at the point where science was starting to be a thing and people were interested in cataloging and documenting things but were also really bad at it I guess.
Like, apparently there are very few, maybe two(?) completeish Dodo skeletons. There's a head and a foot at the Oxford museum. Thats about it.
A lot of the early illustrations of Dodos seem to fall into that medieval vein of "guy hears a vague description of a giraffe or whatever, draws it and presents it to the public as fact."
Its just kind of odd. Everybody has "seen" a Dodo but what we all know as the Dodo is not an accurate representation of the real animal.
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As I remember it, an Emperor should hunt with an eagle, kings should hunt with a gyrfalcon
A sparrowhawk would be for someone lowly I think
Sparrowhawk would be the proper bird for a priest
Yeah I was just reading this stuff the other day, it's from the Book of St. Albans (which is also the origin of all of those delightful groups of animals like murder of crows and parliament of owls)
Sparrowhawks are for priests, apparently
Harry Potter would have been a lot more metal with these buggers delivering mail
Their diet is mainly bone marrow, and while they feed on carrion like other vultures, they'll also pick up living animals and drop them from a great height
Also the head colouring is cosmetic, so the different houses could have had colour-coded lammergeiers
You know, you can stay in either of our spare rooms rent-free as long as you want.
well then what the hell am I going to do with this achy sparrowhawk
Gentle massage
But I feel like it would probably be complimented even more by an achy, dare I say even slightly grumpy, Sparrowhawk perched on your shoulder or perhaps nestled on top of your head as you sit and browse the forum
I think that's quite a pleasing concept
Just like bigfoot!
Teach it to make friends with the owls in the park across the road?
Those are hefty boys
Definitely those.
The stuffed Dodo in London is a Frankenstein's monster of plaster and a few other birds designed around a handful of descriptions that had no real evidence to back them up.
I had just kinda accepted we knew what these things actually looked like but I guess it ended up being one of those weird historical blips that everybody just went with.
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It did exist, it's just it went extinct so fast no one was able to actually record its real appearance.
It went out just at the point where science was starting to be a thing and people were interested in cataloging and documenting things but were also really bad at it I guess.
Like, apparently there are very few, maybe two(?) completeish Dodo skeletons. There's a head and a foot at the Oxford museum. Thats about it.
A lot of the early illustrations of Dodos seem to fall into that medieval vein of "guy hears a vague description of a giraffe or whatever, draws it and presents it to the public as fact."
Its just kind of odd. Everybody has "seen" a Dodo but what we all know as the Dodo is not an accurate representation of the real animal.
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