Thursday, October 20, 2022

BWAAAAHHAAAHHHHAAA GOOOODDD EVENINGGGG

We were watching a doc on the Galápagos Islands when we were shocked to encounter this blood-thirsty critter: the vampire ground finch. It has a strong beak that it uses to create a wound in other bird species and drinks the blood. An all-round asshole, the finch also eats eggs. While their beak is not so strong to crack the shell, they have come up with a successful workaround: they roll the egg down a slope hoping it will bang into something like another egg or rock and crack. Lack of water for months at a time seems to be the reason for these evolutionary solutions for survival.

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