#fat-spacebird

that’d be super rad, he’s a perfect mate for one of my lonely dragons! i’ll message you on there when i have funds :D

whyyyyyyyy i want the second one but i just spent all my treasure on genes T_T

say words about hoatzins! they’re like smelly pterodactyls.

HOATZINS!

The only surviving member of their family/order, and if i remember right they literally smell like crap. The smell is because they have a funky digestive system - they've developed a massively oversized crop. They eat food, and then let it ferment inside the crop/essentially go rotten, which is why they smell so bad. It's the same thing that cattle, goats, camels and etc do! Except it's in a bird, which is pretty unusual. 

The most interesting thing about hoatzins can only be found in their babies - when they're not yet fully grown chicks have claws on their thumbs and their first digit, and they use them to climb trees. Now, the digits of modern birds have been fused for a REALLY long time, so hoatzins make more sense when you note that filholornis, a suspected close relative, was around 34 MILLION years ago. These are some prehistoric ass birds. 

wow 2015 just started and we already have a candidate for the most presumptuous ask of the year award

I’ve been looking for something to adapt…

it also works with parrots!

our vet gives harrison’s omega-3 bird booster for arthritis. she gave it to our p-let for a little spell of lethargy and dull feathers and it really helped him.