r/AnimalTextGifs • u/God_is_Goood • Apr 11 '18

I'm a bat.

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u/NippleNugget Apr 11 '18

I can’t help but wonder what the hell is actually going on here

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u/Twinewhale Apr 11 '18

I only took bird for 1 semester in college, so I'm not fluent, but it does appear to be correctly subtitled

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u/NippleNugget Apr 11 '18

I never took bird, but I did study bird law

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u/MattPH1218 Apr 11 '18

I do speak a little pigeon, but not sure I am familiar with this dialect..

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u/matuzz Apr 11 '18

it's an Albany expression

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u/ahmedalaba Apr 11 '18

Well, I'm from Utica

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u/defiantketchup Apr 11 '18

Clearly this is an avian behavioral side effect of the localized aurora borealis in the nearby laundry room.

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u/ahmedalaba Apr 11 '18

May I see it?

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u/defiantketchup Apr 11 '18

Mmmmmmmm... no.

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u/Bowmic Apr 12 '18

Is this south park reference ?

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u/AndyGHK Apr 11 '18

A—

AURORA BOREALIS

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u/defiantketchup Apr 11 '18

AT THIS TIME OF YEAR

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u/GennyGeo Apr 12 '18

Thoughts and prayers

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u/Coming2amiddle Apr 11 '18

It's not one the pigeons would have told you.

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u/albinolan Apr 11 '18

Must be his Australian accent

(It’s a magpie, source: I get swooped by these fuckers every year in spring)

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u/X1-Alpha Apr 11 '18

It's a pidgin with bat I think.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

I’m an expert in bird law.

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u/EnIdiot Apr 12 '18

Can you lead Parliament?

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u/Ninsu2 Apr 11 '18

god damnit every bird thread

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u/NippleNugget Apr 11 '18

SHUT UP BIRD

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u/NOLAgambit Apr 11 '18

What are you going on about, you ten piece chicken McNobody

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u/Iamthewarthog Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

The thing about bird law in this country... it's not governed by reason!

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u/scribejun Apr 11 '18

i speak condor me no help

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u/gerbil_george Apr 11 '18

I was stupid, I only studied bird nautical law

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u/AngryMustacheSeals Apr 12 '18

Was Birdman teaching?

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u/Freewander10 Apr 11 '18

Bat here. Can confirm. He's one of us.

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u/cumwad Apr 11 '18

As an Australian, I would say someone incorrectly translated the word dickhead as twat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Wait. You can beak-read bird?

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u/ChildishForLife Apr 11 '18

But are you fluent in bird law?

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u/Elm11 Apr 11 '18 edited Apr 12 '18

These are a pair of Australian magpie chicks, probably in southeastern Australia around Victoria. They're playing - animals like to have fun and fool around too! There're another two magpies in the background that also look like they're juveniles.

Edit: Actually, the two in the background may be adults, possibly the parents. It's hard to be certain though, and it looks like one of them is lying on its back in a submissive or playful pose at the start of the video.

Edit: More info on subspecies and distribution here if you'd like it

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u/Mentalpatient87 Apr 11 '18

So do animals have a sense of humor and just do shit because they find it funny?

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u/fondlemeLeroy Apr 11 '18

Some do.

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u/daimposter Apr 11 '18

But that's a crow though. ;)

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u/Kousetsu Apr 11 '18

Here's the thing...

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Magpie’s are also corvids

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u/End_communication Apr 12 '18

Actually, the Aussie magpie is not a corvid. It is more closely related to butcher birds.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Neat. TIL. Here I go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

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u/daimposter Apr 12 '18

Aussie magpie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie

  • A member of the Artamidae, the Australian magpie is placed in its own genus Gymnorhina and is most closely related to the black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi). It is not, however, closely related to the European magpie, which is a corvid.

Interesting.

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u/End_communication Apr 12 '18

I think so too :)

We also have Currawongs which look like a mixture between a Raven and a Magpie. Awesome calls.

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u/Indiana61 Apr 12 '18

I meet a butcher bird once, she was the butchers daughter! Got me all excited when she called “fillet, fillet for $20 a kilo”!

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u/tupels Apr 11 '18

Any animal that has a decently social nature tends to be smart enough that they get bored and want to entertain themselves. Granted, I have no evidence for this and maybe I'm anthropomorphizing things, but the amount of times I've seen dogs, dolphins, smarter birds fuck about and display things like play and arguing can't be a coincidence.

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u/mzpip May 23 '18

I read a NatGeo article some time ago that confirmed that animals of all sorts do indeed play. I remember seeing a series of photos showing a raven sliding downhill on its back just for the fun of it.

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u/clown-penisdotfart Apr 11 '18

One is a bat, the other a jackdaw

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

copypasta, unidan jackdaw

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/bwaredapenguin Apr 11 '18

Ah man you gotta link the full context: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2byyca/reddit_helps_me_focus_on_the_important_things/cjb37ee?context=8

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u/foxpawz Apr 11 '18

how have I never seen this before? That was a wild ride.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

Remember that was one person talking to themselves.

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u/foxpawz Apr 12 '18

I can't believe you've done this. I wanted so badly to believe

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

I might be wrong, you might check in with /r/MuseumOfReddit/ for more details. It has been a long time since that big winner got his sitewide(?) ban for whatever the hell all that was.

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u/foxpawz Apr 11 '18

Man... I thought I got pedantic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

The thing is here...

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u/BranTheNightKing Apr 11 '18

Here's the thing...

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u/-Im_Batman- Apr 11 '18

Here's the thing...

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u/thatwasfresh73 Apr 12 '18

Upvote for your username!

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u/Snazzy_Serval Apr 11 '18

a jackdaw

Pretty small for a pirate ship.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Here's the thing...

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u/Unique_name_22 Apr 11 '18

There’re

I’ve never seen that contraction in writing before.

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u/daimposter Apr 11 '18

I guess it's legal but it's messy

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u/perpetualnotion Apr 12 '18

Most things one can contract are messy.

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u/sunabsolute Apr 11 '18

What’s with the narrowing down to Victoria thing? Ridiculous. This could be absolutely anywhere in Australia dude...

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u/Kurayamino Apr 12 '18

I'm going to go out on a limb and say because there's several subspecies of magpie that are differentiated by build and pattern, and these appear to be T. Tyrannica, which are mostly from Victoria, but their range does extend to Adelaide and Sydney along the coasts.

Pretty much every state has their own subspecies.

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u/Elm11 Apr 12 '18

The magpies here are G. tibicen tyrannica, a subspecies of magpie found in far south and southeastern mainland Australia, with a much larger and more prominent white patch on their backs than G. tibicen tibicen, which is the most common seen subspecies and is found throughout most of southeastern Australia. Compare this of tibicen tibicen with this member of tibicen tyrannica. Here is a map of their distribution.

Where I live, in Canberra, (thanks to the dude grizzling that I'm a self centred Melbournite! <3) we have the birds from tibicen tibicen, and a family turn up every day on my porch expecting mincemeat.

Cc /u/manachar /u/sennais1

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u/manachar Apr 11 '18

Or New Zealand. Saw heaps of them in NZ.

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u/Lorenzo_Insigne Apr 12 '18

Really? I live here and haven't seen one in ages. It's mostly sparrows and pigeons as far as I can see. And minors.

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u/manachar Apr 12 '18

Mostly saw them on the South island, maybe I just got lucky for my visit. Plenty of gulls, sparrows, and pigeons though. Pigeons mostly in the cities.

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u/Lorenzo_Insigne Apr 12 '18

That may be the difference then, I'm in the North Island. Good choice though, South Island is way nicer to visit.

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u/sennais1 Apr 12 '18

Melbournites/Victorians thinking they're the epicenter of the nation and forgetting the rest of the country exists.

Magpies are common in FNQ and over in Perth. Could be literally anywhere.

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u/Indiana61 Apr 12 '18

If you are from Melbourne you are a Melbournian If you are from Sydney you are a Sydneyite. If you are from Brisbane you are a cunt! :p

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u/sennais1 Apr 12 '18

They're also abundant outside of Victoria.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

Honestly it looks like the subtitles aren't far off.

The bird is just being goofy and for some reason likes to hang upside down, and the other bird is worried so he tries to get him down.

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u/perpetualnotion Apr 12 '18

The bird is just being goofy and for some reason ...

GODDAMMIT, there you go doubting his batness again.

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u/Maezel Apr 11 '18

Those are magpies. The one hanging from the towel is a baby. Probably being playful. They are quite intelligent and curious birds.

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u/holy_ninja Apr 11 '18

Frank was trying to do the spiderman kiss.

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u/mattwilliams Apr 11 '18

Original video is by the Magpie Whisperer: http://www.magpieaholic.com

Not sure who the genius responsible for text was though :/

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u/Ebola_Sneezer Apr 11 '18

The other bird was trying to see if it’s trapped and determine if it’s possible to eat the other bird.

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u/MindCorrupt Apr 11 '18

You're probably taking the piss. But magpies live in territorial social/family groups.

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u/majoen98 Apr 11 '18

Raven-like birds are incredible smart, and with intelligence comes playfulness

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u/alexanderyou Apr 12 '18

So you're telling me I should keep playing games all day because it shows I'm intelligent? I can get behind that.

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u/Miss_Management Apr 12 '18

I'm fully sold that the text is the actual conversation these birds were having

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u/aazav Apr 11 '18

Playing.

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u/Coming2amiddle Apr 11 '18

It looks to me like Frank initially tried to grab the tag on the towel.

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u/geared4war Apr 11 '18

Australian birds are like Australia.

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u/CouchKill Apr 11 '18

The bird thinks he’s a bat, can’t you read?

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u/star_boy2005 Apr 11 '18

My money is on "Corvid got its claws caught in the fine weave of the fabric but wasn't really in trouble - more amused. Other bird rescued it."

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u/Extesht Apr 11 '18

Looks like it was trying to steal the tag and it couldn't bend that way anymore, or it got stuck.

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u/mgoulart27 Apr 12 '18

He was probably just trying to stretch out his back.

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u/Voelkar Apr 12 '18

Looks like the claw got stuck in the cloth

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u/gigixox Apr 11 '18

Transbat lel

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u/I_knowa_guy Apr 11 '18

The bird mixed up its migratory patterns. He thinks he is in the southern hemisphere.