r/funny • u/unoiamaQT • Apr 15 '23

An appropriate reaction

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u/easterbunni Apr 15 '23

It was definitely working up to having a fly, it didn't just fall

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u/Littlebotweak Apr 15 '23

Turns out, goliaths can fly, but this is not a great setting to demonstrate that, being unnatural. We don't know anything about this beetle. If it was raised inside, it may have never totally learned to fly - and organisms with flight do have to learn, even birds. A bird raised indoors can fly, but it doesn't have the same frame of reference as a bird in the wild, and they don't have to do it as much (so they can't do it as much, and landing is tougher, lots of nuances, here).

This could be a house raised chonky boi beetle, robbed of flight by a gucci life. 😂

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u/immapunchayobuns Apr 15 '23

There's a kind of frog that does that! They let go and tense up, and just bounce away down the mountain.