Eagles blinks

May 12, 2020 8:32 AM

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Eagle blinks

Nictitating membrane

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Nightmare

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The Slow Mo Guys https://youtu.be/e-5xPpBxihI

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#DANTHEMAN

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It looks like a dinosaur. Bitch it is a dinosaur!

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I didn't understand that for a long time. I thought that people were just making birds out to be more awesome than they are, but I've

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learned a lot about taxonomy and cladistics this year. Birds are dinosaurs the same way that anything descended from a primate will

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always be a primate. So no matter how far down the family tree you go, anything descended from a certain thing will always be that thing.

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Right! It’s so cool! I recommend YDAW and treytheexplainer on Youtube if you’re interested in paleontology. It of my favorite things :D

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I'll absolutely check them out. I learned a lot from a guy called AronRa. Hes got a series tracing the human tree from eukaryotes to present

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"They don't even close them at the same time." - Eagle proceeds to blink his eyes at the same time.

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Eagle also winks.

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Need blinker fluid to lubricate eyes.

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You're a gem in this world

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v

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Wow those frames though! That is one HF Gif!

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This mechanism creates quite a bit of friction and requires lubrication and that's why eagles need blinker fluid.

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Always upvote Slow Mo Guys!

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It's a neat adaptation but it's not weird... It's a really common thing in the animal kingdom.

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https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys Their content gets used a lot for GIFs so if you like it go to their channel and check it out.

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That is fucking cool

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Did Gav do his own bird noises, I wonder.

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WOW lol

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It’s called a ‘nicitating membrane’, our common ancestors used to have them hence the pink fleshy triangle in the corner of our eyes.

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Sharks have them,yea?

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Nictitating

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Wonder if there’s any humans with a throwback full version

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It’s known as a ‘vestigial structure’, just like our tail bones.

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Just like wrist muscles

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Step one: be a badass bird.

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Stepe 2: nictitating membrane

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Darth Maul on meth

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*bird noises*

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Yoink

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Cats have similar too, but under their eyelids.

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All animals with nictitating membranes have them under their eyelids, including this eagle. They do have actual eyelids that they can

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Open and close just like most other animals. They just don't bother unless they're sleeping or need to protect them from physical harm.

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Cats' can't completely cover their eyes, so they're not true nictitating membranes.

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oh my god, I've seen this gif so many times and I never actually noticed that it's not a "normal" eyelid blinking

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How did you get that eagle to stay still out there in the deep forest?

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it's like Elizabeth Warren's Native American name "Sitting Eagle" - means "an Eagle that is so full of shit that it can no longer fly"

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Good analogy

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Extremely shallow depth of field

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Yes - what an illusion - it looks like it's right in front of them!

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A promise of freedom...

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As a guy working 7 days a week right now (IT), this hit home.

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I feel your pain! Hang in there!

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Could you close one eyelid and rest it while you work with the other? Probably not.

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Staples

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meth

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It's in a methadone program?

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Is this a joke question?

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Yes

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They nailed it.

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Feed some LSD

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They tied his shoo laces together.

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Wow, there is one natural predator that doesnt blink, the BMW.

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It blinks when you put the headlight fluid in

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made me wheeze

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Your eagles blinkers are broken & not syncing. I had a Fiat that was like that. v

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Of course it was a Fiat.

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Watch Toy Story, none of the toys eyes blink in sync

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Omg that poor dog..

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its really sad, idk why people are still trying to breed smaller and smaller dogs... bulldog breeding should be straight up illegal imo.

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Jesus fucking christ we are actual monsters to do this to another species to make them ‘aesthetically pleasing’.

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Lmao that dog must be the biggest genetic failure I’ve seen in a while

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Haven't looked in the mirror today I see...?

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Lmao

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It's almost as if selectively inbreeding dogs is a bad idea /s

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But where else will we get cute dogs? /s

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That /s is totally not superfluous /s

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Can't have been that long ago. Whens the last time you looked in the mirror?

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Must be a while if they all break around him

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Get a dog that doesn’t suffer constantly throughout its entire life next time thanks

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The eagle needs blinker fluid changed.

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I mean that is literally blinking's purpose, so, well done.

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This is what Humans did to 240lb wolves. We're scary.

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What the everlasting FUKC is that

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All Fiats are like that, eventually

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That poor dog. Quit fucking breeding assholed

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Assholes*

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You might have been right the first time!

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Muscle relaxer doing it's thing.

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Derpy doggo

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Fiat! Fix it again Tony

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Your Fiat is extremely ugly

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Mean.

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I love Gavin so much

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Teeeeeeeeeeeam FreeOna!!

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I love the time he straight up fired an arrow at the phantoms display.

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Poor Dan!

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Well he is the man

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Google and Gavin Gavin and Google

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Which one said it, let's find out

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I'm feeling lucky!

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I'm feeling lucky!

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I love how different AH Gavin is from Slow Mo Gavin. It's funny to see him act so "proper" during slow mo stuff.

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AH Gavin? Please explain, for my friend.

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Gavin works for Rooster Teeth, they’ve got a gaming channel on YouTube called Achievement Hunter

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Achievement Hunter Gavin

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Slow mo Gavin "this camera records at 10k frames a second" AH Gav *Bird Noises*

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