Mildly Interesting

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submitted 2 years ago by tictac2@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I so thought they really were parrots before reading the captions lol

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought they said "carrots" and I was like, I guess those birds do look like they have tiny green carrots hanging from their mouths.

[–] DrZoidberg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I thought they were like a large, rare, green hummingbird with those long beaks that are actually just stems apparently.

[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

c/misleadingthumbnails

[–] ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The way the seeds are layered in the pods is really satisfying as well.

Image is OC

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ha! Figure that one out AI.

[–] intelati@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Screw you AI overlords

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

They look like parrots with hummingbird beaks lol!

[–] lennster@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

So those aren't parrots? Crazy 😂

[–] Dumeinst@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We call these 'papagei' in swiss german which is German for parrot. We also used to paint them with water colors

[–] tictac2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

til

[–] Grass@geddit.social 4 points 2 years ago

That's kinda scary

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Who's a pretty pod? Who's a pretty pod?

[–] Hard_to_deside@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

I swear to god, the one in the back is a parrot.

[–] ShadedCosmos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Damn you had me fooled