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tictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Common Milkweed Pods look like Green Parrots

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Common Milkweed Pods look like Green Parrots

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tictac2@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Quills
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    2 years ago

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

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
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      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
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        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
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      c/misleadingthumbnails

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

    Image is OC

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    Ha! Figure that one out AI.

    • intelati@programming.dev
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      Screw you AI overlords

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    They look like parrots with hummingbird beaks lol!

  • lennster@lemmy.ca
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    So those aren’t parrots? Crazy 😂

  • Dumeinst@lemm.ee
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    We call these ‘papagei’ in swiss german which is German for parrot. We also used to paint them with water colors

    • tictac2@lemmy.worldOP
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      til

  • Grass@geddit.social
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    That’s kinda scary

  • Hard_to_deside@lemmynsfw.com
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    I swear to god, the one in the back is a parrot.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    Who’s a pretty pod? Who’s a pretty pod?

  • agentshags
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    Or maybe humming birds

  • Shaded Cosmos@lemmy.world
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    Damn you had me fooled

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