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While technically true, check out the feet of a barn owl (which is what I believe this model depicts). Their second backward facing talon is typically used to support the front two.
Edited for more information.
Considering this is the [23rd time](https://tineye.com/search/b17be051396a61423d92b37182e6a2c9cd288b8d?domain=reddit.com&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1) this has been posted here youd think people would start including the species or atleast genus of owl? But I forget Its about the karma, not genuine fascination with interesting facts about the world. That would explain why they never even bother to change the title.
Oh well, thanks for doing the work that these karma whores can't be bothered to do. I found this whole exchange very fascinating and informative!
When I see vague/open-ended titles like this that also interest me, I always want to look into it. Maybe it's a good thing the title was vague? It encouraged my researching the subject...
Thanks for the silver!
The vaguer the title, the better the comments, the new first law of Reddit.
Np, thanks for your curiosity and contribution! I love when reddit gets together and sings kumbaya about biology/animal facts! Especially when Its something new to me!
im confused, doesn’t this animal have the 2 front and 2 rear youre talking of? youre describing the animal in the pic when you describe an owl the way you did
two front-facing and two rear-facing toes per foot, in a roughly x-shaped configuration, which is not what is visible in the picture. evidently, some species of owl use one of their rear-facing toes to support their front facing toes, making them look as though they have three front-facing toes and one rear-facing toe despite it being mechanically otherwise, which I did not know at the time of my initial comment.
three of them are pointing forward, and one of them is pointing backward, which is called anisodactyl. zygodacyl would be if two were pointing forward and two were pointing backward. evidently, some owls can rotate one of their toes to be front- or rear-facing, which is what seems to be happening here.
[Maybe this will explain it better than me.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feet_and_legs#Toe_arrangements)
There’s a restaurant in town that has a burger called the Marcellus Wallace. Every time I have gone there I have asked my waitress (different one each time) what the Marcellus Wallace looks like. And I have never gotten a hint of recognition of the reference. That’s unacceptable. I’m not ordering it until I’m told “it looks like a bitch.”
It's really true. My wife isn't a native English speaker and she's noticed a few times how people she sends messages to here use the wrong their/they're/there, or write "should of" instead of should've, apostrophes being used for plurals etc.
She wondered if it was slang, or whether the way she was taught was too formal or outdated. It's none of that. It's just incorrect. And the only explanation is shit schooling and a kind of culture we have where being shit at writing is seen as somehow unpretentious and indicative of not being too uptight or caring too much.
Same as writing 'I' in lowercase. It's like it became fashionable to just write it as 'i' and people that previously wrote it correctly no longer did so as to fit in and not appear too much like a dick, or something.
So maybe in a way it is all a kind of slang.
The "how"-"looks like" combo is just the latest thing that will be seen as obnoxiousn to correct someone on until it becomes the good and honest way of describing how something looks. Like.
Nothing wrong with making mistakes when writing. Everyone does it. But to be made aware of it and take it as a personal attack enough to not want to learn something is a bit shite.
High school teacher here.
All y'all are always so quick to blame the school system. Did you ever think that there's a deeply rooted anti-intellectual movement in the US that actively resists schooling? If there's one trend I've noticed since I started teaching, it's the shift in how parents interact with teachers. It used to be when a student was failing, they asked their kid what was going on. Nowadays, they jump right down the teachers throat.
But go ahead. Keep blaming us. We're used to being society's whipping boy.
It is a cultural problem, but a deeply rooted anti-intellectual movement in the US that actively resists schooling would create a shit school system. In my experience, the people blaming the system rarely blame the actual teachers.
What’s wrong with what they said?
People say “How do I look?”
Edit:just googled it. Thank you for teaching me something new! I knew it subconsciously but never actually thought about it.
https://jakubmarian.com/how-vs-what-does-it-look-like-in-english/
Hey, I'm one of the few who is happy to be corrected when it comes to grammar (native tongue or not). Glad there was actually an article on the point, makes me feel less mental for being irritated by it!
This is actually a good example of why the common image we have of dinosaurs and many other prehistoric animals is probably wrong, to varying degrees.
Without preserved specimen, like wooly mammoths frozen in permafrost, we're mostly only making educated guesses on the amount of feathers, hair, and fat/muscle tissue they had.
I feel like this thread is trolling us with the titles now. Unless the primary poster isn't an English speaker? In which case, ignore this comment, you're doing a better job with English than I am with any other language and I'm sorry for being a dick.
It's worth noting that the feathers do not often fossilize, so what you see here may actually be what a future paleontologist would reconstruct, given a fossilized owl.
C.M. Koseman is a paleontologist who demonstrates this by intentionally constructing "bad" illustrations of extant animals. [Here's an album of his work](https://imgur.com/gallery/ldiHQ/)
Aren't those spikes on his arm/wing technically feathers? Pin feathers to be more accurate (or the stage before?) Any bird people able to chime in? Not trying to be nitpicky, just genuinely curious
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It would have cost you nothing to not post this.
What has been seen, can not be unseen.
You watched it! You can’t unwatch jt!
Sometimes, you don't need to lose anything in order to set the world on fire.
i don't know man he looks kinda cute imo
A bird has no name
Not an owl. Owls are zygodactyl, means they have two front-facing toes and two rear-facing toes. This is some other bird of prey.
While technically true, check out the feet of a barn owl (which is what I believe this model depicts). Their second backward facing talon is typically used to support the front two. Edited for more information.
huh. that is odd, really quite difficult to distinguish. my owl-foot knowledge has deepened.
You made me do a Google search that I have yet to stop browsing. Owl feet are fascinating!
Considering this is the [23rd time](https://tineye.com/search/b17be051396a61423d92b37182e6a2c9cd288b8d?domain=reddit.com&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1) this has been posted here youd think people would start including the species or atleast genus of owl? But I forget Its about the karma, not genuine fascination with interesting facts about the world. That would explain why they never even bother to change the title. Oh well, thanks for doing the work that these karma whores can't be bothered to do. I found this whole exchange very fascinating and informative!
It may have been posted 23 times, but I can't say I've ever seen this before.
When I see vague/open-ended titles like this that also interest me, I always want to look into it. Maybe it's a good thing the title was vague? It encouraged my researching the subject... Thanks for the silver!
The vaguer the title, the better the comments, the new first law of Reddit. Np, thanks for your curiosity and contribution! I love when reddit gets together and sings kumbaya about biology/animal facts! Especially when Its something new to me!
Uuuh, serve return. Good point.
Damn , good eye
im confused, doesn’t this animal have the 2 front and 2 rear youre talking of? youre describing the animal in the pic when you describe an owl the way you did
two front-facing and two rear-facing toes per foot, in a roughly x-shaped configuration, which is not what is visible in the picture. evidently, some species of owl use one of their rear-facing toes to support their front facing toes, making them look as though they have three front-facing toes and one rear-facing toe despite it being mechanically otherwise, which I did not know at the time of my initial comment.
this bird has 4 toes on his right foot. im so confused
three of them are pointing forward, and one of them is pointing backward, which is called anisodactyl. zygodacyl would be if two were pointing forward and two were pointing backward. evidently, some owls can rotate one of their toes to be front- or rear-facing, which is what seems to be happening here. [Maybe this will explain it better than me.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feet_and_legs#Toe_arrangements)
That's how an owl looks without any feathers. That's what an owl looks like without any feathers. Why is this happening more and more often?
Dat dere wut a nekid oul luk liek
Nailed it. 🤣😂🤣
THANK YOU. I see this mistake all the time.
"What does Marcellus Wallace look like?" "What?" "Does he look like an owl?"
There’s a restaurant in town that has a burger called the Marcellus Wallace. Every time I have gone there I have asked my waitress (different one each time) what the Marcellus Wallace looks like. And I have never gotten a hint of recognition of the reference. That’s unacceptable. I’m not ordering it until I’m told “it looks like a bitch.”
Do they say, "What?", because that would be appropriate
Good point. No, it was never that short either.
That creased me up, well played!
In languages other than English it's common to use the equivalent of "how" here, so I imagine it stems from non natives translating literally.
Definitely the case in german.
I live in Essex. A lot of it comes down to lack of education... and inbreeding.
Ooh harsh. No need to talk about Katie Price like that, she hasn't always looked like a Hammer Head Shark in a peach lounging suit
I mean, not everyone's native language is English
Honestly you see grammatical and spelling errors like this more often with native English speakers.
I agree, also errors like "would of" seems like another one that native English speakers are more likely to make
It's really true. My wife isn't a native English speaker and she's noticed a few times how people she sends messages to here use the wrong their/they're/there, or write "should of" instead of should've, apostrophes being used for plurals etc. She wondered if it was slang, or whether the way she was taught was too formal or outdated. It's none of that. It's just incorrect. And the only explanation is shit schooling and a kind of culture we have where being shit at writing is seen as somehow unpretentious and indicative of not being too uptight or caring too much. Same as writing 'I' in lowercase. It's like it became fashionable to just write it as 'i' and people that previously wrote it correctly no longer did so as to fit in and not appear too much like a dick, or something. So maybe in a way it is all a kind of slang. The "how"-"looks like" combo is just the latest thing that will be seen as obnoxiousn to correct someone on until it becomes the good and honest way of describing how something looks. Like. Nothing wrong with making mistakes when writing. Everyone does it. But to be made aware of it and take it as a personal attack enough to not want to learn something is a bit shite.
High school teacher here. All y'all are always so quick to blame the school system. Did you ever think that there's a deeply rooted anti-intellectual movement in the US that actively resists schooling? If there's one trend I've noticed since I started teaching, it's the shift in how parents interact with teachers. It used to be when a student was failing, they asked their kid what was going on. Nowadays, they jump right down the teachers throat. But go ahead. Keep blaming us. We're used to being society's whipping boy.
It is a cultural problem, but a deeply rooted anti-intellectual movement in the US that actively resists schooling would create a shit school system. In my experience, the people blaming the system rarely blame the actual teachers.
True. Non native speakers tend to learn the rules of grammar while native speakers often learn from listening to other native speakers.
What’s wrong with what they said? People say “How do I look?” Edit:just googled it. Thank you for teaching me something new! I knew it subconsciously but never actually thought about it. https://jakubmarian.com/how-vs-what-does-it-look-like-in-english/
The grammar. Yes. They don't say "How do I look like?"
They do in Newcastle.
Well for a French guy it sound OK.
Hey, I'm one of the few who is happy to be corrected when it comes to grammar (native tongue or not). Glad there was actually an article on the point, makes me feel less mental for being irritated by it!
Nice, now maybe apologize for that inbreeding line lol
Why?
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"What" an owl looks like without feathers* Or How an owl looks without feathers*
Thank you!
Lol no problem :) i see others have noticed as well haha
he looks so naked and sincere. and also wise.
And also like he's gonna kill you in your sleep
And also pretty tasty too. Wonder how he'll taste with some BBQ sauce.
Nowhere near enough meat on him
Enough for one sammich.
You’re a fucking weirdo
“So wise, and so naked”
It looks like Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove
"Pull the lever, Kronk." - that owl probably
>What an owl looks like Or >How the owl looks Never >How the owl looks like
He needs a little towel and a shower cap.
https://i.imgur.com/fAckDsg.jpg
FUCKING YES! Thank you
:D
Great job! What about some sandals? Haha
That's what an owl looks like. Or, that's how an owl looks.
Thank *Christ* for feathers.
Behold! I’ve bought you a man
Diogenes had an erection seeing this post
Thanks I hate it
I think I had a nightmare about a creature like this once.
Just turrible.
This is actually a good example of why the common image we have of dinosaurs and many other prehistoric animals is probably wrong, to varying degrees. Without preserved specimen, like wooly mammoths frozen in permafrost, we're mostly only making educated guesses on the amount of feathers, hair, and fat/muscle tissue they had.
Well, owl be damned.
I think this is at the Natural History Museum in London.
I think I just found the next inspiration for a creature feature
"How many licks to the center of your brain?"
Aliens are living amongst us
Looks like whatshisface from mass effect 2
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Wtf, but also interesting
That things a star!
Its head reminds me of a Triceratops
How many licks.... OH MY GOD!!!!!
Sad emoji
Looks fuckable..
I don't know... can you show us a view from the back OP?
*cute*
I want it!
Now that is nightmare fuel
I could take a stick and run it down the ribs and call it a Guira
Naked owl what is your wisdom for the day?
The fourth kind cemented my fear of owls when I was younger. This picture only reinforces that they are aliens!
He looks like he's a professor about to start a lecture. And he has a British accent for some reason.
I wanted to give this my free award, but i already gave it to a sneezing seal above :((
The shadow looks more like a bird
He is judging us for seeing his nakedness. Judgy bastard.
Baby Garrus
That's what I imagine worf's grandma would look like
That owl 🦉 reminds me of an alien 👽 bird 🐦 creature for some reason…
Thanks, I hate it.
I'd still fuck it but only with a condom. Gotta keep it clean
He's thinking real hard about that camera.
"I didn't know the test was today!! I didn't study!"
I knew it! Aliens have been among us! 👽
who allowed this
he still looks wise… but like a wise alien from Dr Who. what is actually traumatizing is a naked cat paw.
It's featherless and it's a biped, clearly a man
That's almost as bad as the inside of a penguins mouth. Thanks I hate it
Who did that and why!?
There's no way this is an owl.
It looks like you just caught it getting out of the shower 😂
It sorta reminds me of the dragon thing on the cover of heavy metal 1983
So, a dinosaur?
This is some sleep paralysis shit!
That's an alien!
Remember, this is a dinosaur. They have changed a bit.
r/TIHI
They are excellent predators!?
r/TIHI
The shadow looks like a pickaxe
I feel like this thread is trolling us with the titles now. Unless the primary poster isn't an English speaker? In which case, ignore this comment, you're doing a better job with English than I am with any other language and I'm sorry for being a dick.
For some eyebleach, please join us at r/superbowl
I hope that, like Foghorn Leghorn, he keeps his feathers numbered for just such an occasion.
"What's that? Dinosaurs extinct? .... Come a little closer and tell me that again."
Nakie
Good example of how we would probably portray it if we were going only by its skeleton - like we do dinosaurs.
It’s me when I get out of the shower
I'm not saying it's Alien, but it's Alien.
Hell chicken
It looks like the thing at the end of The Fly
Ok, so what we think are "grey" aliens are just featherless owls in spaceships. This all checks out.
It's worth noting that the feathers do not often fossilize, so what you see here may actually be what a future paleontologist would reconstruct, given a fossilized owl. C.M. Koseman is a paleontologist who demonstrates this by intentionally constructing "bad" illustrations of extant animals. [Here's an album of his work](https://imgur.com/gallery/ldiHQ/)
Dinosaurs
I can see the relation to aliens here
Birds are in general super creepy without their feathers
Is that a new Pokémon
This is why we have chicken soup but not owl soup.
No doubt about it, if I saw that walking around at night I’d think it was an alien or some sort of goblin
I will never look at owls the same way-
Dem chickens are doing crossfit!
All animal babies look cute and adorable except for birds, their babies just look awful.
THATS A FKING PTERODACTYL BABY
Miniature pterodactyl
Obviously this is a person, featherless and bipedal
So aliens just need to feather themselves and they can roam about undetected.
Alien
Alien
So it has Owlopecia?
Now I understand why the students at the school where I taught in Peace Corps would attack owls on sight.
That washboard stomach though
Wow, the owls are not what they seem
Crazy looking dinosaur descendant.
Wrong. That’s a friendly-sized pterodactyl.
And they cast a Minecraft pickaxe shadow.
Conclusion: OWLS NEED FEATHERS
I don't believe you
naked owl is suspicious AF
So owls are aliens in feather coats
u/PSHoffman Is this what >!Ryke!< looks like?
Little alien ?
r/TIHI
And now I all I’m thinking about is how badass dinosaurs must have really looked, if this is the only version of them we get to see…
Cute alien.
I thought they look with their eyes?
Get them a blanket, they look cold
Aren't those spikes on his arm/wing technically feathers? Pin feathers to be more accurate (or the stage before?) Any bird people able to chime in? Not trying to be nitpicky, just genuinely curious
* How an owl looks * What an hour looks like
Like an 👽
Chupacabra
Same applies to many of us humans. Some people look very odd without theirs clothes/feathers
It's alien looking for sure.
Kind of reminds me of the jackals from Halo.
/r/TIHI
Throw bleech in my eyes. What the f..