*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
>Yep that's me. Now you are probably wondering how I got in to this situation

>>212877458
THAT EAGLE IS A HOTHEAD

>>212877402 (OP)
look at him. that little guy is having the ride of his life

that bird has bird fleas

>>212878159
Those are ticks jumping off their soon to be eaten host.

>>212877402 (OP)
Just saw the weirdest thing today. I was hoofing my bike uphill after a long tiring trip And I passed some kind of small dead animal on the side of the road. Realized it was more than one so I went back and looked. There were two whole moles and most or all of a small bird all laying in a little heap. So, assuming it wasn't an interrupted tryst ending in a murder/suicide, as near as I can figure some large bird got harrassed by another until it horked up it's meal and got chased off.

>>212877402 (OP)
look at all the fucking parasites on that bird, being a wild animal sucks

>>212879357
I used to watch a wildlife rehabber youtube, and he would regularly get injured raptors left at his rehab. Was surprising to see that they're always crawling with mites. Fur bearing mammals are always covered with fleas, and they literally get them as babies then have them their whole life because they jump from the mom to the baby.

I also remember reading a while ago that one of the reasons why parasites in Africa are so much more numerous and horrifying than on any other continent is because since humans evolved in Africa there are a ton more things there that evolved along with us specifically to be parasites to humans.

>>212879357
thats why you're supposed to have frens to preen and clean, clearly this bird is a friendless asshole

>>212879357
probably something like a sticker burr, got them when catching that little shit

>>212879463
>I also remember reading a while ago that one of the reasons why parasites in Africa are so much more numerous and horrifying than on any other continent is because since humans evolved in Africa there are a ton more things there that evolved along with us specifically to be parasites to humans.
That's a very interesting notion, never thought about that. I think warm climates in general are just hellish. South America for example has some pretty awful things

>>212879484
the bird could easily reach all those spots itself if those were ticks latched onto it. I think the burr theory adds up >>212879525

>>212879463
Found a single fresh turkey feather in yard once. On that one feather there were like 12-17 bird lice.

>>212879583
not even whales and dolphins are safe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_louse

>>212879715
God's a real jerk not giving all animals arms and hands and opposable thumbs

>>212877458
>this drone will make a tasty-- *arghhhggh*
>spirals toward the ground

>>212879532
>that. I think warm climates in general are just hellish.
I used to live in Queensland and now live in Tasmania, I ain’t ever living in the tropics again fuck that shit and fuck the unending legions of bloodsucking cunts that want too pozz me

>>212879715
>whales have countless lice in their genital folds
well that sucks

>>212877458
the fire rises