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With legs built for speed and power, the Secretary bird hunts snakes by stomping them with a force of 195 Newtons, enough to kill in milliseconds.

Despite their raptor status, they hunt mostly on foot and can walk up to 30 km a day.

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[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, the IUCN listed it as vulnerable in 2016 and then endangered in 2020. "As a population, the secretarybird is mainly threatened by loss of habitat due to fragmentation by roads and development and overgrazing of grasslands by livestock." So cars and animal agriculture – both largely unnecessary in modern society – fuck the planet at a micro- and a macroscopic scale. Not surprising, but tragic nonetheless.

brb, i gotta go cry