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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 36 points 3 months ago

What do they do!?

[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 103 points 3 months ago

some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. These larders have multiple functions, attracting females and serving as food stores.

Wikipedia

[-] inbeesee@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

[-] dorron@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Endymion / Rise of Endymion was a great sequel too

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Highly underrated.
And I get why: it's just totally and completely different but it was still enjoyable on merit.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I thought it was even better than the first series. There's so many neat and unique concepts going on in that book. From the ultra-fast ship that decimates its passengers and then rebuilds them, to the concepts related to the philosophy of Pierre Tielhard DeChardin, it's a wonderfully thought provoking series all around. The AI and their machinations in that series is the best AI storyline I've ever read.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

One of the serial killers in Hannibal as well.

[-] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Among the best sci-fi I ever read, incredible.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Also the name of the guy who ran the gang that Han Solo was in as a kid.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 18 points 3 months ago

Oh...

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Netflix?

Edit: nvm, I got it.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 3 months ago

Unspeakable horrors.

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Thats alright we are talking via text.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vlad Dracula shit.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Actual vlad dracula shit, jesus christ

[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 months ago

Thanks to its strong beak, it can tear even the strongest 3-ply toilet paper to shreds if it has been moistened beforehand.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Hide your paper!

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It's not pretty.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Very metal

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh damn! I thought they only did it with bugs. How TF did that tiny little bird capture and kill a rodent as big as it is? The bird doesn't even have any talons!