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I don't know the documentary in question, but when an animal is born able to walk and has its eyes open, it's a precocial species (vs an altricial species), so maybe that might help you narrow it down? I think most seabirds and poultry are precocial. Was it a scrubfowl or brushturkey? Some of those can fly the same day they hatch.
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"Are we FILMING?! Am I going to be on TV?!? OOOOOO!!"
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If my local news pet shelter segment is anything to go by, doing something that cute meant the cat was adopted and in a new home before that clip finished airing. e: possibly by the reporter
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SirPhoebos posted:I remember watching this nature documentary that included a species of bird that are practically adults when they hatch. The doc showed the chick hatch and it's like half the size of his/her parents, and right after hatching it just scampers off into the woods. YggiDee posted:I don't know the documentary in question, but when an animal is born able to walk and has its eyes open, it's a precocial species (vs an altricial species), so maybe that might help you narrow it down? I think most seabirds and poultry are precocial. Was it a scrubfowl or brushturkey? Some of those can fly the same day they hatch. Several species of ducks are highly independent a few days after hatching, but most birds that actually fly around (rather than just bob in the water) take quite a bit longer. True fledging requires the development of their flight muscles, which are virtually non-existent at the time of hatching. If you were trying to fit a bird inside an egg, what would be the first thing you'd trim off? Big bulky wings probably. Barnacle geese chicks in Greenland have to jump off 100m+ cliffs within a day or two of hatching as there is no food (or predators) up on the pinnacles that their parents lay them on, though they just belly-flop and tumble down as their parents coax them down. It's hardly flying. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p028w8yc
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Hadaka Apron posted:Kiwis, I think? Their eggs take up a quarter of the mother's body weight. That looks profoundly uncomfortable.
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VanSandman posted:I love cats in ties. 
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That's the best fluff news story I've ever witnessed.
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I think the Japanese arcade-residing cat has come up in here a couple times, but now there's Japanese music store-residing cats, and they're just as adorable     
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Jul 28, 2015 17:11
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I keep giggling at the one who is filling up the entire CD tray.
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When I was still with my ex wife who was from Northern California, there was a music store we'd check out near the Downtown Sacramento Mall that had a cat wandering around it. Can't remember the name of it but I remember thinking it was cool cause I had a DJ Shadow album that I was sure had a picture of the store in it. Also here in Ann Arbor Michigan was Encore Records that had a store dog!
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Jul 28, 2015 18:56
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My local hardware store has a shop cat, and I try to scritch his ears every time I go in there. He even has his own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Benjamin-The-Waverly-Ace-Store-Cat/244894418864200
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Choco1980 posted:When I was still with my ex wife who was from Northern California, there was a music store we'd check out near the Downtown Sacramento Mall that had a cat wandering around it. Can't remember the name of it but I remember thinking it was cool cause I had a DJ Shadow album that I was sure had a picture of the store in it. Amoeba Music?
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Jul 28, 2015 19:08
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Pegasus Books in Berkeley has TWO management cats. They chill on any flat surface.
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There's a surplus store in Albuquerque that has a cat, a nice black long-haired fellow who's missing part of his ear.
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I...wha...HOW?! Ok, I understand low mass and high surface area = slower terminal velocity, but seriously, how do those things survive?!
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One of my local bakeries has a store cat as well, cat just chills by the door and never goes in, its pretty crazy.
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I've been in a lot of used bookstores that had a resident cat. For some reason it just makes them feel complete.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I...wha...HOW?! quote:You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. It's all about being the right size.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I...wha...HOW?! I remember seeing this on the tv, and out of the five chicks that hatched, two didn't jump right and landed on their heads and died.
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muscles like this? posted:I keep giggling at the one who is filling up the entire CD tray. Must be marked Cat Stevens -Zydeco- has a new favorite as of 20:21 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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All of you folks that like shop cats and such need to visit Key West and go to the Hemingway house http://www.hemingwayhome.com/cats/ 
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    Feeding a baby capy: https://www.facebook.com/capybarabook/videos/842123202550625/ Baby capys playing in the water: https://www.facebook.com/capybarabook/videos/844190149010597/
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There used to be a secondhand bookstore in Long Beach called Acres of Books which had a cute cat. Too bad the store closed. Re precocial birds, baby Australian Brush Turkeys hatch out able to fly! They also have to dig their way out of the giant compost heaps in which their parents lay eggs. And they're apparently quite fearless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7W6lknX0Q
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Bundle of Keys posted:I remember seeing this on the tv, and out of the five chicks that hatched, two didn't jump right and landed on their heads and died. That's actually a much better ratio than I got from hurling toddlers off cliffs.
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holttho posted:Several species of ducks are highly independent a few days after hatching, but most birds that actually fly around (rather than just bob in the water) take quite a bit longer. True fledging requires the development of their flight muscles, which are virtually non-existent at the time of hatching. If you were trying to fit a bird inside an egg, what would be the first thing you'd trim off? Big bulky wings probably. I don't remember the full details, but the species had a huge nest on the ground, which incubated the egg at a high temperature. I don't know if the the bird species was flightless or not, but the narrator did claim that the chick could live independently upon hatching. Wikipedia mentions that the Megapode birds are "superprecocial," and can fly the day they hatch. And the topic of the documentary I saw was sex. (  )
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Malleefowl or Brush Turkey maybe. But probably the Malleefowl. I went to a camp when I was a kid that got to go out and see some, they're very kewl birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleefowl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCYtf-hG0XQ
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This deserves a repost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W06Ph9wBTMM
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VendaGoat posted:All of you folks that like shop cats and such need to visit Key West and go to the Hemingway house I was there, one of the cats bit my grandmother.
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Here is my friend's brand new baby dog. I like his ears.
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bone gusty posted:Here is my friend's brand new baby dog. I like his ears. The hell is that? Some kind of a child.. dog?
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tunah posted:The hell is that? Some kind of a child.. dog? It's a puppy with great ears, my friend.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I think the Japanese arcade-residing cat has come up in here a couple times, but now there's Japanese music store-residing cats, and they're just as adorable Someone give that cat some love - he's got the blues! 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Someone give that cat some love - he's got the blues! Don't worry, he's getting jazzed. And dipping a paw into what appears to be titled 'jazzy-jazz'
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Don't worry, he's getting jazzed. Jazzy-Jazz would make a great cat name
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Pegasus Books in Berkeley has TWO management cats. They chill on any flat surface. I petted one of those cats for like a half hour last weekend 
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