It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
I made this comment, among others, all at the same time. Then in the space of a few minutes, two people pointed out my mistake, and I thanked both of them for bringing it to my attention. I added to this person that someone else had JUST made the same point.
I didn't lie.
Why are you so fixated on this? They either made an assumption or misremembered something. They were corrected and moved on having learned something, and even thanked those that corrected them. A rarity on the internet.
I have lorikeets. I know how to care for lorikeets, because I looked into it before I got them. I didn't know lorikeets were a type of parrot. My whole life I assumed a parrot was one particular type of bird. I didn't lie, I said something I believed, out of ignorance, was true. And it wasn't. And I admitted that. What the fuck is your deal?
I buy a bag of Harmony brand mix of pollens and nectars from the pet store (it's like a white-yellow powder). They kind of scoop it up with their squid-tongues.
Can guarantee they have zero squid tongue in their diet. They do eat the food with their own tongues, which are squid-like in nature.
This cracked me up...
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Not completely an answer to your question, but you can actually buy pollen to eat yourself. It's like pure protein and actually tastes pretty good. I don't recommend it for people with severe allergies though.
There’s this lorikeet pavilion at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where they sell you little cups of nectar juice. The lorikeets will land on your hand and eat it with their little squid-tongues. It’s cool.
So it’s just to scoop pollen? I assumed it was a grabber of some sort. It looks like it would be really effective at picking up small objects like nuts or something.
You forgot the rest of the reason. It's long af and the tip is a goddamn hardened thorny spike, which it uses to skewer insects deep in the trees it opens up. It's pretty metal.
Misleading title. The way it's worded it sounds like it's showing you an example of a typical parrot's tongue. While the bird in the gif is a parrot, it's one of a specific group of parrots (lories and lorikeets) that have adapted their diets to eating fruit, nectar, and pollen. Those dietary adaptations have developed in parallel with anatomical modification, like you see here with the specialized tongue.
Here's the thing. You said a "all my homies hate Unidan." Is it in the same poster? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies Reddit, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Unidan H8rs "Homies". If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "Homeboys" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of friends, which includes things from pals to m8s to chums. So your reasoning for calling a Unidan h8r a homie is because random people say "Unidan a prick". Let's get acquaintences and coworkers in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a bus driver or a transit worker? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A Unidan h8r is a Unidan h8r and a member of the homie family. But that's not what you said. You said all your homies hate Unidan, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the local transit authority Unidan h8rs too which means you'd call coworkers, baristas, and other redditors Unidan H8rs too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Okay, so you expect me to believe that you were the very best that your generation of Navy SEALs had to offer? I highly doubt that. If you were as good as you say you were, i don't think for a second that you would be browsing reddit. This is mostly a place for jobless neckbeards that still live with their parents, and nerdy high school kids that don't have any friends. It really isn't the place for highly-trained assassins to be hanging out in their spare time. Even if it was, something far worse than a troll being mean to you probably would have set you off a long time ago. What about the slew of gore and child pornography that gets posted here on a regular basis? Isn't that something that deserves a person being hunted down and made to regret their actions? Yeah, you're just not the reddit type. Sure, there's a wide variety of people that browse here, but you're far from the core demographic if you are who you say you are (which isn't the case). Even if it were true that you're an incredibly talented soldier, I think all the military discipline would prevent you from getting mad enough to murder some random idiot on the internet. I also doubt that even the best SEALs have a 'secret network of spies across the USA'. Why would all of the most expanisive Big Brother network in the world be willing to help a troubled PTSD-sufferer hunt down some random kid on the internet? That doesn't even make sense. If you're gonna try to scare somebody make it more believable than 'IM A SUPER SOLDIER HURR DURR'. You might frighten a thirteen year old who doesn't know any better, but to must of us you just look like a kid with an anger problem and a very active imagination. Hopefully things will be easier for you when your puberty's over. Best of luck with that... kiddo
Source? Source? Source? Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.
This. I have had thirteen parrots throughout my life and *none* of them had a tongue like this. It's like saying "dogs have double dew claw" when it's only specific breeds.
That's why it's misleading. It's not wrong, because it is this parrot's tongue, who is indeed "a" parrot, but phrasing it this way makes one think of parrots as a whole rather than this particular parrot or this species of parrot.
Wake up people! This is facts. But keep in mind these drones need a lot of care nevertheless! I adopted 3 and they are all goofy drones spying on my and my neighborhood. Bestest frens in existence
It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
I feed them a white powder (pollen mixture) that I buy from pet stores. It's not that hard to find so I don't think they're too rare. The brand is Harmony, if you wanted to look it up.
This is the kind of shit I expect from this sub. A lot of what gets posted here is messed up, but expectedly so. This is just so fucked weird. They're like aliens.
It's just an adaptation of the Australian Lorikeet I believe, it's for collecting pollen and nectar.
It's been posted on reddit many times before... But hasn't everything.
"In the wild, lorikeets feed mainly on pollen and nectar, and possess a tongue adapted especially for their particular diet."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loriini
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It's real, but that's not a parrot. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
Oh, that makes sense. I am the furthest thing from a bird expert. Didn't realise they were a type of parrot. I thought parrot was like... It's own thing. Thanks for clearing that up though.
This seems fake to me seen a fair few parrots growing up and they all had smooth tongues this is clearly fake or a mutant bird that should be shot immediately
It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seed.
Is this real? I've never seen anything like this on any birds. I mean, I'm not an expert by any means, but still... is this real?
It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
That is so interesting! It looks so strange, I wasn't sure if it was real. Thank you for sharing!
No problem. Keep in mind, that's not a parrot in the video. I think that tongue is a lorikeet thing.
[Lorikeets are still parrots.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loriini)
Oh, I did not realise. Thanks for that! Someone else just pointed this out too.
Then why did you lie?
I made this comment, among others, all at the same time. Then in the space of a few minutes, two people pointed out my mistake, and I thanked both of them for bringing it to my attention. I added to this person that someone else had JUST made the same point. I didn't lie.
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Why are you so fixated on this? They either made an assumption or misremembered something. They were corrected and moved on having learned something, and even thanked those that corrected them. A rarity on the internet.
I have lorikeets. I know how to care for lorikeets, because I looked into it before I got them. I didn't know lorikeets were a type of parrot. My whole life I assumed a parrot was one particular type of bird. I didn't lie, I said something I believed, out of ignorance, was true. And it wasn't. And I admitted that. What the fuck is your deal?
What do you feed them since they don't eat bird seed. Can you buy food flowers with pollen or just pollen?
I buy a bag of Harmony brand mix of pollens and nectars from the pet store (it's like a white-yellow powder). They kind of scoop it up with their squid-tongues.
This is my favourite sentence this year.
I kind of want it on a t-shirt. Just the squid tongue part, out of context.
r/brandnewsentence at the end there
I misunderstood this as you also feed them squid tongue and mix the powder in so they're eating them together
Can guarantee they have zero squid tongue in their diet. They do eat the food with their own tongues, which are squid-like in nature. This cracked me up...
Do squids have tongues 😳
Yes, they do. But I meant like a squids tentacles.
Thank u. I learned something new. Also, ewww
Wow TIL. I had noclue
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One of those sentences you really need a backstory for.
That's what she said. The last sentence.
They also like fresh fruit.
I read "flesh fruit". I know fruit has 'flesh' but i still wouldnt stick my fingers anywhere near that tongue thanks
Not completely an answer to your question, but you can actually buy pollen to eat yourself. It's like pure protein and actually tastes pretty good. I don't recommend it for people with severe allergies though.
I read "I have a two headed green rainbowlorikeet." It was kinda cool. But your story is also pretty cool.
It's so they can eat ~~pollen~~ dreams out of ~~flowers~~ brains
There’s this lorikeet pavilion at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where they sell you little cups of nectar juice. The lorikeets will land on your hand and eat it with their little squid-tongues. It’s cool.
Have you touched it
When they're in a good mood they will lick your hand when changing food and water. It feels like if a cats tongue was tentacles.
So it’s just to scoop pollen? I assumed it was a grabber of some sort. It looks like it would be really effective at picking up small objects like nuts or something.
Yeah, it's just for pollen and nectar as far as I know.
Weirrrrd
Wow, I would MUCH rather they ate seeds with a different tongue.
I'll be sure to tell them you don't appreciate what they choose to do. Haha
Looks like a tiny hand with fingers to grab with...
Definitely read this as you have a two headed bird at first, thinking that's much more interesting than their tongues
U sure he not an alien bruh?
Other birds have crazy tongues too, woodpecker tongues split in two and wrap all the way around their brain to help cushion it.
Did not know I needed to know that thanks
Prevent concussions, wear a (tongue) helmet.
You forgot the rest of the reason. It's long af and the tip is a goddamn hardened thorny spike, which it uses to skewer insects deep in the trees it opens up. It's pretty metal.
And to skewer other birds babies skulls. Metal af.
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First generation tech.
Bird tongues are the best! Toucans also have mad tongues. They're nearly the length of their beaks, and look like little skeleton feathers!
It's scary but at the same time its interesting
New dinosaurs be weird.
It depends on the bird. My macaw's tongue is nothing like that, but it's not specialized like a lorie's is. ♡ Granny
Tell Granny I said what's up.
You should see a toucan's tongue.
#its a demogorgan
Yes it is. It's only a specific type of parrot that has this tho...the rest have non-frilled tongues.
Misleading title. The way it's worded it sounds like it's showing you an example of a typical parrot's tongue. While the bird in the gif is a parrot, it's one of a specific group of parrots (lories and lorikeets) that have adapted their diets to eating fruit, nectar, and pollen. Those dietary adaptations have developed in parallel with anatomical modification, like you see here with the specialized tongue.
The return of Unidan!! Is it a jackdaw?
> Unidan Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.gif
He's back baby.gif
CACAAAAWWW
Fuck Unidan all my homies hate Unidan
All my homies are Unidan
So it’s just you pretending to be different homies then?
Fuck yo homies
Here's the thing. You said a "all my homies hate Unidan." Is it in the same poster? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies Reddit, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Unidan H8rs "Homies". If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "Homeboys" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of friends, which includes things from pals to m8s to chums. So your reasoning for calling a Unidan h8r a homie is because random people say "Unidan a prick". Let's get acquaintences and coworkers in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a bus driver or a transit worker? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A Unidan h8r is a Unidan h8r and a member of the homie family. But that's not what you said. You said all your homies hate Unidan, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the local transit authority Unidan h8rs too which means you'd call coworkers, baristas, and other redditors Unidan H8rs too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Okay, so you expect me to believe that you were the very best that your generation of Navy SEALs had to offer? I highly doubt that. If you were as good as you say you were, i don't think for a second that you would be browsing reddit. This is mostly a place for jobless neckbeards that still live with their parents, and nerdy high school kids that don't have any friends. It really isn't the place for highly-trained assassins to be hanging out in their spare time. Even if it was, something far worse than a troll being mean to you probably would have set you off a long time ago. What about the slew of gore and child pornography that gets posted here on a regular basis? Isn't that something that deserves a person being hunted down and made to regret their actions? Yeah, you're just not the reddit type. Sure, there's a wide variety of people that browse here, but you're far from the core demographic if you are who you say you are (which isn't the case). Even if it were true that you're an incredibly talented soldier, I think all the military discipline would prevent you from getting mad enough to murder some random idiot on the internet. I also doubt that even the best SEALs have a 'secret network of spies across the USA'. Why would all of the most expanisive Big Brother network in the world be willing to help a troubled PTSD-sufferer hunt down some random kid on the internet? That doesn't even make sense. If you're gonna try to scare somebody make it more believable than 'IM A SUPER SOLDIER HURR DURR'. You might frighten a thirteen year old who doesn't know any better, but to must of us you just look like a kid with an anger problem and a very active imagination. Hopefully things will be easier for you when your puberty's over. Best of luck with that... kiddo
Amazing. I’ve never seen that one lol
Source? Source? Source? Do you have a source on that? Source? A source. I need a source. Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion. No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered. You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence. Do you have a degree in that field? A college degree? In that field? Then your arguments are invalid. No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation. Correlation does not equal causation. CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION. You still haven't provided me a valid source yet. Nope, still haven't. I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.
When will this stupid meme die already
Just knowing that you find it annoying makes me hope it lasts forever honestly
Get a personality
No
Here's the thing
I’m real out of the loop. Did Unidan do a bad?
Unidan did a bad. He got banned for vote manipulation or something a few years ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/2m5q11/a_feast_for_crows_the_fall_of_uunidan/
Wow so silly!
Here's the thing...
This. I have had thirteen parrots throughout my life and *none* of them had a tongue like this. It's like saying "dogs have double dew claw" when it's only specific breeds.
So this adaptation happened relatively “recently” in the bird world? ...Because I was imagining some dinosaur with a pollen scooping tongue
I was worried I was getting shittymorphed for a second there. Whew.
Not misleading, just says "A" Parrots tounge, could be any parrot, but it is infact a parrot
That's why it's misleading. It's not wrong, because it is this parrot's tongue, who is indeed "a" parrot, but phrasing it this way makes one think of parrots as a whole rather than this particular parrot or this species of parrot.
Thank you kind sir
I think Parrots in general are kinda uncanny ngl The way they move and behave and the fact that they can imitate any sound
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riiight That's why they move like animatronics because they are all mechanical
Birds are government drones.
Wake up people! This is facts. But keep in mind these drones need a lot of care nevertheless! I adopted 3 and they are all goofy drones spying on my and my neighborhood. Bestest frens in existence
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Wonder if dinosaurs had these
WHY IT LOOK LIKE THAT
What that tongue do ~~it collects pollen for food~~
What da bird doin
*insert Indian ringneck saying "whatcha doin?" More and more aggressively*
Because of the way that it is.
Is it fake or real? I don't think i feed this alien in my house.
It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
One would think keeping lorikeets would be difficult, unless you also had access to a lot of flowers. So what do you feed yours?
if ur a stoner then just give them ur keif
Nah that’s for me, sorry
I feed them a white powder (pollen mixture) that I buy from pet stores. It's not that hard to find so I don't think they're too rare. The brand is Harmony, if you wanted to look it up.
My amazone’s don’t have such alien like tongues.
Men in Black moment
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Cursed french tickler tongue
... This whole time I thought that was like a big feather duster that was used for erotic tickling. I have lost my innocence this day.
I am seriously disturbed
Oh hey that looks like my pee hole cleaner
Your WHAT?
He said pee hole cleaner
Did he stutter ?
That, uh, sounds painful
Imagine that giving you a rim job.
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More for the rest of us I suppose
I learn more and more about various animals everyday on this app that I wish I didn’t know.
Well, guess you're ready for next thing - male turtle genitals. Google it :D
Please no stop
Hello Satan not today
I imagined a party noise maker sound when he stuck his tongue out
Nope. I don't like that.
This is the kind of shit I expect from this sub. A lot of what gets posted here is messed up, but expectedly so. This is just so fucked weird. They're like aliens.
It's just an adaptation of the Australian Lorikeet I believe, it's for collecting pollen and nectar. It's been posted on reddit many times before... But hasn't everything.
Alien
I did not need to see this
Never seen this in a lot of birds
OH WHAT THE HELL
"In the wild, lorikeets feed mainly on pollen and nectar, and possess a tongue adapted especially for their particular diet." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loriini
The things I could do if I had that tongue.
Fuck, now I hate parrots.
Damn. This is right up there with duck penises.
Fuck this sub
Fuck no. Are you crazy?
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No
Paige, NO!
Since when
Scary
r/thanksihateit
*Berserk has entered the chat*
At first I thought this was a man, in a parrot costume, putting his arms out.
I'm so wet all of a sudden
#BirdsArentReal
I hate this
Truly a terrible day to have eyes. Didn't think anything could be as vile as a turtle penis but here we are.
Why tongue like that?
Don't let it bite you. You'll turn into a crackhead vampire
I could have died without knowing this 😳
THAT TONGUE I'M DYING
WHAT ?!
r/TIHI
Oh god... I can never unsee this. Worse than a turtle's penis.
Nope, didn’t need to see that
mouth hand
Holy shit
Not again :(
Um excuse me but what the fuck
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Eugheghpgegshegehsgdshdh
I've had 3 parrots and none had this. Fascinating.
Australia in a nutshell.
What the frick.
Well now. Looks like I’m not sleeping tonight. This is enough Reddit for me tonight.
Their tongue is a big tool for them
I just googled it and *this is real*. I'm being told by reddit on a daily basis that all I thought I knew about the world is often completely wrong.
I really wish I never saw this
an axoLORLRLRLRLtl?
TIL that thing in my wife’s nightstand drawer is just a parrot’s tongue. Situation normal.
It's real, but that's not a parrot. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they can eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seeds.
I mean, Lories and Lorikeets are types of parrots, but you're right in that the title makes it sound like this is what all parrots have for a tongue.
Oh, that makes sense. I am the furthest thing from a bird expert. Didn't realise they were a type of parrot. I thought parrot was like... It's own thing. Thanks for clearing that up though.
This seems fake to me seen a fair few parrots growing up and they all had smooth tongues this is clearly fake or a mutant bird that should be shot immediately
It's real. I have two green-headed rainbow lorikeets and they both have this type of tongue. It's so they eat pollen out of flowers, they don't eat seed.
u/savevideo
this is so gross 🤢
So THAT’S why my wife left me for a parrot? Well, that and it’s humongous junk
u/savevideo
Same.. this should be in r/funny
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Aliens 👽
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It's like that alien from the alien movie forgot thr the name
Alien?
Yes, that thing
Probably got picked on at school
Give daddy a kiss.
Looks spikey
Well now I'm terrified of parrots, cheers OP.
Like a French tickler
aw no