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her favourite colour is blue :) (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here.

Are those supposed to be condoms or trash?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's a bower bird performance centre. Quite literally. They make an area where they can perform for a mate.

They like the colour blue so collect heaps of blue things and decorate their bower with them.

This one has got a bunch of milk bottle caps, milk bottle cap rings, blue plastic straws and what look like pegs.

It sounds funny till you think about stuff that humans do for exactly the same reason (to be "interesting" to a prospective partner)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's the girl's fault for only being attracted to screaming ovals

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

For a bird, it's quite ornate

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (4 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

He looks so dejected in the one at the end.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lemme smash?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Becky, just call her

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

No Ron, go find Becky

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love bird mating rituals. The bowerbird's rituals is one of my favorites

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kakapos are also great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

If only they managed to actually meet each other through one

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

- This bird

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Blue

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This would 100% work on me. I would love it if a guy took me to see a bowerbird. Or if he was a bowerbird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

big same, no homo

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Get her a stick. Bitches love sticks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

yeah well, why don't you pick the spot next time

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

are the blue things bottle caps and syringes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely milk bottle caps. It looks like syringes too but there could be plastic straws mixed in. Needs more pixels. Bottle caps are common in bowerbird decor, I've seen blue clothes pegs too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Plastic straws, clothes pegs, bottle caps, bottle rings.

https://shegoes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Satin-Bower-Bird-Nest.jpg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How else could they activate the 13th chevron?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's only 9 chevrons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That’s what they want you to think!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Which bird does this?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ron

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Seeking becky

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

Bowerbird!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemme smash

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, Ron. Go find Becky.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Nice now it's a party