Can you imagine being that bird? You see a big falling dot off in the distance, so you go to investigate. And it’s a human. Just, like, hanging out, in the middle of the sky. Plumbing toward earth at terminal velocity.
“Huh, that’s weird” you think to yourself.
You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament.
But you’re a busy bird, you’ve got places to be. So you just fly off. Good luck, crazy human. Hope you make it.
Anyone know what kind of bird this is?
The beak is making me think vulture, but it’s 3 am and I can’t for the life of me manage to figure out which one.
I would guess vulture as well…. But like Theraphos said, it is 3 AM and I can’t figure it out either~!
EDIT: Actually, I’m gonna take a stab and say black vulture. It’s hard to tell, and I’m really bad at judging sizes (especially wingspan), but the face/beak look vaguely black vulture-ish.
Yeah, there are definitely a few really white-faced black vultures on GIS that look like friend bird there. The beaks tend to be white though, but on the other hand if you GIS for “black vulture juvenile” there are more black-tipped beaks. Maybe it’s an age thing? Is that a thing?
That would also explain why friend bird looks a little on the small side.
After changing tactics and trying to find the original video directly, it turns out friend bird is actually an Egyptian vulture named Bob!
Shoot, I forgot that young Egyptian vultures have that dark plumage! Shame on me, they’re one of my all-time favorite birds. I even chose the Hebrew name Racham for myself, because it has a dual meaning of “compassion” and “Egyptian vulture.”
“Take that deep, red rage fire that is churning in your guts and push it outward. Take action to alleviate your suffering, and then take action to alleviate the suffering of others. And know that you are not alone, there are millions of us who are mad and who vote, and we are going to pull each other out of our deep, dark, holes. We are going to make the world we want to live in.”
What’s happened is, is that Hatshepsut died of bone cancer (carcinogenic face cream kids!), and seems to have been buried in KV60. This tomb is actually the tomb of her Wet Nurse, whose body was identified immediately and then there was another ‘unidentified female’ in the tomb. In 2007 the other woman was identified because she was missing a molar, and everyone thought ‘hang on a hot second, don’t we have a tooth in a box that we definitely know is Hatshepsut’s?!’ So they tested the DB320 “canopic box” tooth and the teeth from this unidentified female, and it turns out they’re a DNA match! We found Hatshepsut!
When this was announced, the Cairo museum displayed both Hatshepsut (the first image) and her wet nurse (the image everyone thinks is Hatshepsut) together and the media got them mixed up when labelling photographs, which has led to years and years worth of confusion by the general public.
TL;DR: The media mixed up the labels on the mummies and the photo of the wet nurse has been mistakenly labelled as Hatshepsut every since!
