When people compare themselves to animals, it’s usually a fox, a mule, or a lioness. However, as Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog (2007) showed, sometimes a penguin suddenly leaving everyone behind and walking alone toward the mountains is who we relate to most.
We at Bored Panda want to remind you that we shouldn’t forget our feathery friends. They’re also full of personality and are simply trying their best to get by. So here’s a bunch of bird memes that hit just right.
For those wondering, we found them on Instagram accounts @memes.bird and @nickthepelican.
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I'm pretty sure a human might have been involved in the teaching process unless, you know, they read those words somewhere.
"Well, that's wrong...and that....and that. Who wrote this shìte?"
"The same thing happened with my first three husbands, I just don't understand it."
It's to make you feel safe like the Black Heron with fish (currently #2). Shortly after these pictures were taken, the swans broke her neck/ suffocated him like a python would.
His cousin, a raven, was next to door in the "English POEtry" class. I see myself out ..
That's just because no one's offering him a drink to accompany his lunch. I wouldn't be too happy either.
Looks more like they're laughing at the crude attempt to scare them off
Victorian men were horrified to discover that a) it was the females that chose the mate and the males that had to win their approval and b) in many species the female bird is larger than the male. In fact the second fact went so against what they believed was the natural order of things, as ordained by God, that they simply drew them smaller than the males anyway.
To loosely paraphrase a german proverb: "Better the pigeons on the head than a diploma in hand."
