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what's the biggest flying bird and the smallest non-flying bird?

I am going to interpret biggest to mean heaviest...

Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori), family Otididae, found throughout southern Africa

The heaviest flying bird in the world, growing up to 19 kg.

photograph by Tony Heald

Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, endemic to Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago in the South Atlantic

This is the smallest flightless bird in the world (by weight), growing to only 9 g.

photograph by Peter G. Ryan

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Fluffy bumble bee with butterfly bush

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)

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Boy?

Girl?

Or, a secret third thing

Entomologist

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"Luna In The Sky," made by Ann-Marie Miro

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they call me the bug whisperer. because i whisper to bugs

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I don’t know why this caption made me laugh so hard

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I like when Pheidole ants do the thing with the head

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a herd of dairy cow isopods grazing the great green meadow 🌱

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everything about this little dude screams magician. they call him the wandering violin and look at his slender body. and his latin name is a fucking spell you cant convince me otherwise

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this is a pet dog to me

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Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

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Rosy woodlouse, Androniscus dentiger, Trichoniscidae

Photographed in France by bvcruz

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Good lawd

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i hope the benefits are good

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Silverfish are so brave for going down the bathtub drain. I would be scared as fuck in there. I suppose when you have as many legs as they do things like that aren’t as frightening. #Perspective.

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dolls are of course a type of arthropod (invertebrates with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, jointed limbs and a polite demeanour)