#leptoptilos crumenifer

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marabou stork i love you ugly bird

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Marabou Stork

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Marabou storks (Leptoptilos crumenifer) scrap over food in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa

by Fabrice Stoger

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a quick marabou stork for tonight :]

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FINAL MATCH

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

They kill and eats flamingos as well as anything else they can fit in their giant mouths. They eat fecal matter. They eat crocodiles. They eat trash out of dumpsters. They’ve eaten shoes. They’ll attack you if you don’t give them your shoe. They have no natural predators besides MAYBE lions and some parasitic nematodes.

VERSUS

Giant Petrel (genus Macronectes)

They’re very violent hyper aggressive predatory birds that will kill a seal and dance on its dead body (this is called sealmaster posture) to show everybody else that nobody can do what this bird can do. They love to batter and drown other birds to death—including albatrosses! They’re often dyed red with the blood of their enemies.

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marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) by Ashlie Santiago

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For #WorldStorkDay :

Géza Vastagh (Hungarian, 1866–1919)

Three Marabous, 1909

pastel on cardboard 

H 38 x W 48.5cm

Private Collection

🆔 Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer), native to sub-Saharan Africa.

“[Vastagh’s] work is dominated by animal depictions, especially lions, but the animals of the Hungarian Puszta also influenced his work. With a government scholarship he traveled to North Africa, Algeria and Tunis in 1898 and was able to portray the animals in their natural habitat. He also found his motifs in the zoos of Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig.”

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Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer

3/2/2022 Disney's Animal Kingdom

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Silly Game Time: AFRICAN ANIMAL TIME! Use a random letter generator, then look up African animals that start with that letter. What's one of them? Post a picture of it!

Marabou Stork

The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae native to sub-Saharan Africa. It breeds in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially landfill sites. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird" due to its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes a large white mass of "hair." It has the largest wingspan of any land bird, with an average of 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and some recorded examples of up to 3.2 metres (10 ft). (Wikipedia)

By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54788428

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Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

© William Bezodis

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Marabou Storks

Source: Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation

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Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

Photo by Jon Atkinson

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Marabou Stork by Ruth

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

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A marabou stork looks for fish in a plastic bag after taking it from a market in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, Kenya

Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

(via Week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

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It’s Happening.

REAL QUARTERFINALS

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

They kill and eats flamingos as well as anything else they can fit in their giant mouths. They eat fecal matter. They eat crocodiles. They eat trash out of dumpsters. They’ve eaten shoes. They’ll attack you if you don’t give them your shoe. They have no natural predators besides MAYBE lions and some parasitic nematodes. There is something deeply wrong with them.

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Flamingo (family Phoenicopteridae)

They’re extremophiles! They live in the most boiling acidic water and they do not give a shit! They drink, nest in, and live in boiling, hypersaline, toxic water that will strip a human’s skin away! And they’re pink!

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- Hierbill (Grass)

- Vinescen (Grass)

- Crumenill (Grass/Electric)

“Hierbill is a Pokémon filled with wonder and a keen eye for anything they find curious. It can fixate its head and watch things in place for a long time as it can do photosynthesis as it stands. Its neck is unexpectedly long, but usually people find that very amusing.”

 Hierbil comes from Hierba (Herb in spanish) and Bill

Based in storks and herons as the former are common and as I have fond memories of seeing an entire flock of herons during my childhood. The neck part makes reference to the green heron

Pure Grass as it ends as a non-flying bird and because herons feed on aquatic animals

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“Vinescen can’t fly, but thanks to all the knowledge it has gathered as a Hierbill it has become quite intelligent. Using its wings and flexible neck, it’s able to hunt Water type Pokémon by canopy feeding. It’s also sensitive to wind changes, so it’s hard to catch off guard.”

 Vinescen is a combination of Vine and Butorides Virescens (Green Heron's scientific name)

Mostly just a transition for the final evolution without much to add. The canopy feeding is this tactic that is used by Black Herons to hunt fishes

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“With special feathers, Crumenill can generate electricity as wind blows. This not only has dotted it with the Electric type but also has enhanced its intelligence further. Although calm and reserved, this Pokémon is a formidable and adept fighter due its fast thinking.”

 Crumenill is a combination of Leptoptilos Crumenifer (Marabou's Stork's scientific name) and Windmill

Based on marabou storks (as well as their bigger ancestors) and "mad scientist" trope, taking inspiration from Einstein's hair

Leptoptilos Robustus were likely flightless prehistoric storks that lived in the isle of Flores (which already get flavor into this as Flores is the plural for flowers in spanish)

Picked these not for the prehistoric flavor but because their size as part of its G-Max form

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“Its Gigantamax has increased the size of the feathers of its neck and enabled them to rotate and generate high quantities of electricity as it catches gusts of wind flowing around its body. Its ominous looming gaze instills fear and respect for those under its shadow.”

Based in the Robustus stork, due their intimidating size (at least for the Homo Floresiensis) and in the iconic electrical windmills that can be found across Spain

PLUS, it's a reference of Don Quijote seeing windmills as giants

It's G-Max move would have been called "Eoloblast" and would have been a Grass type move that inflicts Paralysis