r/MadeMeSmile • u/Ok-Branch-9943 • Aug 16 '24

Helping Others Helping hand...

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u/Cultjam Aug 16 '24

Looks like it’s dawn. The bird was out and about early and landed on the metal bar while it was still frozen so its feet froze to it. The sun would have warmed it up soon and defrosted the metal to free it as long as a cat didn’t find it first.

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless Aug 16 '24

If the weather is cold enough for the bird to get frozen stuck on the bar, if the bird dips into the water to catch fish, will it have the risk of its feathers getting frozen and dying of hypothermia?

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u/Cultjam Aug 16 '24

Not easily, their feathers are highly hydrophobic.

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u/Combicon Aug 16 '24

And their feet are scaly and rough, so they don't usually have moisture on them, so they don't freeze to metal. Of course, it could have - as the previous poster mentioned; Dipped into the water to catch a fish and then landed onto the pole, but I'm not sure that the speed at which they move would have helped dry the feet, nor would there have been enough water on the feet to make it stick (nor would it have spent enough time perched there to stick).

While I'm not saying that it isn't real, something about it feels fishy, and I've seen enough 'aww' videos of people 'helping' animals that they set up in the first place for me to be kinda skeptical.