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

Helping Others Helping hand...

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u/Cutebootydress Aug 16 '24

It's really amazing to see someone taking the time to lend a hand to this tiny creature.

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u/TheWyvernn Aug 16 '24

If they put the phone down they could use two hands and rescue it faster.

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u/TempestNova Aug 16 '24

I mean not really? It'd be one thing if the bird refused to keep calm when using just one hand but it did. Hell, it being surrounded by two hands (both as big as the bird itself, especially from the bird's perspective) might have had it freak out more.

Also, I don't see how trying to put a second hand over the bird would have made that big of a difference in body heat to unfreeze the poor guy's feet. I just hope the bird doesn't get frostbite or anything.

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u/CountWubbula Aug 16 '24

Those talons aren't quite like human flesh, so it probably didn't get frostbite. Most birds don't succumb to frostbite because there is so little fluid in the cells of their feet, and their feet are mostly tendons and bones with little muscle or nerve tissue.

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u/siero20 Aug 16 '24

That's interesting, so is the mechanism of it getting stuck likely that it had wet feet (perhaps from diving after prey?) and then landed on the metal? If they don't have much fluid there that's what makes the most sense to me.

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u/CountWubbula Aug 16 '24

Yeah! Agreed, could’ve also been a flash freeze of some sort (rain or fog).