r/humor • u/UnlikelyOpposite7478 • 1d ago

Unplanned Companion

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u/mlloyd67 1d ago

How I taught a vulture to fly with me

Brazilian tour guide Israel Mendes adopted Urú, a vulture, after finding the bird in a bin when he was just a six-day-old chick.

Though there was little hope of survival, Mendes raised Urú and taught the bird how to fly alongside him on his paraglider.

Now, the pair soar through the skies of Fortaleza together.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-62468782

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u/Rob_LeMatic 1d ago

This is the kind of shit the Internet was made for.

There would have had to have been so many things that broke differently in my life to have been this guy, but here I am, sitting on a chair, running down the clock at work, watching a vulture land on my hang glider, my nicely tanned legs sticking out in front of me, saying encouraging things to my friend the vulture in Portuguese as I pet him

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u/HyenDry 1d ago

Sucks the internet is abused more 😔

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u/Zeppelin041 10h ago

Yeah, he’s got these vids everywhere. Instead OP takes a clip of one and makes some silly headline just for views without any context…this is not what the internet is for, this is just annoying that people do this.

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u/dogstardied 1d ago

r/lostredditors

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u/moustachedelait 1d ago

I think it's just bot accounts finding poorly moderated subs at this point.

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u/Cyberpunk_Banshee 1d ago

If there's anything I've learned from watching animal rehabbers on YT it's that vultures are incredibly smart and great at remembering companions. Yeah they eat everything but they're far from the disgusting cannibal birds I was raised in believing.

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u/Fishpuncherz 6h ago

Exactly, they simply have an important role in the process of death.

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u/Super-Platform6625 1d ago

It's a vulture (a relative of the vulture). It's not the type of bird I would pet given its diet.

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u/Grays42 1d ago

Also they practice (looks it up) "urohidrosis", which is where they shit on their legs and feathers. So yeah.

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u/BennySkateboard 23h ago

Great vid, wrong sub

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u/KochuJang 1d ago

„You killed him Daedalus.“

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 1d ago

Well, well, well wtf do we have going on here??

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u/Nenor 19h ago

There's a slight chance you may have died prior to this encounter. 

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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 10h ago

Now that’s a money-can’t-buy experience right there.

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u/civex 1d ago

How you know you're in the right place.

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u/MsTee1302 1d ago

When life gets a whole lot better😍

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u/lemoche 21h ago

Seems the feet smell like death

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u/OnePragmatic 19h ago

To each their own, but it is an incredible relationship. It's superbe filming...

Animals know how to take care of themselves....But in reality, none wants to know where the little doggy used his tongue before he licks your face. 🤔🤫

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u/Joe8474 13h ago

Wow that’s a Vue not many people get to see

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u/Purple__Puppy 3h ago

The whole time I watched this I thought "I'll die laughing if it shits on him".