Photo by John Hoang

A Burrow Owl makes hunting look easy.

There’s a lot of things in this photo to comment on, so let’s get something going on here. You’ve all been too quiet lately!

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        William entertained guests at his home and the college with exotic meals of things like hedgehogs, roast ostrich, porpoise, crocodile steaks and even cooked puppies.

        When Buckland was visiting an Italian cathedra some time between 1826 and 1836, a priest told him the slick floor was due to the miraculously ever-flowing blood of sacrificed martyrs; he knelt, ran his tongue across the ground, and declared the liquid to be bat urine.

        Most notably, William allegedly ingested the 140ish-year-old mummified heart belonging to King Louis XIV of France. The heart had been stolen during the French Revolution until William’s friend, Lord Harcourt, somehow acquired it. When Harcourt withdrew the heart from a silver snuffbox, William quickly popped it in his mouth.

        Mmmmm!!!

        Tonight’s dinner special, mummified heart of royal with a side of cooked puppies. Quench your thirst with our finest bat urine.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          4 months ago

          While a young professor at Oxford, he was hard-pressed for money so he amped up his eccentricities in lectures to attract fee-paying students with racy jokes and profanity.

          There appears to be no clear incident or time period when William started taking a fork and knife through the animal kingdom, but it could have been his doubling-down on eccentric behavior for widespread notoriety.

          When people wonder what attention whores did before social media and YouTube, this is it.