Bird watchers are blowing the internet’s collective mind after sharing a video of puffy pigeon with legs so long viewers suspected it was AI-generated.
Bird-watchers are blowing the internet’s collective mind after sharing a video of a “mutant pigeon” with a puffed-out breast and legs so long that viewers suspected it was an AI deepfake.as viewers debate if the animal is real.
The seemingly species-defying clip — shared by UK-based @pigeonsTV — features the awkward-looking rock dove strolling along a table with its mile-long legs with its bulbous breast at full mast.gone bizarrely wrong. The gangly bird’s comparably scrawny legs and talons, meanwhile, are covered in plumes like natural, feather-hemmed pants.However, as it turns out the bird isan English pouter pigeon, a species of homing pigeon that’s the “tallest breed of fancy pigeons with some of the biggest ones being 16 inches in height,” according toThe flamboyant featherbag is known for being able to inflate its crop — the muscular pouch on the inside of its neck.
Bred through centuries of selective breeding, the fancypants pouter is often referred to as the “supermodel” of the pigeon world due to its resplendent appearance — think of it like bird equivalent of a French poodle.Pigeon toes have nothing on pouter pigeon talons.“Stage 3 pigeon Pokémon, bro evolved,” quipped one gawker, while others compared it to something celebrities would wear at the “Met Gala.”“Me drawing a pigeon from memory,” one TikTok wit joked.
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