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Exfoli-anting • 09.25.2025

Fun Fact: Anting is when birds (often sparrows, crows, or other songbirds) settle onto an anthill and let ants crawl through their feathers. The ants spray formic acid as a defense, which the birds use to clean and protect their plumage. Crushing the ants tends to attract more as a defense mechanism. Other birds, including parrots and seabirds, have been seen doing it too, but far less often. 🐦‍⬛🐜🧖‍♀️

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Note: the way the ants force their way into the macaw's beak is a reference to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where Antonin Dovchenko was devoured alive by the giant Siafu ants, hence their tags.

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    Mairo

    Former Staff

    I still absolutely hate how youtube is now destroying all shorts content.
    They use filters that oversharpen, denoise way too heavily and then apply some waifu2x level shit that then additionally smooths out everything.
    So basically if you look at text you can see the letters go from sharp squares into rounded, have halo effect around the letters outlines, grass goes from individual strands to just smudges, the overall look looks like it is drawn with marker rather than vectors like it's supposed to look, etc.

    Version here is now from the official website as that is higher quality source after the youtubes shenanigans started. Luckily normal videos on youtube are untouched.

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