Terror Birds or Terror Beings? | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

May 29, 2015

Recently, while perusing a book I dumpster-dived, I learned of Titanis walleri: a huge, flightless, carnivorous bird that lived approximately 5-2 million years ago (early Pliocene to early Pleistocene) in North America. This badass being reached up to 10 feet in height, weighed over 300 pounds, and could run faster than 40 MPH.

I was basking in the mental image of such an amazing earthling until I also learned that Titanis was part of a group of such giants which have been nicknamed “terror birds.”

To those who’d use such a moniker, I ask: In all the millions of years these birds roamed the planet, did any of them ever feel the need to invent nuclear weapons?

Even today’s “terrors” are infinitely less harmful than we humans. No great white shark created mountain-top mining, napalm, or the internal combustion engine; you can’t blame land mines, GMOs, hydroelectric dams, or patriarchy on a pit bull; and rest assured no non-human conjured up zoos, circuses, puppy mills, or vivisection.

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