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The Great Bustard and the Goat?
The great bustard is the heaviest flying bird. The male puts on what researchers have called a reiterative and almost obstinate exhibition of the cloaka during mating. Researchers from the spanish national museum of natural sciences studying the bird found that around mating time, great male bustard ate a surprisingly large amount of blister beetles. These animals have a thing in common with sir mi lot, which is their inability to lie about their big butts. In fact, during a period of their life cycle, these animals will line up from biggest butt to smallest butt for an important part of their life - i think it's adorable.
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