From Khong Yew

Buffy Fish Owl

Hampstead Wetlands, Singapore

Sep 2025

Check my comment below for how owls are able to swallow food like this while not losing concussion!

  • lemming@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 months ago

    If you ever get a fresh whole chicken (for dinner, for example), you can remove the breasts, then carefully remove the ribcage, make a small hole in the trachea, insert a straw and blow into it, you can inflate the sacs. Even if you know they are there, it’s still quite surprising. They are big! Highly recommend, if you’re up to such things.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      I couldn’t find any vids of them expanding them, but it seems chicken dissection is common for veterinary students, so there’s a number of videos showing them.

      They don’t look so much like organs like the lungs, just mostly transparent membranes between other stuff.

      Very intriguing!