Snapshots from daily life # 4

When you see the marabou stork, you can't help but stare. Found mostly in urban areas, which supply its daily diet of fetid trash, it is somehow majestic with its spindly legs, sparse head of hair, and retractable acid sack (for slow external food digestion- positioned under the beak.)

There's a whole crew of these lovely creatures that grace the dumpster near my church, and the other day I snapped this incredible shot. Seemingly from two different worlds, it turns out these two are kindred spirits of the animal kingdom. (Check out the size comparison by the way- that was a huge pig and the stork is still bigger! All I could do was gawk with a mixture of fascination and disgust!)


Ready for their closeup...


For more info:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:U8jZwEA-JvcJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabou_Stork+wikipedia+maribu+stork&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ug&client=firefox-a