Angry Birds of August Episode II: The Fireback

[@Iterator_NSH]

The disparity between "arena of gore" and "cheers to Ian!" nearly made me cackle out loud

[@levinjoseph233]

Moral of the story never raise firebacks

[@TalesofKaimere]

It is indeed a fundamentally terrible idea

[@Exquailibur]

I have raised many poultry and if they were the size of the fireback i would fear them, quail may be small and cute but they go for blood and have no remorse. A chicken that size would kill and eat a person I have no doubt. Also NEVER trust chickens around young kittens, growing up the chickens owned by my uncle killed and partially consumed a kitten that was less then a month old. Chickens also if given the chance will regularly will eat frogs, mice, baby birds, snakes, and even each other and their cannibalistic tendencies can be such a problem that you can buy anti cannibalism spray for them, overall do not trust chickens or any poultry with an animal significantly smaller then it is or anything that has eyes it can easily reach since its not uncommon for them to peck pout the eyes of rabbits or sometimes kittens. They arent a threat due to how small they are but their actual temperament would make them a nightmare at large sizes.

[@praetorianrex5571]

​@@Exquailiburdo ANY birds have empathy of sorts???

[@Exquailibur]

@@praetorianrex5571 Depends, crows, vultures, and parrots 100% and I would argue pigeons too. However even animals with empathy will do terrible things and humans have it and do bad things. Chickens, ducks, and quail are strait psychopaths though, chickens will watch you kill another chicken and then immediately gather around anticipating the scraps. I have seen then go for the head from a chicken being slaughtered a number of times. Fowl are comically evil in a way, geese are well known for it but its not just geese.

[@UdinJibral]

One of the most iconic title in Kaimere's history.

[@V1ncenz010]

Simple and direct title

[@bonemarrow3439]

It's iconic

[@kelleyohora637]

Yes

[@V1ncenz010]

1 hour ago it was literally “fire bird”

[@lhamaseveramenteirritada9760]

I love when he said "It's firebackin time" and firebacked all over the place

[@tec-jones5445]

I think this is the shortest title of Kaimere I've ever seen! The title music reminded me of the Jaws Theme, or the Augurs of Spring from The Rite of Spring (fitting for this beast). Simple and threatening, the Fireback more than lives up to the name "Terror Bird".

[@alghoulaj7172]

I believe that this is a prime example of true horror. I knew this oversized bird will be the most terrifying by far, but I wonder... Does the Nehamu hunt them sometimes?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Nehamu sometimes throw down, but they are sometimes themselves prey to fireback

[@derrabbit7289]

My Wild Weird West had the players riding birds like these while fighting desperados on raptors. These birds could be made terrifying with the right choreography. The way birds move can be unnerving when you’re up against an unfriendly creature.

[@cryoking7303]

Seeing a new vid for Kaimere always activates that little monkey portion of my brain that yells "LETS GO"! Always loved Phorusrhacids. But one question that I can't wait to be fulfilled in a upcoming video is the ecological relationship between the White Cockatrice and the Ammut, as they seem to share similar habitat and location if I recall correctly. The Snow Leopard Bird VS the last of the Sebecids.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! So the white cockatrice is generally pretty wary of dense forests that the Ammut lives in, and the Ammut doesn't go high enough in elevation because of the cold, so while they are close in range, they actually avoid each other's habitats.

[@cryoking7303]

@@TalesofKaimere Awesome sauce. I've been wondering that since the release of the Ammut video. Thanks for the confirmation mate! Keep up the beautiful work.

[@BigBossMan538]

I’m writing my own story about a Megalodon shark in Peru, 5 million years ago. And dammit, I couldn’t resist adding a terror bird. It’s a visitor from another part of South America, and I added it as a callback to the beach combing Eustreptospondylus and Andrewsarchus from Walking With. Terror birds are very interesting and rad.

[@sivanlevi3867]

Man, the music is so Jaws-like! I wouldn't want to meet the Urushai in a dark alley.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Have I ever mentioned how impeccable your music is? This score in particular is absolutely perfect for this sinister, unsettling animal.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Is a lot of fun finding good tunes

[@DeerMime]

Ah, yes. My favorite of your terror birds.

[@TalesofKaimere]

I like 'em

[@chancegivens9390]

Good lord... as someone who has worked with chickens, I must say a carnivorous bird of these proportions would be way more horrible than anything on earth currently. A sharp, quick-witted mind with a lack of loyalty or empathy makes for the deadliest of beasts.

[@smashers6971]

Ngl, the fireback gives me similar vibes to the Gastornis from Walking with Beasts, it’s inaccurate sure, but it’s still legitimately creepy, especially with its brutality and sound design.

[@BigBossMan538]

Now we need someone to sponsor an episode on the other terror bird species of Kaimere. I forget what it was called, but it was a black-blue color and notably smaller than the Harkundi and Fireback.

[@indominusanimations3584]

10:00 Rohakundi

[@HagdoBr]

Good to know of Kaimere dont have non-avian dinosaurs, the dinos still remain the biggest and the bosses of know world.

[@DivyanshGoswami-tg8ti]

I'm excited to see the video's of "Assembly" AND "The Great Liberary" ❤❤😘😘

[@Seelie-pooka]

Liberary

[@hinskiemaso9198]

This music... It gives me shivers ever since Ballad of Ka'hai

[@MrPink-qf1xi]

I really want to learn more about White Cockatrice. We heard very little about them and such a unique niche. It's like snow leopard plus mountain eagle but a dinosaur.

[@user-pn2px3de1f]

The musical accompaniment describes this very large turkey very well.

[@Ywabag]

Fireback fr 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Stooltoad5017]

I can’t blame the Qadanith for getting rid of the Free state’s island population, these things are terrifying. What do the Arvelith use to keep these birds uninterested in people?

[@Ywabag]

Weapons probably

[@TalesofKaimere]

Bows, pit traps, and fire. They're quite wary of smoke, so a few controlled fires outside the settlement is a pretty good deterrent.

[@Kevin-hx2ky]

@@TalesofKaimere Being able to invoke a deep-seated fear of an animal really is an effective way of staving it off

[@ginam5497]

@@TalesofKaimere Ironic, the fire bird is driven off by fire.

[@Bullmooseroughrider]

Great skulls for rukel nests

[@TalesofKaimere]

100%

[@SanderVF]

@@TalesofKaimere Wait, Rukels can take these monsters down? (maybe you mentioned it in the Rukel video) I assume ambush and attacking from an advantageous angle. As formidable as Rukels are, I genuinely can’t grasp how they’d take a Fireback in an upfront brawl.

[@tinrobot8115]

​@@SanderVFI mean, I'm pretty sure they don't get ALL of their skulls by killing, if they find a nice skull in their territory they can just yoink it regardless

[@SanderVF]

Their approach to taking down larger prey makes me fear the horror they'd unleash upon humans they see as prey. Something tells me they don't employ less painful, more merciful methods just because the food is less huge and armored.

[@reshi606]

I love this music. The idea of a group of Fireback that understand how settlements work is franky terrifying

[@ashhawk7489]

When I hear the horror movie music I always know it's gonna be good.

[@ryanchen1819]

How do firebacks interact with bears?

[@TalesofKaimere]

By eating them

[@vasantmasurekar4826]

Damn the Fireback is one deadly big bad bird 😅. Just imagining the intelligence to come back with a group and kill the entire village is really terrifying.

[@DavidGlenn-xl6yi]

I imagine that someone would insist an Earth movie maker make a horror movie about these guys

[@jurassicgameing8069]

That last part was straight horror curve ball

[@IsaacJuett]

Unrelated but I now want to see a fight between a time displaced AcraGAMERA and an Odaga for obvious reasons.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

What does its scientific name mean

[@TalesofKaimere]

Name meanings: Sparagmornis - butcher (specifically in the context of Dionysian or enthusiastic dismemberment) bird Pyroproserchomasy - the funeral fire approaches you

[@justinianthegreat1444]

How far behind are Kaimeran Humans to Earth Humans in terms of Technology and how long will it take them to reach the level of 21st century Humanity?

[@TalesofKaimere]

They will likely never reach the levels of 21st century humanity. It's not inevitable. As they age slowly and are generally more cautious, it is unlikely they will ever have a population robust enough for an Industrial Revolution, which is kind of key to a lot of technological advancement. The Great Library has steam engines and other familiar tech, along with magic powered tech we don't really have an analogue for, but it's really just quirky items for buyers with a LOT of money. Not something for the masses. The average Kaimeran culture ranges in their technology, and they have some really advanced understandings and trinkets, but for the most part I'd say they're analogous to peoples of the Renaissance Europe or Ming China: people with money have some really sophisticated tech and knowledge, but common people live much as you'd expect from someone in medieval Europe

[@justinianthegreat1444]

@@TalesofKaimere so that means, we will stay ahead of them?

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@justinianthegreat1444 Absolutely

[@Dragonartist7]

Oh goodness thats terrifying, they can open doors I still want one

[@taiko1237]

Superior avian cunning strikes again

[@MrT_Rex]

THE BIGGEST BIRD 😂

[@ibrahimabdirahman9824]

did you ever cover rohakundi on this channel, the blue bird with the other two. I cant remember learning about them even though ive been watching for a while.

[@thomasscaife6867]

I'm curious, is the fireback the largest/heaviest bird in Kaimere? Or do some flightless enantiornithines outside the known world surpass them?

[@OliverBeardsley]

Big bird

[@TalesofKaimere]

Simple and elegant lol

[@Exquailibur]

I actually really like how all feathered therapods are called birds in Kaimere, its makes sense and may as well be true even on Earth. Birds diverged from other dinosaurs in the Jurassic if I am not mistaken so that would mean they are actually a very old lineage and regardless there were taxa that would look typical among modern birds long before the genus Tyrannosaurus appeared and contemporary with most or all dinosaurs in the mid to late Cretaceous were dinosaurs we would be unable to distinguish from modern birds without close inspection and many were within known bird clades since a number of modern bird clades split before the end Cretaceous extinction event. There is also the fact that in the modern day there are close to twice as many birds as mammals and roughly the same number of bird species as non bird reptiles which means that about half of all modern reptiles are dinosaurs and there are more dinosaurs alive today then mammals. The age of dinosaurs never really ended, they are just smaller and mostly flighted now is all. Birds are not even a new kind of dinosaur, they were contemporary with most of the famous dinosaur clades that everyone can name. In fact taking the fact that small animals with hollow bones rarely fossilize well and the diversity of modern birds it isnt totally unreasonable to say that birds and their relatives were potentially some of the most diverse dinosaur clades even during the Mesozoic. For every species of Tyrannosaur there was almost certainly several bird species, or at least species closely related enough to them that saying they arent would be silly if they were still alive today.

[@lorcanmcloughlin3686]

Do meny hybrids exist? I mostly mean none mammals hybrids arent extremely common in nature but still

[@TalesofKaimere]

Hybrids in Kaimere are very rare outside of captivity

[@beastmaster0934]

Another terrifying video about these feathered fiends. Is the common cockatrice next? Or is it the white cockatrice.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Common next week, white the last

[@beastmaster0934]

@@TalesofKaimere Ok, just wanted to know. Thanks for the answer.

[@liambrandley2716]

Is the fireback the largest bird on earth or kaimere?

[@Seelie-pooka]

Titanosaurus is borb (maybe?)

[@TalesofKaimere]

I have some tentative enantiornitheans in Kaishel that give it a run for its money but it might be #1

[@ryanchen1819]

Fact: there have been reports of terror bird fossils like a psilopterus dating to 96,040 ± 6,300 years ago. Another possible psilopterine remains could possibly date to 17,620 ± 100 years ago though the dating is questionable.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

You'd think people would learn from the first time someone tried to raise this thing. Then again people keep crocodilians and big cats as pets so it's not that unusual

[@aeyelashbug6311]

Oh I just realized why the other episodes didn't pop up when I was watching the first episode: they aren't out yet

[@Taste-k7q]

“Those are some……angry birds.”

[@wallycrespo279]

Do an episode about all the mammalian megafauna from kaimera form both modern and extinct

[@afatpossum2586]

Just when I think I’m mature I get hit with 2:36.

[@robertjackson1813]

Hearing that music makes me want to see a hateful.Eight happen incognito

[@All_The_GOATs]

I thought the title said "feedback."

[@raulalatorre7113]

Even with it's relative small size Common Oliphaunt is a prey item to only target in groups? Or were you refering to Drenduga? Great video by the way

[@dudotolivier6363]

Any large herbivore in itself can be a potentially deadly prey item for a predator. It's not because a predator is large or is even specialized to a certain type of preys this mean its hunts are by far very easy to do. T-rex, for example, was maybe huge, bulky, prepared and used to hunt Triceratops and Edmontosaurus (even so the last had zero defenses aside its tail), huntings these two animals each time was still a serious and difficult thing to realize. Lions are maybe very used and specialized to hunt zebras or african buffaloes, most hunts still end up unsuccessfull for these big cats. Even in group, each members will be as cautious to not be as possible be hurt by the target they choosed. Because even if they act togethers, each members will still keep its own personnal mind and prefer keeping its own life as safe as possible. So, when a group of predators attack a given target, they act in organised way instead of all attacking blindly at the same time. Whatever the large animals is rhino sized like Toxodont or Common Oliphaunt or elephant sized such Drenduga, that end more or less the same for a predator as large as the Fireback, alone or in group.

[@raulalatorre7113]

Yeah, a lion can be killed by the kick of a Zebra or the horns of a Wildebeest. Even the usual prey can be deadly for the predator. What I mean is that, I know something like the common Oliphaunt can be dangerous but I imagined that a especialized FireBack or a couple could bring down one with relative easy and I was surprised when I heard that only a pack could kill one. And for the Drenduga, I doubt that even a docen terror birds can bring down a healthy adult.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@raulalatorre7113 Every is up to how the target is, heathly, sik or old. Following the cases, only one Fireback would be enough to bring a Common Oliphaunt, if sick or old, while for a heathly adult a pack is needed. Same for a Drenduga, but obviousely, always more than one Fireback is resquested, as even an old bull can be very deadly even if this state. Following how the Drenduga is, the number of Firebacks in a pack will vary.

[@GentleElm]

You should make a documentary of one of the Fireback

[@takenname8053]

Big Berd!

[@bmw895]

Very direct title for a very direct killer. You've done an amazing job covering all of the terror birds, though I do think it was a missed opportunity to not do that third blue terror bird. Would have gone well with the whole angry birds theme you are doing

[@TalesofKaimere]

I hope to give that guy proper coverage eventually, but alas these were the sponsored topics

[@bmw895]

@TalesofKaimere oh its fine given there's only three terror birds in kaimere your coverage of then has been more than enough

[@davidegaruti2582]

Question : how do we know terror birds where ambush hunters ?

[@TalesofKaimere]

I suppose I shouldn't have said it so conclusively, but the robust build of the larger taxa especially weren't suited for pursuit. Their large feet and thick limbs, not to mention the huge heads. Built more like a cassowary than an ostrich. That's not to say they weren't fast of course, but the image of them engaging in long chases is unlikely in the opinion of a lot of folks I've talked to who study them.

[@davidegaruti2582]

​@@TalesofKaimereok i see ... The large terror birds where built like tigers not like wolves ... And i suppose there where smaller birds more adapted at chasing down their preys ... Altough the idea of a tall and large animal being an ambush hunter does sound weird , It's like tirannosaurus being one ... What do we know about their night vision ?

[@TotallyRedMist217]

What's the largest terror bird of Kaimere during the Anchored Period?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Smaller than this. Comparable to titanis

[@TotallyRedMist217]

@@TalesofKaimere Surprising, I thought those would be Kelenken size. Maybe they never had the chance to get bigger than Titanis during the Anchored Period

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@TotallyRedMist217 There was a greater diversity of small megaraptorans during this period that likely limited their size

[@meriosan4333]

​@@TotallyRedMist217 To be fair Kelenken is only *slightly* larger than Titanis, they're both still around 300kg+

[@1998topornik]

Very big and angry bird.

[@art4freak795]

Mother nature and God got high one afternoon. God : what if we made some big ass birds? Mother nature: like gaint murder chickens? God: yeah!

[@johannbeyl8966]

I find the Part of the sauropods pretty interesting, are There kaimerean people who abduct hatchling sauropods and raise Thema To a certain size for food and armor (Maybe a year or zwo). Domestication would obviously Not work, but i find this Concept Quite interesting

[@transnewt]

are bluebacks generally similar to their larger cousins, albeit with a more nocturnal, cautious lifestyle and of course preferring overall smaller prey, or is the size disparity too great for this to be a viable lifestyle for them?

[@transnewt]

wouldn't surprise me if they are simply not studied well enough to be properly fleshed out urushai, since there dont seem to be any plans too really explore the northern forests

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Were there any terror birds in qajar or southern arvel and how many terror birds were there before the end anchored period extinction

[@ryanchen1819]

Speaking of which, particularly how did terror birds participate in the Warring Clades Period?

[@lipamanka]

the tok pisin word for cassowary is "muruk" !!!

[@KylerBrazda-we9kb]

YESSSS!! The best bird is out!!!!!

[@leoornstein3963]

I missed the very short title 😢 Edit: thete should totally be a horror Kaimere short story about Firebacks btw.

[@lorcanmcloughlin3686]

Also what species whoud do the most damage if it got to the known world somehow? I think dragons but maybe theres something worse

[@gojitsar7505]

Moorkulot?

[@lorcanmcloughlin3686]

@@gojitsar7505 maybe? Depends if its a stable population might just cause alot of damage to a relatively small area for a few decades then die out

[@TalesofKaimere]

Dragons would be quite bad, but if we include plants, then definitely houze grass. If it replaced the wheat in China and the northern US, the consequences would be devastating to global economy not to mention lead to a lot of starvation in places reliant on bread as a major food source.

[@Rzlmjd29]

LESGOOOO

[@TalesofKaimere]

Heck yeah!!

[@Dodo-x3g]

Wheres a horses of kaimere video

[@TalesofKaimere]

Haven’t made one yet

[@Zekeriyasenturk6513]

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[@praetorianrex5571]

Hey Keenan, I've got a artistic tip for you regarding creature designs. Would you like to hear it?