Lorikeet bites hurt like a motherfucker. Her expression is justified.
Spartan2470 on September 24th, 2021 at 13:28 UTC »
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23 September 2021, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Marlow: Angela Merkel (CDU), German Chancellor, feeds Australian lorises at Marlow Bird Park and gets bitten. Photo: Georg Wendt/dpa (Photo by Georg Wendt/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
> Before the end of her 16-year chancellorship, Merkel pays a farewell visit to her constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This also includes the Marlow Bird Park, where Merkel is surrounded by parakeets and parrots. It only keeps its distance from a larger bird.
> Whether budgies, cockatiels, zebra finches or parrots - the Chancellor was very popular in the Marlow Bird Park: whole flocks of brightly colored Lori parrots fluttered around Angela Merkel and ate out of her hand.
> One of the Australian Loris even landed on her head. In her hand she held a small paper cup with "Lori nectar" made from dried pollen, fruit sugar, grain and water. Before the general election on Sunday, Merkel was on a farewell tour in her traditional constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
> The budgies were also trusting and allowed the outgoing head of government to feed them millet. Merkel was only cautious about the fully grown European eagle owl: she didn't want to hold the approximately 60 centimeter tall owl with the big eyes after all. "No, no. I did well with the parakeets."
> The eagle owl was held by the CDU Bundestag candidate Georg Günther, who wants to be Merkel's successor in constituency 15 (Vorpommern-Rügen - Vorpommern-Greifswald I).
Chromattix on September 24th, 2021 at 12:32 UTC »
Lorikeet bites hurt like a motherfucker. Her expression is justified.
Spartan2470 on September 24th, 2021 at 13:28 UTC »
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Edit: Thank you for the correction /u/MRosvall
Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Here is the source. Per there (and Google Translate):
> Before the end of her 16-year chancellorship, Merkel pays a farewell visit to her constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This also includes the Marlow Bird Park, where Merkel is surrounded by parakeets and parrots. It only keeps its distance from a larger bird.
> Whether budgies, cockatiels, zebra finches or parrots - the Chancellor was very popular in the Marlow Bird Park: whole flocks of brightly colored Lori parrots fluttered around Angela Merkel and ate out of her hand.
> One of the Australian Loris even landed on her head. In her hand she held a small paper cup with "Lori nectar" made from dried pollen, fruit sugar, grain and water. Before the general election on Sunday, Merkel was on a farewell tour in her traditional constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
> The budgies were also trusting and allowed the outgoing head of government to feed them millet. Merkel was only cautious about the fully grown European eagle owl: she didn't want to hold the approximately 60 centimeter tall owl with the big eyes after all. "No, no. I did well with the parakeets."
> The eagle owl was held by the CDU Bundestag candidate Georg Günther, who wants to be Merkel's successor in constituency 15 (Vorpommern-Rügen - Vorpommern-Greifswald I).
Capt_Blackmoore on September 24th, 2021 at 13:37 UTC »
And just like that, the Prime Minister Chancellor turned into a Disney Princess, and floated off into the distance.