not bird porn

December 4, 2007 9:44 PM

I am unable to find a picture of someone with their hand spread out down an ostrich's throat.

Before you turn away in disgust, you must know that this is by no means some horrible sordid bird neck porn I'm looking for, it is totally on the up and up. My (admittedly dim) recollection has it in National Geographic or something like that, illustrating the marvelous throat flexibility of the ostrich. It's a picture of a guy with his hand spread out an ostrich neck so you can see the fingers and thumb and stuff - and the ostrich doesn't seem to mind that much.

This remembered picture was the basis recently of some casual remarks to a friend at the pub, immediately and vociferously disbelieved. Conjecturing that such a classic image would be all over the Web, and this being the future, I was able to produce my pocket Internet and google on the spot. I was sure faith in my wisdom would be restored in a few seconds, but to my amazement queries proved fruitless, and to this day certain parties remain mocking and skeptical, and my very sanity is now possibly called into question.

Stricken, I lurch forth in search of aid. I am in desperate need of corroboration or refutation of my assertions.

posted by 31d1 to pets & animals (10 comments total)

Closest I could find. Google was spectacularly unhelpful. Just about any query gets porn these days.

My question would be how the man (with the hand) got his hand past the beak. I'm not sure an ostrich's mouth is large enough to accept a man's hand.

I also tried emu queries, but no luck.
posted by SlyBevel at 10:10 PM on December 4, 2007

That link goes to ask.metafilter.com, SlyBevel.
posted by cgc373 at 10:30 PM on December 4, 2007

My memory is fuzzy but I swear there is a shot just like the one you described in one of The Guinness Books of World Records from the early '90s.

I'm remembering the guy in the shot as being in need of a haircut.
posted by 517 at 11:28 PM on December 4, 2007

Here's one of an ostrich that swallowed a bread roll, but no luck otherwise.
posted by magicbus at 4:07 AM on December 5, 2007

I remember this shot too... are you sure it was NG? I'm remembering it as more of a childrens publication.. .Zoobooks maybe?

Also.. Metafilter: Just about any query gets porn these days.
posted by softlord at 6:45 AM on December 5, 2007

Heh, It could have been World, but probably not Highlights for Children.
posted by [@I][:+:][@I] at 7:11 AM on December 5, 2007

cgc372 wrote: "That link goes to ask.metafilter.com, SlyBevel.

Perhaps alluding to the sad fact of this very question now being the top google result for "ostrich throat".
posted by [@I][:+:][@I] at 7:16 AM on December 5, 2007 [1 favorite]

I love that the only link on this page that works links to this page.

I, too, searched for ostriches, emus, throats and necks, to no avail. Are you sure this actually happened? One gets some very strange image results searching for this. :)
posted by iguanapolitico at 11:25 AM on December 5, 2007

Not quite what you're looking for, but related.
posted by wsg at 12:02 PM on December 5, 2007

I remember this exact photo too. I remember it being taken on a ranch of some sort. Maybe that will help.
posted by rlef98 at 4:56 PM on December 5, 2007