Unrelated, but I love scientific pictures that almost look like shitposts 😀

That thing looks like a fucking dark souls boss.

A giraffe weighs about a ton.

Those are very big animals indeed, but also, tve flying one can't be too thick, or it wouldn't fly.

Think of the difference between a cat and a visibly similarly sized bird, like a crow or smth. The crow would have barely any mass and you'd be able to crush it's fragile body quite easily.

A cat on the other hand, has a lot of weight, comparatively, and doesn't rely on any limbs to fly, leaving them open to be weapons. Each limb hides a handful (hehe) of razors.

I read about these mega-birdos before and iirc, they too have hollow bones?

Size is scary, and birds can be mean as fuck, but it's pretty fragile. Think of what a good whack with a baseball bat on one of those limbs would do.

And then think how much it would damage a T-rex or equivalent non-flying animal. Not even a bruise.

Large pterosaurs needed strong limbs to get off the ground, but thick bones would have made them too heavy. The solution? A pterosaur’s wing bones were hollow tubes, with walls no thicker than a playing card. Like bird bones, they were flexible and lightweight, while strengthened by internal struts.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/how-did-pterosaurs-fly

I reckon if you gave me a bit of armor of some sort, a good knife and a baseball bat, I could take one on.

I'm joking. Semi. I know I'm probably dead wrong in that but I have a hard time imagining their fighting tactics. Although some modern birds pierce things with their beak, and if that stomped on me, it'd still weight the ~230kg, and then proceeded to peck furiously?

I don't think protective biker gear or a baseball bat would help much, and I'm not too fit rn, so my roly-poly skills are a bit rusty.