{"id":40554,"date":"2014-02-21T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=39322"},"modified":"2014-02-21T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:55:08","slug":"potoo-bird-facts-photos-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/potoo-bird-facts-photos-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Potoo Bird — Facts, Photos, And Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Potoo bird, also known as the Great Potoo or the common potoo, isn’t actually a single species, but a group of related species of near-passerine birds in the family Nyctibiidae<\/em> and the genus Nyctibius<\/em>. They are also sometimes referred to as “Poor-me-ones” — on account of their haunting calls.<\/p>\n

While all of that is quite possibly interesting to you, there’s a good chance that you’re here because of the memes going around depicting a rather perturbed looking potoo along with a variety of humorous captions. So, to answer your question, yes that is indeed a real potoo, and it is in fact a real animal. They do also seem to quite commonly make the strange and sort of humorous faces seen in the images used in the memes. Now back to the facts (some of the funnier memes are posted at the bottom).<\/p>\n

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The potoos are currently found throughout Central and South America, with the greatest genetic diversity occurring in the Amazon Basin. They used to have a considerably greater range in prehistoric times though, apparently — fossil remains dating to the Eocene have been found in France and Germany.<\/p>\n