Those giant muscular feet are the best landing gear. The claws, I think, provide some slippage so you don’t just tumble on the ground.
“Those giant muscular feet are the best landing gear. “
But aren’t they going at about zero velocity when those claws touch their landing point?
Do you know why an owl can turn its head almost all the way around? It’s because its eyeballs are so big that it can’t turn them independently of its head.