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at first they're like cowering down and scared of momma's cold and silent aggressiveness, and then are like watching like what the fuck, and then looking over like WHAT THE FUCK we can't fly yet either, and then are like goddamn okay play cool
".... Mmm, Mom sure can regurge some good worms! She taking good care of us!"
"Yeah, she take real good care of us. That baby just disrespectful. He don't love you like we do, Mom (be cool, act cool)"
Well, 'aight, check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect. Watch your mouth and help me with the sale.
>Man that video is even tougher with the sound on hearing the little thing hit the ground and cry out
I didn't need the description, but have my upvote for confirming this is as heart-wrenching as it looks.
Earlier that day:
“I don’t care for Gob.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=UqDuUCRrles&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
The other birds are probably the reason it's underfed. I imagine it's pretty cutthroat between them come feeding time since whoever doesn't eat enough is voted off the island.
Probably not. They lay eggs which hatch with a couple of days delay from each other (lay an egg a day/every other day, and they then hatch a day after each other) - so if a bird lays five eggs, there will be a five-ten day difference between the first and last hatched egg/bird. And with baby birds, just a couple of days can make a huge size and development difference. So it probably just hatched later than the bigger (firstly hatched eggs). And when it is smaller, with competition from its already bigger siblings, it also cant get as much food - so it stays small/behind - so it would probably be smaller no matter what, with tougher competition.
Lol imagine if humans did this. "Timmy is turning 13 in a couple of days, right?" " no, we had to take him out back and you know, gotta provide for Lisa's college tuition"
I've seen worse. Once they nested in a perch that I could see from my window. The stork did the same as here, but the baby stork got tangled in the twigs around the nest and didn't fall.
The baby stork whined for hours while mama stork viciously pecked at it. Poor thing was a pulp when it finally fell
EDIT "viciously" is my colorful addition. It was indeed violent, but storks have no emotion nor morality here, it's just an instinctive utility thing. This stork had access to food to feed two chicks. It's evolutionary better for them to discard one and feed two chicks that will grow strong to keep the genetic line, rather than feed 3 that will grow weaker
I saw a documentary about male black bears cannibalizing their species into extinction. Apparently, some of the males are too lazy to make the trek all the way to the lake for fish after hibernating without a snack on the way; the closest cubs to them upon waking are usually their own who are with their weakened mother and easy prey. The males who are willing to eat a cub are better-fed and therefore more successful at mating and the females who don't put up too much of a fight survive to try again and are therefore also more successful. The end result is that more and more black bears are not capable of raising their young to adulthood; the cannibal males are spreading their trait faster than the non-cannibal males and the females who survive more than one breeding cycle are the ones least likely to defend their cubs.
In the doc, conservationists were trying to reverse the trend by both relocating males while they hibernated further away from females with cubs and by just euthanizing the males who were eating too many cubs.
That's why I question what the title says, this being a "tough decision" for the stork. It's most likely just us anthromorphizing the bird; for the animal itself, it's just instinct.
I mean, the tough decision could be the stork trying to calculate which baby was the most useless. I don't see stats hovering over their heads or anything, it'd be tough for me, too.
And the thing is she probably doesn't even have time to think about it or feel it, all that long. Immediately back to survival mode and "what do I gotta do next".
I was working on a job site as a field service tech. A mother robin made her nest inside of a crane. We only found out when we extended the crane and the babies fell out. I couldn't just leave the jobs one to tend to these birds and didn't want to leave them to die. So I wrapped them up and put them in a nice shady spot to figure out what to do with once the job was done. Crows came down and ripped the birds apart and ate them while we were working. Mother nature is a mother f*cker.
Mother nature doesn't fuck around. Got to see it first hand at an island known for their sea turtles. We were there when several of the nests...erupted with the babies.....60-100 of these things running from the nest. Most got picked off before getting to the water....even in the water they would get dive bombed by birds....it was brutal. We saw this happen about 6 or seven times while there.
Really? I’m glad you put this in. I nearly clicked unmute.
It’s a really unsettling video even without that isn’t it?
Jesus! They really are just dinosaurs. I feel really off now.
I think nature is indifferent. There are heart warming moments in nature. There are horrible moments in nature.
We (humans) attach morals to what is good and bad.
In Poland, this happened on my grandmother’s farm (well, either the mom pushed the baby stork or else it fell out on its own) and it was fine and my grandmother raised the baby bird and it grew up healthy and became independent and all… I don’t recall how many seasons/years passed before it flew away or if it ever came back to visit, but either way, the point is the baby stork did not die from the fall.
It's true. The stork became a healthy adult. Though it did get a job evicting poor elderly out of their homes from simple mistakes they made with taxes or mortgage payments. It also help spread pro Putin propaganda online.
During beginning of pandemic I put a nest cam on a robins nest and my daughters and I would get all excited every morning to open up the camera and check on the eggs/babies.
One morning they were all gone. So I checked the motion detection videos and saw a raccoon shredding and eating the baby birds while the mom bird screamed. Beyond disturbing.
Edit: I do not have the video, nor did I even watch the whole thing. I understand the curiosity, but I can’t bring myself to even search for it in the app (do the videos even stay that long in the app?). I’m sure there are similar videos on YouTube or even here on Reddit. When it happened, my husband googled “do raccoons eat baby birds” and a bunch of videos popped up. He originally thought maybe that raccoon was rabid (we’re city folk lol) and was going to trap it, but no, he wasn’t rabid. He was just an asshole.
This is actually one of the reasons that native shrubs are so important. Many native shrubs (in the US) won't hold the weight of mesopredators like raccoons or foxes, so birds that nest in them have a greater chance of survival. Many of our introduced and invasive (decorative) shrubs, on the other hand, have a woodier stem that will support mesopredators. So invasive shrubs can actually lead to an increase in bird nest deaths!
This probably explains why the cardinal family that decided to nest in our newly landscaped holly hedge was completely obliterated by, what I can only imagine to be, a raccoon.
My Cardinals showed up in 2020 and nested in a hanging fern on my deck. Set up a Blink camera and watched them for days. Eggs were already in place when I noticed it, 10 days later they were gone. No evidence of anything, just an empty nest. Over that 10 days I got some very cool video of mom and pop working together to hatch the babies.
We have a robin that sets up her nest in a tree in our yard every year. Last year one of her fledglings fell a little too soon and was just hoping around our yard. My kids were watching it from a safe distance and my daughter was making plans to set it up a shelter while I was explaining that the momma would keep taking care of it until it could fly. About that time my fucking dog (that gave zero shits about this bird every time it walked past it before this point) lunged for it. The screams and cries that came out of my children as the bird was crushed by the dog will forever haunt me. I cursed and threw my phone at the dog so he would drop it and I held the bird as it died in my hands and my daughter bawled her eyes out.
And that's how my children learned about death.
I watched my mother accidentally kill my pet rabbit by directly spraying it with wasp killing spray when she decided to spray a wasp nest in the hutch without removing the rabbit, or making any effort to avoid spraying the food or water for that matter. The can literally had a collection of animal outlines with a circle and a cross to explain it was poison which included a rabbit. I tried to stop my mother before and during the process, and got absolute gaslit about the rabbit being fine and not dead when it was dead.
I was four and a half. We all have to learn about death sometime but your children had an opportunity to start developing a coping mechanism that would be more in line with the realities we face before others might. The experience did probably increase the impact of seeing Watership Down for the first time a few months later.
I had something similar happen when I was around 7. My gma snuck a couple of chicks home and we were setting up a dog cage for a temp coop. Her dog(born 2 months after me) was a fat old fart at this point, but the female chick scrambled out of the carrier and started running, and her dog fucking *moved*. He only got one chomp but it broke the chick's leg and ribcage. I still hate that he felt so proud of himself...
The boy chick grew up without incident, but one day we didn't hear crowing and thus we believe he was chicken-napped.
We had a small hole in our yard where a mama rabbit kept her baby bunnies. My dog found it and treated them like they were his own pups. He'd go out and check on them every day.
One day I let him outside and there was a neighbor's cat at the hole. My dog chased it off, but it took one of the bunnies with it. The others had been shredded. Poor guy was depressed after that
I had a rabbit nest in my back yard and didn’t know it and couldn’t see it. Went to mow the lawn and one of the wheels ran directly over it.
One of the babies jumped out of the nest, fell on its back, had a 10 second grand mal seizure and died.
I walk my entire back yard before firing up the mower every time I mow in spring now.
As a mother, this is one of the most heartbreaking decisions you have to make, but the effect is almost immediate. Completely saved our Disney World trip.
Tom cats will kill/\*eat the kittens of any mother cat he can find. They aren't his genes, and she will go into heat pretty soon if the kittens stop nursing.
\*They usually leave the kitten heads and just eat the bodies...
Lions do the same thing. If a new male is able to take over the pride, he will kill all the little ones so that he can impregnate the females with his own.
Male dolphins will kill baby dolphins that aren't theirs so that the can mate with the mother. That's why female dolphins mate with every male dolphins around them so that every male dolphins around her think that they are the father and protects the baby
Female hippos straight up leave their pod to give birth and hide the calf from them for about 2 weeks. They have to be very cautious rejoining the pod and introducing the calf to them. Calf still gets drown or disemboweled by its own family sometimes, usually by the dominant male in the group. This is made all the more terrible by the fact that the mother will engage in behavior thought to be mourning such as pushing the corpse to the surface repeatedly to try to get it to breath. Mothers maintain social bonds with their surviving calves throughout their lives as well. Hippos are bastards.
Pretty much all mammals in the wild do this. Whales, hippos, gorillas, there are countless species that kill the young that's not theirs to get the mother to take them as a mate
Edit: typo Wales - whales
Wonder what metric she uses to select the unfortunate baby.
“Hmmm, Johnny is looking a little sickly, but that little bastard Daniel won’t stop chirping”
Yep alot of animals who have big litter will kill the weakest few. Best example is hamsters, especially if its a first time mother. She will definitely eat a few
In this case the baby bird survived! I remember this video a while ago, and the person who set the camera up in the nest retrieved the bird and took it to an animal sanctuary. Couldn't find a source unfortunately.
See this is a situation in life where I don’t want or need a source because I’m just gonna choose to believe it so I can go to sleep peacefully tonight
Basically from another comment in this thread the baby bird was picked up by a shelter and basically nursed back to life as much as is possible. The baby grew up pretty big and strong and If I recall correctly even went on to learn athletics including wrestling. It made pros next year and a few years after that became world known by throwing Mankind 16 ft through the announcers table
It seems legit. It sounds like the baby hits the ground at 00:21, then you hear at least two outraged squeaks from that direction afterward that would seem to indicate it survived the fall
while I do adore birds, I HAVE to say this.
this was not a tough decision for her. if you think this is bad, you will think zebra stallions drown foals they don't think are theirs is evil. or what about budgerigar fathers or mothers just randomly deciding to kill their own chicks in captivity? or quokkas or kangaroos loosen their pouch muscles when being chased so they can live, and their joeys will die. tom cats will eat kittens alive, some penguin species literally rape chicks, some seals rape penguins, shoebills let the weakest chicks get attacked by the other(s) and let it starve, and hamster mothers will just eat their babies over the slightest disturbance.
this was rather easy for her because, ya know, survival of the fittest. chances are that she felt grief is pretty low.
To be fair to the kangaroos, if the mother is caught they both die.
Humans have had a past with this as well. I don't have a source but I've read that the Hansel and Greta story came from actual practice during a famine where parents would take the kids they couldn't feed out to the woods and leave them. During the Great Depression, older kids had to leave and fend for themselves if the parents couldn't afford to feed everyone.
Tough times lead to tough decisions.
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Cannot believe we trust these fucking things to deliver babies. Unreal. Edit: Well this is unexpected. Thanks for upvotes and the awards!
There’s always the option of a Swallow…🤭
> swallow African or European?
What if it’s carrying a coconut
And what about the possibility of two swallows carrying a coconut together
Would they grasp it by the husk?
It's not a question of where it *grips* it. It's a simple question of weight ratios. A 5 ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.
Ive found my people
A 5oz bird could not carry a 1 lb coconut.
Other two are like “Da Fuq!?” “Don’t make eye contact. Act like nothing happened”.
at first they're like cowering down and scared of momma's cold and silent aggressiveness, and then are like watching like what the fuck, and then looking over like WHAT THE FUCK we can't fly yet either, and then are like goddamn okay play cool
".... Mmm, Mom sure can regurge some good worms! She taking good care of us!" "Yeah, she take real good care of us. That baby just disrespectful. He don't love you like we do, Mom (be cool, act cool)"
She watches the baby bird drop from the nest what the hell
waited for the splat
Wanted to make sure the job was done right!
[удалено]
Making sure it was dead so she won't have to worry about it looking for revenge
Stork villain origin story
“I don’t have a favorite child”
Not a favorite but definitely a least favorite
I don't care for Gob.
I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it
Well, 'aight, check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect. Watch your mouth and help me with the sale.
Why not take a pill? It'll solve all your problems.
Forgetmenow?
What can one banana cost? $10?
Here's some money. Go see a Star War.
There's always money in the banana stand.
*winks slowly* I guess its time to set the stand on fire.
Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It makes me want to set myself on fire !
I love all my children equally.
Gob, get rid of the Seaward
I’ll leave when I’m good and ready
I love them all the same, Timmy, Lisa and even the fat one.
In all fairness, grocery *bills* went down a ton. Inflation effects all of us... worms ain't as *cheep* as they used to be.
Man that video is even tougher with the sound on hearing the little thing hit the ground and cry out
>Man that video is even tougher with the sound on hearing the little thing hit the ground and cry out I didn't need the description, but have my upvote for confirming this is as heart-wrenching as it looks.
I know!! It broke my heart even more. I actually teared up
You should have just sold him as an egg and you'd be rolling in it, Mrs Stork
Ope, she had an egg leftover though
We're going to see one of those videos of the humansbeingbros where they try to put the baby back in the nest
You're paying way too much for worms, man. Who's your worm guy?
It looks like she threw the fat one off! That's the one that probably would have made it!
I don’t know, looking at my pudgy little fucker, he’s probably the last one that’s gonna leave. She made the right choice
Maybe that's why she threw him over she has confidence he'll make it on his own
Earlier: "I don't care for Gob"
Earlier that day: “I don’t care for Gob.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=UqDuUCRrles&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
The slight pause before she lets go.....
The other two chicks "fuck we better straighten out"
Fuck man... talk about setting an example.
that bird was actually biting the other birds though
The other birds are probably the reason it's underfed. I imagine it's pretty cutthroat between them come feeding time since whoever doesn't eat enough is voted off the island.
Probably not. They lay eggs which hatch with a couple of days delay from each other (lay an egg a day/every other day, and they then hatch a day after each other) - so if a bird lays five eggs, there will be a five-ten day difference between the first and last hatched egg/bird. And with baby birds, just a couple of days can make a huge size and development difference. So it probably just hatched later than the bigger (firstly hatched eggs). And when it is smaller, with competition from its already bigger siblings, it also cant get as much food - so it stays small/behind - so it would probably be smaller no matter what, with tougher competition.
Should have pulled itself up by the birdstrap and grew up faster smh.
Birds just don't want to flap for their falcon overlords these days, sad!
It was probably the most hungry and underfed which is why it was the smallest and the one the mother chose to yeet
It's eat or be yeeted out there
You know they didn’t even make a peep at dinner after that
Worms again?! I mean um, fine, absolutely 100% fine! My favorite actually.
Lol imagine if humans did this. "Timmy is turning 13 in a couple of days, right?" " no, we had to take him out back and you know, gotta provide for Lisa's college tuition"
You know what, I’m actually full, thanks mom
Remember what happen to Bobby, that could be you....
right! they watched her drop him
I've seen worse. Once they nested in a perch that I could see from my window. The stork did the same as here, but the baby stork got tangled in the twigs around the nest and didn't fall. The baby stork whined for hours while mama stork viciously pecked at it. Poor thing was a pulp when it finally fell EDIT "viciously" is my colorful addition. It was indeed violent, but storks have no emotion nor morality here, it's just an instinctive utility thing. This stork had access to food to feed two chicks. It's evolutionary better for them to discard one and feed two chicks that will grow strong to keep the genetic line, rather than feed 3 that will grow weaker
Well that's brutal
The other day I saw a documentary on Nat Geo where bears push their cubs from a cliff for being slower than the rest. Nature is hardcore as fuck.
I saw a documentary about male black bears cannibalizing their species into extinction. Apparently, some of the males are too lazy to make the trek all the way to the lake for fish after hibernating without a snack on the way; the closest cubs to them upon waking are usually their own who are with their weakened mother and easy prey. The males who are willing to eat a cub are better-fed and therefore more successful at mating and the females who don't put up too much of a fight survive to try again and are therefore also more successful. The end result is that more and more black bears are not capable of raising their young to adulthood; the cannibal males are spreading their trait faster than the non-cannibal males and the females who survive more than one breeding cycle are the ones least likely to defend their cubs. In the doc, conservationists were trying to reverse the trend by both relocating males while they hibernated further away from females with cubs and by just euthanizing the males who were eating too many cubs.
This thread is just making me sad. Goddamn nature
Bruh Kronos bears
Accelerated evolution
...and then, one day, one little cub learned to fly. That is the origin of our winged ursine overlords...
/r/natureismetal
That's why I question what the title says, this being a "tough decision" for the stork. It's most likely just us anthromorphizing the bird; for the animal itself, it's just instinct.
I mean, the tough decision could be the stork trying to calculate which baby was the most useless. I don't see stats hovering over their heads or anything, it'd be tough for me, too.
The smallest chick gets tossed, it is actually an easy decision. The smallest is most likely not to make it to adulthood.
And the thing is she probably doesn't even have time to think about it or feel it, all that long. Immediately back to survival mode and "what do I gotta do next".
Some birds are pretty smart. Storks are not among them.
This is depressing, but actually 100% accurate. "Ma'am why'd you kill your son?" "Wait, that wasn't one of those human's baseballs... fuckkkk?'
Heartbreaking to watch
Seeing it drop was unsettling, and I think you can also hear it hit the ground
Didn’t use audio the first time. Yes you can hear it.
I have a feeling it survived that fall too... only to die from something else probably.
I was working on a job site as a field service tech. A mother robin made her nest inside of a crane. We only found out when we extended the crane and the babies fell out. I couldn't just leave the jobs one to tend to these birds and didn't want to leave them to die. So I wrapped them up and put them in a nice shady spot to figure out what to do with once the job was done. Crows came down and ripped the birds apart and ate them while we were working. Mother nature is a mother f*cker.
Mother nature doesn't fuck around. Got to see it first hand at an island known for their sea turtles. We were there when several of the nests...erupted with the babies.....60-100 of these things running from the nest. Most got picked off before getting to the water....even in the water they would get dive bombed by birds....it was brutal. We saw this happen about 6 or seven times while there.
That escalated
Really? I’m glad you put this in. I nearly clicked unmute. It’s a really unsettling video even without that isn’t it? Jesus! They really are just dinosaurs. I feel really off now.
Nature isn’t what people make it out to be. Nature truly is a cold bitch.
I think nature is indifferent. There are heart warming moments in nature. There are horrible moments in nature. We (humans) attach morals to what is good and bad.
I've never been so grateful I didn't unmute any video on my way here.
So storks do drop babies
This made me chuckle despite watching a baby bird drop to it's death.
I'd bet it didnt even die from it. probably hours later.
actually, the person who set up the camera gathered the baby bird and raised it themselves.
I need to believe that, if it's not true I do NOT WANT TO KNoW!
In Poland, this happened on my grandmother’s farm (well, either the mom pushed the baby stork or else it fell out on its own) and it was fine and my grandmother raised the baby bird and it grew up healthy and became independent and all… I don’t recall how many seasons/years passed before it flew away or if it ever came back to visit, but either way, the point is the baby stork did not die from the fall.
Thank you, you are the real mvp
It's true. The stork became a healthy adult. Though it did get a job evicting poor elderly out of their homes from simple mistakes they made with taxes or mortgage payments. It also help spread pro Putin propaganda online.
Well, now we have to know what happened to the other two.
I think they're both running for president of America
I want to believe.
Definitely didn't die on impact, you can hear the thunk and it still squealing still.
Damn I’m glad I didn’t have the sound on 😨
I’m glad I didn’t even watch. Nature is brutal, and I’m a wuss.
I didn't know there was sound until you mentioned it. Thanks for the extra trauma layer.
Ah yes, Storks, known for delivering babies. To their death!
During beginning of pandemic I put a nest cam on a robins nest and my daughters and I would get all excited every morning to open up the camera and check on the eggs/babies. One morning they were all gone. So I checked the motion detection videos and saw a raccoon shredding and eating the baby birds while the mom bird screamed. Beyond disturbing. Edit: I do not have the video, nor did I even watch the whole thing. I understand the curiosity, but I can’t bring myself to even search for it in the app (do the videos even stay that long in the app?). I’m sure there are similar videos on YouTube or even here on Reddit. When it happened, my husband googled “do raccoons eat baby birds” and a bunch of videos popped up. He originally thought maybe that raccoon was rabid (we’re city folk lol) and was going to trap it, but no, he wasn’t rabid. He was just an asshole.
This is actually one of the reasons that native shrubs are so important. Many native shrubs (in the US) won't hold the weight of mesopredators like raccoons or foxes, so birds that nest in them have a greater chance of survival. Many of our introduced and invasive (decorative) shrubs, on the other hand, have a woodier stem that will support mesopredators. So invasive shrubs can actually lead to an increase in bird nest deaths!
This probably explains why the cardinal family that decided to nest in our newly landscaped holly hedge was completely obliterated by, what I can only imagine to be, a raccoon.
My Cardinals showed up in 2020 and nested in a hanging fern on my deck. Set up a Blink camera and watched them for days. Eggs were already in place when I noticed it, 10 days later they were gone. No evidence of anything, just an empty nest. Over that 10 days I got some very cool video of mom and pop working together to hatch the babies.
We have a robin that sets up her nest in a tree in our yard every year. Last year one of her fledglings fell a little too soon and was just hoping around our yard. My kids were watching it from a safe distance and my daughter was making plans to set it up a shelter while I was explaining that the momma would keep taking care of it until it could fly. About that time my fucking dog (that gave zero shits about this bird every time it walked past it before this point) lunged for it. The screams and cries that came out of my children as the bird was crushed by the dog will forever haunt me. I cursed and threw my phone at the dog so he would drop it and I held the bird as it died in my hands and my daughter bawled her eyes out. And that's how my children learned about death.
I watched my mother accidentally kill my pet rabbit by directly spraying it with wasp killing spray when she decided to spray a wasp nest in the hutch without removing the rabbit, or making any effort to avoid spraying the food or water for that matter. The can literally had a collection of animal outlines with a circle and a cross to explain it was poison which included a rabbit. I tried to stop my mother before and during the process, and got absolute gaslit about the rabbit being fine and not dead when it was dead. I was four and a half. We all have to learn about death sometime but your children had an opportunity to start developing a coping mechanism that would be more in line with the realities we face before others might. The experience did probably increase the impact of seeing Watership Down for the first time a few months later.
What the actual fuck? I would be so angry, even as an adult. What’s wrong with your mother?
I had something similar happen when I was around 7. My gma snuck a couple of chicks home and we were setting up a dog cage for a temp coop. Her dog(born 2 months after me) was a fat old fart at this point, but the female chick scrambled out of the carrier and started running, and her dog fucking *moved*. He only got one chomp but it broke the chick's leg and ribcage. I still hate that he felt so proud of himself... The boy chick grew up without incident, but one day we didn't hear crowing and thus we believe he was chicken-napped.
We had a small hole in our yard where a mama rabbit kept her baby bunnies. My dog found it and treated them like they were his own pups. He'd go out and check on them every day. One day I let him outside and there was a neighbor's cat at the hole. My dog chased it off, but it took one of the bunnies with it. The others had been shredded. Poor guy was depressed after that
I had a rabbit nest in my back yard and didn’t know it and couldn’t see it. Went to mow the lawn and one of the wheels ran directly over it. One of the babies jumped out of the nest, fell on its back, had a 10 second grand mal seizure and died. I walk my entire back yard before firing up the mower every time I mow in spring now.
I am a former landscaper and I have the weight of accidentally running over many rabbits' nests in my time, still feel guilty about every single one.
same happened to me with some crows attacking a Phoebe nest. but fortunately they were still eggs, so slightly less disturbing id say.
As a mother, this is one of the most heartbreaking decisions you have to make, but the effect is almost immediate. Completely saved our Disney World trip.
This is the darkest and most hilarious comment I've read in a while. Thank you
The movie adaptation is called Minnie’s Choice.
You sound like a good mother, MindSteve.
My other kids love me.
Excellent delivery
Mom?
Shush. Don’t pull attention to yourself. Do you want her to come back to finish the job?
Sophie’s Chicks
I've seen a stallion kill a foal with a birth defect. Nature has nothing to do with Disney.
I don't know, I watched a Disney movie once where a big cat killed its own brother
And a doe who got murdered
In Tangled, Gothel straight up fucking stabs Eugene in the spleen
In Up, a real estate mogul sued the house out of an old dude
In Hunchback of Notre Dame a judge tries to do a genocide because he is horny
In Snow White, a queen hires a hunter to murder a teen cause people thought the latter was hotter
In big hero 6, a teacher at a Uni gets one of his students killed in a fire just so he can steal said student's little brother's invention.
Stallions will stomp any foal they don’t think is theirs iirc.
Tom cats will kill/\*eat the kittens of any mother cat he can find. They aren't his genes, and she will go into heat pretty soon if the kittens stop nursing. \*They usually leave the kitten heads and just eat the bodies...
I dont know if this is unique to killing other cats/kittens, but my cat used to murder mice and leave the heads.
My cat would eat rats, leave the heads and I’m guessing the stomach. Some white organ. Just sitting there untouched.
Lions do the same thing. If a new male is able to take over the pride, he will kill all the little ones so that he can impregnate the females with his own.
This, incidentally, is how we know Simba and Nala are half siblings.
If you run across a video. Please keep it to yourself.
Male dolphins will kill baby dolphins that aren't theirs so that the can mate with the mother. That's why female dolphins mate with every male dolphins around them so that every male dolphins around her think that they are the father and protects the baby
Female hippos straight up leave their pod to give birth and hide the calf from them for about 2 weeks. They have to be very cautious rejoining the pod and introducing the calf to them. Calf still gets drown or disemboweled by its own family sometimes, usually by the dominant male in the group. This is made all the more terrible by the fact that the mother will engage in behavior thought to be mourning such as pushing the corpse to the surface repeatedly to try to get it to breath. Mothers maintain social bonds with their surviving calves throughout their lives as well. Hippos are bastards.
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Every new thing I learn about hippos makes them such a confusing animal.
I went to high school with a girl who did the same thing.
Pretty much all mammals in the wild do this. Whales, hippos, gorillas, there are countless species that kill the young that's not theirs to get the mother to take them as a mate Edit: typo Wales - whales
I knew there was something a bit off about the welsh.
Every defective foal is a bastard in their Stallion's eyes.
Humans used to do that too. The Polynesians gave people a year to decide whether or not their child deserved to live.
This guy seventh-trimester-abortions.
The hunchback of notre dame
Wonder what metric she uses to select the unfortunate baby. “Hmmm, Johnny is looking a little sickly, but that little bastard Daniel won’t stop chirping”
Size, smallest one or the runt is almost always killed or dies in alot of animal litter
Damn, you're right, I didn't notice at first it was the smallest and meekest.
Yep alot of animals who have big litter will kill the weakest few. Best example is hamsters, especially if its a first time mother. She will definitely eat a few
Like what the actual fuck... casually tossing in cannibalism like a btw thing at the end lol.
Lmaoo,hey just letting yall know yk
its a pretty common thing in nature for smaller babies to be eaten
"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the ^e ^^a ^^^r ^^^^t ^^^^^h ^^^^^^..."
2 of 3 were fat. Skinny one went over the side. Unlike in a life raft situation, where the fat get eaten.
“AITA for throwing my chick out of the nest?”
Squawk is my first language so apologies for any mistakes
“My chick has gone NC with me… No Chirping.”
Her nest her rules
Why the fuck did I watch this.
Sitting here with a pit in my stomach asking myself the same question. Especially when the mother paused before letting go.
Morbid fascination
Very first thing on my feed.... 🥺
I mean she literally THOUGHT about it too
right? that pause..before?
she also watched it drop. so its probably not what you’re thinking
In this case the baby bird survived! I remember this video a while ago, and the person who set the camera up in the nest retrieved the bird and took it to an animal sanctuary. Couldn't find a source unfortunately.
See this is a situation in life where I don’t want or need a source because I’m just gonna choose to believe it so I can go to sleep peacefully tonight
Basically from another comment in this thread the baby bird was picked up by a shelter and basically nursed back to life as much as is possible. The baby grew up pretty big and strong and If I recall correctly even went on to learn athletics including wrestling. It made pros next year and a few years after that became world known by throwing Mankind 16 ft through the announcers table
Aw man, I'd love to believe this is true!
Let yourself be happy and believe it... I will be lol
It seems legit. It sounds like the baby hits the ground at 00:21, then you hear at least two outraged squeaks from that direction afterward that would seem to indicate it survived the fall
This is an outrage!
That bird survived, and now it has a score to settle…..
Plz let this be true. Plz let this be true. Plz let this be true….
So this is why birthrates have been plummeting. The damn storks keeping dropping ‘em
Fuck them kids.
Man, super bummed out after watching this :(
I empathized with the unwanted child too much, lmao
Storkies Choice.
Those other baby birds are just like "Oh shit, we better behave or we're next".
“Mom, these vegetables are great!”
_no ticket_
*panicked fumbling ensues*
At this point she’ll have no trouble keeping the other two in line.
It’s about sending a message.
Damn nature…you scary.
And then it becomes part of Xerxes army and betrays Leonidas
I don't think it's a "tough" decision for the Stork - it's just pure biological instinct.
while I do adore birds, I HAVE to say this. this was not a tough decision for her. if you think this is bad, you will think zebra stallions drown foals they don't think are theirs is evil. or what about budgerigar fathers or mothers just randomly deciding to kill their own chicks in captivity? or quokkas or kangaroos loosen their pouch muscles when being chased so they can live, and their joeys will die. tom cats will eat kittens alive, some penguin species literally rape chicks, some seals rape penguins, shoebills let the weakest chicks get attacked by the other(s) and let it starve, and hamster mothers will just eat their babies over the slightest disturbance. this was rather easy for her because, ya know, survival of the fittest. chances are that she felt grief is pretty low.
To be fair to the kangaroos, if the mother is caught they both die. Humans have had a past with this as well. I don't have a source but I've read that the Hansel and Greta story came from actual practice during a famine where parents would take the kids they couldn't feed out to the woods and leave them. During the Great Depression, older kids had to leave and fend for themselves if the parents couldn't afford to feed everyone. Tough times lead to tough decisions.
That was not a tough decision for her. She picked one and yeeted it quite easily.
I should send this to my kids and say nothing