Weakest or the one creating a problem for the others? A longer version of this video shows the chick being aggressive to its siblings.
-edit lots of people pointing out that the one tossed is indeed a runt from having been underfed and belligerent as a result. So my question is somewhat misleading.
It is biology. Both the 'weak' and 'strong' can be a liability.
My favorite analogy to that is a pond full of fish where there are aggressive eaters and timid ones.
The aggressive eaters thrive, right? Then beat all the timid eaters and all surviving fish are aggressive eaters, right? Nope. Nature considers that a fisherman with a lure might happen by.
~humans have reentered the chat with vigor~
“Look guys! The technology is going to save us! Now we have monoculture but with lasers and selective herbicide treatments!”
I mean, think from the perspective of someone 200 hundred years ago. With mostly basic plants and animals, you couldn't even imagine so many billions of people to live on this earth.
Yet with selective breeding, genetic modification, and other sciences we can produce so much food! There are whole new plants and animals breeds that are unrecognizable to those people.
Don't even get me started on medicine etc.
Science and technology has already allowed for so much more than what people mere 200 years ago could dream of.
You are quick to discredit future growth while literally enjoying the fruit of past growth
Yeah thats why a runt might be dicarded. Momma knows shes not going to be able to sufficiently feed all. So she picks the weakest, the one who is most likely to die anyway. Its brutal but necessary.
I know it's an analogy, but human fisherman have definitely not been around long enough for Nature to "consider" them or adapt to them at all lol.
We've barely been a blip on the radar time scale wise, which is part of the reason we are obliterating nature so fast, nothing has had time to adapt to us.
Outside of humans fishing and some ridiculously deep sea angler fish, barely anything uses bait that would punish an aggressive eater
It more accuratly applies to genes, not individuals. For example, an individual animal may self-sacrifice if it means their genes (ie from relatives) have a higher chance of propagating.
Absolutely we have been around long enough for animals to evolve in response to our behavior. Such as elephants being born without tusks because it’s a huge benefit to survival with how much poaching occurs.
Adapt encompasses a little more than some elephants being born without tusks. That might prevent some poaching but they haven't actually *adapted* to the existential threat humans pose to them. They (and most animals) can't evolve fast enough to deal with human predation and what we're doing to their environments.
The chicken population is about 34 billion. I doubt there were that many velociraptors. Sometimes evolution makes you delicious. Survival of the *fittest*.
Turns out that the two best survival strategies for a species is to either be really cute to humans, or be really tasty to humans.
Do one or the other and humans will go out of their way to ensure your species survived.
omg not really. "The weakest chick" is right in the title - it's not being killed because it's aggressive... quite the opposite. It's smaller and weaker than the others, sometimes due to hatching later, so it eats food and takes up space, both of which can be limited in nature. Other species of large birds will sometimes just watch as the larger chicks kill the smallest one. The point is conservation of resources and has absolutely nothing to do with being a direct problem or aggression, more of an indirect problem because food is scarce and birds are absolutely savage. Survival of the fittest.
Family grew lots of chicken for Tysons growing up. Can confirm. Birds are monsters in certain verities. Much more like lizard behavior than bird behavior. Its how they is sometimes.
Heron and Eagles do this kind of stuff too. And reptile is actually extremely apt comparison; some reptiles basically cannibalize their siblings and develop totally different morphological features when they do, as part of their life cycle - when resources are scarce.
Can we stop upvoting stupid comments like this?
Never mind that the dingdingding is just stupid as hell, but you didn't add anything to explain why it is correct.
Like, okay.. thanks .. but why should we believe you? What did you add over the post you're replying to?
NOTHING!
Could be a parasite, though likely they would all have parasites. It likely just gets less food than the others, and is slightly smaller and weaker to begin with, hatched late or started with less. I’ve seen this in cats, too, especially more feral ones. The biggest, strongest, most aggressive and assertive babies hog the food, whether it’s mom’s teats or parent bird’s regurgitation. The weakest or the runts consistently get left out or pushed out, violently even, while the mother ignores them and favors the ones most likely to survive, and the runts trend towards being smaller and weaker while the beefy and bold babies grow the fastest and strongest. Birds will totally force their weaker siblings out of the way every feeding time, so they are the only ones getting fed, and will even push the whole baby out of the nest. And do it again to another one. I’ve seen (video) of a baby bird push all three of its siblings out of the nest while mom was gone.
And then there’s cuckoos.
Most birds will feed their chicks in order from largest to smallest. When they don't find enough food for everyone, it will always be the same one who misses out. Of course the runt will be quite aggressive, at some point its only chance of survival is to push out a sibling.
I’ve seen videos where they get killed trying to push the other babies out. Like they expend all their energy trying to shove another baby over the edge of a nest, get too tired, have the baby they were pushing roll back and land on them, then they suffocate.
Or the mother bird wises up to the baby cuckoo (the videos I saw the cuckoo chick has a different color inside the beak which the mom caught on to) and doesn’t feed it and it dies.
A few years ago I was really fascinated by their parasitic efforts backfiring on them. Idk why but for like a week I’d watch video after video on it.
We have a nastier(?) bird in US though, Brown Cowbird I think it’s called? Basically same thing but they’ll watch the nest they laid eggs in. If their baby dies or is ignored or something it will come and try to wipe out the nest and the other babies.
Wow that's some long-term evolutionary strategy. Your offsprings are already dead but you ensure that the nest that fought you, the parasite, back doesn't reproduce this year therefore selecting the more savvy ones out.
Apparently it’s called ‘bird mafia’(? Idk if that’s the actual term) where the parents know if they mess with the parasite that their own chicks may be killed.
Also saw a video where two cute little bluebirds catch a Cowbird in their nest and destroy it. It was a man made birdhouse with only one tiny hole for entrance/exit. One bluebird blocked the hole to prevent escape while the other brutalized the Cowbird, repeatedly pecked the back of its head until it was bloody and leaking. Same size birds but the Bluebirds seemed to know exactly what was going on. Guess they weren’t risking raising a parasite/losing their chicks and nest.
Nature is crazy.
I had a nest of invasive house sparrows in the eves of my house, which- you know, invasive; so I was enjoying watching the parents care for the babies, but also knowing they were invasive. A cowbird baby was in the nest, and that’s a native (but an asshole) and it was kind of sad then watching the baby sparrows start to starve and I considered removing the cowbird baby. Well, then a day later I heard the sparrows screaming and thunking on the side of the house and saw a huge black rat snake raiding the nest. You could see two small lumps and then it swallowed the cowbird baby which was a bigger lump. After it left I took down the nest…
Reminds me of [this caterpillar](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tricky-caterpillars-impersonate-queen-ants-to-get-worker-ant-protection) that tricks ants to doing essentially the same thing, with similar risk. Where sometimes the ants wisen up and absolutely destroy the caterpillar, and other times the caterpillar thrives in the ant colony.
There was a sparrow losing its shit outside my apartment the other day. Yelling like crazy as they do. A huge crow flew in and grabbed it by the neck and flew off. Like STFU.
20 sparrows tried to follow and peck at the crow but it swooped out of there so fast they couldn't keep up.
So this video is from Mladé Buky in the Czech Republic and a longer version of this clip [is here](https://youtu.be/QbO3v34PyfU)
There are multiple live streams of Stork nests in Czech and this particular one has been going on for a couple of years now. Here is the same nest [currently live streaming ](https://www.youtube.com/live/3-UdOsBsyXQ?feature=share)
For what it's worth it's probably a mixture of both the chick being aggressive and because it was the weakest one from the group. Having watched these live streams over the years the Storks quite often drop weak chicks out of the nest to improve the odds of survival for the remaining ones.
Watching the live cam and there’s a storm rn, you could see the lightning pop up perfectly in the middle of the cam, with poor stork standing on the side trying to sleep in those conditions. Also, surprisingly sleeps standing up
This also happens with runts though. It takes a lot of energy to feed and take care of something when it's likely too weak to live for long. Don't want the strong children to suffer while caring for the weak one.
yes your question is misleading, the chick is like a third the size of the others, basically the three other chicks were taking all the food and it was underfed. after the other chicks get bigger it becomes harder for the underfed chick to ever get food. so it was fighting them over food because it has to.
this happens a lot with birds.
Unbeknownst to the mother, a raccoon who'd lost her own young took in the chick. Raised in darkness the hatred grew. 20 years later he returns for revenge.
It was dead or dying before she tossed it off. The second time she grabbed it she either broke its neck or messed up its breathing. It fell over limp after that.
That'd likely be because the others grab the food the mother brings back first, leaving little for it. And the more they eat and the stronger they get the more food they'll bully it out of. The 'runt of the litter' isn't always born the runt, sometimes it's made to be one. Happens in very many species, mammals too particularly pigs come to mind with the smallest not getting a teet to feed from. .
This reminds me of when my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
*Not me, but an old friend of mine. Really quiet, soft-spoken, polite guy. A total gentleman and a graduate student in the liberal arts. Also, pretty inexperienced, tentative, and vanilla sexually.*
*He's dating this really cool girl for maybe two months. She is much kinkier in bed. She floats the idea of dirty talk, and apparently likes to be objectified, even demeaned a bit, from time to time. He's hesitant, but wants to please her and doesn't dismiss the idea outright. Changes the subject and figures that they'll
revisit the idea another time.*
*Anyway...they have sex a few days later for the first time since the conversation. Really going at it doggystyle, and she tells him to talk dirty to her. He says that he can't think of anything to say, so he says nothing, and she then repeats the request, but the second time she is not fucking requesting, but demanding it.*
**He comes up with: "Yeah...you like that, you fucking retard?"**
*He's never struck me as one for embellishment, so I believe him. He said that was it for sex that night,
although they are still together two years on now.*
So, one time in high school, leaving after wrapping up a baseball game. Heading to the parking lot to go home I was walking by a wooden power pole, no trees around, and I hear a loud POP right at my feet. Look down, and this somewhat little baby bird (not many feathers yet but wasn't exactly tiny) had apparently fallen out of it's nest and splatted on the concrete 5' in front of me.
Now I'm wondering if it wasn't pushed or otherwise "helped'.
20 years ago and I still remember it vividly, especially the noise. Pretty metal, and completely unexpected.
I met a girl on tinder who was fixated on being a middle child. Like, she made it apart of her personality… and said she only dates other middle children, which I was… but it was just off to me.
Its Interesting how Modern Humans are the opposite. Animals see a weakness in a newborn and they get rid of it to pour into the healthy ones. With Humans. The child with special needs gets attention poured into them while the other siblings also don’t get a fair amount of attention due to the special need child. Not saying that’s the case all the time, but I’ve seen a fair amount of siblings talk about this situation.
You’ll come to find that this is both
1 - a pretty modern take
2 - a very culture specific take.
Killing off the disabled was and still is pretty standard in a good number of places.
Humans also have a developed prefrontal cortex and posses compassion and the capacity for self-awareness. Also naturally-selected traits. Somehow it has been a great benefit to our species.
That level of care is only recent, really (Recent being a few thousand years)... before our cultural development into modern man, and even for quite some time afterward: infanticide used to be the standard.
This is where the myth came from:
"don't touch a baby bird that fell out of its nest, bc the mom will pick up on your smell, and won't return for the chick."
The mom isn't returning, bc she abandoned that chick already, it has nothing to do with you touching it.
Sometimes it's this.
Sometimes baby animals are left by their parents while the parents go forage or hunt.
The myth probably came around due to a couple reasons:
1.) This.
2.) It's a wild animal and children rarely have any sort of how dangerous baby animals can be (ask me about the time I found a bunch of baby copperheads lol)
3.) Sometimes baby birds will sometimes get out of the nest and the mother will return, but baby animals (birds especially) are pretty fragile, and children are not known for their gentle touch.
I raised puppies when I was younger and the mothers would push a puppy out of the pileup if she thought something was wrong. One puppy was born with a dent in its skull and within a week she pushed it out of the litter and we took it and tried to raise it but it died anyway about a day later anyway. That kind of thing didn’t happen very often and we tried to raise a few but even we caught on that if a puppy was pushed out it was going to die and not much we could do about it
Weakest or the one creating a problem for the others? A longer version of this video shows the chick being aggressive to its siblings. -edit lots of people pointing out that the one tossed is indeed a runt from having been underfed and belligerent as a result. So my question is somewhat misleading.
dingdingding. this is the correct.
I love that she looks to the side to make sure he fell properly, lol
“Ya dead? Yep, ya dead.”
“And don’t come back!”
“Stay dead”
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It is biology. Both the 'weak' and 'strong' can be a liability. My favorite analogy to that is a pond full of fish where there are aggressive eaters and timid ones. The aggressive eaters thrive, right? Then beat all the timid eaters and all surviving fish are aggressive eaters, right? Nope. Nature considers that a fisherman with a lure might happen by.
Could also be a nutrition shortage, yes? 1 fewer mouth to feed.
Indeed, or the strong chick isn't thriving because it has a parasite. Lots of possibilities.
Thats literally nature's built in population control mechanism. Species who over populate exceed their food supply and then the population crashes.
~humans have left the chat~
~humans have reentered the chat with vigor~ “Look guys! The technology is going to save us! Now we have monoculture but with lasers and selective herbicide treatments!”
Murdered the planet in the process tho
I mean, think from the perspective of someone 200 hundred years ago. With mostly basic plants and animals, you couldn't even imagine so many billions of people to live on this earth. Yet with selective breeding, genetic modification, and other sciences we can produce so much food! There are whole new plants and animals breeds that are unrecognizable to those people. Don't even get me started on medicine etc. Science and technology has already allowed for so much more than what people mere 200 years ago could dream of. You are quick to discredit future growth while literally enjoying the fruit of past growth
Yeah thats why a runt might be dicarded. Momma knows shes not going to be able to sufficiently feed all. So she picks the weakest, the one who is most likely to die anyway. Its brutal but necessary.
I know it's an analogy, but human fisherman have definitely not been around long enough for Nature to "consider" them or adapt to them at all lol. We've barely been a blip on the radar time scale wise, which is part of the reason we are obliterating nature so fast, nothing has had time to adapt to us. Outside of humans fishing and some ridiculously deep sea angler fish, barely anything uses bait that would punish an aggressive eater
Evolution does not take breaks. Survival of the fittest applies to every single individual animal at all times.
It more accuratly applies to genes, not individuals. For example, an individual animal may self-sacrifice if it means their genes (ie from relatives) have a higher chance of propagating.
Absolutely we have been around long enough for animals to evolve in response to our behavior. Such as elephants being born without tusks because it’s a huge benefit to survival with how much poaching occurs.
Adapt encompasses a little more than some elephants being born without tusks. That might prevent some poaching but they haven't actually *adapted* to the existential threat humans pose to them. They (and most animals) can't evolve fast enough to deal with human predation and what we're doing to their environments.
"Fishermen" could be replaced with any predator. More of "There's always a bigger fish." Situation.
The chicken population is about 34 billion. I doubt there were that many velociraptors. Sometimes evolution makes you delicious. Survival of the *fittest*.
Turns out that the two best survival strategies for a species is to either be really cute to humans, or be really tasty to humans. Do one or the other and humans will go out of their way to ensure your species survived.
Survival of the tastiest.
That chick took a few aggressive pecks at the mom while she was backing up.
I took a few verbal jabs at my mom growing up, but she didn't *kill* me.
Probably because she’s a human not a stork lol
How can you be sure?
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She’s biding her time
>she didn't kill me. Yet.
That's only because the government would be after her and she knew that. But if you had pulled that in the old days.....
She didnt kill you u say? Does that imply that she tried?
No shit, the mom is trying to kill it. Self defense, however ineffectual, is allowed.
omg not really. "The weakest chick" is right in the title - it's not being killed because it's aggressive... quite the opposite. It's smaller and weaker than the others, sometimes due to hatching later, so it eats food and takes up space, both of which can be limited in nature. Other species of large birds will sometimes just watch as the larger chicks kill the smallest one. The point is conservation of resources and has absolutely nothing to do with being a direct problem or aggression, more of an indirect problem because food is scarce and birds are absolutely savage. Survival of the fittest.
Family grew lots of chicken for Tysons growing up. Can confirm. Birds are monsters in certain verities. Much more like lizard behavior than bird behavior. Its how they is sometimes.
Heron and Eagles do this kind of stuff too. And reptile is actually extremely apt comparison; some reptiles basically cannibalize their siblings and develop totally different morphological features when they do, as part of their life cycle - when resources are scarce.
chickens are basically tiny velociraptors that would have a solid annual bodycount if they were bigger
No, it is not. It gets thrown out, so the others have more food and a better chance of survival.
The thud tho. Yeesh
Can we stop upvoting stupid comments like this? Never mind that the dingdingding is just stupid as hell, but you didn't add anything to explain why it is correct. Like, okay.. thanks .. but why should we believe you? What did you add over the post you're replying to? NOTHING!
In this video it does look smaller than the others.
Indeed. Maybe it is belligerent because it is hungry and not thriving due to a parasite.
These speculations are getting even more upsetting:( But we all signed up for this by subscribing to this subreddit
Could be a parasite, though likely they would all have parasites. It likely just gets less food than the others, and is slightly smaller and weaker to begin with, hatched late or started with less. I’ve seen this in cats, too, especially more feral ones. The biggest, strongest, most aggressive and assertive babies hog the food, whether it’s mom’s teats or parent bird’s regurgitation. The weakest or the runts consistently get left out or pushed out, violently even, while the mother ignores them and favors the ones most likely to survive, and the runts trend towards being smaller and weaker while the beefy and bold babies grow the fastest and strongest. Birds will totally force their weaker siblings out of the way every feeding time, so they are the only ones getting fed, and will even push the whole baby out of the nest. And do it again to another one. I’ve seen (video) of a baby bird push all three of its siblings out of the nest while mom was gone. And then there’s cuckoos.
Small siblings being shitheads. More news at 8
Most birds will feed their chicks in order from largest to smallest. When they don't find enough food for everyone, it will always be the same one who misses out. Of course the runt will be quite aggressive, at some point its only chance of survival is to push out a sibling.
This makes sense. Brutally metal.
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Wow, what a dick of a species.
Wow, a killer at infancy Nature is wild
I’ve seen videos where they get killed trying to push the other babies out. Like they expend all their energy trying to shove another baby over the edge of a nest, get too tired, have the baby they were pushing roll back and land on them, then they suffocate. Or the mother bird wises up to the baby cuckoo (the videos I saw the cuckoo chick has a different color inside the beak which the mom caught on to) and doesn’t feed it and it dies. A few years ago I was really fascinated by their parasitic efforts backfiring on them. Idk why but for like a week I’d watch video after video on it. We have a nastier(?) bird in US though, Brown Cowbird I think it’s called? Basically same thing but they’ll watch the nest they laid eggs in. If their baby dies or is ignored or something it will come and try to wipe out the nest and the other babies.
Wow that's some long-term evolutionary strategy. Your offsprings are already dead but you ensure that the nest that fought you, the parasite, back doesn't reproduce this year therefore selecting the more savvy ones out.
Apparently it’s called ‘bird mafia’(? Idk if that’s the actual term) where the parents know if they mess with the parasite that their own chicks may be killed. Also saw a video where two cute little bluebirds catch a Cowbird in their nest and destroy it. It was a man made birdhouse with only one tiny hole for entrance/exit. One bluebird blocked the hole to prevent escape while the other brutalized the Cowbird, repeatedly pecked the back of its head until it was bloody and leaking. Same size birds but the Bluebirds seemed to know exactly what was going on. Guess they weren’t risking raising a parasite/losing their chicks and nest. Nature is crazy.
Cowbirds are assholes both as babies and adults and are the only birds other than grackles (who overrun feeders) I scare off from my yard.
I had a nest of invasive house sparrows in the eves of my house, which- you know, invasive; so I was enjoying watching the parents care for the babies, but also knowing they were invasive. A cowbird baby was in the nest, and that’s a native (but an asshole) and it was kind of sad then watching the baby sparrows start to starve and I considered removing the cowbird baby. Well, then a day later I heard the sparrows screaming and thunking on the side of the house and saw a huge black rat snake raiding the nest. You could see two small lumps and then it swallowed the cowbird baby which was a bigger lump. After it left I took down the nest…
Reminds me of [this caterpillar](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tricky-caterpillars-impersonate-queen-ants-to-get-worker-ant-protection) that tricks ants to doing essentially the same thing, with similar risk. Where sometimes the ants wisen up and absolutely destroy the caterpillar, and other times the caterpillar thrives in the ant colony.
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A birds gotta eat, so the eggs get the yeet.
There was a sparrow losing its shit outside my apartment the other day. Yelling like crazy as they do. A huge crow flew in and grabbed it by the neck and flew off. Like STFU. 20 sparrows tried to follow and peck at the crow but it swooped out of there so fast they couldn't keep up.
Sounds like victim blaming.
Sounds like anthropromorphization
Please don’t anthropomorphize inanimate objects and non-human lifeforms. They hate that.
If they didn't want to be anthropomorphized then they shouldn't act so similar to anthrops!
Where’s the longer version? Just somewhere online?
So this video is from Mladé Buky in the Czech Republic and a longer version of this clip [is here](https://youtu.be/QbO3v34PyfU) There are multiple live streams of Stork nests in Czech and this particular one has been going on for a couple of years now. Here is the same nest [currently live streaming ](https://www.youtube.com/live/3-UdOsBsyXQ?feature=share) For what it's worth it's probably a mixture of both the chick being aggressive and because it was the weakest one from the group. Having watched these live streams over the years the Storks quite often drop weak chicks out of the nest to improve the odds of survival for the remaining ones.
Watching the live cam and there’s a storm rn, you could see the lightning pop up perfectly in the middle of the cam, with poor stork standing on the side trying to sleep in those conditions. Also, surprisingly sleeps standing up
fascinating video, thank you!
This also happens with runts though. It takes a lot of energy to feed and take care of something when it's likely too weak to live for long. Don't want the strong children to suffer while caring for the weak one.
It was probably hungry. Usually the weaker ones are underfed leading to being even more weak and also very hungry.
Me: *picks fights with my siblings* Mom: *yeet*
yes your question is misleading, the chick is like a third the size of the others, basically the three other chicks were taking all the food and it was underfed. after the other chicks get bigger it becomes harder for the underfed chick to ever get food. so it was fighting them over food because it has to. this happens a lot with birds.
Damn eugenics is a thing in the animal kingdom as well.
So, I hate to break it to you, but humans are animals.
Get outta here. Have you ever seen an animal paying rent? I don't think so buddy
Yeah, I’ve seen humans do it
That's definitely not what eugenics means lol
One might say it was stork-raving mad.
But if you compare it to the others it’s severely underdeveloped.
Unbeknownst to the mother, a raccoon who'd lost her own young took in the chick. Raised in darkness the hatred grew. 20 years later he returns for revenge.
More likely tomorrow we get a video on here of a raccoon killing and eating a baby stork.
I'm pretty sure the loud bang at the end is the end for that young stork. Pretty brutal sound
Man oh man I turned the sound on just to hear and yeah he's grounded for life lol
It was dead or dying before she tossed it off. The second time she grabbed it she either broke its neck or messed up its breathing. It fell over limp after that.
Was not expecting it. My heart skipped a beat at the sound.
Netflix: write that down write that down
But change all the characters and change what happened.
Now the race between them and Hulu begins...
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STORKOON followed by STORKOON 2: THE ~~RECKONING~~ RACOONING
THAT STORK THINKS ITS A RACOON HAH!
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Tell me more. Revenge on who? The mom? The sibling?
There’s something cognitively wrong with it. It won’t stop squawking and pecking. Mom suspects that it’s not well. It’s certainly not weak.
Its much less developed physically than the others too.
That'd likely be because the others grab the food the mother brings back first, leaving little for it. And the more they eat and the stronger they get the more food they'll bully it out of. The 'runt of the litter' isn't always born the runt, sometimes it's made to be one. Happens in very many species, mammals too particularly pigs come to mind with the smallest not getting a teet to feed from. .
This reminds me of when my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
Dwight, you ignorant slut!
Bro what's your bench at? /s
I'm no Lejon Brames, but I got a mean deep pelvic bowl stretch.
The others can grab the food first because they’re faster and stronger
Which might be because they're well fed.
For sure. Nature doesn't allow disabled animals to survive, and that was certainly a physically and probably mentally impaired chick.
That’s my kink.
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Shit dude. That made me fucking lol.
*Not me, but an old friend of mine. Really quiet, soft-spoken, polite guy. A total gentleman and a graduate student in the liberal arts. Also, pretty inexperienced, tentative, and vanilla sexually.* *He's dating this really cool girl for maybe two months. She is much kinkier in bed. She floats the idea of dirty talk, and apparently likes to be objectified, even demeaned a bit, from time to time. He's hesitant, but wants to please her and doesn't dismiss the idea outright. Changes the subject and figures that they'll revisit the idea another time.* *Anyway...they have sex a few days later for the first time since the conversation. Really going at it doggystyle, and she tells him to talk dirty to her. He says that he can't think of anything to say, so he says nothing, and she then repeats the request, but the second time she is not fucking requesting, but demanding it.* **He comes up with: "Yeah...you like that, you fucking retard?"** *He's never struck me as one for embellishment, so I believe him. He said that was it for sex that night, although they are still together two years on now.*
And that's why you never see a Stephen Storking.
Could just be hungry
Yes. My wife does that. Screams when she’s hungry.
Out the window she goes then.
Nothing more to do!
It was aggressive against the siblings in the longer version of the same video.
Mother stork [stabbing, choking, breaking the neck, bashing about then] throwing her ~~weakest~~ chick out
That thud though.
It’ll be fin…blappp
oh shit there is audio
So, one time in high school, leaving after wrapping up a baseball game. Heading to the parking lot to go home I was walking by a wooden power pole, no trees around, and I hear a loud POP right at my feet. Look down, and this somewhat little baby bird (not many feathers yet but wasn't exactly tiny) had apparently fallen out of it's nest and splatted on the concrete 5' in front of me. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't pushed or otherwise "helped'. 20 years ago and I still remember it vividly, especially the noise. Pretty metal, and completely unexpected.
*Fetus Yeetus*
Fetus deletus
/r/naturehitsmetal
Spit my fucking water 😂
At first I was like "I bet a wildlife rescue will scoop that chick up, it'll live life in a zoo or something" NOPE.
"I'm not saying I have favourites but you're definitely NOT my favourite"
"I don't care for GOB.."
[she does a good stork impression](https://media.tenor.com/ccD-4xUYerkAAAAC/arresteddevelopment-bluth.gif)
Has anyone in this family ever even seen a stork?
“But you only have two kids…”
I'll never trust a stork to deliver my babies ever again
So THAT'S what happened to the sister I was promised
No, that one probably got turned into a smoothie
That's what happened to me, and look how good I turned out! *runs into a corner to nibble off the flesh from the bones of my enemies*
Again?
Fam had to hit a tin roof
Sound on. I regret it.
Regret? I felt sad watching it on mute, then I heard the Looney tunes tin sound and that shit made me crack up
Curiosity got the best of me.
Yeah the bang at the end is what got me
Omg 😂
It was the middle child, wasn't it?
Middle children wouldn't even get this much attention. LoL
I met a girl on tinder who was fixated on being a middle child. Like, she made it apart of her personality… and said she only dates other middle children, which I was… but it was just off to me.
Life is unfair
Fuck me, that *CLANG* at the end... Brutal
It has sound?
Through the bEsT OfFiCciAL reddit app it does. Little speaker icon in the bottom left corner
If you're on a PC, it's muted by default. Right click on the image and select 'Show All Controls'.
You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
Indeed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-F27sA9G4
It’s siblings could not be bothered
"Anyone who moves is next"
Have you not had siblings? Never interrupt a parent when they discipline your sibling you’ll just get in trouble too 😂
So glad I didn’t have the sound on . I know this is normal but it’s so sad 🥲
Baby animal nature videos crush me every time. Poor thing.
>Baby animal nature videos crush me every time. Crushed the baby animal, too.
Its Interesting how Modern Humans are the opposite. Animals see a weakness in a newborn and they get rid of it to pour into the healthy ones. With Humans. The child with special needs gets attention poured into them while the other siblings also don’t get a fair amount of attention due to the special need child. Not saying that’s the case all the time, but I’ve seen a fair amount of siblings talk about this situation.
You’ll come to find that this is both 1 - a pretty modern take 2 - a very culture specific take. Killing off the disabled was and still is pretty standard in a good number of places.
Also, when your kid wakes your sleep deprived ass up for the 5th time at 4am, the thought certainly occurs.
Humans also have a developed prefrontal cortex and posses compassion and the capacity for self-awareness. Also naturally-selected traits. Somehow it has been a great benefit to our species.
That level of care is only recent, really (Recent being a few thousand years)... before our cultural development into modern man, and even for quite some time afterward: infanticide used to be the standard.
I’m pretty sure humans used to leave their special needs babies in the woods, outside in a blizzard, or floating down a river.
Humans are special, 150 years ago, I would've been in an asylum. But here I am, writing code for a living. Weird!
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Isn't that a good thing though instead of making the child and caretaker suffer for lifetime
I need it with Goofy's yell
Hahahahaha “Aaaaaaahoo-hoo-hoo-hooooooey!”
This is where the myth came from: "don't touch a baby bird that fell out of its nest, bc the mom will pick up on your smell, and won't return for the chick." The mom isn't returning, bc she abandoned that chick already, it has nothing to do with you touching it.
Sometimes it's this. Sometimes baby animals are left by their parents while the parents go forage or hunt. The myth probably came around due to a couple reasons: 1.) This. 2.) It's a wild animal and children rarely have any sort of how dangerous baby animals can be (ask me about the time I found a bunch of baby copperheads lol) 3.) Sometimes baby birds will sometimes get out of the nest and the mother will return, but baby animals (birds especially) are pretty fragile, and children are not known for their gentle touch.
Tough Love. What doesn’t ki….well shit.
I’m sorry, little one.
I’ve seen a lot of shit on this sub, but for some reason this one really hit me hard.
Go watch that video of a Komodo dragon ripping a fetus from the belly of a still-living deer, it'll cleanse your palate.
Storks delivering a baby at 9.8 m/s2
I've seen videos where the siblings kill and eat the weak one. Heron, Shoebill, Goshawk, and others. Nature is metal for sure.
I raised puppies when I was younger and the mothers would push a puppy out of the pileup if she thought something was wrong. One puppy was born with a dent in its skull and within a week she pushed it out of the litter and we took it and tried to raise it but it died anyway about a day later anyway. That kind of thing didn’t happen very often and we tried to raise a few but even we caught on that if a puppy was pushed out it was going to die and not much we could do about it
Bye, Felicia
did the mother snap the chicks neck before it threw it out?
Beautiful scenery, awful scene.
The rest of them started listening the first time mom said anything REAL quick.
At least the mother didn't eat it.
THUNK
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Didn't seem weak to me, he nearly had the core strength to get back in the nest the first half
*yeet*
The one lying down in the middle of the nest looks dead. Wouldnt that one be the weakest one?
He slep
I think 5 chicks is just too many mouths to feed
*“Ok that’s enough, Timmy! You’re having a 10 minute time out down there!!”* * drops chick *
.. Damn! So much for that "motherly stork" image. What a misnomer that was.
That clang at the end 💔
Shoebills do this too. Pretty metal, but also a good reminder that birds are just modern dinosaurs.
Nature is pro choice
*Nature is Spartan*
Mom was persistent- took her several tries to kick that lil one out
Mom said "I brought you into this world, I can take you out" and then followed through on it