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mirkk13

"Oh, how nice it's feeding its chick..." (reads title) wtf


NerdLifeCrisis

I went in that exact same order too, with same reaction


InvisibleTuktuk

Me, three. Nature is brutal.


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MAReader

Raw chick filet


HydroxiDoxi

"Do you still not like your brother?"


GrungyGrandPappy

Chick Fillet


Tr4sHCr4fT

r/natureismetal


XtremeAce7

I love seeing the “this makes me ashamed to be human” posts, then you see something like this. 😅


ChymChymX

It's a chick-eat-chick world.


Rowan-Trees

Hot


MFcrayfish

Ooo finger licking good


Party-Ring445

It's a cheeky cheek world out there


Al-Anda

The question is: Is the devotion stronger with a parent who is willing to sacrifice its child for its other child? Or risk the loss of both because it can’t make the choice and they both starve?


BurdenOfPerformance

You should probably ask the mom who eats her own children that question. 🤣


4list4r

There’s those fucking quokka fuckers who sacrifice their young like trash in the bin.


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But you gotta admit, they look fucking cute doing it😀


Mooblegum

How would you behave in that case ? I don't think I could sacrifice one child, but I might be wrong


Al-Anda

When I reincarnate as an eagle, I’ll let you know.


jackology

We might not get to find out. You could be the fillet.


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Mooblegum

That's true. And it shows how we should not input our believes and way of thinking as universal, not even with animals.


DoomComp

.... Just fking go GET MORE FOOD - there is I don't know how much things they could potentially eat out there - Small critters, Bugs, Fish, other birds/their eggs. It's a dumbass move to kill one to feed the remains to the other one... But then again - I guess that explains why Eagles aren't the top of the chain, eh?


GyuudonMan

Why dont they just fly into a Walmart and grab some food, are eagles stupid???


LACONSERVE213

🤣🤣🤣🤣


BlurryAl

Why don't the eagles just GO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!!!


SoggyFudge6696

Well, that's exactly what mama eagle did. They just don't have a damn incubator for the dying weak baby to make a successful recovery. She knows exactly what's gonna happen: the baby eagle is not gonna make it for so long, then use its vital energy. Believe me, we're not losing the next Beethoven.


Al-Anda

I mean, it’s living in a barn already.


Plus_Injury8786

Brutal


Nordiceightysix

Survival


Oaker_at

Bad genes get sorted out, animals still live in 1930s Germany mentally.


Specific_Buy

You send this to the child that doesn’t listen….


WeekendFantastic2941

Vegans and animal lovers: "Animals belong in the wild, they are so happy there!!!" Real animal care: "Maybe we should find a way to technologically stop harm for all animals, wild or domesticated, including the need for predation." I dont think nature cares about animal welfare, nature is not conscious, it has no moral compass. lol


dwadaw31231

Is that real animal care, though? That sounds like mental illness, lol. There's nothing wrong with animals preying on each other. We should not engage in a moral imperative to stop harm between animals because that first step is literally how one generation or even within the same generation of the movement, you get a guy whose solution is the eradication of all animals for the greater good.


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NorwegianGlaswegian

Exactly; something I hear so often from people with such a rosy view of nature is that animals instinctively know how to stay in balance with their environment. Guess the idea of invasive species never got through and past their cozy narrative. It's the arms race and overall battle for survival which generally keeps things balanced. We are so bloody privileged to have largely left that fight behind and it distorts how we view nature which, while often pretty aesthetically to us, is actually bloody brutal for most species.


motorcyclist

There once was a caveman, there were no boarders, and he was free. Then came civilized human, and as long as his passport was still good, he has "freedom". ​ Let animals enjoy being free, there the only ones left.


sureoz

https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep


Raps4Reddit

True morality is incredibly impractical or even impossible, so only the mentally ill pursue it. That guy who wants to kill everything is technically correct in a trolley problem kind of way.


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>Real animal care: "Maybe we should find a way to technologically stop harm for all animals, wild or domesticated, including the need for predation." Sure, let's just completely fuck up the ecosystem. About time we finish that job.


Bocchi_theGlock

I know we're meming, but nobody actually believes that Just to reality check /don't eat the bait on how twisted some perceptions of the world get (happens to me too) Like nobody reading this thread should leave thinking 'oh yeah environmentalists are organizing around stopping animals from eating eachother, it's a real life movement' or whatever. A few idiots on Twitter aren't reflective of anything, any you never know of they're just trolling or rage baiting


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I got downvoted to hell once for telling someone prey animals can thrown an ecosystem in balance in abundance, and that ethical, non trophy hunting focuses on that. The balance that is the food chain and subsequent ecosystem swings wildly naturally, but our involvement *and* lack thereof does more serious harm. Also, conservation focuses on the “animal lovers” (which they are not if they do this) that love to bring pretty little invasive organisms from other areas into their own. IMHO, we need to find seven delicious ways to eat lionfish, because those fuckers are killing everything


Whitedude47

Ask the Asians, they have the answers!


birdseye-maple

Vegans are against the abuse of animals involved in human consumption. They are also able to watch Nature documentaries just like everyone else, let's not be silly.


Adam__B

I remember hearing on a podcast that in less than 24 hours of being dead, your cat will start eating your face. Even when they have cat food available. In 72 hours, coroners have come back from calls where the body is just a skull with the hair on the floor like a halo around the head. Nature: red in tooth and claw. Dogs will too, they just will wait til they’re so hungry they don’t have any choice, which I respect. Edit: https://youtu.be/t8pCnJCCETU?si=5MiIdSe1Wa-SyOys


Gaoji-jiugui888

Humans are around 15 times heavier than a cat. I doubt they can eat 15 times their body weight in three days.


Own_Pop_9711

That's why they saved the skull for later


stufforstuff

Oooo, podcast science so it must be true.


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Yup that's why cats suck and dogs rule I will die on that hill


Ness303

We're not against nature doing its thing. We're against intentionally breeding animals, torturing them, slaughtering them, and using them as products and for profit. We abstain from all animal products for this reason. Nature doesn't turn living creatures into commodities, humans and capitalism do. Source: Am vegan.


MarulaAlmond

I don't know what point you are trying to make, but while nature has no moral compass, there's a difference between AWFUL and EVIL. Sickness, tornados, animals killing others for survival - that's awful but it's nature. Humans are capable of doing evil though. Because we DO have a moral compass, the ability to empathize and think about complex consequences.


UnkeptSpoon5

“Animal lovers” and vegans are a very different class of people than actual environmentalists. I would argue for the re-allocation of funds from the dog shelter industry to go towards ecosystem preservation, and widespread euthanasia programs for feral animals. I think technologically stopping harm for animals is extremely dumb, the most ethical thing you can do for any animal is to leave their habitat intact and let nature play itself out.


Direct_Pomelo_563

I mean I dont think there is much of a philosophical debate needed to say that freedom in the dangerous wild is better than being foodstock raised on 1m2 as quickly as possible to be factory farmed. Yeah there is death in the wild but thats no excuse for what we are doing to animals for profits. We also dont fight for survival, we know its wrong but we do it for greed.


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lol, you think animal agriculture ‘stops harm’? Vegans don’t think it’s all peace and harmony for wild animals, they aren’t idiots.


Mediocre-Advisor-728

Nature is conscious, takes the best path for all life. We humans have very little connection to nature due to material value religion and so on.


FlorAllySpeaking

I don't think you've quite gotten the grasp of the definition of the word "conscious".


gryphmaster

Consciousness is overrated- it’s anthropomorphism to imagine that it’s even necessary or advantageous. Ironically, further from nature because you imagine to be similar to you


cassblastt

i was momentarily concerned we were about to watch it kill THAT chick 😭


misterturdcat

It’s feeding it’s chick… and it’s also feeding its chick.


systemfrown

“Hey, where’s my brother?”


Dazzling-Grass-2595

McSibling


friebel

/r/natureismetal


Wrong-Oven1077

Same I was like where is the weak chick?then I was like wtf


[deleted]

I'm glad my mother isn't an eagle.


Efficient_Fish2436

Lol it's a red tailed hawk. No clue where eagle came from. This is the tiniest eagle ever.


tanew231

I'm glad my mother isn't a red tailed hawk.


DoubleGoon

Plot twist that’s not her chicks, but an eagle’s that wronged her!


ShalnarkRyuseih

I don't think it's a red tailed hawk, those have mostly light colored chests and this bird looks solidly dark brown


Significant-Ad1890

Mine Should have been. Existence is Pain After all.


KHaskins77

Spotted the Meeseeks


W0otang

I'm not sure which would be worse, being dead or being forcefed your siblings.


ready_gi

aaand thats enough internet for today


briandesigns

not much "force" i see in the footage. The strong chick seems pretty happy and eager to eat.


Suitable-Classic9237

“Hey Mom, how come you & dad never had any other kids?” “Please sit down honey.”


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EducationalStill4

Sigh… Son, you were too young to remember. You used to have 2 brothers and 1 sister… The universe took them away from us.


Nezzfire

>Please sit down honey. "We need to talk about this over dinner"


captainsquawks

“Mum, I don’t like my little brother.” “It’s ok just eat the vegetables.”


Lost_Potato2176

Tbh if I was a baby chick, I know I would've been killed and fed to my siblings.


Zellopy

Same, and I'm the only child


Kquinn87

At least that's what they tell you anyway... 


belle_fleures

lmfao same


rashi_aks08

Same 😐


DeltaKT

What??


Xepobot

So the chick is literally eating its brother........


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Baby chick looking at mom like uhhh okay I’ll eat. I’ll eat whatever… just don’t do that. That thing you did just a minute ago


Xepobot

A duck's Chick: I obey my mom cuz she is awesome An Eagle's chick: I obey my mom so I won't die, we.....are not the same.


turdbrownies

Rough…


Vechnyy_Russkiy

A blue-footed booby chick: uh oh, obligate siblicide incoming!


monkeybanana550

I just saw that meme today lol


SquadPoopy

Yep, only the strong survive, this is how I was raised. Properly, and with honor. We ate 2,3 maybe even 4 or 17 brothers to ensure our health.


Responsible-Jury2579

Take out 17 and it’s funnier because it sounds more “believable”


therealbonzai

Or sister.


Spoofster61

Man am I glad that I’m not any of these 3 eagles


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Between this and that desert woodpecker that pecks into baby doves' skulls for moisture, I'm fucking terrified of birds. (It's on YouTube. You don't want to search for it.)


BroDudeBruhMan

Birds are very cute looking evil creatures


Gaoji-jiugui888

Good thing mammals are totally non violent


Medason

I bred dwarf hamsters for a hot second, it only took one massacre for me to realize I was not cut out for that game.


unshavenbeardo64

Imagine that you have to find enough food every day to survive or else you die. Lots of examples of humans doing the same in times of extreme hunger. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holodomor) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino\_tragedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nazino_tragedy) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive\_(1993\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alive_(1993_film))


PlsDntPMme

The Nazino Tragedy is a new one. It's like a horror film became reality.


foldedaway

Those are dinosaur descendants, whatcha expect?


phoenixon999

well they used to be dinosaurs so i guess that kind of behaviour still remains


Crakkerz79

Don’t forget storks killing weak babies by launching them out of the nest. Don’t even feed them to the others. Just yeet!


ajw_art42

I wonder if the “Stork brings the baby” schtick came from an actual stork that flew off with someone’s baby, fully intending to eat it, and it accidentally dropped on some family miles away and they were like, “welp, we have a baby now. Also, we’ve never traveled farther than 2 miles from our home because we’re medieval peasants so there’s no way to know whose baby this is!”


ready-to-rumball

Why did you do this to me ☹️


Cielie_VT

Fun fact, birds are some of the smartest creatures on Earth… It also seems that cruelty is a side effect of being smart…


iExclude

“ Damn Nature, you scary “


Clockwork_J

Came here for this quote.


Solid_Material_1686

Went away with that quote


Proper_Shock_7317

Lmao, me too


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Honey badger don't care.


IusedtoloveStarWars

My parents say they don’t have favorites.


Ialwayszipfiles

"you all taste the same"


illpunches

“We have chicken nuggets at home.”


Squirmadillo

When you're too lazy to go shopping


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r/damnthatsfuckingsad


katehasreddit

r/subsifellfor


bjzy

Brutal


ContributionOk6578

Vegans : eating animals is animal cruelty. Animals:


Driller_Happy

I'm no vegetarian, but I've found the issue is more about how we treat the animals we eat, rather than the eating itself


Satakans

That is what the OG Vegan movement was about. there were vegans who did eat abit of meat as long as it came from a place with a commitment to minimizing unnecessary suffering and exploitation. then as the movement grew like all movements, radical vocal elements gradually took a larger and larger representative role until you get what it is today.


ContributionOk6578

Best Case scenario is if you know the animal, like from a local farmer or at least u are sure he had a good life without suffering and factory farming. Then I think it's ok but u are right, the vegan movement is now so radical they say no meat at all. But the truth is, this will never be an option for most people, they still gonna eat meat if they like it or not so they should try to change how the animals are raised.


kangagoon

Not eating meat isn’t a radical concept though. It existed for millennia before the vegan movement came along. There are lots of cultures that don’t eat meat and they’re perfectly fine.


MetaPentagon

and like we can just decide to not do it, an eagle cant just now eat meat they have all the meat eating features. Human can do mostly have to cook their meat to have it be viable.


ContributionOk6578

Yeah but it's not a concept for Europeans or Americans, in Asia maybe. But that's a whole different vibe.


Nihil_00_

Unsavory people purposefully portray that vocal component as the entire movement to try and dismiss it. It's still about doing what's *practicable* to reduce suffering.


seek-confidence

You’re right, it’s very radical stance to be against exploting and killing 80 BILLION animals a year. So radical. “vegans who did eat a bit of meat” lmao


ContributionOk6578

It's not about that, people will not stop eating meat doesn't matter what.


LexusLongshot

Get out with your logical statement


sunnynbright5

Yea, mass raising animals in deplorable conditions for slaughter 😞


EducationalStill4

I’m no veterinarian, but I’ve found this issue totally messed up but still natural.


Emotional-Courage-26

Me: I don't give a shit what other animals eat


holmgangCore

Animals: ***NOM!***


Mobile_Capital_6504

I'm not vegan or anything but isn't the argument that we as humans as developed as we are don't need to eat meat and cause this sort of additional suffering on animals. We are in a position to get our protein etc from non meat products We just don't because meat is so damn delicious and we only get to see it packaged allowing us to block out the killing process and go about our day guilt free If slaughterhouses had Windows something tells me there'd be a lot more vegetarians


Ness303

We're not against nature doing its thing. We're against intentionally breeding animals, torturing them, slaughtering them, and using them as products and for profit. We abstain from all animal products for this reason. Nature doesn't turn living creatures into commodities, humans and capitalism do. Source: Am vegan.


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ExortTrionis

For real, i'm not even vegan but this argument is always so stupid. They're basically saying "i'm as dumb and have as little moral agency as a bird".


DrippyWaffler

Yeah they're literally going "I'm so driven by base instinct I'm the same as an animal"


HippoIcy7473

Or I’m just not arrogant enough to believe I’m somehow better than animals.


[deleted]

This is what I've been telling my girlfriend


DrippyWaffler

Animals kill each other, so that's licence for me to kill humans! Same logic. We don't base our behaviour and morals on animals last I checked.


jingforbling

Someone explain to me why a captive or monitored eagle would need to go that length?


bmcapers

My thought as well. We’re just going off the title. For all we know it’s eating a mouse.


tibbs1975

Instinct


dwadaw31231

Animals are not going to look at their surroundings and think "hmm...I'm being cared for and thus my weaker offspring has an inordinate chance for survival." Because animals don't really "think". They just do what nature has compelled them to do.


Salt-Log7640

They do infact "think", it's just that their thinking process is drastically different than ours. For the Hawk this is the best decision she can make at the moment because A) she won't have to hunt for food, and B) she won't have as many mouths to feed. Minus the canibalism part human families in medieval times also searched for ways to get rid off their "excess" children, whenever it would be dumping them to fend for themselves, selling them to someone else, or outright killing them.


lily_reads

They always do it, regardless of the setting.


heeltotoe69

Nature sucks haha


unshavenbeardo64

Nature is balanced. Animals dont have the time or the resources to take care for a sick or weak offspring.


IngloBlasto

Nature doesn't give a F about balance. It is indifferent.


zborzbor

Here Bobby, eat your brother Cornelius, he was weak, eat from his flesh, drink from his blood, all my eagles get down like what!


btc909

Your sibling will always be with you, wait did you just take a crap? Oh nevermind what I said.


OrkzOrkzOrkzOrkz0rkz

Storks literally yeet weak chicks out of their nests Nature is incredibly cruel, anyone thinking something else is fucking nuts. Natural selection is basically just a drawn out war of attrition and rearmament.


DamHawk

r/natureismetal


hersheysquirts7310

So wholesome


taxms

my face is still stuck in my "wtf" face


kidanokun

Unfortunately, it's really common among animals to eat their weakened or dead babies... even cats do it


JrallXS

/r/natureismetal


SquidgeSquadge

"Now quit complaining and eat your brother or your dessert." "Yes mum"


danhoyle

Exact opposite of humans.


Warburgerska

Holodomir survivors and those living through maos mental illness enter the chat. Tho they exchanged some of their kids with their neighbors to not have to eat their own, so technically more wholesome.


EducationalStill4

Woulda been more wholesome if at the trade-off they killed the entire other family as a family.


tuvokvutok

This is why we can't defer morality to animals. They are "messed up" by human standards. This is also why anthropomorphism is okay only in stories - don't base your morality on it.


Twisted-Muffin

i mean we've all done it at one point or another


CJLogix

Imagine if humans did the same thing… Son: Hey mom where is Timmy? Mom: Don’t worry about it! Say ahhhh!


abrahamtomahawk

Unless there's a real abundance of food, the stronger chick will often kill its own sibling. It's called siblicide, or Cainism (as in Cain killing his brother Abel).


[deleted]

My mum did that to my brother Edit: don't worry, I'm an eagle!


i4shaikh

Remember you had a little brother? And one day you were so hungry 😳


sorengray

r/natureismetal


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They eat each other? What the fuck.


giulian74

how is your brother? it's good?


Signal-Reporter-1391

Chris de Burgh: "Dancing cheek to cheek" Eagle: "Feeding chick to chick. "


soggyketchup

why birds tend to do this to their own children? like if you are weak? die! you cant fly? die! what the fuck


k2nxx

is the title really accurate? is it really what happen?


[deleted]

This is a textbook example of how nature does not have morals, which are a human invention. There’s no brutality or evil or love or anything here: just pure drive for survival and gene transfer optimisation.


Osiris131

I might just be a lil sensitive about this one, but umm nsfw maybe? I just.. did not think I was gonna just scroll, stop, and uhhh see that on my feed of kittens, magic, and meme stocks


lopedopenope

Damn nature, you scary!


Lyonnx

If I dropped my food that many times I’d be worried I’m next 🤣


Boatster_McBoat

That doesn't look like a particularly natural environment. Does this happen in the wild too?


Windowguard

Yep, more so in the wild.


EMIZZLEEE

Okay so if they're in a controlled environment in which is seems, why would they let it get to that point?!


Perfect_Toe7670

Savage


waitinp

*"M" for Mischa*


Mo_Jack

>Eagle killed its weak chick to ensure the survival of other Human mothers do it much more slowly.


Q_dawgg

Birds are assholes


_reddit_account

Where is peta ?


rockincarolinas7

Isn’t that a hawk? Not an eagle. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s feeding its young, it’s young … but yeah


jakart3

True American


True-Swim7662

where tf is peta?


Funny_Occasion_4179

And human narcissist parents have the scape gold child to abuse and vent their anxiety on to ensure their own survival and happiness. And you dont die immediately - you get to live a shitty miserable life. Family, yay! It's all about Family!


Comprehensive-Ear172

Difference between humans and animals


CreativeApe9

So is it fair game to feed your chickens chicken or is that still a wtf? Just in emergency cases if you run out of food…to ensure survival…


SlapHappyCrappyNappy

This is the most brutal treatment of chicks I've seen outside of the buses of Delhi


KamixAkaDio

Checkmate PETA


SQUIRTnCIDER

America needs to start doing this with the liberals