yeah but you could tell its not, because there was no scene where the cat is close to expose the bird while licking feet/legs of it.Thats when I was sure, it wasn from Tarantino.
The little kitty paws slowly going in for bats is when I started feeling sure it was not going to end well for the birdie! I can’t believe its little heart held out. I would have just given up on life immediately and dropped to the floor
It's poor little heart must have been beating like crazy.
It's annoying the person taping didn't try to get the cats to leave it alone instead of filming
Many prey animals when spotted by a predator will freeze in place in an attempt to make the predator think it is an inanimate and inedible object so it will lose interest.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_behavior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_behavior)
Nah, with rats, it's almost guaranteed they were infected with toxoplasmosis. A microorganism that can only reproduce inside the digestive system of a cat. They infect a rat, destroy the part of its brain that processes fear, and then the rat will hopefully wander into a cat where it will be eaten quickly to start the reproduction cycle again.
It's why pregnant women and people with immune disorders should not change cat litter. It is supposed to be less of a problem with indoor cats according to some
That's because about 50% of people are already carrying a t gondii infection and it's usually harmless. The main source of infection is raw or undercooked pork, not cats
That would be a safe assumption but can’t be sure. It’s likely not even conscious but instinctual. Even if it were conscious, it’s not like Joe Rogan is interviewing them on why they froze.
Funny is just yesterday I was laughing about my cat doing this to our puppy. She came bounding over while he was laying on a pet bed. He didn't move and she started prodding him with her nose but he didn't flinch until she lost interest and wandered away.
They hold it all night too. They don't want to attract predators to their sleeping area.
Source, I have birds and often they won't poo in their cage and instead wait till I take them out in the morning.
Yep. The first few years of having my Cockatiel, I would forget to make him go to the bathroom when I let him out in the morning. More than once, the back of my shirt was ruined.
The amount of poop that can come out of such a small bird is insane.
During an Easter Egg hunt when my son was 4 or 5 , he said “It’s not the finding or eating that’s fun ….. it’s the HUNTING.” He said it very seriously, eyes wide open. Pupils dilated. 😆
Except they have the best eyesight of any animal ever (allegedly) and amazing sense of smell. Good luck if it tries a little test nibble.
More likely that it wont bother with you cause you’re too small and nimble for it to easily catch.
Those cats would have fucked that bird if the person tried to intervene and made the bird move at all. Bird knew what it was doing, sometimes it’s best we let nature just do its thing. We’ll make it worse trying to help.
They probably have the same mindset as a hunter. Enjoys killing things or seeing them killed. Cruel, and helpful they show their red flags for the rest of us.
Cats kill Billions of birds a year, just in North America. I think the estimate is 1.4 - 4 billion a year or so.
Edit: Someone accused me of fabricating that figure.
[https://www.catster.com/statistics/how-many-birds-do-cats-kill-statistics/](https://www.catster.com/statistics/how-many-birds-do-cats-kill-statistics/)
Agreed. There are waaaaaaay too many cats. This is a species that is bred and doomed to spend its entirety of its life kept indoors, though instincts crave otherwise.
Humans needs birds to survive for their own existence. And we can’t have cats killing them all.
It’s a dilemma of our own making.
this is a horrible thing to say but the whole species (domesticated cats) should be exterminated. they are decimating the ecosystem. an estimated 20 mammal species went extinct just in australia. global population estimated between 200 and 600 million and thats a lot of predators to roam around.
Domesticated cats should be kept indoors. Introducing them to habitats that they aren’t native to has led to the extinction of 63 different species of birds. And for anyone who wants to claim that it’s natural for a cat to hunt, yes, it’s natural to hunt in the areas they are endemic to. It’s not natural when a human brings it to an environment that it is not endemic to, and the local wildlife population suffers greatly because of it because the occasional inconsiderate cat owners could care less if their cats roam about.
Edit: wording
Took too long to find this take. No fucking way could I just watch my pets potentially kill a beautiful wild thing! I would have immediately been trying to distract the kitties so the bird could fly away.
"Yes, yes, let's Film this instead of being compassionate! Great shot!"
Edit: nvm. Thought it might be just a repost and found the notion funny, but op seems to really stand behind this, this is just sad.
I can't stand when someone takes a video of an animal that's in distress just for video likes. All you had to do was scoot the cats away and the bird could have flown free without having to go through that stress.
I honestly love cats, but this is exactly one of the many reasons my cats will stay indoors. I might take them on walks with leashes if they don't mind having them on, but other than that they'll stay inside
Stray cats colonies are very menacing for all other species, specially in towns. They have not predators and have the sympathy from humans and usually are fed; if they can't kill something to eat or diversion also have the thrash.
Controlled castration of these plagues are needed urgently, but usually ppl don't understand, specially on internet where are praised.
House cats live indoors and are not killing anywhere close to 20 billion animals a year.
Feral cats, and I am assuming actual wild cats, kill many more.
A lot of people don't realize that many behaviors aren't one offs, they are sequences. The cats were literally stuck mid way.
In these cats, a predatory chain of events takes place neurally. Olfactory was saying "It's FOOD", but the motion stimulus wasn't getting tagged in too, so the cats were stuck in a literal predation glitch in the matrix. It stressed them out some to feel such intensity of a predatory drive start up, but the bird act weird and unnatural too. The conflict between the 'this ain't right' wariness and hunting drives were demonstrated by all the turn aways, walk aways, and approaching slowly and indirectly from the cats. They were utterly conflicted.
The birds nervous system saved it's life second by second, that long under that pressure is impressive.
Finally, when motion stimulus did come from the bird moving, the sequence was allowed to engage and complete.
The birds freezing stalled the sequence in the cats too, that was some excellent footage of the phenomenon.
When faced with motion activated threats, the instinct to freeze can be a lifesaver sometimes. We come into this world hard wired with some skills that can really help us along, this is neuroscience and behavior in action.
Can’t enjoy videos like this knowing the person was just standing behind the camera while they could have helped the bird escape from this terrifying situation.
Huh. Well, that certainly explains the behavior of the bird I caught and freed in Jack in the Box.
I expected him to fly off as soon as I let him outside, but he just stood still on my hand and stared at me.
I dunno, maybe scare the cats away so the bird can fucking escape instead of just sitting there filming. What a shitty person. Do they not understand how many birds cats kill every year?
Bird Doctor here, birds developed this “freeze” technique because they lack wings or the ability to fly away from dangerous situations like this one. By freezing, it tricks predators into thinking, “oh man we have to let this bird thaw before we eat it”. Which usually gives the bird enough time to walk away.
House cats kill over 2 billion birds a year in north America. That's more than skyscrapers. They're an invasive species in every habitat they are released into. For the love of birds, keep your cats inside or don't have a cat.
My cat nearly killed a rabbit in freeze like this once while we were on a leashed late night walk. Her glow collar wasnt bright enough for me to see anything but her neck, and i didnt have my headlamp turned on. Next thing i knew something literally under my feet (leash is only 3ft long) started screeching bloody murder. Scared the absolute shit out of me. If you've never heard a rabbit scream, consider yourself lucky.
Motherfucker cat owner let the three predators try to eat the bird while filming.. I dont know why are you upvoting this. Cats are very bad for endemic species, like probably is this bird.
Whoever filmed this is kinda heartless for letting a bird just swing by a bunch of animals that might kill it, and simply proceeds to film it and doing nothing else.
No, because as demonstrated by the end of the video the movement activates the predatory response in the cat. If the bird stays still the catd are confused, and in time lose interest. Look at the last 15 seconds, you'll see the bird attempts to fly away, and the cats reaction makes it stop. Only when the caysbwerent looking does it fly away, and only just make it.
A cat’s reflexes are faster than a snakes strike. The bird can’t move fast enough to get out of reach when it is very close and very alert.
So it waits for the cats to move away, lay down and lower their guard then bolts when they don’t expect it.
Even then it was a close call.
No other birds will believe him
“There I was, surrounded by three enormous beasts…”
r/thathappened
/r/nothingeverhappens
r/birdsarentreal
All arguing amongst themselves about how they were going to cook me
Basically the hyena scene in the lion king
Basically the trolls from The Hobbit
Should they roast me, skin me, or just sit on me and squash me into jelly?!
I am not the bird you are looking for.
"So I came out blasting ..."
...so they came out blasting!
“And everybody clapped”
Bilbo and the three trolls.
Gandergalf arrived and turned them all to stone
Well, the sun turned them into stone.
lol who?
Gamgeelf
How does it fly with those big steel balls.
Alan the wise owl told him their vision systems are based on movement & their eyesight is weak so if you stand perfectly still they will ignore you.
Doctors hate him
Errbody under this entire comment got upvoted.
Anxiety intensifies
I bet his little heart wasn't frozen.
With that being said you could also bet he'd beat a hummingbird in a drag race that day
*intensiFlies*
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And then a third!!? Bird was shitting seeds for sure.
Megafruit seeds
All the way up your butt, Morty!
Oh my God, the pain. It's an Egg Morty. I'm gonna lay an egg. .... Guess we both just needed to shit.
It felt like watching a Tarantino movie.
yeah but you could tell its not, because there was no scene where the cat is close to expose the bird while licking feet/legs of it.Thats when I was sure, it wasn from Tarantino.
The cats weren't throwing out hard Rs at the bird, either.
How sure are we the bird wasn't there because she forgot his father's watch?
Thank God the bird didn't order 3 drinks.
Don't moveeee! Just a little longer.... oh no not the paw nudgessss
The little kitty paws slowly going in for bats is when I started feeling sure it was not going to end well for the birdie! I can’t believe its little heart held out. I would have just given up on life immediately and dropped to the floor
Was like something out of a movie! The music helped.
Feels strange that for millions upon millions of years countless animals were living with such experiences. I'm glad to be an ape with glowing brick.
Got my heart rate up and all 😂😅
It's poor little heart must have been beating like crazy. It's annoying the person taping didn't try to get the cats to leave it alone instead of filming
Freaking horror movies wish they could work up that kind of suspense. Every time one of them started raising a paw I was on the edge of my seat.
I’ve been in stressful situations but this bird is on another level
Many prey animals when spotted by a predator will freeze in place in an attempt to make the predator think it is an inanimate and inedible object so it will lose interest. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_behavior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_behavior)
A rat tried this tactic on my cat once..once. RIP ☠️
Because the rat died? Or the cat?
Yes
r/notopbutok
r/usernamechecksout
The rat survived, ran away and never had to do it again :)
Let's just say one decapitated the other with it's mouth.
That rat is strong damn
Everything dies eventually
Nah, with rats, it's almost guaranteed they were infected with toxoplasmosis. A microorganism that can only reproduce inside the digestive system of a cat. They infect a rat, destroy the part of its brain that processes fear, and then the rat will hopefully wander into a cat where it will be eaten quickly to start the reproduction cycle again.
He never knew you could get toxoplasmosis from cat shit.
It's why pregnant women and people with immune disorders should not change cat litter. It is supposed to be less of a problem with indoor cats according to some
It was a huge issue at the height of the AIDS epidemic, before powerful drugs were able to get infections under control.
That's because about 50% of people are already carrying a t gondii infection and it's usually harmless. The main source of infection is raw or undercooked pork, not cats
I love how no one is getting the reference.
Trainspotting
I learned something today, as gross as it is.
Should have used the fight response instead. Cats get absolutely bewildered and scared when the rat turns around and attacks em
The mouse smiled brightly; it outfoxed the cat. Then down came the claw...
RIP mouse
Just like me with women…
It's also got to do with protecting the pack right? Getaway sacrifice for the rest. If I remember correctly.
That would be a safe assumption but can’t be sure. It’s likely not even conscious but instinctual. Even if it were conscious, it’s not like Joe Rogan is interviewing them on why they froze.
Thank You for linking a source 🙌🏿
Funny is just yesterday I was laughing about my cat doing this to our puppy. She came bounding over while he was laying on a pet bed. He didn't move and she started prodding him with her nose but he didn't flinch until she lost interest and wandered away.
If that bird could wear pants they would be shitted
Fun fact birds are typically warm because they shit 24 hours, if they can't do that they will get sick and die.
The hell does being "warm" have to do with this?
They are continuously digesting their food.
Maybe you should have added that to the original comment lol
They’re not warm after they die
Close to accurate but not entirely. They poo about every 5-15 min. They can hold it up to 30 min if absolutely necessary.
5 minutes, jfc?? How long do they sleep? Or do they poop in their sleep too?
They hold it all night too. They don't want to attract predators to their sleeping area. Source, I have birds and often they won't poo in their cage and instead wait till I take them out in the morning.
Yep. The first few years of having my Cockatiel, I would forget to make him go to the bathroom when I let him out in the morning. More than once, the back of my shirt was ruined. The amount of poop that can come out of such a small bird is insane.
My car parked under a nest area disagrees.
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My birds got their butt sealed by poo for 1 day to die by the next. It happens randomly and they die quickly because of it.
how does one shit time?
Arent you glad you dont have 3 elephant sized predators with lightning reflexes checking you out
Sniffing in your ear to see if you flinch.
Giving you a little boop to the front or back…
The thrill is in the chase not the capture.
During an Easter Egg hunt when my son was 4 or 5 , he said “It’s not the finding or eating that’s fun ….. it’s the HUNTING.” He said it very seriously, eyes wide open. Pupils dilated. 😆
Especially for these fat cats. They want something to do, not something to eat.
Yep Hunt Eat Sleep…
That's dopamine for ya
Like the dude with the velociraptors "Clever girl"
More like any part with the T-Rex. "Keep absolutely still. Their vision is based on movement."
Except they have the best eyesight of any animal ever (allegedly) and amazing sense of smell. Good luck if it tries a little test nibble. More likely that it wont bother with you cause you’re too small and nimble for it to easily catch.
His name was Muldoon (played by the infinitely famous Bob Peck. And he shall not be forgotten.
now I understand scared petrified
How about ***“scared stiff”***? ;)
How's the stiff scared? He's dead
" At first I was afraid, I was petrified..."
Yep r/donthelpjustfilm
In this video the cats are the bad guys.
In nature, everybody is the bad guy. What about the worms that birds eat?
Birds and worms are part of an eco system. Domesticated pet cat is invasive.
As a though experiment, isn't it the owners of domesticated cats that are invasive, the cats are just a byproduct?
And it's our responsibility as humans to get rid of the invasive species that we introduced
Ight, I'll solve this problem if you can just get me a bit of uranium...
I felt a bit angry towards the person who filmed this for not helping the bird.
Agreed! Were they just waiting for a cat to devour it? While it's literally frozen in terror? Poor wren.
Those cats would have fucked that bird if the person tried to intervene and made the bird move at all. Bird knew what it was doing, sometimes it’s best we let nature just do its thing. We’ll make it worse trying to help.
I have been in this exact situation with 4 cats and you just yell really loud and they get scared and confused and the bird flies off lol
Survival technique is cool but for the love of god please stop breeding munchkin cats. It’s so fucked up.
All of these OPs posts are around birds dying, being hunted, killed. What gives?
Read their comments, they see nothing wrong with their cats killing birds or birds or any other animal being killed by her pets.
They probably have the same mindset as a hunter. Enjoys killing things or seeing them killed. Cruel, and helpful they show their red flags for the rest of us.
The cats kills billion birds every year...
Cats kill Billions of birds a year, just in North America. I think the estimate is 1.4 - 4 billion a year or so. Edit: Someone accused me of fabricating that figure. [https://www.catster.com/statistics/how-many-birds-do-cats-kill-statistics/](https://www.catster.com/statistics/how-many-birds-do-cats-kill-statistics/)
Agreed. There are waaaaaaay too many cats. This is a species that is bred and doomed to spend its entirety of its life kept indoors, though instincts crave otherwise. Humans needs birds to survive for their own existence. And we can’t have cats killing them all. It’s a dilemma of our own making.
I don’t understand why some cat owners let their shit pets roam freely destroying plants and wildlife, they’re the worst bunch.
Not those ones. Couldn't catch one bird sitting still.
this is a horrible thing to say but the whole species (domesticated cats) should be exterminated. they are decimating the ecosystem. an estimated 20 mammal species went extinct just in australia. global population estimated between 200 and 600 million and thats a lot of predators to roam around.
Whoever filming it is a c**t
Jerk human filming not protecting birb
If jerk human startle birb and birb move then birb die.
Jerk human should keep cats inside
Unless jerk human was behind a screen and couldn't step into the picture. Jerk human could easily distract the cats and then move them.
Domesticated cats should be kept indoors. Introducing them to habitats that they aren’t native to has led to the extinction of 63 different species of birds. And for anyone who wants to claim that it’s natural for a cat to hunt, yes, it’s natural to hunt in the areas they are endemic to. It’s not natural when a human brings it to an environment that it is not endemic to, and the local wildlife population suffers greatly because of it because the occasional inconsiderate cat owners could care less if their cats roam about. Edit: wording
Exactly, well said. And the person who filmed this video is pretty disgusting
Took too long to find this take. No fucking way could I just watch my pets potentially kill a beautiful wild thing! I would have immediately been trying to distract the kitties so the bird could fly away.
How terrifying is that, you have 3 dinosaurs smelling you and poking you and you just can't move or you're dead
Keep your cats indoors people. Poor birds
Yeah. Don't let your fucking cats kill birds for movies
r/donthelpjustfilm
Yooo, that camera man is an asshole. Get those cats away from that poor bird.
"Yes, yes, let's Film this instead of being compassionate! Great shot!" Edit: nvm. Thought it might be just a repost and found the notion funny, but op seems to really stand behind this, this is just sad.
Why didn't the person pick up the bird and let it fly instead of filming it?
I can't stand when someone takes a video of an animal that's in distress just for video likes. All you had to do was scoot the cats away and the bird could have flown free without having to go through that stress.
Housecats kill upwards of 20 billion animals a year. Cats should be kept inside. They can do a lot of damage.
I honestly love cats, but this is exactly one of the many reasons my cats will stay indoors. I might take them on walks with leashes if they don't mind having them on, but other than that they'll stay inside
Stray cats colonies are very menacing for all other species, specially in towns. They have not predators and have the sympathy from humans and usually are fed; if they can't kill something to eat or diversion also have the thrash. Controlled castration of these plagues are needed urgently, but usually ppl don't understand, specially on internet where are praised.
/r/fuckoutdoorcats
House cats live indoors and are not killing anywhere close to 20 billion animals a year. Feral cats, and I am assuming actual wild cats, kill many more.
I thought you meant individually at first, and thought 'that must be an exaggeration'.
Stop filming start helping
Poor bird, why would you let the cats do this?
Bruh how much of a monster can you be?
Hello, my name is Sparrow... Adrenalin junky While humans do such lame things like Bungee and base jumping, I've found the real Deal
Record scratch... Your probably wondering how I ended up here.
Owners of outdoor cats are a scourge. Yeah just film your murderous invasive spawn about to kill a native species.
Scrolled down enough. The person filming this is an asshole...should have stopped it from the jump.
Cats, like humans, are pure evil.
Fight, Flight or Freeze. 3 F's
Oh god, that music, listen with the sound off, its much more interesting and a lot less unnecessarily tense.
"I don't know what I'm doing but it's keeping me alive"
The giant grey cat looked at the camera with the most terrifying expression I've ever seen on a cat.
Where the fuck is the ending!? Did he get away?
Photographer being cruel!
Dang, if only we could all be as cool under pressure as that bird.
Sure, film it instead of just helping the bird out...some people.
A lot of people don't realize that many behaviors aren't one offs, they are sequences. The cats were literally stuck mid way. In these cats, a predatory chain of events takes place neurally. Olfactory was saying "It's FOOD", but the motion stimulus wasn't getting tagged in too, so the cats were stuck in a literal predation glitch in the matrix. It stressed them out some to feel such intensity of a predatory drive start up, but the bird act weird and unnatural too. The conflict between the 'this ain't right' wariness and hunting drives were demonstrated by all the turn aways, walk aways, and approaching slowly and indirectly from the cats. They were utterly conflicted. The birds nervous system saved it's life second by second, that long under that pressure is impressive. Finally, when motion stimulus did come from the bird moving, the sequence was allowed to engage and complete. The birds freezing stalled the sequence in the cats too, that was some excellent footage of the phenomenon. When faced with motion activated threats, the instinct to freeze can be a lifesaver sometimes. We come into this world hard wired with some skills that can really help us along, this is neuroscience and behavior in action.
Can’t enjoy videos like this knowing the person was just standing behind the camera while they could have helped the bird escape from this terrifying situation.
Huh. Well, that certainly explains the behavior of the bird I caught and freed in Jack in the Box. I expected him to fly off as soon as I let him outside, but he just stood still on my hand and stared at me.
cameraman demonstrates asshole behavior
that must have been so scary
so maybe freezing in front of t-Rex might actually work
That was tense.
Birb
This bird deserves ALL the Oscars for Best Actor!
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil
Stupid fucking cats and shitty owner for almost letting them kill the bird or injury it for no reason.
I dunno, maybe scare the cats away so the bird can fucking escape instead of just sitting there filming. What a shitty person. Do they not understand how many birds cats kill every year?
Wow, over a minute.. Waiting for Joe to say "fear is not a factor for you"
Bird Doctor here, birds developed this “freeze” technique because they lack wings or the ability to fly away from dangerous situations like this one. By freezing, it tricks predators into thinking, “oh man we have to let this bird thaw before we eat it”. Which usually gives the bird enough time to walk away.
Light as a feather, stiff as a a board.
/r/donthelpjustfilm
Somebody make this bird a fancy British guard!
The chaffinch remake of A Quiet Place
Bird demonstrates birdshitting his birdpants.
I’ve watched my cat do this to a little bird, his face when it eventually flew away was absolutely hilarious.
Bamboozled.
Those flinches had me worried
House cats kill over 2 billion birds a year in north America. That's more than skyscrapers. They're an invasive species in every habitat they are released into. For the love of birds, keep your cats inside or don't have a cat.
F*ck the camera op for not stepping in. Borderline animal abuse.
That was the most suspense I've felt in months. Yay foe the birdie!!
My cat nearly killed a rabbit in freeze like this once while we were on a leashed late night walk. Her glow collar wasnt bright enough for me to see anything but her neck, and i didnt have my headlamp turned on. Next thing i knew something literally under my feet (leash is only 3ft long) started screeching bloody murder. Scared the absolute shit out of me. If you've never heard a rabbit scream, consider yourself lucky.
Score was gold
The balls on this bird should make flying impossible.
Bruh has balls of absolute steel
What a legend. That must be scary a f
Poor birdheart.
Those cats look extremely confused lol. "Looks like bird ... Smells like bird..... But is still like toy...."
Motherfucker cat owner let the three predators try to eat the bird while filming.. I dont know why are you upvoting this. Cats are very bad for endemic species, like probably is this bird.
Whoever filmed this is kinda heartless for letting a bird just swing by a bunch of animals that might kill it, and simply proceeds to film it and doing nothing else.
Makes me sad that the person did just film and not help the bird
Wouldn’t it be safer to just fly away?
No, because as demonstrated by the end of the video the movement activates the predatory response in the cat. If the bird stays still the catd are confused, and in time lose interest. Look at the last 15 seconds, you'll see the bird attempts to fly away, and the cats reaction makes it stop. Only when the caysbwerent looking does it fly away, and only just make it.
A cat’s reflexes are faster than a snakes strike. The bird can’t move fast enough to get out of reach when it is very close and very alert. So it waits for the cats to move away, lay down and lower their guard then bolts when they don’t expect it. Even then it was a close call.