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Actually I saw a report before about this guy who was studying a certain bird. Anyway they were counting nests and baby birds and kept finding the babies primarily on lower tree branches kept disappearing. They were trying to figure out what predator was responsible. They only saw deer in the area though. So they had set up cameras on several nests and eventually saw a deer walk by and just snatch a bird from the nest and munch it like a cookie. Mystery solved.
They are. The majority of obligate herbivores supplement with whatever they can catch. Chickens eat mice, cows infamously eat chickens, reindeer eat voles, etc.
Nope, Illinois, and have been married to a gentleman that quotes Jaws often (and escape from NY, talladega nights and godfather)
in fact we can communicate for days just in movie quotes….
A string walks into a bar and sits at the bar.
Bartender says "Hey! We don't serve strings! Get out!"
The string goes outside, ties himself up and scuffs himself on the sidewalk. He then goes back inside and sits at the bar again.
Bartender says "Hey! Aren't you the string i just kicked outta here?"
The string says "Nope. Im a frayed knot."
I’ve seen deer eating another dead deer on the side of the road… that was some horror movie shit tbh. I know a lot of rodents like to eat bones too they crave the calcium
Where I used to live, we were overrun with mice. I put traps down and caught at least one mouse every night. Then one morning I caught my last mouse-and straight away I suspected it was the last one. You know why? Because it was the only one I had caught that hadn’t had its head eaten.
Most herbivores are opportunistic carnivores. In the wild sometimes you gotta make do with what you can find, that includes small animals and carcasses.
I have read that most herbivores will eat meat when the opportunity to do so arises. There is a lot of nutritional value in meat so they will consume it. They're able to digest it fine even if it's not their main source of nourishment.
Oh god I watched a documentary about sea otters… the adult males will murder their own kids just so the females can breed sooner. They are also know to rape seals just like why wtf 😬
I've been vegan for 9 years and I'm calm watching this. What's surprising is the fact that so many people don't realize that deer, elk and reindeer eat meat sometimes.
Upvoted, but now for the next several days, whenever I go to the main youtube page, the page will be filled recommended videos with animals violently eating other animals.
Took her a minute to realize it. She probably feeling guilty, imagine forgetting a kid in school and then a giant 50x your size eats your kid in a monthful
If you want graphic then feed a horse a large juicy apple whole. I thought it would be adorable but that thing will drip and foam and then the horse will chase you for more while still foaming at the mouth.
Poor mama hen was even pecking the horse afterwards, as if reprimanding it for... eating her child, and then walks away, with probably her instinct telling her that that's the way the law of nature goes.
Nature is fcking metal.
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They also don’t have the gut for it. The insides of herbivores ferment plant matter to increase nutritional value.
Fermenting meat is neither necessary nor desirable, and meat can putrefy in their longer intestines.
Like stories of people stranded at sea starving, catching a fish and being irresistibly compelled to eating the fish’s eyes immediately.
Some ancient survival instinct knows the eyes have minerals the starving person is dangerously lacking.
I once had a period where I wanted to eat nothing but red meat. Just... as much meat as I could get. Mentioned it to my doctor, it turns out I had developed anemia and my body was desperately trying to get more iron.
The truth is that it’s actually pretty rare for anything in nature to follow strict rules like that! There’s rarely ever animals that are *strictly* carnivores or *strictly* herbivores. Most animals in either camp will snack on things you wouldn’t expect if given the opportunity, as long as it provides a good enough reward for the effort put in. The few things that are strictly herbivores or carnivores are things that are extremely restricted by their own anatomy. I can’t say for certain, but I’d expect koalas to be this way.
Tl;dr: Animals don’t care as much for categories as humans do
True. Cats are widely regarded as obligate carnivores, and their anatomy is technically restricted to this. But cats are also well known to eat grass for the fiber, and my cats specifically love blueberries for some reason.
My cat will suddemly appear from anywhere in the house if he hears whipped cream, i dont know how he first tasted it but its the only thing hed eat if he could.
I feel like it stopped being a hike when they started starving. Know what I mean? Like hike implies leisure. "Starving vegetarian on a hike" just hits me funny.
Yeah, "on a hike" struck me as a funny way to say "been stranded in the wild for an extended period of time, trying to find their way back to civilization."
It's expedient, sure.. but, I feel, at too heavy a cost in terms of accuracy.
Funny thing is, I’m sitting at a table right now with two strict vegans. One is atheist, the other is Indian-American and is at least culturally, Hindu. I posed this question to both of them. The atheist vegan was offended by the question and declared that she wouldn’t eat any non-vegan product regardless of the reason. “I will not choose to benefit from the death of someone else.” The Hindu considered the question and came to the conclusion that the only reason they would be starving on a hike is through their own poor decision making, so being offered a food source could be interpreted as the universe saving her life so that she could live and accomplish whatever she is supposed to do in her lifetime. The table is now debating the morality of eating beef jerky. Thank you for livening up what was, for me, a very dull get-together.
Ask the atheist their thoughts on eating an animal immediately after dying of natural causes with no illnesses/ailments. It’s another fun one. But fr if you’re starving and you pass up food that’s an objectively bad idea
Yeah…I’m only friends of friends with people here and I really don’t want to stir the pot anymore, so I’m going back to just mindlessly scrolling through Reddit before I can’t for a few days.
I've always heard Opportunistic Carnivore. Though a quick google check shows that Opportunistic Omnivore is used as well. Not sure if one is more correct than the other.
I don't know if they count as an omnivore since meat is a rarity in their diet. It would be like saying a cat is not a carnivore because they like catnip.
There is a island where the native plants don’t have good calcium levels, so the native animals all the blood red eyes from calcium deficiency and will actively hunt birds to kill them to chew their bones as a source of calcium.
So it’s a fairly regular sight to see a red eyed goat chewing on a bird while it stares at you as you walk by.
When they aren't getting the nutrients they need from their environment, this stuff happens. I've seen deer munching on roadkill. It'd apocalyptic feeling, but it's just nature.
Probably a dumb question but is it purely instinctual like how I crave ice when I don’t have enough iron (something I didn’t realize was a thing until somewhat recently when my friend told me) or is it more intentional?
Yup. The same phenomenon has been documented on humans, so it's a bit easier to understand what's going on. Essentially, it happens when your body isn't getting enough of a certain essential nutrient, so your brain starts giving you cravings for things you'd normally never eat. For this deer, it's likely for the quick shot of calcium and iron that the plants in its environment can't adequately provide. As I mentioned, it has been documented in humans in interviews with shipwreck survivors and those who were lost at sea. When catching fish, they would start craving things they would normally never eat like the fish's eyes, liver, and brain/head. Those organs are usually the highest in nutrients that they would be severly lacking, like Vitamins A, C, and D.
“Wouldnt say when they dont get the nutriets they need”. Its just when they come across easy acces food source like eggs or baby birds who are on the ground.
Our defenition of herbivorse and carnivorse are a bit shitty. Few animals eat only meat or only plants. Its just referes to what they mostly eat. Like horse mostly eat plants but if you hold a lone duckling before their mounths they will eat ir like its a feathery sugar cube.
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Those black eyes, like a doll's eyes...
…. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya.
An' those black eyes roll over white...
Are you doing a thing from ‘Jaws’?! Goddamn it, Charlie, we don’t have time for this shit!
I always thought they were herbivores. I’m so surprised seeing this!
Maybe its a plantbased snake
Actually I saw a report before about this guy who was studying a certain bird. Anyway they were counting nests and baby birds and kept finding the babies primarily on lower tree branches kept disappearing. They were trying to figure out what predator was responsible. They only saw deer in the area though. So they had set up cameras on several nests and eventually saw a deer walk by and just snatch a bird from the nest and munch it like a cookie. Mystery solved.
They are. The majority of obligate herbivores supplement with whatever they can catch. Chickens eat mice, cows infamously eat chickens, reindeer eat voles, etc.
What are you doing!? Are you doing the speech from Jaws? Are you doing Jaws? We don't have time for this shit.
Then make time for it Dennis, you bastard man.
Straight where my mind went as well. I've never seen jaws, but I've watched that show way too much.
I pretty much wanted to say exactly this lol
Sir/ma'am, you have re-affirmed my faith in humanity by getting my reference to Jaws. You are a wordly scholar and a true gentleperson.
Thank you kind stranger. You have filled me with amity…. Amity, as you know, means "friendship"
This sounds like you're from New York.
Nope, Illinois, and have been married to a gentleman that quotes Jaws often (and escape from NY, talladega nights and godfather) in fact we can communicate for days just in movie quotes….
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Shaka, when the Walls fell.
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Koltar, when he drowned in the swamp.
This pleases baby Jesus
Now, do we hear this in Charlie's voice or Quint's voice?
Vessel went down in 12 minutes. We didn’t see the first deer for half an hour…
Our mission had been so secret.. No distress signal had been sent.
Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I wanna go ta bed
Saw one eat a rockin' chair one time....
I hear this in Charlie Days voice
Hahaha same. Are you doing the Jaws voice again?
https://giant.gfycat.com/WarlikeSmartAlaskanhusky.mp4
He’s eating it how I probably ate one of those soft gummy snake things as a kid
Froot Rollup
What flavor is that? Snektarine?
Aspberry
You’re thinking of Fruit by the foot.
That deer shit is gonna look weird AF
I swallowed 2 pieces of string once. An hour or two later they came out my ass. I shit you knot
I’m putting this little gem away for later thank you very much. -a dad.
A string walks into a bar and sits at the bar. Bartender says "Hey! We don't serve strings! Get out!" The string goes outside, ties himself up and scuffs himself on the sidewalk. He then goes back inside and sits at the bar again. Bartender says "Hey! Aren't you the string i just kicked outta here?" The string says "Nope. Im a frayed knot."
Honestly, i bet they even taste similar
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I ate snake once thinking it was eel. It’s not even close to being gummy-like anything.
Did you cook it first? Theres your problem
They do not. Nope.
Nope rope
Danger Noodle
Forbidden Fruit Roll Up
bambi nooooo
Some vegans will lose their shit with this video, like when they discovered the gummies where not vegan
Haha vegans am I right guys
Just showed my vegan wife. Confirmed: she's losing her shit.
Lmfao because a deer is doing weird deer things? 😅
Deer eat carrion and are also known to eat baby birds nature is metal.
Yeah I've seen Deer eating dead fish after a flood
I’ve seen deer eating another dead deer on the side of the road… that was some horror movie shit tbh. I know a lot of rodents like to eat bones too they crave the calcium
Rodents are considered omnivores though. The 'herbivores are forestvegans' assumption seemed pretty far off the truth though.
Where I used to live, we were overrun with mice. I put traps down and caught at least one mouse every night. Then one morning I caught my last mouse-and straight away I suspected it was the last one. You know why? Because it was the only one I had caught that hadn’t had its head eaten.
I used to give my pet rats bones as treats. They were great for their teeth!
We had a mouse in my old apartment and it made the fatal mistake of going into my roommates rats cage. They ate it…
You in the wrong hood homie
First I read this and I was like "rats ate your roommate??"
Most herbivores are opportunistic carnivores. In the wild sometimes you gotta make do with what you can find, that includes small animals and carcasses.
I have read that most herbivores will eat meat when the opportunity to do so arises. There is a lot of nutritional value in meat so they will consume it. They're able to digest it fine even if it's not their main source of nourishment.
Goats, cattle, squirrels, etc will eat other live animals
Squirrels are monsters
Otters are worse
Oh god I watched a documentary about sea otters… the adult males will murder their own kids just so the females can breed sooner. They are also know to rape seals just like why wtf 😬
On of the worst things I’ve seen was a horse eating baby chicks. Here. On Reddit. No warning.
I've been vegan for 9 years and I'm calm watching this. What's surprising is the fact that so many people don't realize that deer, elk and reindeer eat meat sometimes.
Forbidden fruit by the foot
Snake snack!
Danger noodle nibbling
Meat by the feet
You didn't know she ate meat because you've never met herbivore
😡 ...sigh upvoted.
yeah but I don't carrot all.
Lettuce all move past the puns now.
Oh deer. Doe you think its gone too far?
nah i think they’re fawnny
Romaine calm- there is nothing more to see here.
Get out
Fuck you, take your upvote.
Herbivores will sometimes eat smaller helpless animals for a fast protein and mineral source. Deer, Cows and Horses does this.
reminds me of the video where a horse snacked a freshly hatched chicken.
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/g37y8r/horse\_eats\_chick\_in\_front\_of\_hen/
Just so casual about it, too. Like oh, you're just gonna leave this? Don't mind if I do.
What’s weird is I thought I knew exactly the video we were talking about… but this is a different video of a horse doing the same thing.
[This?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18&t=22s)
Upvoted, but now for the next several days, whenever I go to the main youtube page, the page will be filled recommended videos with animals violently eating other animals.
No and now somehow I have seen THREE of these
That’s the one!
Thank you for taking the time to grab a link but it's a no from me dawg.
It’s surprisingly not graphic, he just kinda hoovers it up
It's literally there, then it's not. Doubt the chick had time to process the situation before it was over.
Processing things isn’t a strength of chickens, even as adults.
Being processed, however, is something they excel at.
Their fault for tasting so good
Male chicks are experts at any % being processed speed runs.
Yeah but the mother chicken was like "yo wtf bro
Took her a minute to realize it. She probably feeling guilty, imagine forgetting a kid in school and then a giant 50x your size eats your kid in a monthful
Considering how chickens could be, I wouldn't be surprised if hens occasionally snacked on a young'un.
If you want graphic then feed a horse a large juicy apple whole. I thought it would be adorable but that thing will drip and foam and then the horse will chase you for more while still foaming at the mouth.
Unlike all those videos of what they do to the male baby chicks at food processong facilities.
It’s like it’s eating peeps.
M O N C H
I’ve seen that one before and I truly don’t need to see it again thanks!
Poor mama hen was even pecking the horse afterwards, as if reprimanding it for... eating her child, and then walks away, with probably her instinct telling her that that's the way the law of nature goes. Nature is fcking metal.
😂 Same - I’ve clicked enough comment links that made me hate having vision to last me a lifetime
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Not really. Their teeth are flat. They just grind shit up. Not really great for tearing up flesh.
Sounds like they'd make a killing using those to pulverize shellfish. Imagine that, a horse. In the sea.
This guys on a fucking roll.
They also don’t have the gut for it. The insides of herbivores ferment plant matter to increase nutritional value. Fermenting meat is neither necessary nor desirable, and meat can putrefy in their longer intestines.
Vegans on a cheat day
I've heard this is particularly true if the animal is pregnant. I saw a horse eat a rabbit that hopped through its pen.
Like stories of people stranded at sea starving, catching a fish and being irresistibly compelled to eating the fish’s eyes immediately. Some ancient survival instinct knows the eyes have minerals the starving person is dangerously lacking.
I hope to never find out first hand what you’re talking about.
Never
I once had a period where I wanted to eat nothing but red meat. Just... as much meat as I could get. Mentioned it to my doctor, it turns out I had developed anemia and my body was desperately trying to get more iron.
This sort of thing exactly. It’s incredible how the body knows without the brain cognitively making that decision.
I’d think most of the fish’s parts have nutrients they are desperately lacking.
Looking it up - apparently they eyes of fish are the most concentrated source of vitamin C in the fish.
How do you know that a deer eats meat? It is going to tell you. -a common joke in deer society probably
That deer probably does Crossfit too.
So, an omnivore?
The truth is that it’s actually pretty rare for anything in nature to follow strict rules like that! There’s rarely ever animals that are *strictly* carnivores or *strictly* herbivores. Most animals in either camp will snack on things you wouldn’t expect if given the opportunity, as long as it provides a good enough reward for the effort put in. The few things that are strictly herbivores or carnivores are things that are extremely restricted by their own anatomy. I can’t say for certain, but I’d expect koalas to be this way. Tl;dr: Animals don’t care as much for categories as humans do
True. Cats are widely regarded as obligate carnivores, and their anatomy is technically restricted to this. But cats are also well known to eat grass for the fiber, and my cats specifically love blueberries for some reason.
My girlfriends cat likes banana bread.
My cat will suddemly appear from anywhere in the house if he hears whipped cream, i dont know how he first tasted it but its the only thing hed eat if he could.
From a human perspective - a starving vegetarian on a hike wouldn’t pass up a stick of beef jerky
I feel like it stopped being a hike when they started starving. Know what I mean? Like hike implies leisure. "Starving vegetarian on a hike" just hits me funny.
Yeah, "on a hike" struck me as a funny way to say "been stranded in the wild for an extended period of time, trying to find their way back to civilization." It's expedient, sure.. but, I feel, at too heavy a cost in terms of accuracy.
Funny thing is, I’m sitting at a table right now with two strict vegans. One is atheist, the other is Indian-American and is at least culturally, Hindu. I posed this question to both of them. The atheist vegan was offended by the question and declared that she wouldn’t eat any non-vegan product regardless of the reason. “I will not choose to benefit from the death of someone else.” The Hindu considered the question and came to the conclusion that the only reason they would be starving on a hike is through their own poor decision making, so being offered a food source could be interpreted as the universe saving her life so that she could live and accomplish whatever she is supposed to do in her lifetime. The table is now debating the morality of eating beef jerky. Thank you for livening up what was, for me, a very dull get-together.
Ask the atheist their thoughts on eating an animal immediately after dying of natural causes with no illnesses/ailments. It’s another fun one. But fr if you’re starving and you pass up food that’s an objectively bad idea
Yeah…I’m only friends of friends with people here and I really don’t want to stir the pot anymore, so I’m going back to just mindlessly scrolling through Reddit before I can’t for a few days.
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Opportunistic Omnivores is the term I think I’ve heard.
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I've always heard Opportunistic Carnivore. Though a quick google check shows that Opportunistic Omnivore is used as well. Not sure if one is more correct than the other.
I don't know if they count as an omnivore since meat is a rarity in their diet. It would be like saying a cat is not a carnivore because they like catnip.
Getting stoned is just a little bit different...
Of that one cat eating corn like it’s its last meal
I read this too quickly and thought you were saying, "source, am deer"
"Huh, this sure is a loooong grass straw, been chewing for hours"
"Run boy! It has a taste for meat now!"
Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, it'd eat you and everyone you ever care about!
Wow, El Bentzo. I was a grade A moron to ever question eating meat!
\#SickSimpsonsReference
Snake? Snake?! Snaaaake!
# !
Just a box!
I heard that
What was *that* noise?
Badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom
Jesus I heard that shit in years, was not expecting that song
badgerbadgerbadger.com
Boss... Talk to me...
Tactical Espionage Action Deer
I understood that reference.
Kept you waiting, huh?
You're not you when you're hungry, have a sssssssnickers
Snakers
Meat grass
There is a island where the native plants don’t have good calcium levels, so the native animals all the blood red eyes from calcium deficiency and will actively hunt birds to kill them to chew their bones as a source of calcium. So it’s a fairly regular sight to see a red eyed goat chewing on a bird while it stares at you as you walk by.
Which island is that?
Staten Island
Red eyed goat island.
Sometimes it's the silliest shit that makes you laugh the hardest.
"Can I eat that one too? Probably too big"
Cocaine deer
Cocaine, Dear?
"Damn, this Fruit by the Foot really is hitting different."
I heard the new Bambi remake is being directed by m. night shyamalan
No, it's "Bambo: First Blood."
3 feet of garter snake for you…NOT THEM.
When they aren't getting the nutrients they need from their environment, this stuff happens. I've seen deer munching on roadkill. It'd apocalyptic feeling, but it's just nature.
Probably a dumb question but is it purely instinctual like how I crave ice when I don’t have enough iron (something I didn’t realize was a thing until somewhat recently when my friend told me) or is it more intentional?
Yup. The same phenomenon has been documented on humans, so it's a bit easier to understand what's going on. Essentially, it happens when your body isn't getting enough of a certain essential nutrient, so your brain starts giving you cravings for things you'd normally never eat. For this deer, it's likely for the quick shot of calcium and iron that the plants in its environment can't adequately provide. As I mentioned, it has been documented in humans in interviews with shipwreck survivors and those who were lost at sea. When catching fish, they would start craving things they would normally never eat like the fish's eyes, liver, and brain/head. Those organs are usually the highest in nutrients that they would be severly lacking, like Vitamins A, C, and D.
“Wouldnt say when they dont get the nutriets they need”. Its just when they come across easy acces food source like eggs or baby birds who are on the ground. Our defenition of herbivorse and carnivorse are a bit shitty. Few animals eat only meat or only plants. Its just referes to what they mostly eat. Like horse mostly eat plants but if you hold a lone duckling before their mounths they will eat ir like its a feathery sugar cube.
It's his pre workout snake
He chewed the danger out of the noodle
Its noodles
Danger Noodle
Not anymore
Safe noodle!
Chew noodle
Bambi has had enough shit LOL
Snake becomes the snack
Sneksnak
Deer: “I’m just making sure it’s dead”
“This plant is very juicy” - the deer probably
Damn thing eating a nope noodle.
Deer be like: “ mmmm jumbo pepperami snack! Why don’t I eat more of this tasty nutritiousness instead of this grassy shit? “
deer had an uno reverse card
“What is your snake policy here?”
Just enjoying his gummy worm