Natural selection in a Common Kestrel nest. WARNING, STRONG CONTENT. Falco Tinninculus. Tornfalk.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- This is a short clip that shows real cruel nature and its way to select who will live and who will die.
First minute is timelapsed, then about 1:17 into the clip it's slowed down to normal speed and the deed gets done.
I hope you'll find this interesting and informative.
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Mom: Well, if you're just gonna lay there like a piece of meat...
This was interesting footage.
I knew that animals displayed this sort of behaviour to ensure the strongest survived. I have never come across any footage of a Kestrel doing this until now. Thanks for providing this short film...🙂👍🏻
To us, it can seem cruel. I recently saw on a live cam of an eagles nest and one of the two eaglets was killed by hail in a hailstorm. It was fed to the surviving eaglet later. These are wild raptors, not pets. And if one is squeamish, then watching cams of raptors can be disturbing sometimes and it is a good time to stop watching or walk away for a while.
This is more the exception, kestrels usually will not kill a living offspring. They may feed the others with one that is already dead. Sometimes the siblings will bully one that is weak and it will have difficulty getting enough food. Kestrels are synchronous hatchers so the chicks are typiclly all around the same size. For them any difference in growth rate is from who is strong and demanding the most food. Some kestrel parents are better at making sure all chicks receive their share but of course this too can change if prey coming into the nest becomes sparse.
I saw it happen one more time one or two years after this. But that was more like the bullying you describe.
The siblings simply killed the weakest and fed themselves.
I might have this on video too.
Mommabird:
Kids! Dinners ready
Babybird:
Whats for dinner?
MB: Your sister...
So the next time someone bangs on about animals being "better" than humans, show them this video.
They are. This chick wasn’t going to make it, the mother ended its suffering and nothing was wasted. Your point?
@@FelixS.tell me you’ve eaten your baby brother or sister then.
@@theblackhand1 Your comment is worthy of a Darwin Award nomination.
@@FelixS. So if your son was born with Downs Syndrome you would take him out the back and shoot him?
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. At least the hawk gives other chicks better chance to live while human did this m.ua-cam.com/video/BtDMwz7tL_w/v-deo.html&pp=ygURTW90aGVyIGJhYnkgdHJhc2g%3D
I've been watching Kestrels for a couple years now & this is the 1st time I've seen something like this. Yes, they will feed the
others after it's dead.
I'm happy to hear that i provide with somewhat rare content :)
Right? this was kinda brutal, alive face-rip ... usually they are atleast dying or getting picked by bigger siblings until mom finishes the job
There are a number of different reasons for this. One reason could be due to there not being as much food source in their habitat, forcing the mother to decide. Decide being a loosely used term, as this is instinct. The mother is feeding the strong chicks, so that the strongest line may survive.
no. alot of birds do shit like this if not all
storks will do this. any birds who eat meat will do this shit.
@@magnipettersson4432 I didn't say it was just the Kestrel, but yes, a lot of birds do this.
@@czarowen sometimes they do it without eating it as well. Birds are just small flying dinosaurs. Never forget that. They all derive from the same family of dinosaurs as the fkn utah raptor. Dinosaurs were a fuck you to nature and the Birds are just the echo of the fuck you. But still the same attitude.
It may seem cruel, but if you've watched enough raptor videos, you know underdeveloped chicks can suffer for a long time at the hands (beaks?) of their siblings. At least this was fairly quick.
I think so too. She killed him in less than a minute. I see storks take 15-20 minutes to do that
@@peterkoinzell7983You’d think that storks would use their long, pointy beaks to impale their culled chicks and dispatch them quickly. Instead, they use their beaks like chopsticks to try and snap the chicks’ necks, which only prolongs the suffering.
I have several live raptor cams I enjoy watching everyday. I've seen this situation many times. As you mentioned, the mother was quick to end it's life and take advantage of a much needed food source. Sibling rivalry is by far a much more drawn out, painful death. The most aggressive forms I've seen so far seems to occur between Eagle families. Those sensitive to these vids need to quit clicking on them, or if they do, quit assuming these avian creatures make decisions from human like emotions.
It deserved to live too .Just because it's the smallest doesn't mean it should die just to keep the others alive .
@@lindacovan8999 I understand your sentiment, but it seems that Mama Kestrel disagrees. 🫤
This is absolutely amazing. Mama just ripped the little one's face right off. Ironic that because s/he wasn't able to find enough food, s/he became food. Kind of meta, too lol.
whats meta mean
It may not have been an issue of not finding enough food. The chicks are also VERY competitive, and will simply bully their smaller/weaker/slower/clumsier siblings out of the way, such that no matter how much food the parents collect, one or several of the chicks will never get enough to remain on-par with the others/healthy.
As the title states, this is a factor of natural selection - if you are less-able to compete, chances are, you will not survival the selective pressures that Nature impose - and it starts right out of the gate.
And for most animals, once its clear you're not viable, you're just more meat.
Its not just because of food supply. If a chick isn't up and chirping its brains out when parent arrives with a fresh kill, something is wrong. That little one was sleeping in the back while its siblings fed, clearly it was sick or a runt of the litter. The parent knew this and terminated the child.
Taught the “fam” a new meaning for the phrase “eating local”. None of those hungry mouths asked any questions they just fed on their former sibling and never skipped a beat. Damn nature u scary.
The baby wasn't going to make that's why mama fed it to the others... pretty common amongst kestrel, owls, hawks and eagles
Wildlife is wonderful, beautiful and sometimes cruel! The smallest chick was eaten alive! I've watched 100's of bird nest cam videos and have seen a few of this sort but the chicks that were eaten had died or near death. Having not watched this particular nest till now, can only surmise that the youngest was either neglected or got sick. Cannibalism happens in nature!
The youngest may not have been neglected, nor necessarily sick. Hierarchy is Natural Law, and the basis upon which evolution transpires, and sometimes, as difficult as it is for many people to accept in the modern era, one phenotype simply is not as fit as another, and the organism gets out competed, often with fatal results.
Furthermore, the chicks are extremely competitive amongst one another. As a result, over time, a chick which is at a disadvantage - often because it hatched later, but other times due to disability, 'personality' quirks (reduced aggression) or otherwise sub-standard genetic/developmental issues - will struggle to remain on-par with its siblings, or sometimes even healthy.
Even if the chick in question can get enough food to remain somewhat healthy, the competitive instincts of the chicks will often lead to harassment and bullying that eventually kills the weaker chick outright or results in the parents intervening to cull.
Once dead, to most animals, meat is meat.
Mum, what's for supper? you!
She couldn’t find any food that day so the weakest smallest was sacrificed so the other 5 would live. And tomorrow if she can’t find food then the 4 biggest will survive and the smallest weakest will be food.
Such a good Mother...You can she loves her children...Mr and Mrs Kestrel....and all the other stupid cliches that people write in the comments.
Yeah it's easy to tell how much she loves them as she rips the organs out of the smallest one while it's alive and feeds them to the others
@@forcedge2302 😂
plot twist: Youngest was fully fed and sleepy. XD
The smaller one usually ends up dead, sometimes starvation takes a long time. The parent knew the small one would not make it, he was too weak to eat. So he fed it to the others, that's how it works.
"My youngest son was smaller than his brothers, so we ripped his organs out and fed them to his siblings"
Just how it works. Right bro?
@@forcedge2302 I mean you have a brain right? Did you not see what took place in the video, yes it does work that way.
@@forcedge2302 yes
@@forcedge2302 😂😂😂😂😂 exactly like that
So... cannibalism.
Let this be a reminder to eat your dinner when mummy tells you to.
we should appreciate our earthly neighbours, life is tough enough without humans screwing it up great post i saved the life of a kestrel and ended up flying it gorgeous small falcons. Rip " Flash "
Nature is cruel to humans as well you looney people forget that.
the one that feeds you then feeds you to others oooffttt!
I don't really think it's cruel . But mom might have known the one wasn't as active as it should have been . I have seen many times with birds . Often they sleep more or less at different intervals . The little one could have been more tired and sleepy than hungry .. oh well .
This is a way to ensure the best gene pool survives too!
Yes. Another post shows the same thing but with a closer view. Albeit some people will complain how this upsets them, but it is their own fault after all, you posted warnings. Children and "sensitive folks" must understand that these animal "cruelties" have been happening all along through centuries from creation. We humans have invaded the bird nests with high technology to spy on their behavior without their knowing and- dare I say- their permission. We invented terms like "cruel nature" to explain such behavior to children and "sensitive people." Real life has never been a disney movie. It is outlandish for us to believe the world and animal behavior be like that safe child friendly bizarro world.
Wow
How are we going to get their permission?
Nothing squares away the kiddos like tearing apart the weakest and feeding it to the siblings...
Mom taught the other kestrels a lesson at 1:40 - when it comes your beak, use it or lose it
Woah, didn't know kestrels also kill their own chick. Usually they just let it die out of starvation or killed by the siblings
I have seen the siblings do the deed too.
Wow. Pretty evil stuff. I will NEVER see them the same again. Smh 👹
Thanks for sharing...
@@maddy8855 Grow up. It's nature, not a disney film.
@@maddy8855 Not evil. Humans are the only thing that can be "Evil" they are going by instinct and have to do this, we can go to a store for food...they cannot.
@@maddy8855 Sound like a nutcase shaking your head at something wild.
Efficiency at it´s coldest.
"we thank you for your contribution little one. See you in heaven"
@@ZenkiCoyote lol
Cant believe the rest actually readily eat their own sibling? Wow.
This is quite normal behaviour when there are several mouths to feed in the raptor and Owl family. Chances are the tiny one would never have made it anyway, so it's an insurance policy for the remaining young.
Sad to see, but nature is harsh.
Cannibalism at finest.
I have never seen this before.
Did it rip the beak off the chick?
It ripped the whole body apart
Best tasting food is the loving family kind
Not necessary and extremely immature iyam
The last one hatched in a larger clutch always dies. Poor things never really get a chance they are just doomed. Wish birds could only lay no more than two eggs at a time.
The more eggs you lay the greater the chance at least one of them survives to adulthood and reproduces, passing on your genes to the next generation. The extra eggs are insurance in case the older ones fail or die. This is the cold calculus of hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
The reasons humans are so notable and partly why we're successful is because we care for our sick, old, and infirm. We have archeological evidence of cave people burying with care and love those of their number who still lived decades despite having brain damage or crippling injuries, which is only possible if someone took care of them despite being a burden on food and supplies.
"The last one hatched in a larger clutch always dies"
- tripe
So she killed her weakest baby? Well they are animals, she probably just wanted to ensure the survival of the rest of her babies and probably knew that little one was two weeks anyway so she put it out of its misery I suppose. Still kind of sad to see but it's part of life for animals
They can say, with no shame,
“I ate my sister”
Seen it a lot. The small one wouldn't have survived anyway because the will to be fed wasn't there at all. Either he would've starved or been killed by his siblings.
Birds are like dinosuars, but more brutal.
😢😢
Well, at least it didn't go to waste.
Wow the one that wasn’t hungry and was probably sleeping lol. And even so. Let it die and then IF It does die then eat it.
The runt chick lives to see it's siblings eat pieces of it!!! Amazing!!!
Only the strong survive
very smart choice for survive
Wonder when she kills the next one... ?
It looked smaller n maybe sickly. Poor dude but its nature.
I thought mom was going to shove the runt out of the nest. I didnt foresee that she would start ripping pieces off the live chick and feed its siblings. Survival of the fittest.
Hope the brothers found their sister tasty !
When a bird has this many nestlings to provide, they usually end up killing one so that the other three or four don't starve. It's a good survival strategy for how fucked up it is.
그래도 살아있는데 너무하네ㅠ 보통 죽어야 먹던데..
Down bad 😮
I guess 6 chicks is one chick too many! Considering the chick trying to eat mom's feathers 2:35... maybe the youngest had a mental health issue!
Kestrels going crazy hyper when a parent shows up with food. The young will peck at the parent trying to get food. I’ve seen the young swallowing a garter snake, the tail still hanging out of their beak, yet they are pecking at Mom or Dad for more just like their siblings are doing.
Common sense of nature.
That's a fact Jack😊
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Ya snooze...
Ya loose
あと３回できるからよかったな。
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Texas beak massacre
Survival
Whats for lunch today mom
Your brother
That'll teach its siblings not to be weak.
As someone who loves animals, wild and domestic. And understands the laws of nature. Man that is still amd will always he hard to watch. But like another comment said. It could have starved to desth or been killed by his siblings as they get old enough to feed themselves. At a certain point mom will bring food in and just drop it for them to kill and eat themselves so they learn.. but she knew it would not make it anyway. So she feeds rhe stronger ones with it. It is very sad but its mother nature at her finest. Mother nature can be cruel but she can also provide..
かわいそうですが、これが自然界のきびしさですね。
弱い者は生きていけない。
Spartans killed their underdeveloped kids too. 😅
Законы природы здесь другие: выживает добрейший.
No sound? How lame
Zhang CNN
Its ok its natural..otherwise the weak one would die or killed by other predators..
lol he just pwnd 😂💀
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Namm namm.that was tasty brother/sister
美しい！
元々多すぎなんですよ。
2、3匹は食べられるためにいます。
Thank you!
Yes, nature has it all figured out.
Sad to witness but their survival depends on it.
that's stork style