This channel has brought me down an interesting rabbit hole on how Storks work when it comes to choosing who's the weakest in the group. I've learned quite a few things, thank you.
This is a perfect argument against all those that attempt to project human emotions on the birds. The moms kill those they deem too weak or small to survive by the time they start the trip to Africa. Less food ‘wasted’ on that one and more for the surviving brothers/sisters and hopefully get them healthy and strong to survive the trip. If you watch carefully, the surviving siblings don’t mourn their dead brother/sister but, view it as a food source even before the body is cold they attempt to eat it and would so if they could. Therefore, no evidence of any emotion in their response to the killing. These bird’s only instinct is to eat and live especially since a day or two make such a difference in their development as they grow so fast. It remains to be seen if all three survivors at this point will make it to fledge. There may be another ‘sacrificial’ bird before that time as we cannot predict all will be healthy and strong by then and once again mom may need to eliminate another. All for the good of the survivors even if it ends with only one being able to make the trip. People need to stop trying to understand what happens and not expect animals to start exhibiting human emotions as we mourn the death of a loved one. Imagine how many nests this happens in and ask yourselves if we are to take action on a mother bird because she commits a crime that we as humans would have her prosecuted for acting on instinct? I hope this helps those that become emotional and start questioning what the mother does in the nest. It is so graphic to watch and we feel sympathy for the little one that gives his/her life so brutally in our opinion, albeit not by choice and we condemn the mothers actions.
We all know that animals do not think or feel like people (there are people who are worse than those animals), and that this happens in the natural world, but it is also natural to feel contempt for it.
Cannibalism is a lot more natural than people think. It results in the ultimate survival of a species. A lot of people still have this wonderful and “everything is awesome” vision of nature, whereas it is absolutely cut-throat. “Survival of the fittest” and all that…
Most of the bird family never expects to raise and fledge all of their eggs. The first two eggs, if they hatch will usually be the strongest of all the babies. All others that hatch will be extras, in case one of the older dies. And if times are lean with not a lot of food available or if one of the babies are sick. Mom will easily despose of the baby and I have seen older owl chicks eat their younger siblings. Cause a meal is a meal in the bird kingdom. Not pretty but that's how it is. Only the strong survive in the bird world.
To me it seems, the mother constantly places the dead bird around the nest, then with the 3 live birds, and then she finally eats it, as if to say... "You watching this? that's right, any of you guys step out of line, you can expect the same."
This video definitely killed the image I had of storks as nice babies deliverers: they actually are carnivore infanticidal cannibal flying animals! What a dawn lie parents told us! This is waaaay worse than finding out that Santa doesn't exist.
Because it was too weak, the mother decided to eat it, and because it behaved so bitchy, she ate it all the more, to show how it feels like to be digested in the stomach and broken down into nutrients, to serve the mother's more important body, which it is added by.
liznm, have you seen this video? ua-cam.com/video/tKkwy_ZxkGQ/v-deo.html I understand the male attacked the female on the same day the little storklet died. Is it normal for black storks to attack each other?
eesh. after viewing a few stork nest cams, I've come to the conclusion that evolution has not done them any services in regard to feeding their young. their beaks are just very poorly designed for anything that isn't fish. so watching them try to kill or just jettison unwanted/deceased chicks from the nest appears agonizingly difficult. and in order to feed the chicks, they have to regurgitate predigested prey. that's not a terrible thing, but when you compare them to smaller (non-water fowl) who can just stuff insects/worms/etc. right into their chicks' mouths or the raptors who pick off little bite size pieces and deliver it beak-to-beak, it makes what storks have to go through with their gangly beaks and lack of talons look very onerous.
she didn't eat it because of hunger. you could see how she struggled as it's not what they normally eat. the only reason she ate it is so it doesn't attract predators and put other siblings in danger.
As a sociopath, I understand the joy in killing small animals. There is nothing that brings immense joy in taking a life. I can empathize...I’m joking, these storks are brutal.
Does make you wonder about emotions in animals. I've seen a fair bit of debate on the topic over the years, and I'm convinced most animals have emotions on some level. But this is some cold blooded stuff that even the siblings get in on. The chicks only reaction to their mother slowly killing one of them is to join in.
Yea and I bet you found out because you took a IDRlabs test once. Literally nobody gives af, you’d be better off gone since you wouldn’t be a possible problem to others.
Ah, falling asleep to the sweet sounds of your mother, digesting your sibling. Truly magical~
Anyone else noticed it took a shit on the bird... @1:06
It was just seasoning it before consumption
This channel has brought me down an interesting rabbit hole on how Storks work when it comes to choosing who's the weakest in the group. I've learned quite a few things, thank you.
This is a perfect argument against all those that attempt to project human emotions on the birds. The moms kill those they deem too weak or small to survive by the time they start the trip to Africa. Less food ‘wasted’ on that one and more for the surviving brothers/sisters and hopefully get them healthy and strong to survive the trip.
If you watch carefully, the surviving siblings don’t mourn their dead brother/sister but, view it as a food source even before the body is cold they attempt to eat it and would so if they could. Therefore, no evidence of any emotion in their response to the killing. These bird’s only instinct is to eat and live especially since a day or two make such a difference in their development as they grow so fast. It remains to be seen if all three survivors at this point will make it to fledge. There may be another ‘sacrificial’ bird before that time as we cannot predict all will be healthy and strong by then and once again mom may need to eliminate another. All for the good of the survivors even if it ends with only one being able to make the trip.
People need to stop trying to understand what happens and not expect animals to start exhibiting human emotions as we mourn the death of a loved one. Imagine how many nests this happens in and ask yourselves if we are to take action on a mother bird because she commits a crime that we as humans would have her prosecuted for acting on instinct?
I hope this helps those that become emotional and start questioning what the mother does in the nest. It is so graphic to watch and we feel sympathy for the little one that gives his/her life so brutally in our opinion, albeit not by choice and we condemn the mothers actions.
In case you didn’t know. This does not apply to all animals in the animal kingdom. For example Elephants.
We all know that animals do not think or feel like people (there are people who are worse than those animals), and that this happens in the natural world, but it is also natural to feel contempt for it.
Optimaloptimus50 50 We are discussing these birds not every other creature in the animal kingdom as there are many that do ‘mourn’ their dead...
Mullerornis In this particular case they don’t exhibit emotions watching the mother kill a sibling then trying to eat same.
No, it's not her chick. It was an abandoned chick placed
A few hours later the mother will be all "here, have some regurgitated sibling for dinner!"
Cannibalism is a lot more natural than people think. It results in the ultimate survival of a species. A lot of people still have this wonderful and “everything is awesome” vision of nature, whereas it is absolutely cut-throat. “Survival of the fittest” and all that…
Most of the bird family never expects to raise and fledge all of their eggs. The first two eggs, if they hatch will usually be the strongest of all the babies. All others that hatch will be extras, in case one of the older dies. And if times are lean with not a lot of food available or if one of the babies are sick. Mom will easily despose of the baby and I have seen older owl chicks eat their younger siblings. Cause a meal is a meal in the bird kingdom. Not pretty but that's how it is. Only the strong survive in the bird world.
In a way, that chick has returned to the mother's body ..
To me it seems, the mother constantly places the dead bird around the nest, then with the 3 live birds, and then she finally eats it, as if to say... "You watching this? that's right, any of you guys step out of line, you can expect the same."
This video definitely killed the image I had of storks as nice babies deliverers: they actually are carnivore infanticidal cannibal flying animals! What a dawn lie parents told us! This is waaaay worse than finding out that Santa doesn't exist.
And you actually believed it?
Шта би патенти урадили да имају само 2 рибе; Али 1 је умро одмах по рођењу?
Do their young ever fledge?
Because it was too weak, the mother decided to eat it, and because it behaved so bitchy, she ate it all the more, to show how it feels like to be digested in the stomach and broken down into nutrients, to serve the mother's more important body, which it is added by.
Bet the remaining three siblings are guaranteed to behave!😲
I know I would after this.
liznm, have you seen this video? ua-cam.com/video/tKkwy_ZxkGQ/v-deo.html
I understand the male attacked the female on the same day the little storklet died. Is it normal for black storks to attack each other?
I saw similar behavior in another nest. But it was without a chicks. This behavior is new to me. It is really very interesting
eesh. after viewing a few stork nest cams, I've come to the conclusion that evolution has not done them any services in regard to feeding their young. their beaks are just very poorly designed for anything that isn't fish. so watching them try to kill or just jettison unwanted/deceased chicks from the nest appears agonizingly difficult. and in order to feed the chicks, they have to regurgitate predigested prey. that's not a terrible thing, but when you compare them to smaller (non-water fowl) who can just stuff insects/worms/etc. right into their chicks' mouths or the raptors who pick off little bite size pieces and deliver it beak-to-beak, it makes what storks have to go through with their gangly beaks and lack of talons look very onerous.
That young rascal didn’t go down to easy
I bet the person who decided to have storkes deliver babys to humans is watching this and regretting their life choices....
Сначала дристанул на мертвого птенца, а потом сожрал! Сногсшибательно! Нет слов!
Dear God... She really ate her baby??!!
Why waste food?
Finally, their soul reunited.
1:05 meal condiment
infanticide and cannibalism - so it goes in the natural world...........
DAMNNNN THAT IS RUTHLESS
Heron's dont have this problem of swallowing whole!
残った雛たちは大丈夫なんだろうか😮心配だわ。
is it because the parent is black?😌
Its better to eaten by mom, she regurgitate and feed the little one
she didn't eat it because of hunger. you could see how she struggled as it's not what they normally eat. the only reason she ate it is so it doesn't attract predators and put other siblings in danger.
tastes like chicken
虎毒不吃儿啊？
芬芬 傳說而已。
I think they are lazy they don't want to go and get food for their young ones so they eat them how cruel
Eeks! At 1:07 she crapped all over the corpse before having it for breakfast. Yuck!
Makes it slide down easier… 🤢
왜 어미세가 아기세를 죽여요
That chick was already dead...
Yes, she killed it the day before in another video.
She killed it in the previous video yes.
Choked so bad.
間引くのね🙍
こいつは弱そうで大したことないだろうから食って間引いちまえ、っていう感じてすね。厳しい自然界の定めでしょう。
Встал поперёк горла
Brutal
As a sociopath, I understand the joy in killing small animals. There is nothing that brings immense joy in taking a life. I can empathize...I’m joking, these storks are brutal.
Does make you wonder about emotions in animals. I've seen a fair bit of debate on the topic over the years, and I'm convinced most animals have emotions on some level. But this is some cold blooded stuff that even the siblings get in on. The chicks only reaction to their mother slowly killing one of them is to join in.
Уж яйца свои бы сьедал, чем живого цыпленкай
Yea and I bet you found out because you took a IDRlabs test once. Literally nobody gives af, you’d be better off gone since you wouldn’t be a possible problem to others.
爆笑
Storks deserve to go extinct!!
just like you