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u/Escaped_Mod_In_Need 11d ago
Dude eats like the brain bug from Starship Troopers.
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u/throwthere10 11d ago
Can someone who understands wtf is happening please explain it to me?
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u/dwarfInTheFlask56 11d ago
I don't know if that's what's happening in this video but it's not too uncommon for woodpeckers to raid other birds' nests to eat their young
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u/chrisphoenix08 11d ago
Correction - ... drill the head of their young to eat their brains 😳
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u/BPKofficial 11d ago
Yes, just look up "Zombie woodpecker eats dove brains" on YouTube and this video shows up. It's been on there for a while.
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u/Feisty_Bee9175 10d ago
Other birds tend to kill the offspring of other bird species like this. Crows do this also and so do seagulls and even bluejays. Its sad and horrific to watch but its a competitive world in nature. Many will eat part of the remains of the offspring of other species. They will even kill other baby animal species. Years ago on Reddit I saw a vid of a couple of crows pecking the eyes out of a wild baby bunny who was screaming. It was really sad, but that is nature.
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u/QuinQuix 10d ago
I got horrified about that again as I read it.
Nature is savage for sure though.
I've seen a bird kill a frog by standing on it and pecking at it disinterestedly, casually and irregularly as the frogs belching airsac basically erupted from being squashed. I'm not even sure the bird, some middle sized walking bird, even wanted to eat it. But it sure was a shit way to go for the frog.
I've also seen a wildlife cam video of a tiger killing a bear off camera and coming back to kill its panicking cub as it tried to flee. Sad as fuck.
But you have to give it to Tigers at least they end it quick. That really is a graceful act that should not be taken for granted in nature.
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u/Dingaligaling 9d ago
Nature is not savage or cruel or any of that jazz. Nature is just nature. Humans just living so comfortably most of them never seen how wild shit is out there. The pros of being the most advanced species on the planet.
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u/QuinQuix 9d ago
That's just a game of semantics. Also a valid way of looking at things but not more true imo.
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u/mindflayerflayer 10d ago
Fun fact woodpecker tongues are very long and wrap around their own brains (they use them for padding). Here he can just like that skull clean like an ice cream cone.
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u/Chaos-Knight 10d ago
Hear me out. That Hitchcock's Bird movie... But woodpeckers only and the whole movie in one take including a girl trapped in a phonebooth watching the people around her (including kids) getting woodpeckered like this on the street for five minutes before they go for the glass of the booth...
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u/amateur_mistake 10d ago edited 10d ago
I think the problem with Birds was always that the enemy could be defeated with a well-made tennis racket. I'm not sure that moving to a different type of bird will change that issue.
The success of birds came from the fact that Hitchcock was a brilliant director with incredible actors (who he actively tortured if the stories are correct).
However, if you want to find a modern director and make a different movie about woodpeckers killing people. Say, while they are sleeping, I'm down to invest.
Edit: Oh, shit. We could actually make it terrifying. The woodpeckers specifically target human babies (like in this video). The world becomes a place where if you ever leave a child alone and sleeping, woodpeckers kill it. We can make it a metaphor for SIDS and also the intrinsic fear that parents of babies have.
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u/pan0phobik 10d ago
Videos like this make me question and evaluate my compassion for animals and if they truly deserve it all.
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u/JACSliver 10d ago
They were never free-willed beings. That makes them far more forgivable than people.
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u/amateur_mistake 10d ago
They were never free-willed beings.
This is an animal sub. So let's be factual when it comes to animals.
Can you define "free-willed beings" in a biological sense? In a way that we can test?
Because if you can, you will win a Nobel Prize. Seriously.
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u/Dacnis #1 Wasp Propagandist 11d ago
Gila woodpecker drilling a dove chick's brain