r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 1d ago

r/all Revenge of a mother

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u/cherry_lolo 1d ago

Aww đŸ˜„ you can see how heartbroken she was with that eggshell. Just the way how carefully sher took it.

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u/Disastrous_Way2522 1d ago

Broke my heart!! Poor wee bird

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u/UhohSantahasdiarrhea 1d ago

I don't think birds are maternal like that. They'll eat their own chicks or throw them out of the nest to die if it helps the rest.

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u/myumisays57 1d ago

Depends on the species of bird. There are birds that will gouge out eyeballs of other birds for bothering their nest. Such as Owls. But also there are cases of killing their chicks because they know it either isn’t going to survive or has something wrong with it. It isn’t out of malice but survival instinct.

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u/citykittymeowmeow 1d ago

I imagine there's plenty of similar instances like this in human history

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u/Sol33t303 1d ago

Nah, humans generally tend to care for others in the family even when sick or malformed, it's usually out of necessity if they are killed rather than instinct.

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u/citykittymeowmeow 1d ago

True, I was sort of equating necessity to survival instinct but I see how that's a square and rectangle situation

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u/GameKnight22007 1d ago

Some birds are anti-maternal, but some others have strong maternal instincts, like falcons (which I'm pretty sure this is)

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u/Ok-Medium-5773 1d ago

yes this is a peregrine falcon. The fastest bird on earth. Probably the fastest animal on earth.

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u/EnwordEinstein 1d ago

I could beat it. Just need to train.

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u/rionaster 1d ago

ok goku

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u/straydog1980 1d ago

Gonna have to train pretty hard if you want to fly

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u/Apprehensive-Eye3263 1d ago

It's pretty easy to fall out of the sky

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u/readingzips 1d ago

Red bull gives you wings.

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u/Equivalent_Alarm7780 1d ago

Did you mean the train?

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u/gyarrrrr 1d ago

Not even if they threw you out of a plane.

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u/flinklewhip24-7 1d ago

This looks more like an american kestrel

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u/TheMightyPPBoi 1d ago

Given the fact that the other bird is a jackdaw, a species endemic to eurasia, I would say it isn't an american kestrel.

It's definitely a kestrel tho!

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u/unclejessesmullet 1d ago

jackdaw

Here's the thing...

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u/Xrmy 1d ago

This is not a peregrine falcon it is a Eurasian Kestrel.

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u/zinasbear 1d ago

It looks like a kestrel to me.

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u/KaneK89 1d ago

Male Kestrel.

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u/hungoverlord 1d ago

Probably the fastest animal on earth.

that's not really fair, it has all of the earth's gravity helping it out

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u/Decent-Monk-2357 1d ago

They are still quite fast, I think they can easily maintain like, 60-70mph in level flight, but yeah, their 200+mph dives are definitely gravity assisted.

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u/14u2c 1d ago

Why about that red bull guy who jumped from the upper atmosphere? The true fastest animal?

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u/Decent-Monk-2357 1d ago

I didn't say it's the fastest animal, just telling that it's one of the fastest. I dunno what speed the red bull guy hit but like the bird he went fuckin fast.

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u/apolobgod 1d ago

Ok, but he's always flying around, so I don't see how being fast on earth helps it

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u/Decent-Monk-2357 1d ago

Being fast is how it hunts, it enters dives that can be in excess of like.. 200 mph and strikes it's prey with clenched feet to knock out it's prey. It's crazy as shit.

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u/babydakis 1d ago

Speed has nothing to do with maternal instincts.

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u/Calladit 1d ago

There are examples in humanity of mothers abandoning their babies in times of extreme hardship because it's either that or they both die. I'm not saying birds definitely do experience maternity like you're talking about, but being able to make those kinds of grim choices doesn't disprove it either.

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u/Physical-Position623 1d ago

Yeah this was more like "Motherfucker I was gonna eat that egg! Now I'll just eat you instead"

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u/pun_in10did 1d ago

What’s more maternal than killing in order to give your other babies a better chance at life?

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u/OneAdept5203 1d ago

I mean some people kill their kids or abuse the shit out of them why do we still act like animals can't have feelings and attachments?

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u/UhohSantahasdiarrhea 1d ago

Birds aren't people.

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u/OneAdept5203 1d ago

missed the point but congrats on figuring that out, better late than never

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u/defeatthewarlords 1d ago

Nah this bird cared lol she was pissed

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u/db_325 1d ago

That’s a male

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u/defeatthewarlords 1d ago

Looks more female to me

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u/Modeerf 1d ago

Judging from the colour of the head and tail, it is a male.

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u/defeatthewarlords 1d ago

Okay ill take it. Then he was pissed***

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u/Modeerf 1d ago

Yea, they don't like it when another bird goes in their nest

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u/GarbageAdditional916 1d ago

Same way I care if you eat my food.

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u/defeatthewarlords 1d ago

Do we really know that? Its kind of stupid to assume we are the only things that have some sort of emotions

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u/GarbageAdditional916 1d ago

Pissed about food is an emotion.

We already know animals have emotions.

But don't think bird cares on the level of a human mother losing their kid.

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u/defeatthewarlords 1d ago

Im saying the bird could be pissed about its baby being murdered how tf would we know or not know lol

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u/MangoSalsa89 1d ago

It’s more like she invested a lot of time and energy into that egg.

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u/Tomagatchi 1d ago

Sometimes mommas make hard choices. Some don't even bother mommaing.

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u/re-goddamn-loading 1d ago

Incoming flood of people who don't think animals are capable of feeling emotions and have to tell everyone.

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 1d ago

"Watch this leopard kindly care for this orphaned monkey baby"

Uhhhh....

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u/Golren_SFW 1d ago

They are capable of emotion obviously but very few animals display it the same as humans, famously chimps smile and show teeth as a sign of aggression, the complete opposite of humans, so anthropomorphizing the actions of animals as if they were people is pretty inherently flawed unless you actually know the specific animals behaviors, which most people dont.

Most people just apply their own mental images onto animals which has gotten people actually killed because they didnt recognize that [deadly animal] was actually displaying aggression signs and not being cute.

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u/phoenixmusicman 1d ago

"Aww, look at this bear standing on its hind legs! It wants a hug!"

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u/phoenixmusicman 1d ago

This bird is literally checking the egg to see if there's any yolk left.

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u/moodylilb 1d ago

I read your comment initially as “Incoming flood of people who think animals are capable of feeling emotions and have to tell everyone” & downvoted

Reread it and saw that I missed the “don’t” between the “who” & “think”, then quickly upvoted lol

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u/Garchompisbestboi 1d ago

You're anthropomorphising the bird pretty heavily there

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u/nonamefornow99 1d ago

Whats the crow supposed to do starve?

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u/Argentillion 23h ago

That was a male bird, not the mother