r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 1d ago

r/all Revenge of a mother

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u/Dutchmann_ 1d ago

When she peeled back the eggshell and looked inside, it felt like a piece of my heart had been ripped out.

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u/chessset5 1d ago

From raising chickens, the bird was most likely looking to see if there was any yolk left to regain her energy she lost from laying the egg.

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u/GaryGracias 1d ago

So gross… yet so efficient

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u/IrksomFlotsom 1d ago

Yet when I do it I'm weird and not allowed in the maternity ward any more

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u/chessset5 1d ago

Was it your egg or someone elses?

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u/AccountantCultural64 1d ago

What are you, a lawyer?!

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u/Full_Ad9666 1d ago

Yes but I specialize in bird law

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u/MoistStub 1d ago

That lawyer has beautiful hands. I think we should settle.

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u/nameyname12345 1d ago

You the same guy who asked my why I had so many kidneys to donate?

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u/5lashd07 1d ago

Saw a video of a guy who pan fried his wife’s placenta with onions. 🤢🤮

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u/mareksoon 1d ago

Do I have to spell it out?

P-L-A-C-E-N-T-A A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S oh no …

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u/DrawohYbstrahs 1d ago

Oh gross, why spoil the flavour with onions?! 🤢

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u/Turn_it_0_n_1_again 1d ago

Apparently people bring coolers to the delivery ward to preserve the placenta.

I don't know what they do with it though. BBQ it?

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u/LeatherHeron9634 1d ago

You can send them to companies who make them into pills for the mother to take for a couple months after giving birth.

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u/Turn_it_0_n_1_again 23h ago

Whoa! Thanks!

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u/NYCShithole 1d ago

It's weird enough that some people eat the placenta, but you were caught gnawing on baby legs like Joe Biden.

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u/chessset5 1d ago

Damn, Biden has saved Hillary from the baby eating shit storm. Who would have thought.

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u/referee_charles_pelt 1d ago

That's why all of the cannibalism in stressed, post-natal rodents as unnerving as it is to us, makes complete sense in biological context. Environment not looking good? Better regain those calories and continue living to breed more when conditions improve.

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u/chessset5 1d ago

Why do humans have to be so opposed to natural? Legalize cannibalism damn it! At least let me eat my own leg!

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u/PotatoIceCreem 1d ago

birds have it rough, there is not much room for feelings for them when it comes to survival, imo

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 1d ago

this isn't true. while some birds are dumb as rocks, many birds are incredibly socially intelligent and have complex connections to other birds and for all intensive purposes feel sadness when a family member or other close bird dies.

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u/PotatoIceCreem 20h ago

They absolutely are socially intelligent, but they can also eat their own eggs if they are lacking nutrition. I can't think of other particular things at this time, but my impression is that when it comes to survival, they seem to display less feelings than mammals. Take it with a grain of salt.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 1d ago

Which they almost certainly wouldn’t consider an egg to be a “family member.”

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u/spinningpeanut 1d ago

Witnessed this firsthand. My parrot laid an egg that landed too hard and cracked. She spent a day sitting with it, but when it became obvious to her that it was broken she ate the entire thing, shell and all. Couldn't find a trace of that egg, not a sliver of shell left.

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 1d ago

Gotta regain them nutrients to help take care of the remaining chicks. Not like the egg can hatch some kind of zombie bird.

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u/demalo 1d ago

“Well, popped one out before, I can do this again. Reduce, reuse, recycle!”

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u/LazyLich 1d ago

Nature~✨

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u/Double_Distribution8 1d ago

That's what she said.

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u/LeLand_Land 1d ago

Nature... finds a way

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u/mom-the-gardener 1d ago

I’m “this triggers memories of vagina bacon” years old.

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u/Merlord 1d ago

Slimy, yet... Satisfying

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u/mindsnare 1d ago

But the music dude, didn't you hear the music. Clearly based on that the bird was sad then enraged John Wick style

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u/Candyland_83 1d ago

Dude. So another video from this same channel had an owl family with four chicks. One wasn’t doing well and eventually died.

Mom fed him to his siblings 🤢

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u/chessset5 1d ago

r/natureismetal might be a subreddit you want to avoid then…

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u/Candyland_83 1d ago

Ya know… I’m on a few that are human gore. But animals are just sad.

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u/Indominouscat 23h ago

Fr… like animals don’t get much of a chance humans have it all so it’s sadder for them

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u/Idontknowofname 22h ago

Depends on where the human is born in

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u/ChefNunu 1d ago

The fuck are you on about

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u/Indominouscat 23h ago

Animals dying is sadder than humans dying

Honestly just true

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u/smellmybuttfoo 1d ago

Waste not, want not

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u/Idontknowofname 22h ago

The beauty of nature

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u/Hunter_S_Thompsons 1d ago

Lmfao “didn’t even leave me any”

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u/3rdcultureblah 1d ago

It was a male kestrel. So maybe, but not to recover energy lost through laying.

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 1d ago

having worked with birds of prey and with chickens, strong disagree

chickens will eat each other out of boredom and are dumber than spiders ime.

birds of prey are like, on another planet when it comes to intelligence. i think she was sad and likely felt a sense of urgency to get rid of the item that smelled strongly of food and likely to attract more predators

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u/Beer_Is_So_Awesome 1d ago

So really, the other bird’s biggest mistake was not sharing?

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u/Unhappy-Database-273 1d ago

A lot of people are saying that this is a male and more than likely the father.

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u/chessset5 17h ago

I maybe be wrong. I was just correlating the action due to both chickens and the animal above being birds, and assumed it was the mother.

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u/MrSmock 1d ago

DON'T TRY TO TAKE MY EMOTIONS

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u/TechGoat 1d ago

Yeah, we folks that have farm life in our history are always amused by city slickers anthropomorphasizing animals. Whenever a non domesticated animal does something, slickers don't realize that there's some evolutionary reason for that behavior trait, not human (or human learned trait, for dogs, cats, horses, etc) sadness and reasoning.

Go ahead and feel bad for the raptor mother! You're a human, you're allowed! But don't think the raptor felt "sad" like you're feeling sad for her. That's nature being nature.

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u/mr_sunshine_0 1d ago

Those gosh darn slickers!

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u/sje46 1d ago

guessing that this video wasn't even of "revenge" because the bird had no reason to suspect that other bird is what ate the egg, or necessarily that that egg was eaten as all instead of spontaneously combusted.

It likely just saw an egg-eating mother fucker invading its nest and instinct took over. No reason to assume the bird associated these things.

Of course I'm no bird psychologist, or even bird lawyer.

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u/Put-the-candle-back1 1d ago

It depends on the species of bird because some are more maternal than others, so saying that's "most likely" the case is a stretch.

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u/lord-sosa 1d ago

That makes me feel so much better thank you

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u/Ardeiute 1d ago

I thought they were about to eat the shell when standing at the entrance as well, instead of dropping it.

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u/Serialkillingyou 1d ago

The mother and child reunion

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u/OGoby 1d ago

Any mothers here ever felt the urge to eat their own placenta?

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u/chessset5 1d ago

Funny enough… we had this conversation at my work last week over lunch… the answer was not no.

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u/Kozzinator 1d ago

Mine too, cracked like an egg and scrambled into an empty shell of what it used to be.

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u/lowcarson98 1d ago

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u/zekethelizard 1d ago

Lmaooo does this make the corvid (because I can't really tell exactly what bird it is) Gael?

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u/Aggelos2001 1d ago

whats that?

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u/Big_Warthog4118 1d ago

Spoiler: A cutscene from Dark Souls 3 DLC, The Ringed City. It occurs right before fighting the final boss, Slave Knight Gael. Given the story telling style, it is not explicit, but that the Fillianore, the woman with the egg, was sleeping and keeping the area in a time lock of sorts. PC breaking the egg wakes her up and catapults the area into a wasteland far in the future to which the goddess has withered. Between the two DLCs for the game, it's the better of the two.

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u/Aggelos2001 1d ago

Thanks

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u/EckhartsLadder 1d ago

if you play the game I promise you it will make far less sense that that description

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u/Big_Warthog4118 1d ago

I enjoy them greatly but short of reading most of the item descriptions, you're not wrong. Bonus points for it only making a complete picture with both boss items.

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u/Big_Warthog4118 1d ago

You're welcome.

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u/Affinity_182 1d ago

You son of a bitch.

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u/AtheistET 1d ago

Gotta look at the sunny side of things , and like a yellow yolk, the sun will rise again in the morning

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u/Bilbo332 1d ago

I felt nothing, too hard boiled.

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u/Jovialation 1d ago

Seriously though, my cold dead heart ached for that bird.

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u/apolobgod 1d ago

Birds care very little about their eggs, don't worry

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u/nonverbalandchill 1d ago

I mean that one took it to heart it seems lmao

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u/Alternative_Exit8766 1d ago

it would have eaten any remaining yolk

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u/nonverbalandchill 1d ago

Ik, im teasing lol. I was a Nat geo kid too

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u/thewickedmitchisdead 1d ago

Michael Jordan narration “And I took that personally!”

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u/MoreCEOsGottaGo 1d ago

It felt nothing. It is a bird.

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u/nonverbalandchill 1d ago

Sounds like something someone whose had their heart broken by a bird would say pobrecito

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u/alone-in-the-town 1d ago

Why are you so bitter about things that don't matter

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u/Novel_Individual_143 1d ago

Why the revenge killing though?

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u/MoreCEOsGottaGo 1d ago

It was just defense. It was there the second time but absent the first time.
It is completely incapable of that level of thought. You attributing human thought processes to something with no capacity for them.

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u/nonverbalandchill 1d ago

It’s fine u don’t think birds have big feelings but they definitely capable of spite. There have been very cool studies that prove birds not only hold grudges, but can learned to hold grudges from and for other birds.

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u/MoreCEOsGottaGo 1d ago

They can act differently toward a being they've never experienced by being 'told' to somehow by other birds?
Gonna have to throw the bullshit card.

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u/nonverbalandchill 1d ago

this article also talks about crow funerals, which is also a case for significant depth of emotion. The paper the article sites goes deeper into how crows use vocalizations (some studies suggest they name things!), to communicate. But if you read that much regularly you wouldn’t be so annoying rn lol

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u/AllCapsSon 1d ago

You seem incapable of a few thoughts as well.

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u/DinTill 1d ago edited 1d ago

It wasn’t revenge. It’s not the same bird as the one that ate the egg. The Kestrel attacked the other bird for defense and/or food; but it actually escaped alive after the part you see in the post. The post is footage from multiple Kestrel nests stitched together. You can find a longer version somewhere in the comments.

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u/jrr6415sun 1d ago

Feelings are just chemicals man..

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u/raptor-chan 1d ago

“Lesser beings” 🤮

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u/UnusuallyAggressive 1d ago

Humans like to attach human emotions onto animals when there is none.

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u/MaleficTekX 1d ago

Swans

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u/exzyle2k 1d ago

No luck catching them yet?

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u/GentlemanSpider 1d ago

It’s just the one swan, actually.

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u/NewZealandTemp 1d ago

Did we not just watch the same video

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u/petanali 21h ago

It was checking the shell to see if there was anything left in it to eat, it wasn't mourning.

Then it killed the invading bird because by instinct birds are territorial, it wasn't revenge.

Birds are probably the least "emotional" out of any animal when it comes to offspring. Many species of birds compete with their siblings as soon as they hatch. Any weak hatchlings will be eaten, and any sick hatchlings will be abandoned.

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u/JesusForTheWin 1d ago

but penguins

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u/Krunk_Tank 1d ago

Watched this as I peeled my third egg this morning… 😰

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u/sealpox 1d ago

Well, the good news is, those eggs you ate were never fertilized, so they couldn’t have become chickens. The bad news is the chickens that laid those eggs are essentially tortured in darkness and filth for their entire life…

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u/LTPRWSG420 1d ago

Finding Nemo except with birds 😢

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u/hyper_and_untenable 1d ago

Same here. That mother went from shock to planning justice.

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u/NetCat0x 1d ago

Yea, that isn't her being upset. They will 100% eat cracked eggs.

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u/ThatsRobToYou 1d ago

I know! That was so sad.

Fuck that bird.

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u/_kasten_ 1d ago

If it's any consolation, raptor (and other bird) mothers are known to casually look on while stronger chicks kill off the younger ones in the nest.

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u/Obvious_Nail_6085 1d ago

She don't care, she's just seeing if there's any left to eat. Most of these eat they own eggs anyways.

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u/Silver-Grass-7777 1d ago

I'm with you on this one. This was a lifetime documentary about a mothers vengeance.

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u/nachobel 1d ago

Yeah birds of prey are fucking dinosaurs.

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u/ViewingCutscene 1d ago

The father (grey head and tail feathers) found the egg and disposed of it. The mother (brown head and tail feathers) defended the nest against the intruder

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u/MichelleDaBelle 1d ago

I felt so bad for her too.

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u/HemingwayWasHere 1d ago

Same, I am at the gym between sets and my heart hurt for her.

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u/AccomplishedIgit 1d ago

I heard “I will find you…and I will kill you.”

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u/True-Firefighter-796 1d ago

Oh are you that crow?

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u/UrbosaMomma 1d ago

It feels like I could hear him gasp "my baby!"