Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.
Great Tits
Submitted 1 month ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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pedz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
A family member had a mule that had to be kept away from the chickens, as the animal would gobble up any chick within reach.
It wasn’t casual, it wasn’t out of hunger.
The vet was horrified when he saw it happen, even after being warned.
stephen01king@piefed.zip 1 month ago
It’s an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn’t you gobble up some chicks?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine being bored and just like “oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape”
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, i usually open the fridge out of boredom and casually give a bite to a dead chicken that is stored there… either that or take a slice of a monolith of emulsionated pigs.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eat a sparrow and reading a non fiction book where a fox steals sugar beets from a farmer because it got addicted to sugar. It’s nature. Rules are made to be broken in nature. That all I know.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book
I liked it more when I thought the sentence stopped here.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD
sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Haven’t heard of that book, but I’ll check it out.
In the meantime, the video in question for those of you who are curious.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Just let me slap you in the face with my boobs bro, it’s just really cold bro, it’s just until your soul cracks open and i can eat your brains bro, please bro, they’re great tits bro, it’s science bro
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
As it turns out, many “herbivores” just need to eat and will fill in with your flesh given the chance and they’re hungry enough
Rothe@piefed.social 1 month ago
Tits aren’t herbivores, they eat lots of insects as well. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nerd.
I don’t know about all herbivores, but a deer will eat every little baby it finds if it discovers a nest.
I don’t think it matters what kind of baby, they are all delicious
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve seen chickens do this to other chickens.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I’ve actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.
Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My honest reaction every time I see something like this. For what it’s worth, the small mammals were pipistrelle bats, and other flesh and organs were missing. I don’t think they’ve ever been reported to eat rodents.
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I love watching birds. We have a bird feeder outside kitchen window and see all kinds of birds show up there.
Why is every bird better looking than most humans… They really are.
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
been collecting that camera about a year now. disregard dates, scroll photos; photos.app.goo.gl/ALp76oVMb356twLn6
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tufted titmouse would be my guess.
m3t00@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
this one has a sunflower seed. angle makes it hard to see ‘tuft’, but is probably same;
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
…and by “harsh” they mean “typical”
Here, in the North, as snow covers the ground we make sacrificial fat ball offerings to the beast, you know, just in case. Brain is mostly fat tissue.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.
inari@piefed.zip 1 month ago
I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.
Maybe their lifespan is so short it won’t matter.
b0ber@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Possible but rare
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Great Tits man
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The definition of “small mammals” is too vague, because compared to a blue whale, I am fairly small. That’s why I feed those critters.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 month ago
Raptors being raptors
Cekan14@lemmy.org 1 month ago
Fool of me, I searched “Great Tits” to learn more about this bird and, well… Don’t do it.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I want a review of great tits for wendsday, first hour.
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 1 month ago
They deserve it, honestly
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mostly doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀
Hupf@feddit.org 1 month ago
Clever girl.
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Source?
BillyClark@piefed.social 1 month ago
What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for
mind blowing great tits. You’ll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.Tja@programming.dev 1 month ago
Don’t forget to share with the class!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Just like me!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
… would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
m3t00@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Vegans doesnt like this.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
😂 Oh how did I ever find amusement before the internet existed
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, but what a way to go!
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Great tits make me brainless too
Janx@piefed.social 1 month ago
Pack it up, folks. We already have the best comment…
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.
Image
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Found the dad in the comments 👨
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Guilty
can@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Even unremarkable tits are known to have this affect on me
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 1 month ago
You and me both