I might agree with that. just because of personal experience. It certainly isn't my instinct. I tried to nurse some baby birds once. I heard them chipping, and when I found two of the loudest ones on the sidewalk I saw them already being attacked by ants. And I thought, those ants are not going to do that well against those birds, they are not going to die quickly from this. It was just unacceptable to me. So I took them home. Then looked up what I had to do but realized I had no clue how to get the appropriate food. I'd have to improvise at best. They also required being fed like every seven minutes or something like that, and thermal guarantees I couldn't guarantee. Oh well. I don't kill things and I'm not going to leave them to get eaten alive by ants. We're doing this.

It didn't go well. My hopeful attempt at getting them food was probably not great. Literally there wouldn't even be time for me to go to the store to hunt for and buy what I need if I had any ability to find it. They ended up constipated, and it was clear they were going to die and even slower death under my hands than with the ants. I also took time off of work to do this (crazy I know). I failed those birds, and there is absolutely no way some people in basic training could pull of helping those birds.