And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻
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pedz@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Imagine being bored and just like “oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape”
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 hours 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.
huppakee@piefed.social 17 hours ago
🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶
Trex202@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I hope my farmers don’t mind it
stephen01king@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
It’s an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn’t you gobble up some chicks?
qyron@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Exactly.
I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.
huppakee@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Oportunistic carnivores? Too lazy to hunt prey you mean.