The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones…
Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone.
Submitted 10 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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West_of_West@piefed.social 10 months ago
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They probably like to eat baby birds, too. They’re a lot more vicious than people give them credit for.
zout@fedia.io 10 months ago
Guess what a cuckoo chick does to the other birds in the nest.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Don’t fool yourselves, a squirrel would murder you and everyone you loved given the chance
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I eat pine cones…
deadkuntgud@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You also eat crayons isnt it
Piece of shit
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah but if they try you can just peck at his eyes until he stops. Give hem the old HEY SHITASS D’YA MIND?
Psythik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Man fuck cuckoos. Raise your own children, you little fucking parasites.
I mean they literally lay their eggs in another bird’s nest, and then the chick kicks out the other eggs when it hatches, so that another bird mom will think it’s their own and mistakenly raise it, while screwing over the other chicks before they even have a chance to be born.
I wish these fuckers would go extinct.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can’t really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There’s lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren’t strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It’s just nature.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
you can’t really put a value judgement on evolution
I can and I will and you can’t stop me!
(/s for safety)
Psythik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can and I will. No /s. I’m 100% serious.
Its pure evil and proof there is no god. I wish all parasitic creatures would fuck off and die. The world is fucked up enough as-is.
webp@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Fair, but let’s not extinct another species because of how we feel about its adaptations.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yeah but then what would the Swiss use for clocks? Seagulls?
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I mean it sure would sound hilarious.
"Tik tok tik tok tik tok kchchch AAAAAAAHH!!!”
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Well, great! Now you told them! Poor guy is going to need a new hiding place now
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
So that’s why I’ve never seen one!
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thought this was two pine cones until I read the description.
blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Does anyone have a source for this besides memes? I did not find anything 😢
Korval@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Me neither. I read a couple of descriptions of striped cuckoos. None mentioned this tidbit and that made me suspicious.
On the other hand, I did find this: thenakedscientists.com/…/cuckoo-chicks-earn-their…
It includes a picture of a nest with a cuckoo chick and, although it doesn’t look like a pine cone, you can easily make out the speckled feathers. Also, the article is interesting in asserting that the cuckoos’ parasitism isn’t all bad.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
“Hey guys, check out what happens when you toss a pinecone in the fire!”
chucks bird; bird screams; tries to fly off; sets woods on fire
“Huh… Usually they just kinda pop…”
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Biologist here,
that pinecone pop is always fun, cus it’s like unintentional biology lesson time when people do it.
It’s by “design” (evolution) that they do that. So that the specific species can spread.
It’s why fires are important for forests. Just you know not like 90 trillion fires in 1 summer…
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
😱