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 2 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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pedz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn’t you gobble up some chicks?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine being bored and just like “oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape”
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD
sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Tits aren’t herbivores, they eat lots of insects as well. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen chickens do this to other chickens.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
been collecting that camera about a year now. disregard dates, scroll photos; photos.app.goo.gl/ALp76oVMb356twLn6
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tufted titmouse would be my guess.
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
this one has a sunflower seed. angle makes it hard to see ‘tuft’, but is probably same;
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.
inari@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.
Maybe their lifespan is so short it won’t matter.
b0ber@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Possible but rare
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Great Tits man
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Raptors being raptors
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
They deserve it, honestly
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mostly doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Clever girl.
Hirom@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Source?
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget to share with the class!
m3t00@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Just like me!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
… would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Vegans doesnt like this.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😂 Oh how did I ever find amusement before the internet existed
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but what a way to go!
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There needs to be a Fallout Raider faction called Great Tits and their signature meal is cracked skull brain omelette.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Great tits make me brainless too
Janx@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Pack it up, folks. We already have the best comment…
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.
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Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Found the dad in the comments 👨
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Guilty
can@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Even unremarkable tits are known to have this affect on me
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
You and me both