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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 202 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Great tits make me brainless too

[–] Janx@piefed.social 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pack it up, folks. We already have the best comment...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Found the dad in the comments 👨

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I dunno man, I think your joke was quite innocent, actually.

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn't but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I hope my farmers don't mind it

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn't you gobble up some chicks?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly.

I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago

And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being bored and just like "oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape"

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Just let me slap you in the face with my boobs bro, it's just really cold bro, it's just until your skull cracks open and i can eat your brains bro, please bro, they're great tits bro, it's science bro

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating 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 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD

[–] four@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think that the commenter, like me, understood it as that the deer was reading a non-fiction book while eating a sparrow. Which is an interesting image

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Oh! Sorry. I don’t know how to place English commas, lol.

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I just had a vision of a deer sitting at a table in a French bistro, about to take a bite out of a sparrow impaled on a fork in one hoof and a Haynes manual for a Triumph Stag in the other. Made me laugh.

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[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Anyone who has owned chickens knows this for a fact. They're fucking brutal.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

And if you give them a fake tail they walk like dinosaurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMmgnpcaKyM

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Great Tits aren't herbivores, they mainly eat lots of insects. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I've seen chickens do this to other chickens. It's normal for them to peck at each other a bit, but if they see blood, they go crazy. They also eat eggs sometimes. Chickens, though

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] macros@feddit.org 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You know the reason why most of the recent megafauna went extinct? (Mammoths, big birds, giant sloth, saber toothed cat, ...)

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

~~crested~~ tufted titmouse;

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Just this guy in your picture, stunning.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months 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.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months 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.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that. 

Maybe their lifespan is so short it won't matter. 

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Great Tits man

Raptors being raptors

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months 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.

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Cekan14@lemmy.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fool of me, I searched "Great Tits" to learn more about this bird and, well... Don't do it.

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[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 months ago

The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

Clever girl.

[–] Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Mostly doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀

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