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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 187 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Great tits make me brainless too

[–] Janx@piefed.social 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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

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

Found the dad in the comments 👨

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

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

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week 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 42 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I hope my farmers don't mind it

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

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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week 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 20 points 1 week ago

And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 27 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week 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 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week 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 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

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

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

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 11 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

~~crested~~ tufted titmouse;

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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.

Raptors being raptors

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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Great Tits man

[–] Cekan14@lemmy.org 6 points 1 week 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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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week 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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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Mostly doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget to share with the class!

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Clever girl.

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