2022-05-28

[@Firemoose846]

Chick 1: "This food tastes different." Chick 2: "Shhhhh, that's Bobby man. You saw what happened to him. Better eat and act like you're enjoying him."

[@philipsutton8921]

Man you are hilarious - I laughed until I cried at this one!

[@pamplouhar4451]

The rest of the chick's got real quiet for a minute...

[@billgreen1861]

Yeah, they thought "we might be next " .

[@Sari-ks4kt]

Yes

[@user-fn5vj2yd7k]

🤣🤣

[@user-fn5vj2yd7k]

🤣🤣

[@briaubs5185]

Literally took the words outta my mouth

[@kingofthegeeks4111]

That moment when everyone finds out that mom's love isn't unconditional.

[@amitm1157]

That is actually a human cultural assumption spread in different cultures by inter cultural contact. In reality, there is nothing like that in nature.

[@Sunlightluck-Roblox]

The mother eat the small one

[@thedeleted117]

@@amitm1157 Love isn't 'cultural' Other mammals experience love too. Birds are technically reptiles though, so maybe in reptile kingdom it's slightly different. But i still believe birds can feel love

[@amitm1157]

@TheDeleted117 If your explanation is correct, the stork killed the small/weak chick to do it some benefit because it would be unfit to live. All for love ofcourse.

[@johnnyghanja]

@@amitm1157 wow, way to kill a joke. You people.

[@FairladyS130]

The smallest ones always try to hide in the middle of the pack and keep their head down, they must know that they are vulnerable.

[@waxkopp]

Yeah, I think so. But that little one was a fighter though.

[@heySTUPIDass]

Or just the fact that shit rolls downhill

[@Lunar_Capital]

@@heySTUPIDass Not all the time every time. How’s your fiber?

[@DiambilSemua]

A pack ? Theyre not wolf or dog.

[@enisubasic461]

Flock.

[@alessandrasoares6542]

I used to love watching stork's nests from the ground, but now I'm creeped 😳.

[@bezsie8518]

Happy Mother's day!

[@JohannRosario1]

“… bitches.”

[@antoniosvidakis]

The irony in "storks bring the babies" 😁

[@kathygoetzinger]

Yes! I'm curious about that. I think I'll google that.

[@RomanGameCool21]

Yes! I'm curious about that. I think I'll google that.

[@tina.a.59]

😱

[@catpawprints1]

Exactly! Another utterly stupid thing invented and accepted by society. The list is endless.

[@Carrera_Quan]

Dang. Always have seen the mom throw the chick over, but never seen the mom eat the chick.

[@KENACT1]

For the same reason cheetah's eat their dead young. If she had thrown the carcass overboard, predators finding it on the ground would know where the food was.

[@Shahakha]

@@KENACT1recycles the energy she put into giving birth and feeding it up to that point in time.

[@CharlesBright-zm6fj]

No i dont believe that. Its 50 50 which canabal eats babies. How do they feed their dna back to same dna

[@robmar7190]

Cat’s usually eat there stillborn’ you learn this after your cat has its first litter’ we would count how many and come back to check on the new arrivals’ and the count kept adjusting?

[@ollikkikk3741]

Spoiler alert: After thinning out the smallest one, two got sick and died. Father abandoned the nest. Mother could not get enough food. Rescuer helped feed last two.

[@spaceace1006]

A few years back I went to Kidwell Farm in Herndon, VA. One of the Sows had a litter of about 8 piglets. There was indeed a runt! He was less than half the size of his litter mates. What surprised me was how gentle & affectionate the other piglets were! They never bullied him or kept him from nursing! One of his siblings actually took a break from nursing to nuzzle and give him some love! Damnest thing I've ever seen!

[@gregthegroove]

Storks are ruthless creatures man! I’m sure it’s way more normal than we view it to be, but it still is difficult to watch this kinda stuff man.

[@6teezkid]

I've never seen a stork swallow their babies. Omg... They always clumsily throw them over and out the nest. That was very strange.

[@agatareiter7012]

It's cannibalism

[@breckoz]

They aren't clumsy... they purposely kill their weakest so that the others will have a better chance to survive.

[@sardu55]

Storks take off on a long migration after the chicks mature. They fly down south thousands of miles. In order to make the trip successfully the chicks must grow to proper, adult size. They do that in the nest. These birds have it locked in their DNA to weed out their flock and remove the weak chicks in the nest. Weak may mean small or other reasons. Another thing the adults deal with is food supply. DNA works again and regulates how much food to get for the chicks. They watch the chicks eat very carefully. You have to remember they're doing this fueled only by their DNA and experience which varies greatly among them. In their world everything is food. Your brother is food. So is everything you can cram in your mouth. The other animals around you think you're their food. And so on.

[@ronnydr1adventure191]

Save money to buy food . Covid 19 slows birds economy

[@space.invaders]

They do it often.

[@ENGLISHISBEST]

Jesus Christ. When my mum didn't want me at 18 months & never came back at least she walked away & left me in the house alone until my dad come home from work 2 hours later & she never ate me. I count myself lucky now.

[@helenamaria710]

@@NikGlyshko It is fetuscide. Not an infant!

[@litjellyfish]

And this is a good point that historically humans did similar things also. Minus the eating part

[@MAstaKFC]

Yikes, did you ever track her down?

[@tunkamtungkhang2465]

all chiks become aware of what their mom is going to do but not sure who amoung themselves so they tried to huddle tight together,what a traumatise moment.

[@freespiritable]

Projecting human feeling on animals 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@tommyk6349]

This is parenting at a whole new level, especially with the eating!

[@MrKotBonifacy]

"My sweet child, I really do like you!", eh? Siblings, for some unknown reasons, became very quiet. Seems like they took their first lesson on "How Not to be Seen" ...

[@Butterfly-mt5ml]

🤣😂

[@TitaniumTurbine]

CHEWY CHEWY YUM YUM

[@BirdWorldtv8795]

Video nice

[@spaceace1006]

It's pure instinct! Why waste resources on a weak, underdeveloped chick! Can't let it corrupt the gene pool!

[@zahidakaramat6931]

So sad and depressing the other chicks went quiet thinking it might be them next.

[@sanderbos]

Yeah, they really went quiet. But hopefully they saw the difficulty that the mother had to swallow the small one, so just because of their sizes they might be safe... 😋

[@OverlordShamala]

@@sanderbos The parents will reject the next smaller chick, usually they are simply tossed to the side if they can't eat. But one thing, the siblings will probably eat some of the flesh of their sibling when the parent regurgitate to feed the chicks.

[@13christbane]

they had no clue

[@CharlesBright-zm6fj]

They still get tossed

[@user-of7mk1jy7x]

Theyre mindless creatures. They only recognise food and warmth

[@kevinwhite2032]

The human is way different than the animal about caring the little kids. To the people whoever has been hating your parents, watching this and thinking about how much yours parents love you.

[@freespiritable]

Someone's parents are worse

[@imadone]

It gives a whole new meaning to Mommy Dearest.

[@randycoleman4276]

lol , good one !!

[@sportymum7648]

That’s so brutal. My life will never be the same again 😢

[@JohnSmith-mr8wc]

Let us thank our parents!

[@zombrexgamer242]

But u saw the chick didnt even fought back really or objected. So it was sick and weak and the mother knew itll die probably soon so she consumed it.

[@heySTUPIDass]

Pretty surreal how peaceful the nest got after the purge. Just shows how natural this process is for them

[@stealthfighter2923]

They got quiet because they’re scared shitless!

[@Null_pointer_exceptn]

Oh really? Did u watch them over for next couple of days so she didn’t eat away each one of them? Don’t try to provide an explanation just by seeing one video. She was hungry and not necessarily doing any good to other chicks. Could be just pure self interest

[@xenomorph6961]

I'd shut up too if my mum just ate my sister after we were fighting!

[@rigo1124]

Yeah baby’s don’t cry when they’re dead 💀

[@jeffmiller5982]

​@@Null_pointer_exceptn lmao, were you there to watch them to confirm your hypothesis?

[@WilliamWBG]

Shit got real serious there towards the end. Babies decided it was best to shut up and hide the best possible

[@Margot4454]

It is coomon in storks - they usually lay 5 eggs thel after some 3 weeks sort the smallest, weakest one out and ... remove, push out from the nest. Always. And the smallest, weakest one is so b/c usaully it is the last that hatched and the older ones push it away from feeding. The strongest = the healthiest and well fed. The poor last one is "a spare" only to survie in case something happened to another chick. Similar for eagles : 1-3 eaglets and the oldest is the most aggresive so the best fed so the strongest, the oldest boinks the other one hard from the day one, if there are 3 eaglets it happens the youngest is killed off by the oldest. I also saw a stork (and also an eagle) to invade another stork's nest (for an eagle it'd be another eagle's nest) while unguarded and take a little one of the same kind to feed his own youngs.

[@Mr.President.2028]

@@angelicap2736 @Angelica P Seems like you ignore some facts about eagles. When there is a prolonged lack of foods in eagle's nest (which Margot somehow did not state), then siblicide does happen (as it did at Dale Hollow's 3-eaglet nest; DH16 died this season), otherwise it is just "normal" bonking. Ironically siblicide did happen at GROWLS 2-eaglet nest prior to Malala's arrival; Junior did kill its sibling when there was a lack of foods.

[@erismana2105]

💩 parents

[@Butterfly-mt5ml]

Yep! I love all species of birds but they are brutal to one another. Survival of the fittest is always in play.

[@derevorter5795]

birds came up with the t4 program before it became mainstream

[@LyricSnowe]

@@Mr.President.2028 seems like you both are insufferable know-it-alls

[@taffyb4007]

Is this common in storks? Saw another nest and the mom did the same thing... I do know in Barn owls that sometimes in a large clutch the last to hatch may end up as food for the others....survival of the fitest... some die so others survive. Also, gene pool strength ...never pleasant to see ever.

[@stellviahohenheim]

all birds do this, TV won't ever show this they prefer to see birds as the symbol of peace

[@liisaimmonen9765]

Yes, it’s common among storks, and no - not all birds do it.

[@CuriousCat787]

@@stellviahohenheim TV stations and people on TV don't tell us about a lot of things. They alter news, every day, by leaving out facts or over emphasizing other facts to fit their political needs. It's dishonest, manipulative, disgusting, divisive, disgraceful, and, wrong!

[@kathleenmccaffery1313]

@Mama C You are right about this Mama C.. Heartbreaking to watch though. 😔

[@angelicap2736]

​@@stellviahohenheim geez all birds DO NOT do this!

[@Pango5697]

My kids get a timeout and they complain. It’s time I show them this!😂

[@Squawk737yt]

1. Nature is brutal 2. Nothing goes to waste. Survival of the fittest.

[@Gtumrths]

Nature is cruel sometimes! Poor baby!

[@adeelahmed9470]

Shame on you

[@angelicap2736]

Only people are cruel, nature is harsh

[@Leiba_fon_Katz]

Природа это миллионы лет проб и ошибок. Когда еды детенышам не хватает, хищники принимают меры в соответствии со своими инстинктами. Птенцы орлов, к примеру, в случае недостатка еды дерутся насмерть, чтобы выжил только сильнейший.

[@nak4651]

The surviving chicks: "are we gonna give momma stork any lip? I don't think so!"

[@hwakyungseo4832]

Wow so many children ! Mom is so busy !

[@roplangkharmalki3510]

Of the many stork videos that I've seen, the rate at which the baby storks gets eaten or discarded outweighs their being fed

[@tetsuoakira8294]

My question is, what is the mother doing to find the weakest chick? How does she know? Im wondering if the process involves what we see here. It seems she is pecking around at her offspring testing their feathers? Or testing their head strength? I see when she does it to the smallest one, it has trouble resisting the test. Its head wobbles much more and it all around seems more disoriented. So maybe that is how she gauges which one is the weakest? Very interesting to see millions of years of evolutionary instinct in action.

[@___s__m__s___9133]

Она сломала ему шею осознанно Чтобы не мучился 😢

[@ND-jl9jq]

The little one wasn't sick, it was hatched late probably. The mother must have been starving and had to strengthen herself to perform all the duties of feeding, guarding and warming the chicks. She must've been desperate.

[@RainRoseville]

That's what happens when dad misses child support.

[@jamesellis9332]

It’s fascinating how they know they can’t feed that many so they reduce the number to ensure the survival of the other 4

[@stewartteaze9328]

Other 5... there are 5 storklets left at the end of the video, after the 6th was eaten.

[@jamesellis9332]

@@stewartteaze9328 yeah

[@tolykozin]

that poor chick was trying to hide among its siblings, this is really sad!

[@scottbrandon6244]

The other chicks are probably thinking "Is Mom gonna eat me too?"

[@sleeper9728]

SHE EXAMINED EACH ONE THEN REMOVED LITTER ONE🤦‍♂️

[@tadcotadco6344]

judging from sharp change of behaviour of the remaining chicks, they understood very well what happened...

[@lizkinnear8570]

Exactly..

[@OverlordShamala]

I wonder what triggers the parents to reject the smallest chick... Is it the smaller size that differentiate it from the other chicks? The parent no longer see it as one of its chick, but an intruder & prey item to eat. The parent will most likely feed the rest of the chicks with their sibling's broken down body.

[@grannyLynnsCreations]

this is an older video, the chicks have been removed from the nest, because there are so few and they are trying to repopulate them. When the rescue occurred, one of the 4 remaining chicks was all ready dead, so they removed the last 3 and are working to save them

[@agatareiter7012]

I'm happy that they survived

[@kathleenmccaffery1313]

Thanks Lynn.. Everyone needs to know there was an intervention here. Storks are "endangered" right now. Im sure this is a good mom.. She just didn't know what to do with decreasing amounts of food ☹️

[@altheadawn2531]

That's not a mother That's a demon!!😮

[@adamanhavengarde]

The update here is the male stork disappeared and the female tried to feed the little ones. But having to juggle guarding the nest and getting food for the chicks, the female leaves for longer and longer periods of time where even food intervention from humans wasn't enough. Eventually, the 4th one starved to death while the 3 others were taken by humans. I believe the mother has not returned either

[@ollikkikk3741]

Hey you spoiled the ending 🤣

[@scott2836]

The 3 remaining chicks are in veterinary care in a special arrangement mimicking a nest, and are being fed using a stork-looking funnel tube arrangement. The idea is to minimize human contact as much as possible so they can ultimately be returned to the wild. They are eating very well and growing nicely.

[@merrimelody7510]

Too many mouths to feed for momma bird!

[@corundumkrabble5035]

Damn, this stork is a complete failure of a mama.

[@vladimircharcenko7466]

​ h

[@SerginhoPMoura]

"Stand, brothers, form a line, we can make it!!!" 🍗🐤🐤🐤🐤

[@Myrddin1955]

Not only removes the chick but murders the poor thing and then eats it! Wtf!!!!

[@BK715WI]

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,Catch a baby stork by the toe.If he hollers, let him go,Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

[@jimmyadepeju5555]

Terror! Right in front of the siblings! They must be thinking "now, I've got to make sure I eat my vegetables!"

[@KAROLPH100]

Do storks try to break the neck of the one they remove?

[@waxkopp]

Aan the patent.

[@noworries8262]

She wasn’t messing around with killing that poor little guy! At least she didn’t prolong it like some videos I’ve seen. One bashed a chick for around 45 minutes and you couldn’t really tell what it was at the end

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

And I thought my Mom was mean 🙄

[@liorsilverstein9802]

if we had done the same we would not have so many problematic woke people.

[@janetteorto6206]

I've seen 3 get removed in the past. Hard to watch at first. They just can'r feed all of them or they know it won't survive anyways

[@Oxzilion]

She has a lot of storklings. More than I think I’ve seen. Must’ve been a good year. I normals see storks with 2-4. Either the chick was not growing right, or food must’ve started to get short.

[@Starry2000]

Nope.

[@Oxzilion]

@@Starry2000 yup. I just found further information that the father left. So it was definitely too stressful for the mother. The rest of the kids were abandoned and rescued and the mother still hasn’t returned to the nest.

[@vern0018]

@@Oxzilion Are you referring to this family of storks.

[@danutamarchwinski6226]

Exactly! It’s a natural selection.

[@LyricSnowe]

@@Oxzilion Okay, so your original hypothesis was incorrect. Thats a NOPE

[@SuperBigblue19]

Now children, do I have your attention regarding the rules of the nest?

[@aliredha1236]

They never tend to thow them out of the nest , coz it is an instinct that this is part of thier belongings and no other should benefit from its being dead

[@kenqiao3946]

I guess that’s what it means when mom says I brought you to this world and I can take you out.

[@lastcommodore9651]

The chick that doesn't move around as well as the others and has difficulty sitting up is always the one that gets picked out.

[@wadaries]

saw another fierce smallest kicked out; that chick appeared very aggressive, perhaps a different strategy to demonstrate vigor; but nat, mama sees it all

[@MegaCeledonia]

This bird are normally eat or kill thier offspring, the only babies surviving is because human act quickly

[@bradr3541]

Me in 2023 due to high grocery prices

[@Klemheist-vf1hx]

Mom, I love you, please stop, you're hurting me." [Arrested by the Stork Police and charged with murder]

[@peteacher52]

Swallows the runt then looks at the others, "Right, you lot, ANY QUESTIONS?!"

[@nhaa4447]

She said to the smallest chick: "You are not big enough to deserve my love. However, I give you another chance. Go back to my body and come bigger next time"

[@ecmswagger]

Well I guess just spanking isn’t so bad after all eh?

[@user-ux6ve6uu7f]

That's the cruelest thing that happened, that mother bird has devil spirit in it.

[@litjellyfish]

Not at all. She was a good mother. Desperate. Starving. She did this to have energy to fly and try to save the other ones that was healthier and had bigger chance to live. Do you think any mother would like to do this? Of course not. All species try to make most of their offspring survive. I think humans are one of the few animals who actively can kill their offspring

[@worfoz]

OMG, animals are so pure and innocent. There is nothing more beautiful than motherly love. That cute little chick has learned a valuable life lesson! "It sucks being in the belly of your mummy if you're not a mammal"

[@nguyenpham3593]

until you see the rodents lol. rats, squirrels, rabbits, guinea pigs or even the hamsters, they're all the same

[@paulelliott4590]

She didn’t remove it. She ate it.

[@massimodalessandro9259]

Um aren’t these the birds in fairy tales caring and delivering babies?

[@cryangel00636]

An episode that you see every year.

[@sayasaya2014]

泣けてしょうがない

[@tommyk6349]

Compared to other stork videos, at least the chick went quick.

[@kathleenmccaffery1313]

That is true.. Little suffering 🙏😔

[@terrielouisemisell8237]

Wow See how quick the other siblings settled when they saw mum eat the baby! 😂😂

[@shannonspage9360]

Looks like at the end the mom is already eyeing up who’s next in line.

[@sipetualangasyila7343]

The mother black stork protects from any disturbance from predators and feeds her hungry cubs

[@silvermainecoons3269]

What? You must have watched a different video or you’re a bot. Bots always make stupid generalizations and in this case, where the mom is killing and eating the smallest stock your sappy comments about how great stork moms are is particularly funny. Good job bot! 😂😹☠️

[@ilokivi]

The parent stork is managing food demands based on chick needs and availability in terms of distance and time. The decision to reduce her clutch by one by killing and eating the smallest is a dispassionate calculation to recycle calories, while avoiding attracting predators towards the nest by merely dropping its corpse off the nest edge.

[@omarfarooq9684]

So sad and heart breaking scene. 😢😥

[@karumaldumal1983]

Funny scene ever

[@CharlesBright-zm6fj]

Tard

[@Fhhsfft]

Humans used to practice this. Then they stopped. Now look at us.

[@angelamings3031]

Did that stork actually eat the chic? If so, it's a genocide bird. 😢😢

[@user-jd1wp5pq3q]

Never used to even think that birds can be Real Brutal B*sta*ds.

[@bulletpoints556]

Brought back memories of the Boy Scout Jamboree in 1978; we ate one of the other scouts who was acting like a jerk. I sold his merit badges on the black market.

[@a.k.9291]

After watching that depressing video you made me laugh 😆😆🤣🤣 so hard then I called the cops ha ha ha ha

[@DET.RACHELM]

Kinda seems like the siblings are trying to keep the little guy hidden in the middle of all of them.

[@forgottenquill7063]

Little did they know this only darkened the target on his back. If you're small enough to hide, you're small enough to eat whole.

[@corundumkrabble5035]

This is the most violent "mama stork kills weak ass baby stork" video I've ever seen

[@user-rl2mh6vx9m]

Янике можно только посочувствовать! Потом у неё пропал самец Ян..и бедные детки все погибли в разное время и по разным причинам( Остался только старшенький Бонус, которого вырастили сначала в клинике, а потом в другом гнезде Карла и Кайи! Слава Богу у них сейчас всё хорошо, готовятся к миграции.

[@danielblue4460]

Are you for real?

[@trucid2]

I wonder if the mother feels a kind of disgust when seeing the littlest one in her nest.

[@chimcanhtravinh]

what birds?

[@krp2koyanagi]

자연의세계는 한편으론 잔인하다.

[@rummelmendoza2181]

Stork goes silence of the lambs and starts feeding the chicks it’s own a sibling.

[@shakes7333]

Mom eats baby mom regurgitates baby to feed the other babies.

[@blackpine3263]

Because there is no god or any mercy just instinct🤨

[@peatmoss4415]

Notice how all the other ones quieted down and started to behave.....

[@GreatWhiteShark75]

The great circle of life continues.

[@tommajor1013]

if you are not eating the vegitables....👀...this happens

[@Lyzi.B]

It's unfortunate, but not uncommon to thin the brood by elimination of the least likely to survive. Especially when a large clutch survives the odds to hatch. It's an extreme burden to Mom to maintain. As they grow it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with their dietary needs. It's too much for her to stay healthy herself and keep them all fed too. Once she becomes exhausted, the entire brood is at stake. It's usually a result of food scarcity, or more rarely because a parent is killed. In the latter case it's far too difficult to feed, guard, and brood that many chicks without a partner. It simply becomes unmanageable. Sometimes the surviving parent fully abandons the nest to death. Other times they'll make a calculated decision to thin the brood, like so, in an attempt to increase the odds. She can't just throw the baby from the nest. It'll attract predators to the nesting site. The only logical, safe thing she could do is to clean it up herself. Bonus protein and energy she's very likely needing too. Waste not want not. Nature isn't always butterflies and rainbows. It's also death, destruction, and difficult choices for survival. There's beauty in the horror. That's wildlife for ya. There's no moral conscience or social implications, it's all survival and odds. When the odds don't add up, mom or dad does some subtraction. It's purely logical and ensures the best chance of survival for the rest. The elimination of wasted resources on a runt that's unlikely to survive by design is a shrewd, but necessary decision by mom. Last to hatch is the first to go, typically. Through no fault of it's own. It's a spare part in the family machine. Once the extra chick becomes a burden, it's gone. This stork must've been under intense pressure to feed these chicks if she culled the runt. That's the saddest part. The pressures of Parenthood are felt throughout all species in different ways.

[@user-ob5gh9gr7y]

Как бы то не было, но это жестоко и смотреть на это больно. Сейчас также Россия убивает граждан Украины, потому что считает, что мы живем на их территории. Это тоже естественный отбор?.

[@litjellyfish]

⁠@@user-ob5gh9gr7yit’s not cruel it’s just survival. No that is different. As neither of countries is in any starving situation before. Humans are the only animal killing for long term planning of survival. Animals usually only try to survive in the moment.

[@canesfan7256]

The other kids got really quiet and barely moved. :)

[@misaeire]

1st time I ve seen a canibal stork

[@virgilbulai7809]

the world we live in it's so cruel

[@Kaizen-berg]

Sweet baby Jesus……. “damn nature, you scary…..”

[@JamesHurrystudy]

Mom plans to stay with chicks for extended time for protection but needs a good lunch. Survival of the fittest/natural selection marked the smallest chick as the best lunch to save others.

[@stephaniemillington6455]

I get how it feels to be the 'scapegoat' kid!

[@ivtch51]

I am amazed at the sometimes-profligate beauty and abundance in life but then cut short by the suffering and death that ecosystem-sustains it. What a strange, almost otherly world to be part of.

[@x_isaka]

Anyone know why it doea this?

[@wavemaker2077]

Food must be scarce so mommy decided to eat one of her young ones. They should lay just one or two eggs to ensure enough food for the chicks.

[@detectfevi]

"If you lil demons don't get quiet, this is what's going to happen to each one of you"

[@PNW1995]

This is heart breaking

[@danutamarchwinski6226]

It’s a natural selection. It’s normal.

[@apoc5412]

Man that's rough... rather crooked mindset "this one won't probably make it, better get rid of it" 😰