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!

[@bgt54rfvcde32wsxzaq1]

"Or Else" 😵🪦

[@LisaIrons]

​@@philipsutton8921 I have to say that was funny!!!!🤣

[@chibuzogideon]

​@@philipsutton8921😂😂😂

[@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.

[@ProjectGhostwalker]

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.

[@St4rry-edit]

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.

[@Adventure_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?

[@vincentwu2848]

Extra savage...

[@pamplouhar4451]

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

[@billgreen1861]

Yeah, they thought "we might be next " .

[@Sari-ks4kt]

Yes

[@คิวสุขนิยม]

🤣🤣

[@คิวสุขนิยม]

🤣🤣

[@briaubs5185]

Literally took the words outta my mouth

[@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.

[@hachijospaniard5643]

"storks bring the plate of cooked babies"

[@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.

[@space.invaders]

They do it often.

[@robertogabrielzacarias610]

Acontece e muito, costumam devorar tds para não ter concorrência na vida pela comida.

[@WilliamWBG]

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

[@imadone]

It gives a whole new meaning to Mommy Dearest.

[@randycoleman4276]

lol , good one !!

[@timpritts1499]

Exactly 💯 And we should start calling the mothers Joan!

[@Hlegzudas]

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.

[@soniasampaiosouzasouza4292]

A natureza é sábia já nasceu doentinho 😢

[@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

[@Lifeandnaturetvpost]

Video nice

[@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?

[@onderatar2816]

Yea, beacause there was a McDonald's restaurant nearby

[@Хельга-з9м]

😂😂😂😂

[@alessandrasoares6542]

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

[@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.

[@Хельга-з9м]

Поделитесь, пожалуйста

[@kavalogue]

She clearly didn't deserve to be a mother. Got bad ones in all walks of life

[@Ahahashir]

Where did you find this out?

[@edonveil9887]

I guess Timmy was a toxic kid.

[@MyJuan232]

@@kavalogue jajajajaajajajajajaajajajajajajajajajajajajjajajajaja

[@jimmyadepeju5555]

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

[@Pango5697]

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

[@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

[@TimSchneider05-t1i]

Theyre mindless creatures. They only recognise food and warmth

[@KAROLPH100]

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

[@waxkopp]

Aan the patent.

[@lenommon9990]

Yes, that or they repeatedly drop them out of the nest.

[@nak4651]

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

[@tolykozin]

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

[@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

[@massimodalessandro9259]

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

[@scottbrandon6244]

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

[@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

[@bezsie8518]

Happy Mother's day!

[@JohannRosario1]

“… bitches.”

[@haonamtran8374]

?????

[@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.

[@Kwannabe1704]

Boy it became real quiet when they realized bros neck was broken

[@jet5572]

All the other chicks are like we told him mom was in a mood! Told him to be quiet but he didn’t listen 😂😂😂

[@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

[@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 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@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

[@LosDoyerss]

Looks like the mother bird is actually sizing them up or going through each chick to decide which one needs to go. You can tell the one she picked was either sick, malnourished or both by the discoloration of its bill and the size. Nature is wild, literally.

[@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 😢

[@sleeper9728]

SHE EXAMINED EACH ONE THEN REMOVED LITTER ONE🤦‍♂️

[@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 ☹️

[@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

[@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.

[@stewartteaze9328]

Six is way too many... it had absolutely zero chance to fledge. #5 will almost always be removed at some point. Many times #4 is tossed out... #3 won't even make it sometimes... and on a rare occasion even #2 will be tossed out right before fledging.

[@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.

[@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!

[@Arthur_Noid]

Pink Panther: "Why can't man be more like animals?" Me: "There's a video I want to show you."

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

And I thought my Mom was mean 🙄

[@annmarielillie6196]

Were the other chicks trying to hide the smaller chick?

[@birds_247]

it looks like

[@autumnhedgehog]

А мать просто хотела жрать..

[@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.

[@mrhay2u]

So much for the stork and carrying babies 🫣🫢😬

[@Squawk737yt]

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

[@kenqiao3946]

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

[@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

[@x_isaka]

Anyone know why it doea this?

[@altheadawn2531]

That's not a mother That's a demon!!😮

[@tommyk6349]

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

[@kathleenmccaffery1313]

That is true.. Little suffering 🙏😔

[@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

[@Myrddin1955]

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

[@chimcanhtravinh]

what birds?

[@terrielouisemisell8237]

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

[@angelamings3031]

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

[@paulelliott4590]

She didn’t remove it. She ate it.

[@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.

[@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.

[@autumnhedgehog]

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]

⁠@@autumnhedgehogit’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.

[@stewartrood3633]

Can you tell Stork from butter?

[@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.

[@corundumkrabble5035]

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

[@bradr3541]

Me in 2023 due to high grocery prices

[@chandrakamal1826]

Balki Bai mat daliye neh mati conset stork sim na pati.

[@АнжеликаИванова-л9д]

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?

[@SerginhoPMoura]

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

[@stephaniemillington6455]

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

[@davidemagno2005]

Mum: Looks like meats back on the menu boys! chicks: i'm scared af

[@omarfarooq9684]

So sad and heart breaking scene. 😢😥

[@karumaldumal1983]

Funny scene ever

[@CharlesBright-zm6fj]

Tard

[@DANIEL-v4x9m]

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

[@AnchorOfTime]

She didn't remove, she recycled

[@toshitarojyuku5672]

I agree haha It’s ecosystem

[@agatareiter7012]

Cannibal

[@1968capnkman]

What do you suppose the "next smallest one" is thinking...

[@sanderbos]

Someone: "Maybe a dingo ate your baby" Stork: "No it wasn't a dingo"

[@AngriestAmerican]

I find it disturbing you would even joke about that. They actually did find the remains of that baby in a Dingo den.

[@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

[@virgilbulai7809]

the world we live in it's so cruel

[@hwakyungseo4832]

Wow so many children ! Mom is so busy !

[@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

[@OttoByOgraffey]

The other chicks are like, "mom's gone off the deep end.

[@peteacher52]

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

[@CheezecakesMinis]

I know this is nature and all that but I can't help thinking how much I dislike these birds because of them doing this not to mention the whole throwing the chicks out of the nest.

[@grannyLynnsCreations]

Here is an update on the storklets that were removed from the nest kzbin.infoUgkxSK-MqRFe78hYG9coIbEuU5OaPe7ycQ2o

[@kathleenmccaffery1313]

Thanks again Lynn! 💞

[@Fhhsfft]

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

[@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

[@Mpsdudo]

It’s because small one will not survive in future or mother just hungry?

[@janajamer734]

They started out with 6 chicks? That's quite rare, isn't it? This was Jan's nest...that the Papa parent disappeared during forging and then Mama abandoned the 3 surviving Storklets and Urmas rescued, took them to clinic... Fostered surviving two into Edi's and Karl II's nest (Bonus)!

[@YaelSharon3410]

Yes, 6 storklets is quite rare indeed. I remember seeing Bonus in Karl's nest last year. Urmas and the team did a great job!

[@janajamer734]

@@YaelSharon3410 I imagine you've been observing Karl II & Kaia with their storklets this season? I watched their ringing live. Got a bit dramatic, but ended well. Urmas said they were too fat to fly 😆 I think that next year we should get a donation going for someone talented to make him an authentic Black Stork's face/ neck and beak with fish hanging out. This way when he gets close to the nest, he can put in on before Storklet's see him, so they don't freak out and fly/fall outta nest. It's too bad we weren't paying attention for donations needed so all 3 could have GPS transmitters. (I'd love to see a GoPro Cam on their head so we could see flight thru their eyes and a tiny Cam on the end of parent's Beaks so we can see what prey is being served)🤔 well I can dream... Also we need prayer warriors to pray that Bonus's transmitter battery recharges. It was at 0% last evening. (It's a shame that hindsight is 20/20... wouldn't it have been nice for Spring Migration if Bonus would have flown farther North to Karula's fish basket and Uncle Urmas catch him to replace the battery or solar panels or whole unit.) Coz it'll be a loss for us to lose all contact with Bonus...have to rely on Photographer's photos of ID # on rings..😢

[@YaelSharon3410]

@@janajamer734 Yes, I indeed follow the storklets in Karl's nest this year. I didn't know about Bonus' transmitter not charging. I watched the ringing on replay as I missed the live, it was stressful indeed. Would be funny to get Urmas a stork costume, lol.

[@CharlesBright-zm6fj]

Lala land. Really

[@Planet_OfLove1]

do they do this if the baby is too small or weak?

[@RaidenMK67]

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.

[@RaidenMK67]

@@stewartteaze9328 yeah

[@PartyOf8Please]

Storks are the cruelest creatures, but they do it for reasons that we don’t understand. To them, it’s culling the herd - she knows the little one won’t survive so she takes care of it. But they’re still not favorite bird.

[@litjellyfish]

Reasons we don’t understand? You just explained it so for sure we understand it. Humans also did it in the past when food was sparse. It’s a natural thing in survival instinct.

[@marjoriegoodwin2993]

She beat the hell out of that baby before she was satisfied. I did not know they ate their own young. Ugh.

[@trucid2]

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

[@sayasaya2014]

泣けてしょうがない

[@UranusProbe]

They all thought that little Jimmy was getting special treatment....until this happened.

[@whirlwindjourney]

After seeing what happened to their sibling, the remaining three knew better than to misbehave.

[@detectfevi]

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

[@AwaCactus]

This is heart breaking

[@danutamarchwinski6226]

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

[@christopher9000p]

After that day, nobody ever complained about dinner ever again.

[@misterbroun418]

Mother of the year

[@Kaizen-berg]

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

[@tadcotadco6344]

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

[@lizkinnear8570]

Exactly..

[@StewArt61]

What’s for dinner mom? It’s Joey