BLACK STORK CRUSHES CHICKS NECK, KILLS IT, MOVES ON TO THE NEXT CHICK

Stork nesting behavior - THIS STORK IS KNOWN FOR CRUSHING IT'S CHICKS, STEPPING ON THEM OVER AND OVER. 100% INTENTIONAL. IT KNOWS WHAT IT IS DOING.

[@jasse85]

Compare this to Hawks for example who tuck their toes and talons when they are walking in the nest, so they don't pierce their young.

[@김진남-t4f]

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[@chrysology]

@@김진남-t4f No they don't. Neither do eagles.

[@richardrawlings6234]

I know chicks have rubbernecks but dont think its suppost to bend that way

[@GardenGoddess2]

maybe its because there is not enough food around ........

[@peterkoinzell7983]

chick is stepped on at 6:55 and you can see it's dead at 8:55

[@caseyclark1614]

You know if you listen carefully, you can hear beavis laughing.

[@NathanLGrossman]

I don't know if storks have any conceptual understanding of what they're doing as parents. I suspect that for them it's just a series of instinctual reactions to specific cues, without any feeling of individual attachment or any understanding of the arc or goal of the process.

[@Le-Korl]

Well said. Storks are mindlessly driven by their instinct - the only exception is when their aggression comes out on their chicks.

[@Grayfox354]

It's generally how I see most animals. They have their code and commands written out and some follow it better than others. We have code in us too of course, but far less dominant the higher the intelligence is.

[@iwdws]

Storks are the worst parents

[@Oxzilion]

My word, the sounds the chicks make….maybe the parent just got sick of it so started to step on necks for a little bit of peace.

[@themichiganrockhound3827]

lol I was just thinking the same thing.

[@nightgodd7865]

They were probably endangering the nest with all that noise, they're gonna attract predators

[@MatteoC1996]

wtf no lol that’s what storks do, parents cant provide for so many chicks so they just get rid of some of them

[@Oxzilion]

@@MatteoC1996 I know that’s not the case. I said that because the noise storklets make is grating on the ears. It wasn’t meant to be taken literally

[@justinlapid2163]

Best you not have offspring good sir

[@enochpowel3030]

This is a Stork thing. Mother only takes care of her strongest chicks.

[@space.invaders]

They only take care of what they feel like taking care of. Usually 2 -3 chicks. Depends on when a male hatches, a lot of times if a male hatches first the rest will be killed, maybe keep one more for backup for a little while anyways.

[@jacobkennedy941]

THANK YOU!

[@toddoconnor840]

Be the best stork you can be and you will survive

[@ПашаЕ-х2и]

Ну кто следующий уже понятно...

[@thomasmleahy6218]

It's done in stork and crane nests in order to be able to get enough food and be able to raise chicks that are ready to migrate nonstop a short time after being able to fly and have the stamina to fly non stop to wherever (Africa?). It's a shame that the instinct to lay fewer eggs hasn't happened, as clutches of 4 or 5 are the norm as it would be better to lay 2 or 3. These chicks spend much more time as nestlings in order to build their muscles and stamina for that non stop migration.

[@TinaGoetz-x7j]

My thoughts are similar, why not have less chicks? Maybe because they are also a food source? Nature is rough

[@eizol568]

A Mother’s love 😏

[@space.invaders]

nothing else like it......

[@DartFrog815]

@@space.invaders its nature, its not even a matter of opinion. If you went camping and came across a bear nature would not go easy on you because of feelings or opinions. I mean if you really want to be specific, the feeling would be fear and the only opinion would be lost amongst the chaos.

[@space.invaders]

@@DartFrog815 What are you even talking about, 'matter of opinion"? Opinion about what? Did you forget to take your meds? I never said it wasn't nature, no one did. And you are soooo very wrong about the bear analogy, you may experience fear but i would experience what it feels like to kill a bear. you got me kfd up to think I would fear a bear lol, please I wish one would. boom boom to the face is what that bear would get lol, I'm at the top of the food chain and 'aim' to keep it that way. You can curl up in a ball and get eaten, not I. You are the only one giving your opinion here.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@space.invaders It's always good to know thin-skinned people who overreact to simple comments are armed.

[@thomasmleahy6218]

The loving mother? In large Raptor nests, the smallest chick gets pecked to death, whilst this nest mate is being preyed upon, the mother bird will tear apart her chick and feed the others with it. Murder and cannibalism from the loving mother. They are not capable of love, or hate, their behavior is governed by instinct, and instinct alone. Instinct is what has gotten them here after millenia, thousands upon thousands of years.

[@LoLYouSayWhat]

So freaking annoyingly Noisy Chicks

[@ГаляБ-ф4у]

Бедный аистенок, мама шею сломала!

[@辻本愛子-u4m]

初めてコメントをさせて頂きます。4羽のヒナのうち大きい1羽が、小さい1羽には攻撃的なのに、もう一方の小さい1羽を親の攻撃から守ろうとしたのは、何故だと思いますか？。😮

[@Silver..]

because “birds are dicks” - zoey Left for dead

[@German_Shepherd_Mom]

😭

[@robertweymouth1200]

You and me are the only 1howe thinks this is not funny

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@robertweymouth1200 It's bizarre 2/see combo of those who are bemused by it or who demonize the stork via anthropomorphicizing.

[@0minous187]

hell ya

[@ednathomas6708]

Just like some humans who walk away not wanting to work and feed their children. This stork of a bird don't want to go and find worms to feed it's chicks.

[@jayhouse3149]

Storks are evil dorks!

[@mikecollins622]

The parents foot came down at least 30 times on just the one bird. And it happens with humans all the time, TV? Someone gets thrown down the stairs, broken leg, exoected to get up like its a love tap, held hostage at home until healed???? Compassion, and understanding is visible when seen on animals. Then again, which is the animals?

[@karonthompson-if5gv]

Maybe the chicks are hungry. You think ? That's what I here poor things. Whete is the other mate? To help. They look healthy😮😢

[@janajamer734]

Space Invaders, Do you recall which nest this is? Looks like the clutch was 6. Would this have been Jann and Janika's nest in Estonia?Although you published it in November, the Black Storks migrate in Autumn to Africa for their Winter grounds. Thanx

[@ОксанаБородина-й5х]

Вот весёлая семейка, одна потопталась, другие поклевали😢😢😢

[@smitysmity4993]

Okay Junior we're going to play a little game..... it's called catch-me-if-you-can

[@cynharman6866]

She’s getting rid of the runts they often throw them out of the nest

[@thomasmleahy6218]

This seems to be a common behavior in storks and cranes, like a switch has turned on and suddenly, instead of raising chicks you are killing them. In other species, chicks are a bit bigger, and I've seen a parent toss ALL the chicks out of the nest! It seems they know (instinctively) that chicks not being large enough are tossed out of 4 and 5 chick clutches, usually leaving only 2 or 3 chicks. These large birds spend a lot longer in order to fully develop their flight muscles and stamina for migration which happens shortly after they are in condition for the non stop flight. This seems to be part of the instinct to toss chicks out of the nest, after attacking smaller chicks, then tossing them out. This instinct somehow informs them that they can't get all of the chicks to an acceptable size in time for migration, usually leaving only 2 or 3 to stay (they better keep their fingers.... errr toes crossed. They do grow to an incredible size, and do stay in the nest a long time, making flights to develop their ability to migrate soon. This would work a lot better if they only laid 2 or 3 eggs.

[@THUNDERSTORMOFFICIAL840]

Storks are so careless and harmful

[@cloroc]

They should be thrown in jail

[@Arieskie]

Sound like frogs on speed. I’d want to get rid of them too.

[@aroomermardoo6502]

Guess the kids were complaining to mom

[@백배-r8r]

아기들이 쪼아주며 일으키려 하고 보호하려는 느낌ᆢ

[@mildredvallely1413]

It's not that they kill one the runt they kill them all

[@olft1092]

Chaotic ASMR

[@QueenStuff]

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING ?? This is horrible ....

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

... nature... welcome to the real world...

[@QueenStuff]

​@@kikirikikirlafsdfskdlet's do some "nature" on your babies ....

[@Ron-hj1or]

Darwin

[@HealingTimeTV]

나는 이해를 못하지만 황새무모는 알고있는듯해요 I don't understand, but the stork parents seem to know

[@ضيالقمر-م6ش]

أكيد الوالديشعر بأن شيء ما تحت قدمه

[@thomasmleahy6218]

It happens suddenly, like a switch has been thrown. Too bad that instinct hasn't affected them to lay only 2 or 3 eggs.

[@palamirtammarimuthu1752]

😂😢

[@RogetSaunders3]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Yellow_Rainbowfri3nd]

they save the strongest stork or storks for survival it's not like us the youngest is better

[@joshsmith7033]

Kinda like a full term abortion...moms these days....

[@Nadia..J]

Yes it does know. Disgusting, evil snakes on legs.

[@Arieskie]

Nice to label a stork with a human emotion, yup, bad stork. Very bad stork. Geez..🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@ayoolukoga9829]

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. Jeremiah 8:7

[@bguntern]

- and the Lord will be the next storklet and Judas will step on his neck to save the world from morons Benj. 1,69

[@RiotSableye]

Is this a hate crime

[@Arieskie]

Sure. Report it. Smh

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

Personally I disagree with the 100% rigid, no exceptions thing about not interfering with wildlife, even if they are doing something that seems evil. The whole "they do this for a reason" thing is only half true, and never in every single case. When we, as humans so chose to treat this sort of senseless violence in animals the way we do with other humans, it creates evolutionary pressure towards animals that behave more civilly, the way civilized humans do. Of course this can be over-done, to the point of causing problems if humans were suddenly removed from the picture, but only if it was done on a massive scale across the entire gene pool. Otherwise, we are just nudging the otherwise random evolution away from a few specific cruel behaviors. Its not something that should be always done or encouraged, but just not dogmatically _discouraged_ the way it is today. We cull animals for all sorts of reasons, except to help create a world with more socially cooperative animals who show less cruelty to one another. For example, any time it is decided that a population of animals must be culled to some degree, we should be selectively culling those who exhibit these sorts of behaviors for the benefit of the animals within that population who either don't do it at all, or do it through the most "ethical" means available to them.....even if it has some survivability cost to the overall population, natural evolution should, over time correct for that-as long as it isn't over-done. I hope I related that well enough. It's just a viewpoint I never hear mentioned or evaluated on any level.

[@0minous187]

its not your place to step in and "do something". ppl like you need to get that kind of thinking out of your head. there is no such thing as good or evil and it really is what these birds do they kill off the few younger ones and it seems to be working out for them for 100s or 1000s of years and numbers seem to not be overpopulated so unless its endangered leave nature the fk alone will ya and just enjoy it in all its glory

[@theShantai]

BOOOORRRRRIIIIIIIIINGG!!!! Funny stork goes stomp stomp

[@jamesellis9332]

Just go take a college level biology course and save your loud non fact based opinion…:animals have no conscience thought and they do everything purely on instinct….it’s survival only

[@Yagotthralled]

We need to re-engineer all wildlife extensively if we wanna make this world any acceptable. Starts with getting the notion right that Nature isn't good, it's actually extremely evil.

[@ShiveringEroticKingBanana]

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[@mrsa9130]

Who knows what man has done to animals! Lord knows they have messed with humans dna for thousands of years!