This Egg is Nature's Greatest Scam

[@p.brooke]

It's interesting that the baby bird knew from birth to push out the other birds to get more food

[@gravel9270]

It is purely from instinct that they will push anything with their back that evolved to be wider and flatter to better aid their action.

[@Raylen_Fa-ield]

Some parasitic birds are even born with hooks on their beaks to break open the other eggs before they hatch, or to kill the new born once hatches

[@quetzacoatlx]

Those who don't push out other birds didn't survive the evolution.

[@kingcosworth2643]

Wired from birth

[@zKattz]

*F O O D*

[@nathancomixproductions466]

"But the one you have to watch out for is the cuckoo bird. Do you know how a cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother's weakness. The cuckoo bird is too clever to raise its young. Instead, it sneaks its eggs into the nests of simpler birds. So when they hatch, the mother bird is fooled. She feeds them, nurtures them. And do you know what happens to her own chicks? They starve and die from neglect. All because a mother loved a chick...that wasn't her own." - Shere Khan, _The Jungle Book_ (2016)

[@pengsof]

too clever to raise its young? i need some more context on this cuckoo bird!

[@theflippantfox]

​@@pengsof the cuckoo bird doesn't build a nest as it is too much work.. she likes to be free and fly around without any particular place to call home

[@captainryan77]

Parasite birds

[@LionLucky435]

:0

[@freedomdude5420]

This is going to create a arms race for big brain birds.

[@xrlee5394]

Wow, this videos atmosphere and feel is insane, nicely edited.

[@carpmerchant1318]

It's giving Hannibal 2013, but in the best way possible😂

[@Vel176.0]

💯

[@pico7516]

But he let the bird get thrown out of the nest

[@javk8673]

@@pico7516 ... sometimes nature is metal my guy

[@dominictepsoto3281]

5:02

[@DebTheDevastator]

There is actually some research that shows that the birds who are parsitized know the baby isn't theirs. The reason they choose to take care of the egg is because the cuckoo in this case will destroy the nest anyways so better to take care of it and hope the cuckoo doesn't choose your nest again. They have also shown that the warbler will abandoned their nests, too if a cuckoo is in the area

[@alfacinha9609]

Stockholm syndrome

[@JamieElli]

It depends though. Cuckoos have adapted to lay eggs that blend in with the birds they're parasitizing.

[@kingcosworth2643]

That doesn't make any sense, why would the cuckoo not choose the nest again, because the scam went off without a hitch? Birds don't have Judeo/Christian morality teachings regarding kindness and fairness to others. Doesn't make sense in the least. That mother bird, especially if this is it's first nest would have no idea what it's chick is supposed to look like, instinct is very basic and easy to fool, even in humans. That's why babies suck their thumbs.

[@jayarajs3696]

That's a shitty discovery btw,,by some stupid morons!!

[@and9091]

With respect to those birds, I don't think the birds would think "better take care of it so some other bird doesn't destroy my nest", that doesn't make sense, I think the birds know that the bird in the nest is somewhere different from themselves, but out of nurturing instinct or something like that their will continue to take care of that bird, but they also will choose to nest in a area where that bird isn't exist to increase the survival rate of their eggs.

[@JojobaNutOil]

i already knew it was a brood parasite but ahhh your content is so relaxing to watch i love itttt! good job!

[@ErdnussXD]

In Germany we have a saying about the Cukoo in german he is calles Kuckuck and some children are called "Kuckuckskind" which means cukoo child. So a child snuck into a realtionship from the mother which made the child with someone else and the husband/boyfriend doesn´t know it.

[@reallyman6502]

oh so that's why the word "cuck" is a thing

[@runnethdown]

​@@reallyman6502 Well, in English "cuck" is short for "cuckold", but "cuckold" was derived from "cuckoo" anyway

[@freedomdude5420]

😂🤣😂🤣, Honey is that my kid.

[@anjachan]

korrekt!

[@justsomeguywithawhitebeard5639]

​@@runnethdown Makes no sense though to call the "victim" the cuck when the cuckoo should be the instigator.

[@Donirexian]

The music in the background is amazing! It's so subtle but perfect captures each little reveal/moment/mood in the video. I really like mystery games and this video gave me those kind of vibes, it was very intriguing to watch. I would enjoy watching more videos with this format

[@garlicbread-o7m]

Oh no this is so sad i feel bad for the other babys 😢 but this is nature

[@crawhey]

So are murder hornets. We are too, but I feel the invasive threat of giant foreign insects spreading over a new region in modern times is a better example to illustrate the relevant point of save a baby’s life to save a baby from death.

[@봄이오는날]

😅100

[@ahmadhuzzahcole]

I like how the bird is like 3x the size of the mother even tho the egg was barely larger

[@uberrave3]

This video reminds me of educational programs i watched as a kid. It's very nostalgic, but as an adult, i can tell it's more than that. From my observation, not a single sencond wasn't considered in the making of this video. I wish there were more content creaters that strive to put this level of care in their videos.

[@Asama-]

The chick gets pushed to it death The cameraman: 👁👄👁

[@vilexross]

So what? Nature is running it's course.

[@dendyt597]

Life cycle kid ..

[@JordanBeagle]

You want him to interfere?

[@Internatube]

OP sounds like the person that would totally scare away "mean ole" predators so baby sea turtles can live. Predators: 😑

[@humanaku9135]

this is a great format for a younger audience that doesn't know about Cuckoos and other brood parasites but I like your videos without a "narrative" so to speak.

[@AC3ND3D]

"this video is brought to you by square space, and this is a disaster" I about dide💀💀💀

[@fyuud7271]

I hate how your videos abruptly ended with ads, it's like watching something incomplete and it keeps scratching my heart

[@kellielee9829]

I have KZbin premium 😊 But sorry for you😢

[@Manisphesto]

1:04 is nobody going to talk about how the piano fits with this part.

[@Brudcoolguy]

The saddest part is when the baby bird pushed their sibling..

[@sirvilhelm3569]

You’d think the mom would question why her son is bigger than her instead of continuously feeding em

[@yeaphongshengmoe8272]

:(😢😭😟😔🙁😥😞😿😓😦

[@brennanperry8001]

Nature is nuts, man. It makes me wonder though. If that bird is unable to recognize that the cuckoo chick isn't theirs, then what things are we just physically unable to comprehend? What things are just in front of us that we don't even -- can't even recognize because our brains don't work in a way that's able to see them?

[@Iron_Soil]

This egg is a spy! Spy around here! This egg is a bloody traitor

[@guyinthecorne]

I knew there would be another TF2 enjoyer here

[@aryo.s]

as promised heavy will now lay egg *in your mouth*

[@beerypollens]

“I spy with my little eye!” -Heavy

[@Catholic_Warrior]

@Iron Soil nice haiku!

[@mekka474]

Spy sappin' mah nest

[@Dr.IanPlect]

3:58 "simply a pawn in the master plan of the...cuckoo" - A minor point, but one that can be misleading. There's no planning or foresight involved. It's just an example of evolution by natural selection producing a strategy, which has no goal, plan or foresight.

[@freedomdude5420]

It is going to create big bird brains.

[@KyleChampion-pc8yf]

It's a figure of speech...

[@abrarahmad-mw4dk]

Atheists ridicule religious people for being preachy. But then they go "akshually" over a figure of speach

[@El_crispy_goober]

"why did it do that?" THE HUNGER GAMES

[@DavidAntaya-m7m]

It’s not in a tree 0:20

[@Tecron46]

0:20

[@DianaMorcos-v4p]

You’re right it’s not in a tree

[@-C.I.A]

Hey! Can you guess what species this is?: The specimen is almost entirely known by its vertebral column (axial skeleton): five cervical vertebrae (including the axis), ten articulated mid-to-posterior dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, and six caudal vertebrae (five of which are complete). The only other bones found with the specimen are a complete ilium and two unidentifiable bone fragments. The specimen is preserved partially articulated. However, the overall preservation is poor, with a dark reddish-brown to grey colouration indicative of a haematite coating and permineralization. Additionally, the deformation has distorted the shape of the vertebrae and parts of them have been cracked and weathered away.

[@-C.I.A]

It's a reptillan, part of Synapsid, and belongs to Varanopidae

[@demo8175]

No I'm pretty sure it's a worm.

[@DigiDragon001]

Hey, asker, what is the answer?

[@marjanguzi3720]

I ain't reading that all day 👋🙂

[@MarcosPauloEtledGaming]

I think it's a fish

[@adamiskandar9443]

Great vibes in this video. Oh and the info is nice too!

[@SydneyWilliams-w1m]

Love these vids, they’re fascinating! Would it be possible for you to go over some cool facts or even just the anatomy of an Irwin turtle?

[@jayyesimone4781]

This feels like I'm watching a Reading Rainbow segment & that makes me enjoy this more

[@pumpkxnz_11]

This is when your channel learned me more stuff about animals, insects, and pest while the school i only learned few stuff about them😕

[@newtonfamily753]

2:18 pov: when you eat too much food

[@nomaidens8902]

This might be the most relaxing and informative thing i've watched so far, keep up the good work!

[@Mhebsandstuff0]

cuckoo egg: exists me: I'm gonna destroy this.

[@aeroga2383]

Lol. Do people not know what cuckoo birds are nowadays? Anyways I hate these animals. They always piss me off seeing them get fat after killing off the original babies. Although I remember reading somewhere that this doesn't always work. Sometimes the mom can tell there's an impostor and she kills it immediately.

[@emmymcc1]

You need a tv show! ❤🎉

[@K_XDXD]

Hmm *takes big egg then throws it out,breaks it*

[@prajjawaltiwari9566]

I hope you took care of the other two chicks...

[@bevgordon7619]

Dear Mr Odd A.S., I realllly like your varied examples of wonderfull Nature: allways interesting and smart! I hope your channel gets viewed in schools, all ages! My one major request is this: do you have control over your Transcript? Mainly, can your ‘activate’ it? So it can scroll (or better: reader can scroll themselves) for those with hearing restrictions can enjoy your videos like the rest of us. (Or my own reason: i watch, sound off, at work and am sad when i cannot scroll interesting content, like your’s, via transcripts). Cheers!

[@granitticore208]

_There's one impostor among us..._

[@livfuji]

I just found this channel and I really enjoyed this video!

[@JordanBeagle]

I know in this case it was actually a cuckoo bird egg, but I did hear that some birds the same species will push their siblings out to make sure they get enough food

[@GIGACAT573]

Imposter among us ?

[@parkeaudio1338]

I love the new video format

[@je6243]

Plz keep making videos like this 🥺🙏

[@Moosk61]

That's absolutely fascinating! It's a whole new layer of survival strategy in the bird world. It's incredible how these birds adapt to the threat of cuckoo parasitism, making calculated decisions to protect their nests and future offspring. Nature never fails to surprise with its intricate web of behaviors and adaptations! 🐦🌿

[@Beneesya]

The thumbnail is a Tf2 reference

[@arnav0708]

Can I relate it to "Muslim immigrants" dumped to my country and my gov is feeding them by thinking they are our own?

[@YesseniaZelaya-xm8db]

How do you make a collection of insects? And how do you spread a insects wings?

[@danilocaccamese9597]

What song starts playing at 3:23 anyone knows the name?

[@hcody4040]

I think I just found a new favorite KZbin channel.

[@Sona_wonderhoy]

1:04 Me: *tries my best not to laugh* Your editing is nice btw !

[@rajeshwarigaikwad6949]

' Now take a look at this "chick" it's massive ' 🤯😂

[@spidey0123]

One question though, did “big baby” already know how to do that or it’s just inadvertently since he’s too big? Because I remember watching a scene somewhere where there are 3 chicks being fed and one was humongous (the adopted chick).

[@nyancatismyonlyfrand]

It’s part of their evolution. They instinctively know and have grown to be perfect for pushing the siblings out! They know if they don’t do it they will have less food

[@Paulieeeeeee]

Wheres the continuation

[@Chieseled_Renegade]

Oh my, what happened to the one, who was pushed out of his nest?

[@user-xf7mu7ub9d]

They probably died.

[@MF-dz7cp]

If I was the mother and I saw this nest, I would've thought the one on the top left was the parasite because of it's color lol

[@origaminosferatu3357]

Some birds just be built different...evil different.

[@gboutdoors5198]

whats so weird with these terrible birds that kill beautiful song birds is they are federally protected and there is nothing you can do poor song birds are going to be wiped out to these turds

[@cementcitron9428]

If you look very veeery closely, you can see the chick is a completely different bird from the mother. Mother bird : I don't see it.

[@Radok.]

saving time In a nutshell 3 eggs was in a nest, 1 was bigger cuz it was different bird and it kicked 2 birds out of nest and big bird just got advantages from other bird

[@madnessarcade7447]

I kinda feel bad that u let it happen instead of saving the bird but ig we gotta let nature do it’s thing

[@mrcomment6035]

I heard of this before, so I kind of knew it was going to be about a cuckoo. But the entire process just feels so much more cunning, with the actual babies being pushed out etc.

[@Jam3s_halo]

The second i clicked on this video i new it was a cuckoo bird and im in a tide ad so buy TIDE YALL 😂

[@rob9995]

This is like when Natural Habitat Shorts made a skit about this bird. More pancakes for me.

[@HanshaniLavanya1]

Now I understand why birds throw poop at our house

[@creativecrafts-u7p]

Bro should have saved the smaller 🐦

[@Jesus...Christ]

it's natural 🤦‍♀

[@Weirdoeevee]

I once saw a dead baby bird, I wonder if this happened, yet again I only saw one.

[@Pangolacey]

as soon as i saw the title of this video, i knew it was a cuckoo bird lol

[@AstroBotfan9910]

He could’ve adopted the cuckoo and world peace to the baby reed warblers

[@sarahjanerivera4441]

The bigger chick literally said “it’s over Aniken I have the high ground”

[@S-T-E-V-E]

I know it's nature but I ca't believe you left that Cuckoo's egg in there to kill those chicks!

[@shakey215]

it's nature. you don't mess around with tit to fulfil your narrative of how things should go! also, might be wrong, but this might not even be his video as this would be incredibly hard to capture with his schedule

[@S-T-E-V-E]

@@shakey215 So you shouldn't remove parasites because they're 'Nature'?

[@florianschneider3982]

​@@S-T-E-V-E Yes

[@tomjegs___]

@@shakey215 Mankind has essentially ruined nature. Might as well help one freaking bird

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

​@@shakey215It's the same reason people who film animals hunting other animals in documentaries don't usually intercept. Without any hint of me trying to sound callous, it's just the natural order of things.

[@behindyou3689]

Does anyone know the music in the background?

[@DevinLin17]

It’s probably another bird that laid its egg in another birds nest.

[@jamesisyou2481]

Did the little baby’s that the bigger one pust die😖

[@thelovinglovebirds3722]

What did you do with the fallen chicks?

[@Jesus...Christ]

it died, nobody did anything

[@AmyOlsen-hr2fp]

​@@Jesus...Christ You could have done something Jesus.

[@Mattriix]

Its interesting that this species evolved in a way where its very first instinct is to push out its nest mates to have an advantage for its survival

[@KyuuDesperation]

Dang, this actually scared the poop out of me.

[@i3looi2]

Imagine the overtime the little bird has to work its ass off to feed that goose.

[@Brudcoolguy]

I dont know what happened to the other bird tho 💀

[@Magics_ghost]

What happened to the baby bird who was kicked out

[@Jesus...Christ]

it died

[@asky-ne7yz]

He could be any one of us, he could be you, he could be me!, he could even be-

[@_hearts4conan.]

can’t wait to watch this!

[@CACLOVE123]

When you so small but your chick is the opposite

[@littlebearbadass]

You should have saved the baby’s when they fell you can be there mom

[@mobandz3017]

He wasn’t actually recording the video it’s from elsewhere

[@a_randomclown]

I feel superior already knowing this knowledge

[@jeremyhawkins5278]

Love all the people in the comments explaining how it's not kinda upsetting to see a baby kill another baby. So rational, so scientific

[@KangminSeungbin1]

When mother cuckoo doesnt want to pay child support

[@Forthecity911]

“AM DA BIGGEST BIRD” irl:

[@rafagunner28]

Are the other chicks ok?

[@Jesus...Christ]

no

[@justaguywithhimikoprofile4332]

It felt like I'm watching blue's clues but the content is uh y'know.

[@graysnake8585]

And here I thought the ugly duckling was only a story lol

[@borttorbbq2556]

You know what I think I probably would have took the cuckoo egg because frick parasites. Now what wood I do with it idk

[@juno_ju]

i audibly gasped when the cuckoo pushed the other chick

[@learnvoiceart18]

Ohhhh! Great video👍👍👍

[@BoNoide]

Did u know the roadrunner is in the cuckoo family?

[@diovelynannmesticamagallan5354]

Fun fact: actually the bigger one is a scam and pushed it's two siblings before he came to see 2 to 1 birds and it's entirely different

[@Blockyplays6994]

Bro Got all sinister and then, I heard the name of the Cuckoo, and that was odd.

[@WardenWRD1]

Why didnt you save the other babies

[@jtugnexus]

I don’t know if I should be happy that birds don’t see racism.

[@madnessarcade7447]

What would have happened if you removed the bad egg

[@boom_fish_blocky]

When the imposter is sus!

[@davidt8087]

I knew about this and I HATE CUCKOOS

[@MichaelTwedt]

Cowbirds do this exact same thing in my area and kill all the finches

[@NRG_blox]

Everytime i see one of those cuckoo eggs iam gonna put bout 3 of them in a small nest and see them battle it out without a mom