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Post by trashcanman on Jun 21, 2011 7:15:48 GMT 2
www.cracked.com/article_19263_the-6-most-disturbingly-evil-birds.htmlMan, Cracked knows shit about nature even I didn't have a clue about. This stuff is brutal. That eagle dragging the goat to it's death is one of the most amazing things I've seen. I laughed pretty hard at the pelican too. I've seen that kind of stuff before, but that vid with the pigeon was just hilariously wrong.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 22, 2011 23:39:34 GMT 2
I think I'm going to see that evil bastard pelican in my nightmares. God damn that was ... wow.
It doesn't surprise me, though. My mum went through this 6 month fad of keeping chickens, so we had our own little coop and all that built with about 12 chickens.
We used to let the chickens out to roam around all day (free range eggs taste better, I'm told - I don't eat that shit), but if one of the chickens got sick, or hurt a leg or a wing or anything like that we instantly had to seperate it from the rest, because if the other chickens noticed any weakness in any of the other.. uh.. flock, is that the word? then they would gang up on the wounded bird and kill it. Seriously. We only found that out after one chicken with a bad wing was pecked to death and some farmer guy told us about their nature. Bad little fuckers.
Cats and wolves and foxes get the bad rap but.. birds are bastards too.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 23, 2011 20:31:54 GMT 2
Yeah, they are. Then there's the reverse bullying. Ever noticed that the bigger the bird is, the lower it is on the totem pole? Hawks and eagles are routinely harassed by crows, crows are constantly harassed by sparrows and the likes, and the hummingbirds are the king of all since they will go out of their way to fuck them up.
Interestingly, I couldn't find a vid of a hummingbird attacking a larger bird, but I've seen it a lot. Those little fuckers attack about anything that's in their space.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 25, 2011 15:01:11 GMT 2
I don't get it - why are they attacking it? And why doesn't it just rip the little shit to pieces?
I remember years ago at my parents house, some birds had built a nest in the roof of the house. My cat was just walking around the side of the house, not even looking at the fucking things, and they kept swooping down on her for no reason at all. For once I was on the cats side. Try landing and doing that, you little fucks.
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 25, 2011 20:40:59 GMT 2
It'd be like hitting a baseball without a bat (sorry for the sports metaphor). Birds dive with a ton of force and while stationary and grounded, there's not much it can do. If it takes off, the smaller and faster birds simply stay above it no matter how much it climbs and continue to take turns dive-bombing it from above. Birds attack anything they perceive as a predator in their space. If they let it be, it would very likely kill one of them, so they band together to drive the fucker off before it does.
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