Science Memes

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[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

You and me both

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Even unremarkable tits are known to have this effect on me

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 57 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn't but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

A family member had a mule that had to be kept away from the chickens, as the animal would gobble up any chick within reach.

It wasn't casual, it wasn't out of hunger.

The vet was horrified when he saw it happen, even after being warned.

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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 26 points 7 months ago (1 child)

🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶

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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I hope my farmers don't mind it

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[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn't you gobble up some chicks?

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Exactly.

I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.

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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago

Oportunistic carnivores? Too lazy to hunt prey you mean.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻

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[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Imagine being bored and just like "oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape"

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago*

Well, i usually open the fridge out of boredom and casually give a bite to a dead chicken that is stored there.... sometimes i just take a slice of a monolith of emulsionated pigs.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 32 points 7 months ago* (18 children)

Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book where a fox steals sugar beets from a farmer because it got addicted to sugar. It's nature. Rules are made to be broken in nature. That all I know.

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 30 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book

I liked it more when I thought the sentence stopped here.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD

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[–] four@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I think that the commenter, like me, understood it as that the deer was reading a non-fiction book while eating a sparrow. Which is an interesting image

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Oh! Sorry. I don’t know how to place English commas, lol.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You nailed it here! :)

Commas basically go where you want to separate two thoughts in a sentence or "take a breath" without the full stop of a period. They also often separate objects in lists

(Example)

("Yesterday I saw a deer, a sparrow, and a nonfiction book.")

, or signify that you're talking to somebody.

A classic joke:

"Let's eat grandma!" vs. "Let's eat, grandma!"

"Commas save lives!"

😂 Hope that helps a bit! You're doing great though, don't worry. :)

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

At the very least, the only thing that got eaten was a bird. Sadly, deer are still illiterate 😢

Thanks for the comma-assistance, btw. 🤗

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

LOL! 😂

Sure thing! 🤗

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

language is mostly what we make of it anyways :-)

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I see how I screwed up in my wording. :')

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I just had a vision of a deer sitting at a table in a French bistro, about to take a bite out of a sparrow impaled on a fork in one hoof and a Haynes manual for a Triumph Stag in the other. Made me laugh.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Stop bullying me for my shitty English skills 😆

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Your shitty English is infinitely better than my (I'm guessing) shitty Danish.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 6 points 7 months ago

You are guessing correctly. And tbf, Danish is barely a language. Anyone who attempts to learn Danish is a war hero.

We do make funny comedies, even though foreigners seem to be disturbed by our sense of humor.

Our humor is much like our language: ugly, brutal and thriving in the destruction of rules that are supposed to be upheld in polite society.

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[–] sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Haven't heard of that book, but I'll check it out.

In the meantime, the video in question for those of you who are curious.

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[–] sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

It's so fun! Short synopsis: anarcho squatter punks deal with ancient deer god.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago

That does indeed sound like a ton of fun. It goes on my tbr list. Thank you for the recommendation!

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[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

It was just like gulp! like it was a Tom & Jerry episode!

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

Just let me slap you in the face with my boobs bro, it's just really cold bro, it's just until your skull cracks open and i can eat your brains bro, please bro, they're great tits bro, it's science bro

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[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Anyone who has owned chickens knows this for a fact. They're fucking brutal.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMmgnpcaKyM

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

And if you give them a fake tail they walk like dinosaurs.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Last year I witnessed a bird MURDER another bird over some dispute over bird seeds.

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

I've seen chickens do this to other chickens. It's normal for them to peck at each other a bit, but if they see blood, they go crazy. They also eat eggs sometimes. Chickens, though

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I've actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.

Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

You know that we are megafauna. And the extinct megafauna had the misfortune to be either good eating for H. Sapiens, or were too dangerous to us to let live

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[–] Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

Dinosaurs, ey?

(Quick edit: As I am not close enough to biology this statement may be incorrect as chickens may not technically belong to the category [whichever level and correct name it may be/have] of dinosaur. In this case I am sorry for perpetrating this misinformation)

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn't inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Chickens typically eat eggs when they have a vitamin deficiency, although that's why typically obligate herbivores will sometimes eat baby birds and small rodents.

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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago

One thing to think about is that all birds are descended from a common ancestor that is carnivorous. Every omnivorous or herbivorous bird evolved that diet from ancestors that primarily ate animal products.

Just goes to show that with enough time, life finds a way to make use of biomass all around it, even if it means evolving away from an ancestor's dietary limits.

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I agree. It's a struggle based on food availability. The bigger fowl, keep them away from their food, and the smaller fowl, eat their eggs.

Honestly, we incubated too many eggs with too small of an enclosure. They're getting better, also winner winner chicken dinner

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As it turns out, many "herbivores" just need to eat and will fill in with your flesh given the chance and they're hungry enough

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 15 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Great Tits aren't herbivores, they mainly eat lots of insects. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Nerd.

I don't know about all herbivores, but a deer will eat every little baby it finds if it discovers a nest.

I don't think it matters what kind of baby, they are all delicious

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[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Must be a republican

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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 8 points 7 months ago

Raptors being raptors

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

..and by "harsh" they mean "typical"

Here, in the North, as snow covers the ground we make sacrificial fat ball offerings to the beast, you know, just in case. Brain is mostly fat tissue.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

~~crested~~ tufted titmouse;

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

I love watching birds. We have a bird feeder outside kitchen window and see all kinds of birds show up there.

Why is every bird better looking than most humans... They really are.

Just this guy in your picture, stunning.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

been collecting that camera about a year now. disregard dates, scroll photos; https://photos.app.goo.gl/ALp76oVMb356twLn6

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

Tufted titmouse would be my guess.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

this one has a sunflower seed. angle makes it hard to see 'tuft', but is probably same;

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Nice, and I see a black-capped chickadee too.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

started another community. pinned post has link to my trailcam pics album. thousands to scroll through from just this winter. i'm not a birder, just love to see them. ;; https://midwest.social/c/bird

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.

Maybe their lifespan is so short it won't matter.

[–] b0ber@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Possible but rare

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

My honest reaction every time I see something like this. For what it's worth, the small mammals were pipistrelle bats, and other flesh and organs were missing. I don't think they've ever been reported to eat rodents.

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I prefer small tits

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 point 7 months ago

Me too.

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[–] Cekan14@lemmy.org 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Fool of me, I searched "Great Tits" to learn more about this bird and, well... Don't do it.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I want a review of great tits for wendsday, first hour.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

Great Tits man

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

They deserve it, honestly

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Source?

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for mind blowing great tits. You'll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.

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