MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
on 24 Oct 2025 16:45
collapse
Christ.
I describe the video briefly below, so don’t read if you’re straight-up avoiding this.
For anyone curious, it’s not gory or horrendous. There is a chick, which the horse just kinda… mouths up, and the hen rushes the horse who just does care. Then more chewing.
PorradaVFR@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 15:15
nextcollapse
That’s (not) nuts!
logicbomb@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 15:30
nextcollapse
A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
on 23 Oct 2025 16:41
collapse
Squirrels are not strictly herbivores though. It’s pretty typical behavior for them to occassionally eat eggs, baby birds or other smaller critters.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Oct 2025 19:04
collapse
Or meat out of the garbage bin in the park. Or cum from disposed condoms in the park.
einkorn@feddit.org
on 23 Oct 2025 21:13
nextcollapse
Now that escalated quickly.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
on 23 Oct 2025 23:21
nextcollapse
This guy parks.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
on 24 Oct 2025 04:01
nextcollapse
Or the dismembered body I buried, in the park.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
on 24 Oct 2025 07:01
collapse
Yeah, ofc. Why would you miss 🤮 an opportunity 🤮for 🤮 a easy 🤮 source of protein 🤮.
tomiant@piefed.social
on 23 Oct 2025 15:37
nextcollapse
I saw a crow snatch up and gulp down a newborn sparrow that fell out of its nest. It was a pretty hardcore nature moment seeing the whole flock of sparrows freak out, and the mom being frantic for an hour afterwards.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
on 23 Oct 2025 23:21
nextcollapse
Squirrels are omnivorous. Their PR is awesome and not many people know about that. But a squirrel with blood on its face is a little chilling.
Once saw a squirrel run up to a half flattened spasming and dying squirrel on the road and chitter around it for a second. We all thought it was its friend or relative. Then it took the nut out of the dying squirrels mouth and ran off with it.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
on 24 Oct 2025 16:44
collapse
Ice Age 22
30p87@feddit.org
on 23 Oct 2025 13:19
nextcollapse
Sharks are literally underwater dogs. Same consequences for FAFO, but much more stigmatized.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
on 23 Oct 2025 23:22
nextcollapse
Yeah, but when a Labrador mouths your hand you still get to keep it.
If they’re hungry and you look like food to them. Which is non-trivial.
billbasher@lemmy.world
on 30 Oct 2025 02:52
collapse
Isn’t that only poisonous jellyfish?
someguy3@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 13:45
nextcollapse
Dusky sharks, who are apparently fed by people and tour boat operators so they stick around the boats.
Witness testimonies suggest a shark reportedly lunged at his GoPro camera.
“The situation likely occurred via a process of juxtaposition bites, with two distinct motivations: the first, a (probably single) reflex/clumsiness bite driven by food begging, and the second, several predatory bites triggered by a feeding frenzy,” researchers explain.
“The central objective is to eliminate the begging behaviour in sharks, and this can only be achieved by establishing and enforcing a complete and total ban on all artificial feeding of sharks by the public,” scientists write.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 26 Oct 2025 15:23
collapse
Ah, once again we’ve identified the true problem while they’re trying to blame and fearmonger sharks.
Vending machines, people. Don’t forget.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 14:10
nextcollapse
I’m gonna go ahead and choose not to swim in a school of sharks.
sepi@piefed.social
on 23 Oct 2025 15:33
nextcollapse
I’m gonna go ahead and choose not to pogo-stick on I-5 at rush hour
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 17:50
nextcollapse
The odds of you being killed by a snail are low… but never zero. And when it inevitably happens, there’s no way to prove that it was intentional, that it was retribution for your crimes against this snail’s entire bloodline… but I’ll know.
venusaur@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 14:34
nextcollapse
There’s something in the water there…
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
on 23 Oct 2025 18:20
nextcollapse
And they are still harmless, I’m sure flies have killed people too.
billbasher@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 22:55
nextcollapse
The recession (climate change) is hitting us all, human and animal
Shard@lemmy.world
on 24 Oct 2025 04:19
nextcollapse
If a tiny 2 foot long cookie cutter shark can take chunks out of people, then any shark bigger than that with sharp teeth is equally if not more dangerous.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 24 Oct 2025 06:49
collapse
You just said the reason why I don’t go in the sharks’ homes. They live there. Sharks are gonna shark. Don’t wanna get eaten by a shark? Don’t go in the water!
Wolf314159@startrek.website
on 24 Oct 2025 08:55
collapse
The article is saying that these sharks aren’t really sharking though. The sharks behavior has been changed by environmental factors (regular human feeding and humans raising the local sea temperature by dumping warm water from the desalination plant).
Sharks are attracted by usually warm water from desalination plant.
Tourist guide boats start chumming the waters to keep the sharks around for tourists.
The attraction of so many mostly harmless sharks changes their feeding dynamic. Ever tried eating an ice cream cone near a small child? Ever tried pushing an ice cream cart through a crowd of small kids? Way different dynamic as supply and demand changes as the crowd grows.
Formerly mostly harmless and “shy around humans” sharks start directly approaching humans as a source of food.
Sharks investigate human, beg for food. How do sharks investigate? By biting, nibbles really, or bumping into people swimming.
The first bite generates a predictably violent reaction from the humans, which triggers a feeding frenzy response. Humans aren’t equipped to defend or escape this.
The point is that at every step of the way, these sharks are acting in a very strange way (for them) as a direct result of human action. We’ve seen this kind of thing before when people feed wild animals, strange and dangerous human seeking behaviors develop: alligators, bears, moose, etc. Dangerous animals? Yes, but the behaviors that result in human deaths are in no way natural.
altphoto@lemmy.today
on 24 Oct 2025 04:55
nextcollapse
threaded - newest
Hunger isn’t a joke. I once saw a squirrel eating a bird.
Maybe NSFW but horse eating a chick.
Christ.
I describe the video briefly below, so don’t read if you’re straight-up avoiding this.
For anyone curious, it’s not gory or horrendous. There is a chick, which the horse just kinda… mouths up, and the hen rushes the horse who just does care. Then more chewing.
That’s (not) nuts!
A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.
Squirrels are not strictly herbivores though. It’s pretty typical behavior for them to occassionally eat eggs, baby birds or other smaller critters.
Or meat out of the garbage bin in the park. Or cum from disposed condoms in the park.
Now that escalated quickly.
This guy parks.
Or the dismembered body I buried, in the park.
Yeah, ofc. Why would you miss 🤮 an opportunity 🤮for 🤮 a easy 🤮 source of protein 🤮.
I saw a crow snatch up and gulp down a newborn sparrow that fell out of its nest. It was a pretty hardcore nature moment seeing the whole flock of sparrows freak out, and the mom being frantic for an hour afterwards.
Squirrels are omnivorous. Their PR is awesome and not many people know about that. But a squirrel with blood on its face is a little chilling.
Once saw a squirrel run up to a half flattened spasming and dying squirrel on the road and chitter around it for a second. We all thought it was its friend or relative. Then it took the nut out of the dying squirrels mouth and ran off with it.
Ice Age 22
Sharks are literally underwater dogs. Same consequences for FAFO, but much more stigmatized.
Yeah, but when a Labrador mouths your hand you still get to keep it.
If they want to hurt you… no. Maybe not with small dogs, but the same applies to small sharks.
Sharks aren’t FAFO. If they are hungry they attack.
If they’re hungry and you look like food to them. Which is non-trivial.
Isn’t that only poisonous jellyfish?
Dusky sharks, who are apparently fed by people and tour boat operators so they stick around the boats.
Ah, once again we’ve identified the true problem while they’re trying to blame and fearmonger sharks.
Vending machines, people. Don’t forget.
I’m gonna go ahead and choose not to swim in a school of sharks.
I’m gonna go ahead and choose not to pogo-stick on I-5 at rush hour
Listen someone has to and it sounds like you just volunteered
Back in the 70’s I used to swim with nurse sharks all around. Wonder if they will start eating peops at some point as well.
Wild animals are never “harmless.”
Deer have killed people. Birds have killed people.
Even snails have killed people. Who knows, there could be a snail coming for you right now!
Very, very slowly
But relentlessly
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/395f44ed-7a34-49ae-b054-04d6717eface.png">
The odds of you being killed by a snail are low… but never zero. And when it inevitably happens, there’s no way to prove that it was intentional, that it was retribution for your crimes against this snail’s entire bloodline… but I’ll know.
My only regret is that I could not have killed more snails in my short life. They eat my garden.
Let me introduce you to this French cuisine I think you’ll enjoy.
Water had killed people.
Gravity has killed people.
But above all, humans have killed people.
If I wanted to live, I’d go live with the sharks.
100%
humans are the worst
Eh. Food has killed people too, we’re not that impressive
<img alt="1000062613" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/54e37ef6-14b3-43eb-a95c-f7413f2dff67.jpeg">
He looks so silly and cute tho…
Juuuust a liiiiitle snoot boop…
There’s something in the water there…
And they are still harmless, I’m sure flies have killed people too.
The recession (climate change) is hitting us all, human and animal
If a tiny 2 foot long cookie cutter shark can take chunks out of people, then any shark bigger than that with sharp teeth is equally if not more dangerous.
You just said the reason why I don’t go in the sharks’ homes. They live there. Sharks are gonna shark. Don’t wanna get eaten by a shark? Don’t go in the water!
The article is saying that these sharks aren’t really sharking though. The sharks behavior has been changed by environmental factors (regular human feeding and humans raising the local sea temperature by dumping warm water from the desalination plant).
The point is that at every step of the way, these sharks are acting in a very strange way (for them) as a direct result of human action. We’ve seen this kind of thing before when people feed wild animals, strange and dangerous human seeking behaviors develop: alligators, bears, moose, etc. Dangerous animals? Yes, but the behaviors that result in human deaths are in no way natural.
This man was last seen surrounded by cats:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/8c6cea11-05b0-4c75-a6c4-193b11c5bdf1.jpeg">
Previously thought harmless, these were really really hungry.
I’ve never met a cat person who believed they were harmless.
Not being harmless os part of their charm.
The odds of your pet cat killing and eating you are low, but never zero.
The last thing that went through his head was “dusky shark do do do do do do…”
Somewhere, my mother’s paranoia is shouting in vindication.
xkcd.com/1387/
Turns out these sharks have been following the news.
Decent people.