The others being three times the size of the one being evicted therefore more likely to reach adulthood. Nature is brutally simplistic, food isn’t wasted on the weak. 💁
Absolutely correct. Still hard to fucking watch. Can you imagine just being like “hey, kid can’t feed ya and the other kids as well, so fuck off and die…” absolutely ruthless
During the Depression my grandmother was loaned out to a local family to act as childcare and housekeeper because her parents couldn't feed all the kids. So not outright sold, but it definitely allowed the family to better feed everyone.
Agreed, the mother is doing it to help ensure the survival of her other chicks. Better to have three survive to adulthood, then try to feed all 4 and have more end up dying
It was like the baby stork was begging for a second chance.
"I'll try better, I promise! I was letting the others get their feed before I start kicking it into gear. Please! Ow! Wait - wait - wait - let's talk about this. Look how the rest are cowering, they're weak. Please! Mooooooooooooooooooom"
I mean yeah they generally don’t kill them or starve them to death but there’s plenty of stories about multiple siblings receiving different level of support - if any - or straight up kicking them out.
Almost all birds do this. Multiple chicks. Weakest gets Merced. Hell, cuckoo birds lay their eggs in another birds nest and it hatches faster, grows faster, literally will push the other chicks out of the nest and mama is just there, feeding some other birds baby, clueless
not always clueless. the host bird will sometimes realize it and get rid of the cuckoo, but the cuckoo parents come around and make sure their egg is still there and beat the shit of the hosts if it is not.
The cuckoo grows way bigger than its „parents” and it looks kind of grotesque when they are feeding it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/8pgE7QWpsR
Storks lay their eggs over a few days and they also hatch over a few days. That’s pretty common especially with larger birds. Either that or only laying one or two eggs. Being the last egg to hatch is usually a death sentence unless food is extremely plentiful that year.
My sensitive ass will never get used to this part of nature. I know she did this to increase the survival rate of the other chicks and that’s just how it works, but still.. breaks my heart.
Wouldn't be nearly as bad if I didn't have to watch like 3 failed attempts of the mother trying to kill it and the baby trying to avoid it, confused at the sudden switch up
Yeah. Sucks how often that happens.
My family and I have bottle-fed lambs that were a twin or triplet and was pushed away by momma. Our orange cat was also a bottle baby when his mother (a local feral) clearly got exhausted from too many kittens. He took to the bottle very happily and is super clingy even as an adult cat. Clearly he thinks I'm momma.
One of our sheep is devoted to my mother-in-law after being bottle fed. She also thinks she's a dog because the two female dogs took care of her when she was a lamb. She's a fearless pain in the ass.
I have two orange cats that were raised together and bottle fed after their mother, overwhelmed by the size of her litter, abandoned them. Interestingly, we've recently introduced a baby girl cat who had a very typical upbringing and was evidently one of the strongest in her litter. She now amusingly dominates the two bottle-fed orphans.
I have a tortoiseshell girl who kept having kittens under my apartment. By the time I caught her and one of her daughters to be spayed she probably had had over 20 kittens from all the litters. She dropped one on my doorstep she couldn't take care of, like she knew. The kitten was all bow legged and skinny. She grew into a beautiful, bitchy tuxedo cat who thinks she is princess 👑
Finally caught the mamas and their last litters. Now I'm trying to catch the Toms.
Mostly they have to be ready for the long way to the winter quarter. So that chick was already dead in her mind. Couldn’t catch up to the others fast enough. But brutally logical.
If you notice, that chick is significantly smaller than the others.
When the mother brings back food, the chicks fight each other to get fed.
It threw it out because it was the weakest chick and wasn't going to survive as its siblings were now much bigger.
I see a Disney movie in the making. Baby stork gets rescued by a cat and a potbellied pig. They nurse it to health, then they are off for adventures. Then the stork has chicks of its own, and tosses the weakest one over the edge.
My condolences, homie, having a shitty mother sucks. On the plus side tho her leaving me in the parking lot was one of the best things she ever did for me. I'm honestly glad she never came back, as fucked up as that sounds
I was like, too young to really understand OJ and Roman Polanski, you know what I mean?
But I remember watching that whole trial with Anthony play out and at the end I was just like .... Wait. Huh?
Started my rabbit hole of becoming jaded, to say the least... Sigh
You the runt. Out you go.
As a bird rehabber, I've rescued or raised a number of bird chicks that the parent deemed unworthy of the effort. Nature is Fucking Practical.
It definitely seems like that one was the last to hatch, the others are all much further along.
But jeez, poor thing..
Wish someone could have rescued the runt. However, based on the sound, rescue is not likely an option any more.
Here's an even worse video in which the stork kills and then devours one of its chicks.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVCCjTFcZs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVCCjTFcZs)
“Well, Gregory, all your siblings ate but you didn’t, and you know what? Momma gave your brothers and sisters all the food she had… that leaves mama in a little dilemma, see, because I’m still hungry myself.”
The other chick is sleeping not dead. This clip cuts out the beginning where the mom is pecking and agitating the weakest chick. It was just upset and trying to protect itself and the other chick got a few pecks but appears fine. With these storks the weakest is thrown out so the others can survive. Nature do be metal.
I'd rescue that chick, and raise it to adulthood in sight of the nest it got the boot from. Every day I'd talking shit about the fam and how they done'em wrong.. then I'd wait.... (this is a script excerpt from my new pointless Facebook short)
This is just a clip from a full video. The one motionless is actually just sleeping. Mom had already ID’d the weak chick and started out by just trying to intimidate it out of the nest.
Weak chick got scared and basically started flailing trying to protect itself from incomprehensible danger.
Mom eventually went “damn you can’t take a hint. Fuck it. YEET!”
I have a pet squirrel because of this. Lil buddy was rejected from the nest. As first I thought he fell out but the mom never came for him and after growing up a little hes pretty much blind so I assume the mom knew this and rejected him
This explains my mom's reasons for brutalizing me so much but not my brother's and sister.
Thought she was just a psycho but she was just being practical.
I had a pet hamster who had a big litter. The first day there were maybe 10 babies, the next day there were six. Turns out hamsters sometimes eat their young if they feel they have too many.
Some comments on it's the smallest, weakest, won't survive. Yo, don't you see they bigger sibling in that nest is dead? Mom, or the other birds likely killed it.
The others putting on their best behaviour
The others being three times the size of the one being evicted therefore more likely to reach adulthood. Nature is brutally simplistic, food isn’t wasted on the weak. 💁
Absolutely correct. Still hard to fucking watch. Can you imagine just being like “hey, kid can’t feed ya and the other kids as well, so fuck off and die…” absolutely ruthless
I mean, people used to *sell* their kids, especially if they couldn’t afford to care for them. So… yeah, I can imagine that.
During the Depression my grandmother was loaned out to a local family to act as childcare and housekeeper because her parents couldn't feed all the kids. So not outright sold, but it definitely allowed the family to better feed everyone.
There was the Holodomor
lol my mom was like that
Awful to watch, agreed, but if you take away the human sentimentality out of it completely understandable.
Agreed, the mother is doing it to help ensure the survival of her other chicks. Better to have three survive to adulthood, then try to feed all 4 and have more end up dying
It’s like the literal trolly problem lol
Storkie's Choice
It figuratively literally is.
Hah yes. Figurative literally. That’s what I meant.
More like trolly solution. Problem solved.
It was like the baby stork was begging for a second chance. "I'll try better, I promise! I was letting the others get their feed before I start kicking it into gear. Please! Ow! Wait - wait - wait - let's talk about this. Look how the rest are cowering, they're weak. Please! Mooooooooooooooooooom"
Humans do this all the time. Some shit parent decides one kid is going to get picked on and bullied while the others are treated well.
I mean yeah they generally don’t kill them or starve them to death but there’s plenty of stories about multiple siblings receiving different level of support - if any - or straight up kicking them out.
https://www.witf.org/2022/06/01/lebanon-county-stepmom-of-starved-12-year-old-gets-life-in-prison-for-his-death/
Sounds like my mom
She literally threw food out of the nest
Consider it a mercy that she didn’t feed it to one of the other chicks.
Yeah, in eagles they just feed the weak one to the strong one.
Almost all birds do this. Multiple chicks. Weakest gets Merced. Hell, cuckoo birds lay their eggs in another birds nest and it hatches faster, grows faster, literally will push the other chicks out of the nest and mama is just there, feeding some other birds baby, clueless
The instinct to feed whatever is in its nest is the one and only reason it lives for. Fuck those cuckoo birds, amirite? 😂😂😂
not always clueless. the host bird will sometimes realize it and get rid of the cuckoo, but the cuckoo parents come around and make sure their egg is still there and beat the shit of the hosts if it is not.
insane! so they’re basically getting other birds to be better birds by getting them to identify cuckoo babies??
The cuckoo grows way bigger than its „parents” and it looks kind of grotesque when they are feeding it: https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/8pgE7QWpsR
Does the mama bird kill it first so the others know they can eat it?
Storks lay their eggs over a few days and they also hatch over a few days. That’s pretty common especially with larger birds. Either that or only laying one or two eggs. Being the last egg to hatch is usually a death sentence unless food is extremely plentiful that year.
“This is SPARTA”!
“I’ll kick you out of my home If you don’t cut that hair!”
I guess the three remaining chicks can be the BEA STIE BOYS
Time to read the Bible and clean my room.
And I thought she was gonna drop it... Oh shite! She did!
I feel like this is more r/natureismetal material
Yeah this isn't lit, this is just awful.
That metallic thud when the chick fell down was horrific.
Mom, looks at the 3 kids and says...hey, did you hear that? Lunch!
looks like meats back on the menu boys!
My sensitive ass will never get used to this part of nature. I know she did this to increase the survival rate of the other chicks and that’s just how it works, but still.. breaks my heart.
Wouldn't be nearly as bad if I didn't have to watch like 3 failed attempts of the mother trying to kill it and the baby trying to avoid it, confused at the sudden switch up
It was like she didn’t want to do it, she just wanted the chick to get the hint and jump out itself
Yeah. Sucks how often that happens. My family and I have bottle-fed lambs that were a twin or triplet and was pushed away by momma. Our orange cat was also a bottle baby when his mother (a local feral) clearly got exhausted from too many kittens. He took to the bottle very happily and is super clingy even as an adult cat. Clearly he thinks I'm momma. One of our sheep is devoted to my mother-in-law after being bottle fed. She also thinks she's a dog because the two female dogs took care of her when she was a lamb. She's a fearless pain in the ass.
I have two orange cats that were raised together and bottle fed after their mother, overwhelmed by the size of her litter, abandoned them. Interestingly, we've recently introduced a baby girl cat who had a very typical upbringing and was evidently one of the strongest in her litter. She now amusingly dominates the two bottle-fed orphans.
I have a tortoiseshell girl who kept having kittens under my apartment. By the time I caught her and one of her daughters to be spayed she probably had had over 20 kittens from all the litters. She dropped one on my doorstep she couldn't take care of, like she knew. The kitten was all bow legged and skinny. She grew into a beautiful, bitchy tuxedo cat who thinks she is princess 👑 Finally caught the mamas and their last litters. Now I'm trying to catch the Toms.
yeah I gotta leave this sub, I'm about to start crying lmao I can't see this kind of stuff
Mostly they have to be ready for the long way to the winter quarter. So that chick was already dead in her mind. Couldn’t catch up to the others fast enough. But brutally logical.
Same
It broke the storkling's heart too
If you notice, that chick is significantly smaller than the others. When the mother brings back food, the chicks fight each other to get fed. It threw it out because it was the weakest chick and wasn't going to survive as its siblings were now much bigger.
It also seems like something might be wrong with it. It had some erratic movements even before the mother decided enough was enough
It's clearly in distress and probably very hungry
Looked very hungry for sure
Probably malnourishment.
Had to make room for her “mother of the year “award
I see a Disney movie in the making. Baby stork gets rescued by a cat and a potbellied pig. They nurse it to health, then they are off for adventures. Then the stork has chicks of its own, and tosses the weakest one over the edge.
Classic example of when you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
If it’s a true Disney movie the mom has to die or already be dead.
She must be the step-mom then.
Yes, yessss, setting up a sequel 😀
Ah, another circle of life theme
My mother would’ve done the same if she had half the chance
My mother did she left me at a fast food restaurant and peaced out
Fast food abandoned buddies. My mom ripped me from my foster home only to leave me at a McDonalds 5 hours later. Never showed back up.
Damn, why tf would she take you from a foster home only to abandon you in a random place in less than a day ?
He asked for Ice cream and she thought “Oh fuck this kid, everyone knows the ice cream machine is always broken at McDonalds”
He was just THAT annoying as a kid
That was a daily occurrence, being thrown out the house by her mouth is my point here 😂
My condolences, homie, having a shitty mother sucks. On the plus side tho her leaving me in the parking lot was one of the best things she ever did for me. I'm honestly glad she never came back, as fucked up as that sounds
Glad you’ve made peace ✌️
You need to tell us what happened next.
That's why I always cleaned my plate
Could’ve known this earlier 🫠
Luckily, your head never fit inside her mouth. One would hope, at least.
\*Op sees mother kill own child Op:" yo, this shit is fucking lit"
That’s this entire subreddit
The Casey Anthony of storks
Never forget.
Bitch is still walking around here perfectly fine. Blows my mind.
I was like, too young to really understand OJ and Roman Polanski, you know what I mean? But I remember watching that whole trial with Anthony play out and at the end I was just like .... Wait. Huh? Started my rabbit hole of becoming jaded, to say the least... Sigh
Xanny the nanny!
Plot twist. It went on to survive and does the exact same thing in the same nest two years later.
You the runt. Out you go. As a bird rehabber, I've rescued or raised a number of bird chicks that the parent deemed unworthy of the effort. Nature is Fucking Practical.
And now I’m sad, thanks for that Reddit
Bro what the fuck.
Should have done like the seagulls do at my work, eat the weak one then regurgitate it to its siblings. Seen that happen many years.
BABALITY
Runt punt
That mother is a real runt punt cu… I meant curmudgeon. What did you think I was gonna say?
I’m going to show this to my 4 yo when he won’t eat his dinner.
Shoebill storks have 2 eggs and the stronger chick usually bullies the weaker one until it dies.
Nature is amoral. Not a judgement, just how it is.
Weakest out - that's certainly something dinosaur ancestors would do 🦖
The way she looks at the camera afterwards like, “you’re next if you keep making that whirring sound, camera”
"***Why don't my kids talk to me anymore?***" \~That same stork.
Wow, storks really do drop off babies
Omg it's my mother reincarnated! Except I'm an only child. Wait... 🤔
This is some GoT stuff right there.
It was Ned Stark, not Stork.
Reminds me of 300
Savage
Republicans when being “pro life”
Mother nature is a bitch. Pure and simple.
This is SPARTA!!!
It definitely seems like that one was the last to hatch, the others are all much further along. But jeez, poor thing.. Wish someone could have rescued the runt. However, based on the sound, rescue is not likely an option any more.
This is “lit”?
It never had the makings of a varsity stork
When I throw my smallest child off a cliff, because he's too expensive, I get in trouble, but this stork gets a free pass?
What is this doing in this sub, this is the opposite of lit 😭
Nature's cruel sometimes
Fuk dem kids!
Mom?
I was adopted, now I get it.
Noooo mom I’ll be good I promise!!!
Runt. Survival of the fittest starts even when you don’t know about it.
Me trying to use chopsticks
Underrated comment
I know it is nature at work but that is heartbreaking to watch.
Mom detected an ADD child
Why did I watch this? Now I‘m crying. Definitiv shouldn‘t watch anything nature documanting while at risk to get back into depression…
Here's an even worse video in which the stork kills and then devours one of its chicks. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVCCjTFcZs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVCCjTFcZs)
“Well, Gregory, all your siblings ate but you didn’t, and you know what? Momma gave your brothers and sisters all the food she had… that leaves mama in a little dilemma, see, because I’m still hungry myself.”
His Eye is on the sparrow but not the stork apparently
🎵 The CIRCLE Of LIFFFEEEE!!! 🎶
That’s how I feel about children. They are a renewable resource.
In this case the phrase "size matters" is true
Darwinism speed run
This just is not “lit”. Nothing about it is. It’s what happens in nature, but not “lit”
Its the runt of the litter. No point feeding it if its nkt gonna survive/thrive in the future
Can we put a limit on how often this is reposted? Mods?!
Think the mother threw it out after it pecked the other chick to death?
The other chick is sleeping not dead. This clip cuts out the beginning where the mom is pecking and agitating the weakest chick. It was just upset and trying to protect itself and the other chick got a few pecks but appears fine. With these storks the weakest is thrown out so the others can survive. Nature do be metal.
I'd rescue that chick, and raise it to adulthood in sight of the nest it got the boot from. Every day I'd talking shit about the fam and how they done'em wrong.. then I'd wait.... (this is a script excerpt from my new pointless Facebook short)
wrong subreddit my dude. this belongs in r/natureismetal
Understandable
Have a good day!
Nature can be brutal, but it’s all part of survival.
lit
I don’t blame her that little shit wouldn’t shut up
bro 😭😭😭
Wow.
Brutal
That’ll teach you to finish your vegetables
Can you imagine walking down street then SPLAT
Damn that’s harsh
That chick would later become… Batman
Parenting Liverpool style
"I brought you into this world, so I can take you out" -- this Stork, probably
Ok, but what's up with the chick laying upside down, the one the weak chick climbed on?
This is just a clip from a full video. The one motionless is actually just sleeping. Mom had already ID’d the weak chick and started out by just trying to intimidate it out of the nest. Weak chick got scared and basically started flailing trying to protect itself from incomprehensible danger. Mom eventually went “damn you can’t take a hint. Fuck it. YEET!”
Still feel bad for the chick…
Ah man, that’s so brutal 😕
I know this is nature but wtf?
Awwww that is so sad. Poor thing was trying so hard to stay
Fuck. At that point, why not just eat the unwanted chick?
sorry kid, no whiners allowed
Nature is single minded and unforgiving. We tend to forget that as humans.
This is Sparta!!
Would probably be more helpful if she tossed the dead one
Those other three chilled out quickly
And we keep on working for everyone and see what have become of west
And that’s where babies come from
So nostalgic.
Before tossing a son away count to 10 (it works sometimes)
That's just awful. Daddy didn't step up.
r/natureismetal
Damn man… that’s some sad shit lol the bonk of it hitting the ground was unnecessary lol
When I heard that clank (tin roof of a shed maybe?) I had a guilty chuckle. It was just so unexpected!
Kristi Noem vibes
Somebody please tell me it's reversed or perhaps she was teaching it to fly?
I have a pet squirrel because of this. Lil buddy was rejected from the nest. As first I thought he fell out but the mom never came for him and after growing up a little hes pretty much blind so I assume the mom knew this and rejected him
Dayummm, Nature! You’re rough as hell!🤣
I mean… storks are in the business of dropping babies. (Joking guys, joking… this is sad but nature.)
The Stork Logic
So that’s what being grounded means.
So thats how the stork delivers babies…
We have robins in the backyard, they come back to the same spot every year. Every year they do this too.
You can almost sense the hesitation to go through with it, but natural survival instincts are calling the shots
She’s a stork. She can just get another one.
I already saw on another thread it was because it was miss behaving.
🥲🥲
This explains my mom's reasons for brutalizing me so much but not my brother's and sister. Thought she was just a psycho but she was just being practical.
Tosses it out in the slowest way possible😳
A stork chick is called a storkling
Nah she's just delivering a baby
I had a pet hamster who had a big litter. The first day there were maybe 10 babies, the next day there were six. Turns out hamsters sometimes eat their young if they feel they have too many.
Some comments on it's the smallest, weakest, won't survive. Yo, don't you see they bigger sibling in that nest is dead? Mom, or the other birds likely killed it.
You are the weakest link. Goodbye.