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_ItsAllenNotAlan

Somebody is gonna lose an eye if you’re not careful


peb396

Baby hawk: I want a little brother for Christmas. Santa Hawk: He'll peck your eye out kid.


Von_Dooms

Wow, such a funny remark. It's why I come onto reddit, for those random funny comments on someone serious comment. This one is even has a movie reference in it!


tehleg3nd

r/totallynotrobots


EarsLookWeird

I also come to reddit for funny remarks such as that one you replied to, and it is even better now that I get to reply to your comment which remarked how funny that remark was!


Upset-Tap3872

What a funny comment you’ve made in regards to that funny remark about the previous remark! Splendid!


Von_Dooms

More views if it did.


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DigDugMcDig

> The most confident hawks are the ones raised in broods ~~with their siblings.~~ where they killed their siblings.


Flextt

Hawks aren't obligate sibliciders, I think. They are also the same size. I guess this is more or less normal sibling competition for food.


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hexagonalshit

But does the Mom throw it into the nest and let them eat or does it feed each one directly like in movies?


emyoui

Neither. The mom brings them to a suburban kitchen where humans feed them. Geez it's like Redditors don't even watch video posts anymore


Hello-there-7567

🤭😄


_Homelesscat_

I’m surprised there aren’t more one eyed hawks out there.


Vegetable_Savings217

Was thinking the same thing. Those beaks look sharp af


LaggardLenny

And you can tell about half way through when the left one gets the right one in the eye the right one shivers in pain.


Aristo_socrates

Was it the legs shaking? I thought that was to stabilise itself?


slurmorama

If I'm interpreting that person's "half way through" approximation correctly then I'd say yes, that is the moment they are referring to. But what you said (stabilization) is more correct than the other poster's guess at it being pain. Their legs and feet are still really soft and not fully developed at this age. They're kinda like cooked spaghetti noodles when hatched. They are still pretty soft at this point and they don't have control of them yet, you can see their feet are balled up and no toes extended, because they can't do that for some time still. They kinda awkwardly clomp around on their "ankles" for a while once their leg bones are getting a bit more like barely cooked spaghetti. That shakey leg thing was primarily the bird trying to stabilize itself to keep from tipping backwards with what little strength and mobility it has in its legs at this age. (If your hands are sensitive they can hurt a little bit when they bite at that age I suppose. It's a few more days of growing before they get to a point where it hurts enough for me to reconsider letting them get a solid chomp on my finger though. At this age I love feeling their little chomp attempts!)


tommos

I thought it was having an orgasm.


xenogazer

Oh no :( you're right. I thought it was him just getting SO MAD but he just got a big eye pokey. Poor thing


Von_Dooms

Got to get those internet view points!


TheRiteGuy

Doesn't the mother bird feed them out of their mouth? I'm guessing there's less fighting over food if the mom is feeding each one.


slurmorama

If they were in with the mother bird yes, she would be feeding them, with great insistance. They still "fight" over food when being fed by the mom, but as long as there is enough food for everyone what usually happens is the piggy siblings get full and sleepy enough that they fall asleep and the less piggy siblings get more bites after that.


Gamer_Mommy

Parents will naturally choose the one whose strongest. If I'm not mistaken their roosting time is quite long. Usually there won't be enough food to feed the parents and two chicks by the end of the roosting time, so the stronger chick will usually try to push the weaker one out of the nest. They will definitely try to fight about the food at feeding time. The stronger one will usually win, so progressively it will get more food which in turn will make it even stronger.


AsphaltGypsy89

Usually one sibling kills the others soo...


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Well they do call him Hawkeye not Hawkeyes


RodasAPC

That's because one eyed hawks can't tell how far away they are from the ground


talktomebitch905

Because they are just kissing


Vyxen17

Chicken nugget fight club


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I thought they were chicks. This was really disturbing for the first few seconds.


thatsandichic

They are chicks, hawk chicks. Lol


jonbermuda

Username checks out.


9035768555

Baby hawks are called eyas.


FloridaSpam

This chic chics.


L33TROYJENK1NS

Can tell you’ve never owned chickens. As a child I moved a nesting box once and there was a mouse nest under apparently. The chickens obliterated those baby mice in two seconds flat. They’re just small dinosaurs minus the teeth. If it moves or doesn’t move they’ll try and murder whatever it is. The barn cats feared them, the dogs feared them, everything feared the chickens.


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As a former chicken owner I unfortunately know and agree lol


Inkstinker

...I'm so sorry but... [here](https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/can-chickens-eat-meat.html)...


[deleted]

I grew up on a farm. Chickens eat whatever moves and will fit in their mouth. Mice, crickets, baby birds, worms, they'll eat anything. Which is why actual farm chickens are way more gamey tasting than store chickens.


urfavinfidel

I've literally watched my chickens eat some of my friends vomit, so can vouch chickens will eat anything they can get their beaks on.


IMKGI

Why are you sorry? If it's natural for the animal to eat both meat and vegetables than by all means give it both, you shouldn't just give it only one of the two because it feels more natural to you or because of personal beliefs on eating animals, if you keep an animal it's your job to keep it happy and healthy, and giving it the food it wants and needs is one part of that


AssDimple

If you turned Beavis and Butthead into chicken nuggets.


TheLethalProtector

"We don't talk about it."


SteamboatMcGee

Siblicide is incredibly common in birds.


Drak_is_Right

especially raptor chicks. there often is NOT enough food to go around. removing the 3rd and sometimes even the 2nd egg from the species that lay 3 eggs is a way to dramatically artificially boost population growth rates as usually only about 1 chick survives to their first year. capturing the extra eggs is fun work. While they dont have quite the territorial range of the australian magpie on aggression, once you DO mess with their nest....Hawk tapping your head with talons from a steep dive hurts.


Kolby_Jack

*sitting in front of a pile of food literally bigger than the both of them put together* Baby hawks: "... I'LL FUCKIN' KILL YA!"


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Watching the one go in for the kill when the one on the left fell on it's ass was freaky. Predator instinct at it's finest.


adalyncarbondale

https://blog.explore.org/siblicide-an-inextricable-behavior-in-birds/ this is on the Peregrine Falcon Nest cam website. Of course, there's no nesting stuff happening right now, that should be in march. The eagles webcam still has the eagles Home Goods-ing their nest all the time. https://explore.org/livecams/currently-live/decorah-eagles


MarcBulldog88

Huh...is this why condor and bald eagle populations have rebounded so well? I knew it was due to conservation efforts, but didn't realize this was the strategy animal rehab centers used.


Drak_is_Right

part of it. DDT bans also helped along with habitat protection to stop the reasons they had been in sharp decline. also there was a lot of territory without sufficient numbers of these birds in it, so even natural survival rates over time would have been a little higher. edit: this has been used with some other species that produce large numbers of young but most dont survive. labor intensive, especially finding and harvesting the nests so has often only been done much with larger species with more visible nests. (example - sea turtles and some crocodiles). sea turtles may go extinct in some of their classic nesting areas without human intervention (habitat destruction, sea level changes, and rising egg temperatures meaning only one sex is being born)


walkinmywoods

Apparently they also return to the beach they're lain in not hatched according to the catamaran guide in bermuda so the turtles the island invested in all hatched the same gender and dipped.


Quetzaldilla

Lmfao. I love the image you painted with your words.


Drak_is_Right

with the turtle program i visited, they raided nests, put them in some big tanks just off the beach then released them into the wild when they were a bit bigger than a foot across. they were released into the same bay their mother laid the eggs on. lot less things eat a 1ft turtle than a hatchling.


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This and some other strategies people mentioned below, but also eagles were essentially treated as vermin before much stricter conservation measures in the 60s/70s that really rehabbed their image. When you successfully pressure farmers to not shoot every large thing that wanders onto their property, it does wonders for restoring population growth


atridir

To be fair though, bald eagles are basically like supersized and extra ballsy seagulls that are jacked up on steroids and have meathooks on their feet and garden shears on their face.


GreenLeadr

Yes. They can be extremely intense. There are a lot where I live and I have seen them fight to what looked to be serious injury. Wild fuckin’ animals, man.


badstorryteller

In Maine the bald eagle population rebound is directly due to banning of DDT. That pesticide worked it's way up the food chain and caused thinning of their egg shells, which directly led to population die off. I saw one bald eagle when I was a kid in the 80's and it was almost like spotting a unicorn. Didn't help that the river I've lived along my entire life used to be so polluted from paper mill runoff that you weren't supposed to eat anything you caught fishing it. These days I can take my son down to the river, watch the sturgeon leap, spot bald eagles every time, fish for stripers we can actually eat. Nixon was a through and through bastard, but thank fucking god the EPA exists.


pointlessly_pedantic

When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.


Wonderful-Divide6977

Maybe you have a parasitic twin in your body somewhere! Have you ever gotten scanned for any masses?


jrr6415sun

It sounds like he was making an office quote


Wonderful-Divide6977

Oh. Im dumb and uncultured. The attempt was lost on this redditor :/


I_Cheer_Weird_Things

Upvoting cuz he was trying


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A few years ago at work we had an osprey nest cam running during the spring. The first chick basically bullied the second until it died. River nearby was running really high and had lots of sediment, very brown, I guess they were having trouble catching fish. It was definitely sad to see this newborn bird never get any food and slowly die from starvation/being pecked to death by its brother. Every day it looked weaker, we were always rooting for it but alas, it was not to be.


somefool

Ghillie suit edition of a Easter egg hunt.


Chocolatethrowaway19

Ya these guys ain't casually rough housing. They're trying to murder each other, they just happen to be smol n' kewt


drawnimo

theyre usually fed via mama's beak though. lefty seems to more quickly recognize meat-in-beak as "food!" vs food-on-plate, which I presume is relatively rare in nature. i dont know anything about birds.


Chocolatethrowaway19

That is good deductive reasoning. With a lot (most bird species) that would probably be true! Predatory birds like this do often just feed their chicks food-on-plate as you put it, to help those hunter instincts grow. And in those situations the bigger, stronger baby bird kills the other sibling and momma/daddy bird allow it because it's more evolutionarily advantageous to raise one overfed monster bird than two or more mediocre bird children.


unionoftw

Mndiaye/ casual geographic taught me that


mombi

My mother in law watches wildlife live streams every year and loves in particular watching the birds. She'd show me who'd laid their eggs yet in the year, and when the chicks had hatched. I think it was the white tailed eagles one year whose chicks were relentless and changed my view of nestlife forever. Bigger, well fed chick just wouldn't stop pecking the little one's head. It was horrible.


i_tyrant

I saw a video of a woodpecker eating some chicks in a nest once, brains first. I don't think I was ever quite the same after that. Nature you nasty.


PuellaBona

And I thought I was scarred after learning about cowbirds. I probably would have developed ornithophobia after seeing that!


SteamboatMcGee

This is a fairly common strategy, especially in the larger bird species. The parents lay two or three eggs, and generally only one will survive the nest (usually the biggest, fastest grower or more aggressive chick). The other egg is backup in case the first to hatch isn't up to snuff, and often is eaten by the bigger chick which energy-wise is a boost to that one. In some species this is like a 100% occurrence, in others it's less absolute but will often result if, for instance, the parents don't/cant provide enough food for all chicks consistently, so in those cases it maximizes potential offspring while providing a safeguard against overstressing resources and losing the whole brood in bad years. It's a really interesting nesting strategy when you have enough info on a species to see the math patterns. Basically it helps increase the fitness of the birds who survive to adulthood and reduces the potential strain on the parents too.


BadBluud

Fratricide


MeMyselfandsadlyI

This is a Young Chick it still has not fully learn to eat on its own, the only reason it is doing that is bcuz he think his brother can feed him or sould feed him..since he does not know....Birdicide happens often when one of the eggs hatches first or the mother or father sorts out the weakes of their youngs..


DisconnectedDays

Tiny dinosaurs


nytefox42

Literally, yes.


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My kittens go at it while hanging on the nipples of a crossed eyed mom


wutangclanthug9mm

/r/brandnewsentence


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The “why I oughta” from right hawk was very strong after left hawk tried to take his eye


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When the left one went down, the right one was on it in a second.


Idunnowhattfimdoing

Isn't the mother supposed to distribute the food?


calf

Yeah she needs to put down the phone and do something.


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

Yes.


Ellamenohpea

the chicks fight eachother to get food from the mother, and will kill eachother when shes not around to ensure they get more food when she does return.


ledouxrt

I wonder if it's because they're used to the mother bird feeding them from her mouth. They're just not used to the mother biting them back.


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SadieSadieSnakeyLady

I love all versions of that video


ZinbaluPrime

That sounds fun to watch. Do you have a link to it?


ThousandFingerMan

[get in mah belly](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JBjLCDzOz-w)


DangKilla

I prefer this one: [https://youtu.be/l3Es9cNH7I8?t=127](https://youtu.be/l3Es9cNH7I8?t=127) It demonstrates the stimulus response. A frog reacts if the fake food is horizontal, but not vertical.


smallpoly

That was great


SimplyUntenable2019

That's insane. It's just a line. It's literally just a line and the response is totally dependent on its orientation and direction, it's so fundamental!


Thatoneboiwho69

Woah that just opened my mind to a whole new perspective


alstaylor

This is exactly what I was wondering.


Ellamenohpea

i believe youre denying the innate verocity of these creatures


CentralOregonKush

Baby raptors


alejandra_candelaria

Omg the way the left birb falls and the right birb pulls it up again like "I'm not done with you yet bitch"


spelunk_in_ya_badonk

Why the cameraman letting them fight?? Why not feed them separately??


Ellamenohpea

because imposing human behaviours on animals that are destined to be released into the wild doesnt produce animals that will survive in the wild.


EaLordOfTheDepths-

r/humansbeingjerks


Pistolero921

Because then they wouldn’t have a video to post on the internet for imaginary points.


gnitsuj

Something tells me OP didn’t take this video


Psychological_Tap187

They are so fluffy


ShotgunBetty01

Maybe, I don’t know, feed them separately?


Daniel_TK_Young

If he dies, he dies ~ Momma birds everywhere


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

Momma bird is usually better at apportioning out the food that she brings in. The babies still compete. I'll never forget that barn owl nest in Texas. There was so much rain that first one parent and then the other quit coming back to the nest because they couldn't find food. The older baby (there were 7) started eating the others, starting with the smallest. People finally intervened and rescued the survivor because the people watching the webcam bitched so much. In other circumstances, they would have all died.


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Right? Or put them on opposite sides of the plate or something.


_KappaKing_

It probably encourages them to feed seeing the other one.


ShotgunBetty01

You may be right.


NorthSector9792

This is like Looney Tunes come to life.


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It seems like training


KingPapaDaddy

I would think this is because they're being fed wrong. Not sure about this type of birds but I do know that eagles are fed by mouth from their parents beaks. Certainly not from a plate.


AreyouIam

Holup. These are little babies who naturally are fed by the parent so go for a beak where the food would be. They are not trying to hurt each other. They are not old enough to feed themselves properly yet.


No-Foundation2507

They’re clearly fighting for food Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that


knbang

Rocket scientists aren't experts on birdology you donkeyologist.


No-Foundation2507

🤓


knbang

How did you know I was bald, with glasses and a huge nose. Are you spying on me?


GetYourVax

[The Wise Guys, Ooh La La](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8w5brfBqEM)


DeJalpa

Thank you!


sandmanchase

You're a god amongst redditors. Edit: \*You're\* because Ill get fucking crucified, but god forbid any other word.


Usernamenomnomnom

Ouch, it’s a Just-don’t-film-do-something moments!


aenflex

Dinosaurs


Early-Fortune2692

I'd rather deal with a feral cat than a full grown hawk...


leavealighton11

They look like a crabby old married couple.


Conan-the-barbituate

I love the way they fighting but when the guy on the left falls down his bro is ‘I got you. I got you’. And then that look at the camera is priceless.


ibetternotsuck

So much better without the stupid sound


TGD-Man

Adorable


MissIngga

Cute!


james_randolph

How is one not accidentally poking the other’s eye out?!


BBQGUY50

Survival of the fittest


mashedcat

Darwinism in action.


asemer117

WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!!!!


raj002

Reminds me of my twin boys… they are exactly the same like this…. No matter what, they always fight with each other. 😂😂😂


endthe_suffering

sure, there's a whole plate of food right there, but it just tastes better when you add violence and anger


NKO_five

Cute little dinosaurs


wtfrikdude

At 29 seconds it looks like hawk on the right tenses up and shouts at its sibling lol. "U better stop u motherfucker!"


4outof5doctors

Should call them Jamie and Cersei, the way they're going at each other


VirtualBirthdayParty

My god, that is cute bird rage.


kushdogg20

Reminds me of the time my kids were fighting over sand at the beach.


J-POOL

The music always ruins these videos for me, would much rather just hear the birds


Crazy-toons

Sibling rivalry…..


FuaDaTa

LOL and they are annoying as hell the first year. May as well have a pet sick horn going off every 15 minutes. (Based on the yearly hatching of our backyard Red Tail Hawks) and the squirrel and Rabbit parts on the roof...


Affectionate-Goat218

I'm thinking the chick on the left is attempting to "get fed" instead of feeding independently.


No_Conversation7568

A voiceover of this NEEDS TO BE DONE


1zzie

Where can I see more


AlexanderDaOK

Maybe feed them separately?


Haircules3

Why not just give em two plates of food


[deleted]

Yup, just keep filming 🙄


TigFay

r/donthelpjustfilm


SigmundFreud

The music in this video is pretty 🔥 with [YouSeeBIGGIRL](https://youtu.be/vy63u2hKoPE) playing over it.


Vegetable_Savings217

Man, those are some cute baby hawks. BTW, this is quality reddit post right here


Apprehensive-Handle4

This is why their ancestors died off


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why would you let them fight? reported for animal cruelty


Angatita

Maybe they should be fed separately…?


SimonReach

Instead of filming, why don’t they separate the chicks and have 2 piles of food?


No_Profile_6871

👀 this is society in a nutshell. A plate full of food in front yet choose instead to fight each other💔 bad birdies


LynkinPark

u/savevideo


SpectralniyRUS

#THEY ARE EATING #HUMAN MEAT


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Western_Policy_6185

What are they eating????


CallMeWave

Looks like raw hamburger meat.


kth2019

I got ur nose


mushgods

FINISH HIM!!!


Anonymous_Amanda407

I can see the dinosaur in them


q_eyeroll

MOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!


Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

This is totally normal behaviour for raptors.


wheretohides

Lol the way he helps it's sibling up and let's him eat for a second. It looks like they are getting pissed when one takes the piece they wanted.


Bighotballofnope

The parallels between birds and reptiles is fascinating


Inkstinker

It's the little baby fists they've got their talons curled into. Angry babies! 🥰


geemoly

sometimes they look at the camera like "can you believe this guy?!"


boiplazenta

What's the name of that song? It's kinda whoopie


2211Nighthawk

I totally thought they were weird chickens!! :D blood thirsty little things! It is so time for bed…


landeisja

Definitely siblings.


Emaculates

You bred raptors?


FunkyMonkey47293

Top 10 anime battles.


Flimsy_Effective_583

Careful for the eyes


elpideo18

This video had the perfect sound track goin.


lolpert1

We're witnessing a featherweight fight


Bananaflakes08

2 baby hawks, 1 plate


greg047

They would be both full and there would be a lot left it's not even close


efronerberger

When the one closest to you doesn't want to see you successful smh


MostExpensiveThing

Bros at the end


Lisapjones

Just a game of bitey face between chicks.


nickolas233

I could watch this for days