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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
(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)
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.
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.
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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Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 196 pts · 152d
Great tits make me brainless too
Janx@piefed.social · 39 pts · 152d
Pack it up, folks. We already have the best comment...
grue@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 151d
I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 151d
You and me both
can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 151d
Even unremarkable tits are known to have this effect on me
pedz@lemmy.ca · 57 pts · 152d
Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn't but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 44 pts · 151d
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.
huppakee@piefed.social · 26 pts · 151d
🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶
Trex202@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 151d
I hope my farmers don't mind it
stephen01king@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 151d
It's an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn't you gobble up some chicks?
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 151d
Exactly.
I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.
huppakee@piefed.social · 3 pts · 151d
Oportunistic carnivores? Too lazy to hunt prey you mean.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 152d
And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻
TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 151d
Imagine being bored and just like "oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape"
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
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.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 151d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYNmGMsU18
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 152d
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
pennomi@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 152d
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 151d
Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷
village604@adultswim.fan · 13 pts · 151d
Anyone who has owned chickens knows this for a fact. They're fucking brutal.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 151d
And if you give them a fake tail they walk like dinosaurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMmgnpcaKyM
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 151d
Last year I witnessed a bird MURDER another bird over some dispute over bird seeds.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 151d
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 · 16 pts · 151d
Great Tits aren't herbivores, they mainly eat lots of insects. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 151d
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
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Must be a republican
El_guapazo@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 151d
Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 151d
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
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 151d
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.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 151d
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.
macros@feddit.org · 9 pts · 151d
You know the reason why most of the recent megafauna went extinct? (Mammoths, big birds, giant sloth, saber toothed cat, ...)
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 151d
Their feet got too big for their boots?
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
They got too big for their britches?
psud@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 150d
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
Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 151d
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)
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 151d
Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn't inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 151d
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.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 150d
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.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d
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
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 152d
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.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 151d
crestedtufted titmouse;1984@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 151d
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.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
been collecting that camera about a year now. disregard dates, scroll photos; https://photos.app.goo.gl/ALp76oVMb356twLn6
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 149d
Tufted titmouse would be my guess.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
this one has a sunflower seed. angle makes it hard to see 'tuft', but is probably same;
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
Nice, and I see a black-capped chickadee too.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
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
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 151d
..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.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 8 pts · 151d
Raptors being raptors
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 151d
Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.
inari@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 151d
I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.
Maybe their lifespan is so short it won't matter.
b0ber@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
Possible but rare
RevolverSly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 151d
I prefer small tits
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 151d
Me too.
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 151d
They deserve it, honestly
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 151d
The first thing to successfully starting a war is to dehumanize the target
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 151d
The definition of “small mammals” is too vague, because compared to a blue whale, I am fairly small. That’s why I feed those critters.
Cekan14@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 150d
Fool of me, I searched "Great Tits" to learn more about this bird and, well... Don't do it.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
I want a review of great tits for wendsday, first hour.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 151d
Great Tits man
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 151d
Mostly doing a lot of heavy lifting here 💀
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 151d
"We are a great tit!"
Hupf@feddit.org · 4 pts · 151d
Clever girl.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 151d
Just like me!
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 151d
Brains…
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 151d
😂 Oh how did I ever find amusement before the internet existed
m3t00@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d
Grand Tetons
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
There needs to be a Fallout Raider faction called Great Tits and their signature meal is cracked skull brain omelette.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
Yeah, but what a way to go!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 151d
... would not have expected such a dick move from a great tit.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 151d
Vegans doesnt like this.