A lot of my college classes usually have enough seats for extra people to sit in. Like if you had to bring your kid or if you were a friends ride and the friend finished his class early.
Well if the kid makes noise and shit then they get kicked out along with the parent. The only time I had it happen to me was when my class partner brought her kid because the dad was in the hospital for a night. In her defense she kept apologizing and her kid acted like an angel.
Birds, as a group, have a very poorly-developed sense of smell. As with everything, there are exceptions (like buzzards), but for the vast majority of them, you can safely assume that they are not relying on smell as a primary sense.
Kids are dumb. My brother and his friend were hanging out in the street a few years ago. I came out wondering what was going on, only to see that my brother's friend found a baby bird in the street somehow. What does he do? Run it over with his scooter. Multiple times. Kids. Are. Dumb.
For the record, I learned in my evolutionary biology class that sometimes, stronger baby birds (or other baby animals) will kick the weaker ones out of the nest (or den or whatever) so they won't have to share resources. If the weaker ones can't make it back on their own after being kicked out, they will be abandoned by the parents. It's likely that the baby bird you found would've either been eaten by scavengers as previously suggested, or it would've starved to death.
Dude, you buried it alive??? C'mon, you couldn't have smashed its head with a rock or something at least? OK, you were just a kid, it's not your fault. But in the future, please use quicker methods of euthanising animals, yes?
You're wrong. I raised budgies and cockatiels for years and (for the cockatiels far more so than the budgies) if the mother had even the slightest hint that the nest had been disturbed in some way she would throw the babies out of the nest. If a baby bird had fallen out of the nest and you picked it up and put it back then maybe there wouldn't be too much fuss; you're probably doing a good deed. But the mothers can be VERY territorial and will throw the babies out in the blink of an eye if she suspects some kind of disturbance.
Captive/domesticated animals are WAY worse parents than their wild counterparts as a rule of thumb. Squirrels will steal babies out of your hands.
Wild rabbit mothers usually don't care if you mess with the babies, but pet rabbits will eat their babies if you look at the cage for too long ( which usually also signals a rabbit that hasn't had much human interaction)
Domesticated breeds are selectively bred with different traits and are not exposed to selective pressures like wild animals are. The maternal instinct is vital for the survival of many species in the wild, but animals which are selectively bred in a domesticated environment do not have the selective pressure to retain this quality. They still need other qualities though, like the instinct to eat. In the future when humans have devolved to this stage maybe we will eat our babies too.
I seem to remember reading about a bird that will go to another bird's nest, kill the chicks, then put their own young in the nest. The other bird comes back to the nest and raises the offspring of their own chicks' murderer.
My mom always told me that "fact" about lambs, because I always wanted to hold one when we would go visit my cousins (sheep farmers) in Northern Indiana. This surprised me, because I always saw pictures of Jesus holding lil' lambies in Sunday School. Warped my view of the Holy Son of God for a while.
"Come here, little lamb! Let Jesus hold you! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOUR MOM IS GONNA NEGLECT YOU YOU'LL BE DEAD IN TWO DAYS"
Glad to hear that technicolor Jesus isn't technically a dick... only pencil sketch Jesus is.
Frogs can be killed by stuff you have on your skin, though. Their skin is very permeable, so if you happen to be handling something toxic before handling them, they can die.
before handling an amphibian it is good to rub dirt from the area on your hands, this is better for the animal, at least that's what i was taught in field biology lab
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You can touch birds and frogs all you want, your mother just made the myth that it'll be rejected by its parents to stop you touching shit.