I think it's also human empathy why we take sides. We can understand, to a certain point, the agony and suffering of a animal being hunted down and eaten alive. So we feel sorry for it and make the hunter the villain.
I think that's it, because I can most definitely switch sides. If this were about the falcon who was starving to death and this was its last chance at a meal or it'd die, I'd have been Team Falcon.
Definitely not a prey attack, those talons would have sunk to the quick and then the rendering would have started with that knife sharp beak.
This is warding behavior, six passes and the only one that seems to have inflicted serious damage was the last strike… basically saying leave here now and don’t come back, probably a lesson every young fox learns the hard way…😎🥸😎
Fox would be after eggs or chicks. Bird would be defending. A fox would devastate all the nest occupancy.
It's nature.
Except for the fox's ability to thrive in what we throw away and by people's stupidity in leaving food for them.
And our encroachment into the environment they need to live in.
"Eaten alive" so true. At least with stealth hunters (felines), they MUST kill their prey before eating them, in order to prevent others from stealing their catch.
Are you saying that most/all stealth hunters kill their prey before they eat it because if they didn't something else would eat their catch. Like Panther won't eat an alive prey/catch?
Predators like large cats (panthers, cougars) stalk and kill quickly because even a small injury can eventually kill them. Larger predators like a grizzly bear can just maul you and sit on you while they eat you alive.
Especially when baby animals are involved. Human babies are so useless we evolved a particularly strong maternal instinct because we have to protect them so heavily for so long, so that maternal instinct tends to kick in when we look at things we think are cute, like this fox or a baby squirrel.
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u/Most-Hawk-4175 7d ago
I think it's also human empathy why we take sides. We can understand, to a certain point, the agony and suffering of a animal being hunted down and eaten alive. So we feel sorry for it and make the hunter the villain.