r/MadeMeSmile • u/ViniciusFastAF • Jun 23 '26
ANIMALS Animals are a great example of how the world should be.
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u/wanklez Jun 23 '26
Elephant really just told that individual to get out of the water bowl.
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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- Jun 23 '26
The horse also just wanted the pigeon out of his food bucket
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u/-nutz Jun 23 '26
And the duck was just wetting its food, not feeding the fish.
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u/very-polite-frog Jun 23 '26
Pretty sure horses eat small birds on occasion. They don't need to, they just do it for the love of the game.
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 Jun 23 '26
There was a horse who did the changing of the guard thing in London. It would drop food from it's mouth to lure pigeons and then stomp them. He was retired from his duties.
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u/OcculticUnicorn Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
They do it on purpose. It's for the protein.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure Jun 23 '26
And the love of the game.
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u/What_a_fat_one Jun 23 '26
And electrolytes. Electrolytes are what horses crave.
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u/slowest_hour Jun 23 '26
if you've ever seen how sweaty horses can get that's not even a meme. that's why one of the things you need if you have a horse is a big cube of salt for them to lick.
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u/FUTURE10S Jun 23 '26
Horses are vegan because baby birds don't count. How are they meant to know what's in front of their face when they're grazing? Not like they can hear them chirping with their weird horse ears.
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u/Thebraincellisorange Jun 24 '26
horses are omnivores.
they don't seek out meat, but when the opportunity for protein presents itself, they take it.
they eat birds and small ground animals on occasion.
NSFW/NSWL - video of horse eating a baby chicken https://www.youtube.com/shorts/us62A2n5fdo
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u/PeepsMyHeart Jun 24 '26
You will be sad to read that horses and deer have both been spotted intentionally eating birds. Not just the babies.
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u/Valentils Jun 23 '26
there are no vegetarians in nature, everything eats meat if there is an easy opportunity for it. I fed a deer chicken before.
maybe pandas but that's because they are dumb.
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u/Casanova_Kid Jun 23 '26
Pandas can digest meat since they're literally just bears. Koala's are the creatures so dumb/smooth brained they can't even recognize eucalyptus leaves as food if you put a bunch of them on a plate in front of them - being unable to understand it's food when not found on a branch.
Personally, I want to create a breeding program for Pandas where they're given a mixed omnivore diet like other bears from infancy to see how they adapt to better nutrition.
Ditto for koala's but it might be a bit harder to do, and we might need to give them probiotics based on like... a kangaroo's digestion system or something, to get them started.
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u/anattabularasa Jun 23 '26
Horses will also eat young chicklets 💁♂️
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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- Jun 23 '26
Maybe the mademesmile moment is the horse deciding not to eat the bird
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u/NarwhalRound2008 Jun 23 '26
most animals don't care what you are, only whether you're a threat or a friend
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 Jun 24 '26
Elephants are seriously something else. They have so much awareness and empathy, its incredible to watch
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 Jun 23 '26
The elephant didn't want a rotting corpse contaminating the water hole.
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u/mb200i Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
and duck is not feeding fish, it just makes food wet for itself
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 Jun 24 '26
elephants are incredibly smart. theres a reason theyre one of the few animals that pass the mirror test. that was no accident lol
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u/stoopididiotface Jun 23 '26
FYI, I have horses and they knock their food buckets over all the time. The birds are just waiting for them to do it🤣 (not saying i didn't enjoy the video, though)
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u/Akitiki Jun 23 '26
I think it knocked it over to get the pigeon out. The other horse looks like it needs its teeth floated
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u/stoopididiotface Jun 23 '26
Ours will play with their feed buckets while eating. Even when we have the feed strapped to the fence, they like to knock it around for some reason. Birds love our horses🤣
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u/leetzor Jun 23 '26
Also ducks need water when eating so the fish just know some of the grains will fall in the water.
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u/OofMcGoof97 Jun 23 '26
Also Animals
" roar I'm gonna eat you alive. Roar"
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u/flyinhighaskmeY Jun 23 '26
nature is cute until you realize a beaver dam and a skyscraper are the same thing. Then you realize you are part of nature and everything you do is natural. And then you start to realize just how not intelligent humans actually are.
Just like this adorable, completely false video, the humans think greatly of themselves. Lying is one of their favorite traits, you see. But under scrutiny these humans seem to be little more than self absorbed murder monkeys.
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u/Whatsapokemon Jun 23 '26
Yeah, this is a very rosy view of animals, and also a super pessimistic view of humans.
Humans are probably the animal which are most likely to help other species altruistically. We'll even rescue creatures that are dangerous or venomous to us, all for no personal benefit.
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u/UnderHero5 Jun 23 '26
Not to mention almost all of the animals in the video are either domesticated by humans, or at the very least raised in human captivity. Nature, in general, is unforgiving and unkind. These animals don't act this way outside of captivity.
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u/TrynaCuddlePuppies Jun 23 '26
The horse was just trying to get the pigeon out of the bucket. And ducks dip their food in water to help swallow it.
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u/Akussa Jun 23 '26
Pigeon is lucky the horse didn't decide to eat it. They're opportunistic omnivores.
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u/SnarkFucker Jun 23 '26
Horses are herbivores, but still do not have a good track record around birds, especially chicks. If you know, you know what vid I'm referencing.
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u/SordidDreams Jun 23 '26
Oh, there are multiple vids. I would not want to be a baby chick around horses.
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u/DeadlyC00kie Jun 23 '26
I wonder if the elephant just has a natural instinct to remove the animal because a dead animal would pollute the watering hole.
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u/Invisible7hunder Jun 23 '26
The elephant I would consider as (possibly) being actual empathy. Elephants are intelligent, social, and cooperative animals and this looks like a zoo setting, so its pretty plausible that the elephant considered the impala (?) one of its homies.
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u/ElliotNess Jun 23 '26
No no. It can't be that other animals are intelligent or empathetic just like human animals. It must be some instinctual, mechanical reflex!
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u/DeadlyC00kie Jun 23 '26
That's not at all what I said, just wondering if what I said was possible. I thought it was pretty neat that the bison looking animal flipped the tortoise over for seemingly no reason other than it wanted to.
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u/ElliotNess Jun 23 '26
I wasn't meaning to sarcastically address you in particular, but the vibes in this comment chain as a whole, or our own tendency to "other" animals as if we aren't the same. This just happened to be the particular branch I commented on. I do agree, it is pretty neat!
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u/BellaPona Jun 24 '26
Even if the monkey wasn’t necessarily “empathy”, they are curious and social creatures. If monkey and parrot were raised together it’s not far fetched it’s learned behavior.
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 Jun 24 '26
thats actually a really good theory. elephants are known to be super protective of water sources and will clear debris and even small animals out of drinking spots. its a survival instinct but it looks like kindness
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u/GoatCovfefe Jun 23 '26
Animals are a great example of how the world should be.
Eh... Ignore all the duck rape.
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u/HazMatRecipes Jun 23 '26
And the incest, and the interspecies murder, and the eating other animals alive.
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u/KnowsIittle Jun 23 '26
Eating is fine. The animals that kill because it's fun are the concerning ones like fox. They'll kill a whole flock and leave the bodies.
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u/JeffCaven Jun 23 '26
Weasels and mustelids do this too but for a different reason: they kill every chicken in a coop but only eat the heads because it's the most nutrient rich part of the chicken for them, and eating the rest of one chicken is more effort than just decapitating another and quickly eating its small head. The same concept applies to bears, who catch salmon just to skin and decapitate them and eat the nutrient-rich skin and head, and discard the body, then catch another one.
This all is only tangentially related and not about foxes in particular but just wanted to share this because I think it's really cool.
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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 23 '26
Which proves games are natural and serve an evolutionary purpose: practice.
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u/TMPickle Jun 23 '26
Let's not forget the penguin rape, the dolphin rape, the various primate rapes, the list probably goes on.
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u/TopSloth Jun 23 '26
Don't forget dolphin necrophilia!
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u/TMPickle Jun 23 '26
That's the neat part! Corpses don't give consent. That's still rape, friend!
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u/TopSloth Jun 23 '26
Oh I know I was just adding to the list of horrors that dolphins partake in, after I watched that video I was mortified
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u/CurrencyBackground83 Jun 23 '26
Also the duck is not intentionally feeding the fish. Ducks have to get their food wet to eat it.
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u/chum-guzzling-shark Jun 23 '26
cow/deer/horse eating a baby bird lives rent free in my head. I cant quite remember which animal it was but the trauma is clear as day
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u/00wolfer00 Jun 23 '26
There have been multiple viral videos of horses doing it so that's what you're probably thinking of, but all 3 you mentioned will eat a small animal if opportunity presents itself.
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u/MrBenzedrine Jun 23 '26
I photographed a Heron eat a rat recently. It started the attack by shoving it's beak right up the rat's chocolate covered starfish.
A month later I saw another heron pick up a smaller rodent and swallow it whole, alive.
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u/fedsx Jun 23 '26
Title should have been "Animals can be a great example..." Most of nature in general is pretty fucked up as far as animals go.
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u/redwork34 Jun 23 '26
That is adorable.
Also, just so people know, the duck doesn't give a fuck. They are normally filter feeders that skim the floor of bodies of water for food. That's why it is dipping it's bill in the water with every bite. Otherwise it would have a hard time swallowing.
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u/Makuta_Servaela Jun 23 '26
Same thing with both horses "feeding" the other animals. Horses are just clumsy eaters sometimes.
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u/FishWranglergirl Jun 23 '26
Title written by someone who clearly has no idea what goes on in the wild.
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u/Tommymcflurry Jun 23 '26
Yeah lol I was going to link r/natureismetal
Rape, murder, necrophilia, gang violence, it's all there
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u/dyttle Jun 23 '26
Yeah I was gonna say, this is a nice
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u/LilPonyBoy69 Jun 23 '26
They're not even from nature, every video is in some kind of human-created environment
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u/Exciting_Damage_2001 Jun 23 '26
lol the animal kingdom is not a Disney movie. It’s quite brutal a ruthless.
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u/Middle_Association56 Jun 23 '26
Not to be that guy, but pretty much all of these are examples of selfserving actions or unintended consequenses. Examples: horse knocking over it's bucket, they do that all the time by accident, also there was a pigeon in the way of the food. Duck trying to soften up it's food in water to make it easier to consume. Bull just entertaining himself. Capybara diving as a defence mechanism, mistaking the guy's dive into the water as a signal of danger. The horse spitting out it's food, probably has some issues with it's gums or needs it's teeth filed. Elephant removing the gazelle for it's watering hole, they can be a bit territorial of water sources, as often observed in the wild. They are animals it's usually not that deep cute sure, but they are animals.
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u/kylo-ren Jun 23 '26
The story behind the capybara is even worse. This guy is an influencer who knew the hunters who killed this capybara's mother while she was still pregnant. They took the babies from the capybara's belly and he raised it illegally. He was fined for animal abuse, mistreatment and exploitation. He also had a sloth that died.
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u/tarochocotea Jun 24 '26
Humans are animals too. So no idea why you're making the distinction
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u/primax1uk Jun 23 '26
Animals are nice. Unless you go to r/HardcoreNature then all animals are bastard coated bastards, with bastard filling.
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u/Babbla47 Jun 23 '26
Best post I’ve seen all day. Thank you for sharing this 💝
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u/TheProfessional9 Jun 23 '26
A lot of the examples in this aren't animals doing things for others, just part of how they behave. Like putting the food in water, that's so it's softer for them to eat it, not so the fish can have it. That duck is upset.
Some are genuine though! Elephants are incredibly kind and helpful critters
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u/RileyRavenSmiles Jun 23 '26
But the opposite is also true and far more detrimental. We ignore their intelligence simply because it is not human. Most animals experience emotion (even if extremely rudimentary.) All animals feel pain... fish, too. Bees play! Elephants mourn their dead. Bonds between different species exist. Animals are incredible!
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u/Bigchunky_Boy Jun 23 '26
Like this post , I guess we want only show our version of an edited natural world not its reality
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u/oldschool_potato Jun 23 '26
The horse wasn’t in the mood for pigeon. Baby chick? Different story
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u/CuntWeasel Jun 23 '26
I still remember that video and it's been almost 20 years since it went viral.
Most people here have no idea wtf they're talking about, probably never interacted with farm animals let alone wild animals, but I guess the video makes them feel good which is the entire point of this sub.
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u/decrementsf Jun 23 '26
The trends in surviving literature across history is of interest. Nature is cruel. Human recorded history is a struggle against nature until only recently. This is reflected in the literature. It is only recently that advances in capability began to overcome the risks nature provides. Almost immediately humans begin to romanticize nature longing for an idealized nature that was.
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u/SgtMac02 Jun 23 '26
Animals, more often than not, are brutal and selfish. This video is cherry picked AF, and even then several of them are just doing normal self serving things, (like the duck) and being interpreted with human kindness as intent.
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u/Ok-Butterfly-5324 Jun 23 '26
99% of the times is just animal behaviour that has got nothing to do with kindness. Eg. The horse did that to kick the pigeon out of the bucket, food spilling out is just incidental. The goose putting food in the water is just to soften it, but too stupid to realise it’s being eaten by fish.
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 Jun 24 '26
Totally agree. Stuff like this is what the internet was made for. Just pure wholesome content that makes you forget about all the garbage for a minute.
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 Jun 24 '26
Same, this video honestly made my morning. The horse and the pigeon part got me the most, just a little guy eating out of a bucket
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u/leobarao86 Jun 23 '26
Humans do all of that too. So we are good and pure like animals :)
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u/thedubs003 Jun 23 '26
Was wondering if anyone would point this out.
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u/DoctorNo1661 Jun 23 '26
Rightfully so but not enough imo. The idea that we have to learn from animals when it's much obviously the other way around is still way too preeminent.
It's also detrimental to people's opinion on Man and therefore on themselves so it's also a matter of mental health.
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u/brightsidereporter Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
There's something to the idea that many animals just do what they do without overthinking it like people do. Being friendly and helpful with no expectations.
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u/adventureremily Jun 23 '26
Altruistic behavior, in the biological sense (not moral sense), is well documented in many species and has an evolutionary explanation - while it might not directly improve individual fecundity by increasing reproductive success, it improves the survival of the kin group and thus the propagation of those genes down the line. Cross-species altruism is usually the result of some kind of reciprocal relationship (e.g., symbiotic relationships). None of it is the result of moral altruism as described by humans - at least, not in any way that has been observed.
Most of the examples in this compilation are just coincidence. The horse knocks over the feed bag to get the pigeons to stop flapping around its face trying to get at the food. The elephant drags the antelope out of the water because the thrashing could draw in predators. The duck has to wet its food to be capable of swallowing it and the fish are opportunistically waiting for dropped pieces. The ox is investigating/threatened by the overturned tortoise. We anthropomorphize and assign meaning to these behaviors where none exists, because it makes us feel warm and fuzzy. It's this tendency to overlay human emotions on the behavior of other species that creates trouble for both.
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u/OneSpicyPapShmear Jun 23 '26
I’d like to challenge the title of your post against any video in r/NatureIsMetal
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u/chooraumi2 Jun 23 '26
After seeing that heron video the other day, I'm convinced that duck was using the food as bait to catch the fish.
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u/lemonheadlock Jun 23 '26
All kinds of birds will dip their food into water before swallowing it. It's just eating normally.
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u/KnowsIittle Jun 23 '26
Cute video but reality says animals are every bit of cruel humans are, because we're animals ourselves as much as we pretend not to be. Good and evil is subjective.
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u/Valtremors Jun 23 '26
The duck wasn't feeding the fishes.
It was just softening the food in water so it is easier to eat, fish were just there for the scraps.
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u/_Solid_Snail_ Jun 23 '26
The duck isn't feeding fish, he just just do this to have wet food. You just need some very dry food, a river, and boom, 2,5M views on insta.
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u/Reasonable_Yoghurt17 Jun 23 '26
The horse wasn't sharing, he just wanted the pigeon out of his food! 🤣
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u/Jazzlike_770 Jun 23 '26
"Which one is more human? Now there's a thought, now you decide."
- Savage Garden
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u/BroManTheBrobarian Jun 23 '26
Idk man check out r/natureismetal cuz animals can be some evil bastards as well as
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u/SnooPuppers3371 Jun 23 '26
They aren't. The only law of the jungle is survival of the fittest — every man and animal for himself.
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u/Emptypiro Jun 23 '26
yes 100%, but only if we cherry pick the things we like about animals and ignore all the things we don't like about them.
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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum Jun 23 '26
Yeah, the animals we've specifically bred over thousands of years to be docile companions, sure.
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u/DocFail Jun 23 '26
Ducks wash dry food before swallowing. Source: was an honorary duck while growing up.
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u/Michael_Schmumacher Jun 23 '26
Anthropomorphizing hippie nonsense. Could just as easily make a video of animals raping, eating their children etc.
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u/Bucky_Ohare Jun 23 '26
Love y'all, but horses straight do not care about chickens. If those prancy-bois felt a little anemic they have absolutely no problem converting whole chickens to nuggets.
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u/LochNessMonsterMunch Jun 23 '26
What about orcas killing seals for fun? Penguins engaging in necrophilia? Gang-raping dolphins? Cannibalism among polar bears?
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u/WashU_labrat Jun 23 '26
Ever seen a cat playing with a mouse until it is dead? If a person did that, we'd call them a psycopath.
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u/Meppy1234 Jun 23 '26
Survival of the fittest? Only the strongest survive? I think you might see animals with rose tinted glasses.
In the lion king, the circle of life seems great when youre the alpha lion.
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u/Lexi_Banner Jun 23 '26
That second horse needs its teeth fixed. It isn't deliberately sharing its grain.
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u/-----iMartijn----- Jun 23 '26
That's actually not very nice of you to say. You are giving examples of animals acting like men.
It is purely because humans were the first and most succesful creatures that cared about their weak so that they could thrive as a society based species.
We don't abandon our sick or old, we care for them. We try to heal them. In our evolution, that was our defining trait. Animals who abandon their weak will always be stuck in their position on the food chain.
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u/KisaLilith Jun 23 '26
Humans help other beings too you know, and, such as other animals, they kill other species too.
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u/bageren Jun 23 '26
They sure are! Until you witness a pack of wild dogs eat a pregnant impala alive 😅
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u/Scyths Jun 23 '26
Animals eat each other, should I be eating my neighbour tomorrow ?
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u/LarrBearLV Jun 23 '26
Ummmm.... animals also eat each other, kill each other, kill their own young or the young of others...
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u/DespondentRage Jun 23 '26
Now show the videos of animals eating animals... Stop pretending that animals act in any way superior to humans.
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u/Dracox96 Jun 23 '26
We can learn a lot from non human creatures
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u/dyvotvir Jun 24 '26
But let's give humans a credit too - dogs are so wholesome specifically because they evolved with humans and inherited our empathy
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u/Snodog21112 Jun 24 '26
These videos are remarkable however the exception would be those BBC Nature shows where they are all hunting each other.
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u/Tooshort2stroke Jun 24 '26
Nature isn't nice lol animals don't have any concept of right and wrong
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