#cuckoo chicks

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[enigmaticpink]

On the topic of not assigning human morals to animals, I think we need to talk about how people talk about cuckoo birds is really anthropomorphizing

That's not an evil soulless creatin, that's a baby bird surviving the way it has evolved to. It's not up to you to decide that actually this baby bird deserves to survive and this one doesn't. This is simply how nature is and we should not be assigning our own morality to it.

[leviathiane]

Them! :)

For my PLA wingfic series in which in the future, everyone has wings. 

[ranticore]

officially obsessed with the Plains Powercouple. can you tell wildfire that i envy him soooo bad

ghsjdg this seems to be the general consensus. wildfire better not catch you looking at his tiercel though stomp stomp stomp

[saan-vi-art]

attack for @themaybug

[rotclaw]

peeking peeper

this one's name is clove 🧡 she's a mottled bantam cochin

[monsieurorlando]

happy mandy monday tuesday. comic about amanda's ghost/hallucination tormenting hoffman in the bathroom cell: in the making

[oysterie]

see I don't understand hate towards cuckoo birds... You don't like obligate parasites 🥺? You call yourself and animal lover but pick and choose what you think should exist based on a sense of human morality? Poor babies cannot help it why are you saying you hope they go extinct grow up.

[pizza-kity]

Lil cuckoo maran getting her cheep on

this tiny lady doesn't have a name yet 💜

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i think pre-time kid-that-would-become-the-master used to have dreams about little sisters hell bent on murdering them with their bare hands

[fragglerockopinions]

You're supposed to ask for help. If you don't ask for help you're never going to get help and you will be condemned for being useless and taking no actions to help yourself. If you ask for help. no one is going to help you. you are not allowed to wish that anyone help you or expect anyone to help you or you are a selfish piece of shit. you are not allowed to wish things were better. You're not allowed to ask for help actually because you are selfish and you didn't think about how others might feel being put in the vulnerable and intimate position of being asked for help. your friends did not consent to being asked for help or explained why you've been having problems and you should have thought about the way they felt before you forced them to read your texts asking them for help. I'm not even joking I should just kill myself because there is actually genuinely no such thing as getting better or getting help or being a good friend ?

[kakusboyfriend]

[wakes up from a fever dream] baby shhould have been a brood parasite. Instead. You see the vision.

[ihavea-natural-curiosity]

“what have you been up to these days?”

oh nothing really (crying over tragic symbolism)

[chickenor]

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[rainy-day-revelry]

The hardest Pokémon starter choice

(Put on the glasses)

This is the same picture.

[nohoperadio]

I think people know about cuckoo chicks pushing the other eggs out of the nest they're born in, but do people know about honeyguide chicks which have these sick fangs:

Which they use to kill their nest mates, not by tearing the flesh but to gain enough grip to grab and shake them to death:

Claire Spottiswoode watched as the honeyguide chick used its sharp beak to grasp a young bee-eater, and, like a pitbull terrier, simply shake it to death. If the host chick is tough, it can take several sessions, between which the honeyguide chick pauses to catch its breath before starting again. Because its eyes are not yet open, and it's dark inside the bee-eater nest cavity, the honeyguide chick presumably uses both movement (touch) and temperature to tell it whether more shaking is necessary.

From Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead.

I think with the cuckoo chick pushing eggs out of the nest you can kind of imagine it doesn't really know what it's doing, it's just instinctively trying to make more room for itself or something, but there's something way more unsettling about a baby bird shaking another baby to death and checking whether the body's cold to see if it needs to keep going.