The Dark Side of Shoebill Chicks | Africa | BBC Earth
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- The rivalry between two shoebill chicks becomes apparent when their mother leaves to fetch water.
Taken from Africa.
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"Only her firstborn will get to drink"
Immediately spills all the water in front of it.
first-born: 0:10
They cut off the rest of the clip. She had a ton of water in that bill and that piece of shit got a bunch of it
She literally caught a log instead of a catfish.. I mean, were we really expecting much from her ?
@@Fabo100 hahahhaa
@@Fabo100 survival of the fittest son...
The bird looks like an evil muppet
Skeksies!
No, the evil muppet looks like this bird
it looks soooo evil
John Lee I hate that older bird so much and the mom is just a jerk about just leaving her OWN baby there like what the heck😡😡😡😡😡😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
John Lee I'm ur 999 like!!!!
0:45 its crazy how they can maintain their heads so steady it looks like a matrix error
Humans forgot they can move like this too.
@@lbjoshbal ... no?
@@user-fs6cp4iv7s yes we can, it's called isolation
@@user-fs6cp4iv7s yes. Watch this. 😂 czcams.com/users/shortstgEJJ3BKVMM?feature=share
Wow...... That's freaky AF!
That permanent smile on their faces with dead look in their eyes creeps me out.
it’s cgi
"The smaller chick seeks its mother's comfort, but she has already made her choice"
😭😭😭
I know...!!!
I read that right as it said it in the vid.but it's so sad
Yeaah same here :')
What it’s not sad. It’s nature, and I sort of kind of laughed at that part. Poor helpless child. Heharhehehehar.
hey so what’s up been awhile, don’t really got an excuse for this besides i’m a jackass, sorry thousands of people who’ve replied to this my b. you guys can stop now btw it’s been 2 years. umm. yeah that’s all i got. apologies once more
Cruch you need to open your eyes because that part is sad
The thing that freaks me out is that they all look like animated statues. “Animatronics” also works.
Yesss they dont look real at all! Like bad cgi or misplaced sesame street characters
Danie D ikr
It looks like an animatronic
FearMe Pleasez That’s the word I was looking for tbh
It looks robotic
Being the younger brother to a domineering and bullying older brother, this hits home.
Ditto from the ‘little sister.’
Yeah 4 years isn't a big difference now, but I was in single digits.... torture is a strong word but....
Yeah, my older brother was 3.5 years older than me. When you’re 6 and he’s 9…it makes a big difference.
@@coppulor6500Understood. Sibling has 9 years on me. Was an adult before I hit double digits. Surprised I'm not more fucked up xD
@@Eatsoup3 actually, I'm genuinely shocked you were substantially effed with given that kind of age difference l. I have friends with much older siblings and they have always told me that the gap was so big that it wasn't a typical sibling dynamic and that getting a beat down was rare. Totally different when the age difference is 6 years or less (just a guess based on friends etc.). I had very little chance when I was 6 vs a ten year old supreme dick brother. But if he were 16 or more and decided to pick on a 6 yr old for someone reason, then you'd REALLY have no chance. My sister and I got into it. She was just under 2 years younger. But it wasnt very common. We have always gotten along fairly well.
How is your relationship with your older brother now? (Mine's good, he's a good guy, reliable family man but definitely half meat head. And that is zero his fault and he's not a dick anymore but it did take him a very long time to mature in that way).
I worked with Ostriches. Equally brutal. They are always getting rid of the weakest. Pulling out the feathers of the weak one. Ganging up in the weak one. The weak ones die from depression and trauma. They start doing this to each-other as chicks and continue into adulthood. Humans have this ability as well.
jesus fucking christ
Fuck. Too real.
If you could die from depression or trauma I'd have been gone long ago... What really kills them?
@@alexv1190 they get sick easily, parasites go for them, their motor skills don’t develop, they look pathetic and distressed and discarded, they shake and shiver, they don’t fight back. It’s sad and brutal.
Do keep in mind they do this when there is few resources
"Humans are so cruel"
Shoebill: allow us to introduce ourselves.
@@AbradolfLincler as an abstract being of duality I'd have thought you'd understand this better. 😉😉😉
Humans are also animals, by that line of thinking, it is just our nature. And morally what we ascribe to good or evil is subjective if that is the case.
@@Trazyn_the_Infinite_40K KNOWLEDGE!!
*any animal ever
@@AbradolfLincler human is a nature creation too
@@AbradolfLincler then it's human nature. Don't try to find excuses. Both humans and animals can be kind and evil.
These things look like they belong in the dark crystal
Hip
I thought the same thing! Haha
Just what i thought.
I thought that too, they have that Jim Henson look about them
Yes!
Shoebill Storks are absolutely fascinating. I wish there were more detailed documentaries on YT about them
I want to know how their brains work. It's like. *processing* move, look - *processing* step, step, calibrate, step, look, step *processing*
They're not storks. Their closest relative is the pelican.
I LOVE the different colored eyes in them too. They're so pretty! Yellow, green, blue....their eyes are so fascinating and terrifying all at the same time. 😂
I did not expect to get my heart broken like this!
Welcome to Nature!
@@JuwanBuchanan This Reminds meh of Jurassic World. Where The baby indominus Killed it's own Indominus sibling.
For all those, who claim animals, are the same as mankind, this should be eye opening.
When you have a bad day and just want to cheer yourself up with some animals and then National Geographic gives you a mental breakdown...
😂
BBC, not NatGeo.
I feel the same way too 🥲.
😂
LOL. I thought the same
this feels like an even sadder version of the ugly duckling🙃
PhoenixFire 12 darker*
Just like an censored version.
Or a realer version.
F*ck that animation always makes me cry...damn.
Its the german version.
Definitely the darker side of the shoebill stork (also known as the whale-headed stork). It lives in the swamps of Africa, and there are only about 3000-5000 left. Approximately 5 feet tall, and weighing up to 15lbs they do fly, but not very far. The shoebill can be aggressive when they are nesting, if you get too close to the nest, or when the chicks compete for food (the stronger wins as seen here). Despite their intimidating eyes they are rather docile calm birds, and do not pose a threat to humans.
Mann they pose a threat to my mental health
5 ft: 150 cm
15 lbs: 7 kg
@@jaee8699 😂😂😂😂😂
Cause WE would eat them
Thanks Wikipedia.
These birds have always looked like human souls trapped in birds' bodies. They look like they hold the secret to hell but are not permitted to speak.
They look fake as shit to me
@@jamiesteele9241 They probably are. They'd be bad to talk to at parties. Think soup n*zi on Seinfeld when he wasn't saying a word. They have that same look.
You definitely see where the dinos left their genes.
and why they went extinct
You haven't seen my mother in law.
Omg lol
D'Mario 3rdEye 2000 Ah yes, must have been the government who put the fossils there.
@@dmo1k656 lol moron
"In this house, we raise winners!"
- That mom.
Nicole Watterson lol
*proceeds to spill all the winner's water on the ground*
If you aint first, you’re last!
You do not win
Lmaoooo "there's no room for 2nd place up in this crib!"
These birds are so neat looking. I absolutely love their direct, terrifying stare lol. They just are some really fascinating birds.
the way she just ignored the other baby i am so sad 😭😭😭
Why these birds looking like the animatronics from Chuck E. Cheese
Nathan Ramirez lmao they do , especially when in there eyes , when they turns them over they do it exactly like that , it’s creepy from the animatronics ....
I was wondering like “where tf have I seen this thing before? My nightmares?”
For 👏🏽 real 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Hahaha... true, true... used to work at Chuck E. Cheese's
They do! 😂
"There is also a smaller chick, who isn't doing so well..."
Welp, now we know where this is going... :|
666 likes fits
Only the strongest of the strongest survive
Right. Lol
this is the survival of the fitness
Hes now elon musk
“HuMaNs ArE tHe ViRuS, NaTUre iS so BeATifUl”
Shoebill: …
I'd love to rescue an unwanted baby shoebill if it was possible. It's unfair for younger siblings to be born and then left for dead just because they didn't hatch "on time."💔😔
Welcome to the horror of abortion. It's the Shoebill killing the unwanted baby version for human beings.
stop the cap.
There is no fairness in nature. Just survival.
Me: I had such a bad childhood
Shoebill: join the club kid
Corey Dow 😂
Same here .
@Captain Wesker true tho
In fairness to shoebills they don't rape their chick's or beat them up for Entertainment
Some humans on the other hand .
@@priscillachapkylo934 jhuhhhj(99888+-6777kzaqq111s"znnjjouuhyyzhkjlkko
Mom: "What have you done to your brother?"
Chick: "I tried to murder him so I could have more food"
Mom: *Sobs* "My beautiful, strong boy..."
that's nature... fkd up
Oh man , this is good stuff
I hate that big stork
that's literally my mother and my oldest brother
The F'ed up realness and reality of this. (younger sib)
My hen is opposite, she makes sure her weaker ones are always well fed.
The chick's instinctive behaviour, coupled with the mother's reaction, or lack there of, epitomises the phrase, "Survival of the fittest".
These birds act exactly like they look😂
Ikr
Demons
They just look incredibly disappointed to the brink of insanity
Exactly 😰
😂
😂😂
It literally takes her 1 Minute to get a drink just go two times like wtf
Still a very brutal way to go
@@lastairbender1093 survival of the fittest...
@@henaresadlier If I get my hands on that larger chick... I'm making some killer sandwiches. That's what I call survival of the fittest.
Jan Mauersiegler omg you just made me spit out my water
Mother Nature you’re scary asf.
My view of the fight for survival in nature changed when I saw a polar bear die surrounded by seals because he was too weak to take a bite out of one after swimming sixty miles to find them. Now I kinda feel bad for the predator when the prey gets away, too. That might have been their last chance to stay alive.
Yeah, that's why I hate when humans intervene in the wild and post shit about savinv the prey. There's a reason nature documentaries don't intervene when they are out there. All animals gotta eat.
When the older one grows up he will be called Darth Shoebiller.
Oh lol too funny. 😂
I'm a twin and my brother is two minutes older than me. I'm glad I'm not a shoebill.
@Ken Roberts it's definitely for herself 😂
@Ken Roberts my momma one time came back with one happy meal, but it wasn't for me .....
😁😁😁😁
Ken Roberts lol 😂
@Ken Roberts
Hahahaha it's the opposite for me
I'm the oldest and I have a younger step brother and he always gets what he wants he is such a spoiled brat, he crys about anything
that's an evil looking bird...
only because its ugly.
It is not ugly. It is beautiful.
Zedwoman Chicks are kinda cute. Mommas is UGLY
Arthur The Aardvark Not as ugly as the original Arthur
Mykahaia Oh, is that why I think it's beautiful? I should've known.
You can actually get a tour at the Entebbe zoo and go inside the aviary with their shoebill named Shoey. If you bow to it and look it in the eyes, it will actually come to you. Such a unique species.
They always make me feel like I’m in the bird cage at Jurassic Park.
If I was a shoebill cameraman, I'd have a house full of rejected baby shoebills!
haha yes
I’d definitely would love to have a couple of them ☺️☺️
so would I
While you're at it why don't you introduce some more rats and crows in places free of them ?
@@shaftdrive7567 what’s this trying to say?
This honestly has to be the scariest bird
Or the cassowary
Thing looks like it will fuck your day up with no mercy.
Both look like dinosaurs so🙃
@@Themostcreativeuserever well, maybe because birds ARE dinosaurs
Both on the outside and the inside.
This makes me feel like I'm high or something, this is one of the coolest and weirdest looking animals I've ever seen! Thank you for showing us this incredible creature.
Such a beautiful creature. Absolutely stunning.
**Shoebills Reveals darkside**
*Me:* **looks at it**
Yeah i'm not surprised
I'm dead 😂😂😂
😂
ekul Z r/wooooosh
Blizzard how tf was that a wooosh get outta here with ur cringe r/wooosh bs
@@npgjiinx8452 r/IHaveReddit
Imagine, you’re walking home alone and that bird just stops infront of you and stares at you like...👁👄👁
I'd be shook tbh
I’d break its little pencil legs and feed it’s carcass to the weaker chick 😂
Tyler Omg yes! As you should 😂😂😂
@Conner Monsjou
no you wont die... this bird has nothing on a human, but you obviously wont catch it either
Give that bitch a slap and go on with my day
Awe!!! 😭That's so Heartbreaking. That poor little Baby being ignored. Nature sure can be cruel.
The way its head stays completely still while its body is moving is insane
I've seen one of these in person. They stare into your soul and it is absolutely terrifying. They are extremely primitive. Like staring into the eyes of a dinosaur. I get the chills thinking about it.
vice versa , the shoebill thoughts as well
How big is that bird ?
@@mandalorian3865 About 5 feet tall
@@DaisyNova333 Yea my ex gf gives me the chills too she was about 5foot tall
All birds are kin to the dinosaurs after all.
“Reveals his dark side” pfffft this bird looks dark in general
😂🤣😂😂 exactly what I was thinking
the way it just looks at you lmao
They look sinister
M/E for me
you can google the gif for that turn around stare.. i use it often now when someone is being an idiot
Another amazing new bird. I have never seen one. Beautiful.
They should be called the Sparton birds - the weak lose - the strong survive!
The way they keep their heads perfectly still while walking is *extremely* unnerving
Agreed
Thought it was just me
Just like a german tank
Laser focus
Chickens do it too
call child support pls
Child support is what deadbeat parents pay to the one that takes care of the kid because they are too lazy to contribute
Akuma Not all people that pay child support are deadbeats. They just don’t have full custody of their child. Sometimes there are great parents that are willing to do anything for their children yet their other parent intentionally keeps them away from their children.
Bassman Dan very rarely
😂😂
I am curious where the nest was though, w those fluffy feathers that baby appeared so young. I had a similar thought in my own curiosity how this massive bird wo a pouch transports a baby bird when it's outside of the egg. I think i need to brush up on my how birds work info. Thanks tor the share
Really sad ending. As a mother it broke my heart.
Get over it. Nature doesn't give a toss about your feelings.
@@tobbs5410 It doesn't, but we can still feel for those who don't make it. Not too complicated.
@@Minarreal You all eat meat, which involves slitting the throats of animals. I really can't fathom why you'd get upset over animal death.
Gorgeous birds!! Incredible!!
Satan: Let me just make one bird pleassssse
God: Fine.
Satan:
Blackfalk 🤣😂
Also Satan: “Just gonna make a cassowary too..”
Imma make a a sand striker too
most birds are vicious
Wrong that was the goose
Absolutely beautiful 😍 nature sure has created some fantastic beings.
These big, silly looking birds just made my day👍
*sad music* "only her first born will get a drink" *jungle music plays*
That killed me.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Hehe
lmfao fr
the way its head stays completely still as its body moves is so cool
all the birds do that big ones small ones
Just to tempting: It would lose its head if it stood completely still while it body moves. :D
_"all the birds do that big ones small ones"_
Have you seen a pigeon walk? Birds with limited stereoscopic vision often move their heads back and forth in order to get a sense of depth. Raptors, even in flight, move their heads to improve depth perception. Olws takes head hurling to an extreme art. The reason to keep the head still is to get a sharp vision. Birds have very keen sight and and keep their head still when they want to see details. However, in many cases depth perception is more important than precisely determining details.
like how Pennywise dances in the movie IT?
You spelled creepy like cool. 😂
What an amazing creature.. beautiful
I found out these birds are closer relatives of pelicans instead of other herons, and their imposing size and deadly beak look like the fossil Diatryma! 😂❤😊
The first time I saw it blink I was so close to calling a priest.
Ha😀😀👍
Fuckin weirdo
I tried to touch one while it was just sitting there and I thought it was a statue. It blinked and I panicked.
Me too!!! I was like oh shit!!!
I automatically went into trance and carried the exorcism inherited by my ancestors
I was already convinced that this bird is from the pits of hell anyways!
Timah R. 😭😭😭😭😭💀
Thanks to the film team that didn't do anything to help out. Nature documentaries always entertain. Such a Treat...
Well they would probably their head ripped off
That disturbing grin on their faces says it all. Born menacing.
if people were like that
_"dad I killed my little brother hope you're not mad"_
_"no problem I did the same thing to my little brother"_
well , it happens often I royal family
😂
@@kretzschMusic that only happened once in the bible, and the purpose was just to introduce death to humans
@@kretzschMusic So it didn't happen.
Humans were actually worse. Paleolithic humans frequently practiced infanticide, the killing of their own babies and children.
Imagine your walking home and that bird stares at you like
⚪️👄⚪️
Ew remove this from the Internet at once.
That's the face of a cold blooded murderer.
Lol I would be Terrified
Normally I don’t shoot animals but (grabs shotgun)
Im shooting it
0:09 ok that was honestly adorable
Stronger does not necessarily equate to smarter. Best to raise all the chicks.
me: "birds are sooooooooooo cute!!"
Shoebill: "I''ll change your mind..."
They still look terrifying even without knowing their dark secret
tbh they're still kinda cute..
Vulture?
Change your mind*
Skua: “Allow me to introduce myself.”
Throws the whole "a mother's love transcends all species" saying out of the window.
Base parental instincts only go as far as the ability of an animal to provide for its young, and many factors can override it. Humans, while susceptible to these same sorts of conditions, are unique in that atleast we can 99% of the time tell that this is wrong, and even then a parent will only look out for all of their young because they are taught to do so. If humans had no ability to tell right from wrong (something that all other animals lack), then we'd be playing favourites to extremes such as this, and even then many people still do it.
@@AdotLOM this is not “wrong”. The bird may not have enough resources to provide for both children, so it chooses to invest only in the child that is best fit.
Exactly. Pure evil not Darwinian survival! Motherhood in all animals is different than that of this bird! Amazing
@@AdotLOM not all you clown
@@AdotLOM quit overriding the fact they have feelings they know it’s wrong but also know only the strongest can survive which we lack almost entirely
It's such a majestic and beautiful bird!
That's a really cruel bird, nature's so strange and horrible sometimes
It’s called instinct. They don’t run by moral compass.
Humans should be the same
@@Mshi- Cringe
@@liontamer0012 its not cringe its true, were monkeys at the end of the day, everything you know at this point has all been created by man, we’ve completely lost touch of our roots.
@@viralclips420 It's cringe mate, man just sounds to me that he wants to look tough without saying anything genuine, and that comment of yours too sounds so pseudo-evolutionist, naive.
the caption should be: mother shoebill reveals its darkside.
Right
Title should be: no 1 reason shoebills should be farmed to extinction
Exactly
And that was the moment the little one run away. The first chapter of a story full of vengeance and bloodshed has taken its course...
(dramatic background music)
+Dimitris Dimarelos Unfortunately nature is a terrible author and the little one got killed off, but it still made an HBO show with over six series to its name...
After which he Little One grows up to be a college professor and gets cancer and decides to ruin the whole community via drugs to ensure his family legacy
Halcyon Industries Not where I saw it going.
I WISH
Park n Ride Kill Shoebill
This vídeo is 7 years old, and I just knew about this bird's existence today! 😂😅
I just wanted to learn about these birds and now I am crying 😩
the way they blink their eyes is real horror
Good for sexy winking...
Like reptiles
Fun fact: we used to have the same thing, way back when.
www.wikiwand.com/en/Nictitating_membrane
Anyone who's ever had swallows nested near their home can tell you, the weakest chicks tend to fall out of the nest quite often. Nature, in the end, is pretty merciless at maintaining efficiency
Yes, the weakest chicks do tend to "fall" out of the nest
@@yeiou1 What r u trying to say? That the mfs push the weakest one out the nest? How u know that? U talk to em?
@@josephl8974 he know sum bro
@@josephl8974 Yes. Many birds do abandon their weakest offspring, she did too.
@@Noah24Cline Thats what im sayin bruh how tf he know what the birds upto in those nests?
2:05 that's terrifying
This video is so well done but it makes me so sad for the smaller chick.
"Only her first born will get a drink"
*Cue the happy outro music*
AHAHHAHA
She spilled most of the water!
What a slob
I know right!!!!
that bird was clearly an idiot. couldnt do anything correctly
An offering to the birb dark lord
Don't tell me how to do my job!
-momma shoebill
Now that is a dark side if I have ever seen one. Wow, what a really sad relationship between them. I just love that he has been able to just work with the creature and just be there for him. ❤
That eye of the shoebill looks menacing
0:54 Seems like there's a fish that masters the art of Body Replacement Technique...
He used substitude
He is from the Hidden Leaf.
Lol hahahaha
It true he is my classmate
Ninja Vanish!
1:58 the way the mother and the older sibling looks down at the weaker chick is terrifying, its like I can here there thoughts.
It could be a renesenice painting.
*P a t h e t i c*
"hear their"
Hear their*
hear their* dumb ass
That's an amazingly common strategy among birds. From an evolutionary perspective, it seems like a waste of energy and resources, but clearly it works.
Ya know they may be brutal birds in parenting, but they're absolutely beautiful to me as a creature. Certainty my favorite bird
0:09 ok but why did he have to stare like that
RIGHT.
Thats the "Bitch?" Face
Lmao
They are freaking psychopaths
Hahahahahahah LMFAO
mother bird: leaves nest.
older chick: you have forfeited your life privaliges
I want to punt the older baby bird into a volcano
@@TheRadiantSoap Glad to see I’m not the only one
@@milkshakeman3006 Survival of thr fittest, babyyyyy!
@@namesurname7172 *the
*privileges
Hands down by far my favorite animal. She mean but beautiful
Another example of how cruel the so-called Mother Nature is.
*"There can only be two. A master and an apprentice. One to embody the power and the other to crave it."*
The Admiral Y do this remembers me about Anakin and Obi-wan?
It's a story Jedi wouldn't tell you.
It’s the sith era of two code
This isn't star wars
Darth Bane...
I would honestly be scared seeing one of these
You are a grown man
Choke it if it attacks you
Kadence McCaa
Seriously... Its A Bird You Child...
@@GameDevAraz I know it's a bird it's pretty obvious I didn't ask what it was
Kadence McCaa
Well Now No Second Guessing, Stop Commenting Asking Wether Its A Bird Or Not... Seriously...
That's a good-sized bird 🐦 for thanksgiving
Imagine your just a guy walking in Africa and you see that flying and you think it's a dinosaur
I feel so sorry for the second chick. It looks scared and weak. Even though its elder sibling gave it a tough time, I thought its mom will take care of it. But guess I was wrong. My heart broke when it some how crawled itself to its mom's feet for shelter, but she just ignored the baby. God.... It hurts damn it. But yeah, that's how nature works.
It does hurt. A few bird species live by this form of sibling killing called obligate siblicide, unfortunately. Older siblings do that to guarantee they get the resources to survive, and also parent birds allow that because if the youngest one can’t defend itself, it’s not worth using resources towards it. The parents deem the youngest unfit for survival. But luckily there are bird species that do prevent siblicide.
This is same with humans also. Most of us are just manipulated by Disney and other movies
Only the strong survive
Chill out. It's nature, not evil. This happens across the board in the wild. Suck it up buttercup
@@BboyMikazz Disney isnt exactly killing children as far as I know
I was in Zurich zoo once with my young daughter and we walked into the shoebill enclosure. Bird had one eye closed, still as a stature as passersby went through but as soon as it saw my 2yr old daughter, it woke fully and watched her like a hawk.
Never forget these things are descended from dinosaurs...
Your chances of dying to a shoebill are low...
*But never a zero*
All birds descend from dinosaurs lol
@@segundasenpai8472 not all birds were created equal
Did it know we eat chicken sandwiches tho cause that’s what’ll happen messing with my kid 😂
@@averylargecrow Bird lives matter you jerk. so what are you saying a shoebill doesn't deserve rights because it isn't as gracefull as a swan or as delicious as chicken.
Had nerve to roll it's eyes when that baby wanted water 😂
This is one of the wildest creatures I’ve ever seen.
Oh, that’s a bird.
Shoebill: *Blinks*
😨God that’s terrifying.