I was watching the livestream of this nest, when this incident happened. From what I recall, the majority opinion was that this parent killed off this youngster, due to the food situation. The other parent had died, after flying into hydro wires. It was too much work for this remaining parent, to try and gather enough food to feed all of the offspring. So a sacrifice had to be made. And if I remember correctly, it was after this little one's demise, that the landowner started climbing up a ladder each day and dumping a bucket of fish into the nest, to try and help insure the survival of the remaining youngsters.
This is not an uncommon practice for storks even with two parents, they will yeet the littlest one to preserve resources for the ones most likely to survive.
This stork looked a bit "off" something was wrong. You could tell when it was at the edge of the nest. We have a word for it in the medical field, yt won't let you type it.
I think at that age, most flying birds are actually way too light to have a terminal velocity. I've seen ducklings jump from a nest more than 20m above ground and land just fine, only to follow their mother like nothing happened.
@@bobgatewood5277 there isnt a thing in the world that doesnt have a terminal velocity, even a feather has one. Terminal velocity just means the object cant fall faster because the air resistance is equal to the gravity
@@nouse4name368We are no different from animals. Only thing that separates us is our intelligence, if animals were as smart as we were they would act exactly the same as us
My cat did something similar to this. She had 4 kittens in our closet. After a few days she took one of them and put it under our bed. The kittens werent walking yet so we knew it would die. We brought it back to the closet with the other kittens and the mom cat ended up accepting it. When they got a little older we realized this kitten was not like the others. It seemed "slow" maybe even dumb. Luckily when we gave the kittens away the lady took one of the brothers as well. Turned out pretty good.
From all the videos Im seeing, it looks like storks are savage parents and siblings as well. There must be a reason for the harsh odds of stork survival success.
Yeah there was a study that showed starts that committed infanticide actually had more successful births and fledgings in a season. It was only one study over one season but they studied like 69 nests and I think something like 9 out of the 69 at infanticide. And they were a little bit more successful and brooding and fledging successful nesrs. Surely it's some kind of method to triage limited resources and food. It's hard to watch. You also wonder like when exactly do they make their decision... All of a sudden they're feeding the thing and treating it like any bird and then just one second they make that calculation that this isn't going to work out.
@@marx9619Right although in this case I think the reason it killed it the child was because of limited food and it had to triage. Study shows storks that commit infanticide actually have more successful fledgings and overall more of their chicks make it to adulthood. I forget the specific study but they looked at 69 nests. Or something. Maybe 9 or 10% of them committed infanticide and they on average produced more living fledgings that made it out of the nest and into adulthood. So there is a reason for it and it's possible if it didn't do it and then some of the other chicks might not have made it but... As a human I refuse to call it good parentinh. 😢
Wrong, storks will force the youngest/weakest child to fly, it fails 99.9% of times. That small 0.1 percent is also not guaranteed living rest of life.
My favorite is how animals generally don't have language like humans do, so there's no prolonged melodramas and manipulations. The mama stork isn't really even swift and efficient, but constantly observing and curious in her killing.
Everyone saying he is nasty cuz he was biting the siblings.... He didn't know his mom was the one hurting him so he took it out on them. Prolly thinking since he is the smallest his siblings are trying to get him. I think mama stork did this intentionally.
it's a vicious cycle. one chick is hatched weaker or is just a little unlucky and doesn't get fed, which makes it weaker and weaker, so it has less strength to fight for food, so it gets fed less and less. wild animals can't waste their energy on nursing the runt, so a sacrifice like that was the best what the stork mom could do for herself, her chicks and the smallest chick too probably
Not that its weak, but eggs are laid either at 3-5 days intervals. So naturally there will be chicks that are ahead compared to its other siblings. This time though, food maybe hard to comeby.
@@smidgen Birds hatch eggs this way so when times are tough the parents can just feed the smallest child to its older siblings, when times are good and food are plenty the parents have no desire to raise the runt and therefore threw it out.
Times must be hard, parents will usually get rid of weakest/youngest chicks when food is scarce in order to give the bigger ones a higher chance of survival.
You have to give it to the little one....he had the instinct of survival, even taking on his mother by lunging at her a few times which had her on the back foot! Such a truly sad ending though. He clearly didnt stand a chance.
He seemed to be hiding amongst his sibling initially, which made me think she might have been after him for a while prior to this video. For some reason I became aware that he might be the intended victim before the actual attack. They were so bunched together that it took me a while to see there were actually five of them, and he seemed to want to stay right in the middle.
@@TiagoNYC Though hard to judge without much history, even if that chick did make a few wobbly, confused pecks and its siblings, don't you the mother's response was a bit out of proportion?
She sacrificed the weakest to give the other ones a better chance to make it. Very sad and difficult to watch, especially the last attack with her beak, and the noisy lethal fall of the poor chick...nature is cruel sometimes. RIP little chick ;(.
I like being human. For how incredibly complicated and stressful our lives are compared to animals, we have an appreciation of other creatures that animals don’t. We have a greater capacity to love and experience the beauty of it.
The little guy was the toughest one in the family! He would have fought his way to a successful existence had his mother not taken the opportunity away from him.
Well that would depend if the mother could provide enough food for it. It wasn't capable of flying around in yet so the mother was singularly responsible for feeding it. Unless the dad is around I don't know.
If it was scared it would stop the self induced aggression. It was typical youngest rascal bastard. Which would eventually pierce thru skin of the older ones and make them susceptible to diseases and eventually death.
@@bosesebi6685 All of the babies were doing this. They attack the others to weaken them so they won’t get thrown out of the nest. But they lack the self-awareness to know when THEY are the weakest.
@@bosesebi6685 All offspring do this in most animal groups. There's no good or bad babies, they all want to survive and consequently will do what it takes to survive.
I've never seen an animal activist complain about animals behavior. Just how humans interact with them. I recognize you're probably being tongue in cheek but they tend to oppose things like factory farming or forced feeding I'm not a vegetarian or a animal activist or anything.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 atleast you understood i was trying to be satire 😂 (i see instagram users complain about vids like this stateing "why didn't you help it" hence why i posted the comment)
Interesting the one was buried so deeply inside "his" siblings. (For a while I wasn't able to see there were (so many as!) five.) Eventually, I noticed him and suspected he might be the one for some reason, even before she started to go after him. (Perhaps "she" had been after him for a while, causing him to hide? Any history to support that?)
Baby birds usually go on top of each other to get more food, the reason why that one was below everyone was probably because he was too weak to compete with his siblings
storks usually do that to the ones they think wnt reach adulthood . they dont see a reason to feed those who are the weakest in the nest so they throw them out
Definitely had nothing to do with retaliating to moms hurting/injuring it... the only times it pecked its siblings was in protest to mom fucking him up. This was mom picking on the runt, not "disciplining the problem child". Moms cold bloodedly kill their babies. It happens, especially with storks.
@@mariahdominguezgomez4686 I’m not associating it with human behavior. I said, “it’s like”, not, “it must be,” or, “it’s a fact.” I agree animals don’t have human behavior. However they also show anger, aggression, pain, retaliation, sadness, anxiety, fear, happiness, etc. Who’s to say it wasn’t taking it out on its siblings? It’s not a human behavior, aggression while under attack is instinct. The difference between us is we understand right and wrong, good and evil, cognizant thinking, and advanced psychological thinking. Otherwise animals do express many of the same things we do. So this isn’t just human behavior. I’ve seen monkeys being attacked Attack smaller monkeys out of frustration. Same goes with birds, alligators, other mammals, etc.
If I ever come back as a stork, look around the nest, and realize I was last to hatch..... think I'll probably just go ahead and take a nosedive off the ledge.
@@KE-yq2eg I'm no expert, but have followed various species of bird nests for many years now. No matter the species, 99% of the time, the last to hatch is the smallest..... as the lasts' siblings have often been eating for days before he/she even enters the world.
@@dirkdiggler7253 It's probably almost guaranteed as the next sibling to hatch is likely hours away, at least. And you were great in Boogie Nights, Mr. Diggler..... big fan.
Wrong choice by mama Stork, the little one was gutsy. It's not the size of the Stork in the fight, but the size of the roof on which it lands. By the way, show starts at 8:40
Last to hatch is always the smallest, and the instincts of the bird tells it to cut its losses, and eliminate the weak. Their job is to make more healthy birds. That little bird fought to survive, knew to hide from the constant picking. But its instinctual, little one pecked the crap out of adults legs right to the end. Rip little stork
7:12 I like how the siblings are trying to protect him and then he starts pecking them and they're like "ok, you get what's coming to you". 9:40 the dude that was protecting him is so done with his shit.
They're not protecting him. They're trying to get to their mothers beak for the food first. But she isn't attempting to feed. She is gauging and has already selected the smallest for removal. The others are just getting the way.
The beautiful scenery is simply stunning.Backdrop to something at this moment which wasn't so beautiful,though necessary. Momma bird knows what & why she eradicated this little one.Still brutal to see though
It is quite a wild juxtaposition to see a beautiful day in what looks like a suburban neighborhood. People riding a bike..m meanwhile there's infanticide going on. You got to wonder what human came across that dead store on the ground. I suppose it could have been another animal that picked up as a meal
i wonder why they always seem to take a long time just to kill it, why didnt it drop it off right off the get go instead of torturing it for so long, maybe it was trying to see if it was actually worth killing so it does some tests first?
Hard to tell. Wven their eyesight is different since they have eyes on sides and not on front. And I bet she has a little bit different depth and color vision, so she may not recognise the bunch apart until she peck it a little and find out the smallest head or something.
Mom seems to be reacting to the cries of one baby which is instigated by a different one, which the little one gets blamed for I think. 6:37 the one stork laying down in front starts crying louder as its being poked and prodded on its wing by the other one in the middle. Then the little one next to him is subtly touching it with its beak just as mother stork notices at 7:00 and 7:10. Must think hes the one thats causing problems, so she pushes him off. And instead of taking the admonishing and quieting down, he goes into fight mode and starts pecking all of them. Mom has no time for it and out he goes.
She seems to have had it in for the little mite from the get-go. Strange as I thought there were less active storks in the nest and the one she discarded seemed like a bit of a fighter.
@@KebabMusicLtd im not sure, she gave him several chances after the first time and he kept pecking the hell out of his siblings. i think she was just being reactive
It may seem brutal and obviously storks outright are/can be (and I am aware: storks very easily and very commonly reduce their own brood quantity), but I also think there is more to it. Birds and similar predators usually use various ways to check which off their offspring seem strong, healthy and feisty and which aren't. Considering it was smaller than the other chicks the stork parent already had its eyes on this one. Although one or two pecks of the parent looked a bit tough, I think initially it was fine as the parent stork was also keen to mostly ignore the small stork once it responded and then passively rejoined the brood... until it kept pecking at its siblings. That didn't look playful anymore. It wouldn't be weird if the parent stork caught on to that by instinct which may have lead to some matter of animalistic realization that if that little stork grows up and continues with that behaviour, it could cause severe injuries in the rest of the brood. Or in other words, the parent stork probably instinctually saw the little stork as problematic either way and decided it might as well be thrown out then.
It seemed like the other chicks didn´t really feel the pecking by the small chick. It seems like the mom discharged it because she thought it was sick and wouldn´t make it to adulthood anyway. It propably was half the weight of the other chicks. And the surrounding area doesn´t look like it´s sparse of food.
What?! It’s just how wild animals treat their weakest offspring. Birds eliminate the smallest and weakest in their brood, outrightly kill them off and feed them to the remaining baby birds. For the birds, it’s one less mouth to feed and thus ensure the survival of the rest. It’s all instinct not emotions with animals.
That is a very Interesting observation, and i wish we had more footage to actually see if this smaller chick was much more hostile than it’s siblings to prove it tbh
The smallest doesn't usually start pecking the siblings until after its initially grabbed by the mother. I've seen this in several stork nests and I think that pecking is them attempting to get the larger siblings to pick their heads up so they can draw the attention away from the runt and allow them to burrow in the middle to hide under them. The parents just generally get rid of the runt in most of their broods.
The final drop over the edge was so deliberate, I wonder if placing the chick at the edge of the nest was just a bit of waffling, or was the mother testing to see if it had the strength to return to the safety of the nest.
He was pecking his siblings so he could show his mother that he wasn’t the weakest. The mother kills off any weak or sick child to feed her healthy and older children. He was trying to show his mother that he still had potential, yet the mother knew that he was small and weak, so she tried to break his neck, but then he fell.
My cat had kittens. 5 of them. I woke up one night and heard a crunching sound. Mother cat had taken one of the kitten under the bed and was eating her. Head. First. Utterly disgusted and I never looked at that cat the same again. No idea if the kitten had died already or if she put the final boot in, but damn.
That's very common, the eating of dead offspring. Can't give up a meal like that in nature. Also, get your cat spayed and this sort of thing can be avoided. 😘
See that's kind of strange because there was no shortage of food. I assume you are providing the cats with plenty of food. I don't know I'm not an expert maybe it wasn't producing a milk or something. I'm curious why a cat would kill it's young but I guess tons of films. But in captivity I find it a little strange since there's basically endless food for them But pandas will only raise one kid even if they have two. In rescue centers they will actually trick the parent by rotating them. In
That baby bird had some behavioral problems. You dont see the other babies pecking their siblings over and over like that. The baby bird got corrected by the mom several times before she realised he was a threat, esoecially to poking out the eyes of his siblings, so she made a big decision. She gave him a chance to cool down and stop but he kept being violent instead of chilling. So, off he goes. Wow
@@Supraboyesyeah people love to ascribe human attribute to these animals. They like judge them based on a reality end assume they have these huge depths of empathy in gratitude and so on. It is believed that animals do experience emotion but it's not the kind of emotion we think about
So consider the life of a young stork. Fighting to survive even in the nest and against your own family. It's not your fault you were the last to be born and naturally you are going to be smaller than the other birds in the nest. But don't dare show any signs of weakness or you could be singled out to face the drop-of-death and when mom and dad go in search of food, your sibling storks are going to do all they can to make sure there's one less mouth to feed when dinner is served. There's no honour among storks. Do you think that those Storks who manage to survive childhood and grow up to finally leave the nest are going to stay in touch with their fellow murderous siblings???
OMG, so sad! He/she was a tough one, really fought back. Probably would have been a strong survivor in the wild if wasn't singled out since was smaller.
Pretty sure he is frantically pecking the others (and the ground) is not hostility but because he has began starvation and is trying to get some sustenance. All of the others probably get all the food before him so he is always too weak and now at the point of agony. Mother did him a favor.
معلوماتك عكسيه تماما.. تصرفه هذا ليس بسبب الجوع فمثل هذا الصغير يأكل الكثير وبسرعه غالبا.. لكم من خلال مشاهداتي الكثيره فهو ينقر الجميع وحتى أرضية العش كوسيله للدفاع واخافة المقابل
Exactly, it's funny how humans tend to look at this and assume The kid was being disciplined for making noise or punching his kid siblings. But I guess it's understandable, the vast majority of people watching this is probably not studied bird behavior in depth and many of them are very young and I guess it's human nature too ascribe human attributes to these animals. But I guess if you watch enough of these things you start to notice the patterns and get deesensitized a bit. I've seen far more troubling stuff. King cobras were followed in one documentary where they killed every single female cover they made it with over the course of a year. And that's not predict behavior so they were freaked out There's food on CZcams of a Komodo dragon eating the babies out of a live pregnant deer. Monkey eating a baby deer back starting at the hind parts while it's still alive.. pack a hyenas eating a really sick cow with a giant abscess You'll probably start to see tons of this s*** once you watch one or two of these videos and the algorithm picks it up
@@user-em4qf9nx3tno it's definitely food. The only reason the storks killed the babies is as a matter of triaging resources. This has been studied in depth, in about 9% of cases there will be infanticide and nest and technically they have more successful fledgings. The youngins behavior was none the cause of his death, it was a side effect of the lack of food which ultimately was what prompted the parent to kill it. At least this is the widely accepted scientific consensus and it's also pretty much common sense. It's strange that people assume it's almost some kind of discipline here.
So I'm pretty sure I saw a earlier video from this same stork family where a guy climbed up and gave them a bunch of fish to eat. My question is why didn't he just take the weakling of the storks? Everyone had to know that baby stork was marked for death
I think it’s engraved in their nature. They have to murder at least one chick lmaooo. If they intervened and save the weakest one, the second to weakest one in the parents eyes would be next HAHA.
It's so kind of the stork to allow some scavengers to eat her weakest baby that probably wouldn't have survived anyways. And a smart way to keep her family line strong. Also, not having a decaying baby in her nest helps keep disease and pests away.
@@xxuncexx The old nazis also thought that and performed eugenics. Since nobody after WW2 wanted to be like a nazi, it was declared unethical and therefore banned.
@@Gaia_Seraphina And with modern day abortions available, weaker genetics can be rooted out safely and legally depending on the state. However, that is currently under attack in the US by republicans. And is why we must take a stand - to ensure that weak and undesirable genes cannot be allowed to pass on.
Seems to me an act of mercy. It obviously wasn’t strong enough to survive as it was so much smaller that it’s siblings. Not aggressive enough to get the food first. Many birds lay multiple eggs and only one chick will survive. Robins lay 4 eggs but as one gets stronger from being first to open its mouth for food it will boot out its weaker siblings till its last man standing.
" A mothers love is unconditional "
Storks: "Nah"
For an equal drama among humans, watch movie "Sophie´s choice" with Sally Fields
I didn't like that movie, for OBVIOUS reasons.
Suddenly the story of the white stork "delivering" (ie dropping off) a little baby takes on a frighteningly dark dimension.
😂😂Nice
Lmao right smh
Humans are foolish to trust these things with the care of their newborn, especially now when we know the whole story
Tbf, when that myth was created, they didn't have 24 hour we cams showing every horror imaginable
😂😂😂😂😂😂 right
I was watching the livestream of this nest, when this incident happened. From what I recall, the majority opinion was that this parent killed off this youngster, due to the food situation. The other parent had died, after flying into hydro wires. It was too much work for this remaining parent, to try and gather enough food to feed all of the offspring. So a sacrifice had to be made. And if I remember correctly, it was after this little one's demise, that the landowner started climbing up a ladder each day and dumping a bucket of fish into the nest, to try and help insure the survival of the remaining youngsters.
Why didn’t they eat it?
This is not an uncommon practice for storks even with two parents, they will yeet the littlest one to preserve resources for the ones most likely to survive.
This stork looked a bit "off" something was wrong. You could tell when it was at the edge of the nest. We have a word for it in the medical field, yt won't let you type it.
@@mayoluck Infanticide?
Don't have babies if you can't afford it
“And THAT, kids, is what will happen if you get sassy like Wilbur did”
Yes, mother.
LOL
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The sound of it crashing into whatever it landed on. BRUTAL.
Lmfao 😂
10:20 the poor baby bird was pretending to be dead like ”momma i’m dead now don’t touch me” but then the mom was like ok then get out of here!!
@@zasou1nah thats why i dont wanna be a stork
I laughed lmoa😂😂😂
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The fact that the stork watched it fall to make sure it died. SAVAGE.
I think at that age, most flying birds are actually way too light to have a terminal velocity. I've seen ducklings jump from a nest more than 20m above ground and land just fine, only to follow their mother like nothing happened.
The reason it did that was so it can test the flight ability, sadly most birds are too stupid to know what anything is...
@@bobgatewood5277 there isnt a thing in the world that doesnt have a terminal velocity, even a feather has one.
Terminal velocity just means the object cant fall faster because the air resistance is equal to the gravity
@@HejjHajj yes you're right, thanks for the correction bud
I should've said "lethal velocity"
those milkers you got are savage also 😮💨
Lol, the other four started behaving so well after seeing what happened to him.
Didn't they...!!
Humans: We need to be more like animals in nature!
Animals:
I still agree to that point, maybe not the way they want it though.
@@nouse4name368We are no different from animals. Only thing that separates us is our intelligence, if animals were as smart as we were they would act exactly the same as us
Who said that? You don’t speak for us you 🪳
Correction:
*Liberals: We need to be more like...
@@KooroshFarahanithat's based on the assumption that every intelligent species would be as violent and barbaric as humans
My cat did something similar to this. She had 4 kittens in our closet. After a few days she took one of them and put it under our bed. The kittens werent walking yet so we knew it would die. We brought it back to the closet with the other kittens and the mom cat ended up accepting it. When they got a little older we realized this kitten was not like the others. It seemed "slow" maybe even dumb. Luckily when we gave the kittens away the lady took one of the brothers as well. Turned out pretty good.
sheesh
@@tardwrangler survival my dude this universe is brutal
@@eastbow6053 my autistic ass is sweating rn, not sure if I’m grateful or not that nature never weeded me out 💀
@@bannedwagoner69 yeah your ass would be dead rn if it weren’t for modern advancements in technology
My cat ate the runt. Walked in and it's butt was hanging out mom's mouth, rear legs kicking. Bit of a shock!
Bro went out like a G though, fighting and pecking all the way until the end.
He said F** all y’all on the way out
The constant starting fights with its siblings, while being the runt, is probably why the mom kicked it out of the nest.
It seemed retarded. Attacking its other siblings.
Death before Dishonor
True G, was even having a go back at mom...
It was the smallest, but it was definitely a fighter!
It was hungry. It kept pecking at the black spots on the other chicks. There were too many mouths to feed. So the mother got rid of a mouth
@@Phoenixrises113it was too rowdy, she gave it multiple warnings and two chances after it attacked the mom too.
@@Phoenixrises113 It was defending itself. It was just a little tiny and maybe had a cold. Bad mom.
@@jayzeuskhrist1877that’s not why the chick was dropped. If the parents can’t comfortably feed all the chicks, the smallest one goes
@@calvinhoward3808i don't know where you think the mom stork gets food but i can guarantee to you thats It's not from a grocery store
From all the videos Im seeing, it looks like storks are savage parents and siblings as well. There must be a reason for the harsh odds of stork survival success.
Yeah surely hawks, owls, foxes and raccoons have nothing to do with it.
Yeah there was a study that showed starts that committed infanticide actually had more successful births and fledgings in a season. It was only one study over one season but they studied like 69 nests and I think something like 9 out of the 69 at infanticide. And they were a little bit more successful and brooding and fledging successful nesrs.
Surely it's some kind of method to triage limited resources and food. It's hard to watch. You also wonder like when exactly do they make their decision... All of a sudden they're feeding the thing and treating it like any bird and then just one second they make that calculation that this isn't going to work out.
@@marx9619Right although in this case I think the reason it killed it the child was because of limited food and it had to triage. Study shows storks that commit infanticide actually have more successful fledgings and overall more of their chicks make it to adulthood. I forget the specific study but they looked at 69 nests. Or something. Maybe 9 or 10% of them committed infanticide and they on average produced more living fledgings that made it out of the nest and into adulthood.
So there is a reason for it and it's possible if it didn't do it and then some of the other chicks might not have made it but... As a human I refuse to call it good parentinh. 😢
Wrong, storks will force the youngest/weakest child to fly, it fails 99.9% of times. That small 0.1 percent is also not guaranteed living rest of life.
Stork parent: Nothing personal, kid. This is an act of mercy to save you from death of hunger.
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My favorite is how animals generally don't have language like humans do, so there's no prolonged melodramas and manipulations.
The mama stork isn't really even swift and efficient, but constantly observing and curious in her killing.
It's like she's not even planning it. The runt just stood out and she takes action.
The stork mother maybe felt bad while killing the little so she stopped for a while
You can feel almost zero emotion. As it was getting aggressive she said f this. And she stared at it ..Cold af
It got real quiet real quick in that nest.
Everyone saying he is nasty cuz he was biting the siblings.... He didn't know his mom was the one hurting him so he took it out on them. Prolly thinking since he is the smallest his siblings are trying to get him. I think mama stork did this intentionally.
I had a dog that was the smallest of the litter. Ended up he lived the longest of the whole litter and grew to be the biggest one of all of them.
Animals aren't known for their intelligence
every other bird:living a happy life
Storks:Somebody is going to die right now!
eagle siblings do this too!
other birds also throw away weak chicks
Dont think theres a single Bird species which never done something like that bro.
@@isaac-p6126 I've never seen a duck or a chicken do it (chickens do kill their offspring on accident though).
it's a vicious cycle. one chick is hatched weaker or is just a little unlucky and doesn't get fed, which makes it weaker and weaker, so it has less strength to fight for food, so it gets fed less and less. wild animals can't waste their energy on nursing the runt, so a sacrifice like that was the best what the stork mom could do for herself, her chicks and the smallest chick too probably
Not that its weak, but eggs are laid either at 3-5 days intervals. So naturally there will be chicks that are ahead compared to its other siblings. This time though, food maybe hard to comeby.
Survival of the fittest
@@pyron674 that's what i thought, he simply looks like the last one to hatch
@@smidgen Birds hatch eggs this way so when times are tough the parents can just feed the smallest child to its older siblings, when times are good and food are plenty the parents have no desire to raise the runt and therefore threw it out.
@@JustDaniel6764No. Survival of the fit enough.
With all the beautiful stories of storks dropping off babies now I find out what a stork mom is like😮…
I mean, it technically did drop off a baby, might be where the stories originated.
@@rogueisolation5395 haha! nice
10:32 theirs your baby drop
Humans are the rejected babies which are dropped by storks
The people’s whose house it hits at 10:35 must’ve jumped when they heard that thump.
It is a work shed. Šandor's house is the roof above the nest in these videos.
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Chicken-A-Go is knocking- they have another delivery.
Times must be hard, parents will usually get rid of weakest/youngest chicks when food is scarce in order to give the bigger ones a higher chance of survival.
Not necessarily. Storks practice infanticide, killing off the youngest.
It was bc he was too aggressive
That obviously isnt what was happening here
@@itzvincentx3 i would guess it’s because that bird would have the lowest chance of finding a mate & having offspring
Look at tree size difference. The others were out competing the small one for food…. He was weak so he died
You have to give it to the little one....he had the instinct of survival, even taking on his mother by lunging at her a few times which had her on the back foot!
Such a truly sad ending though. He clearly didnt stand a chance.
Actually I lost all empathy after it started packing its siblings, unprovoked. It got annoying fast
He seemed to be hiding amongst his sibling initially, which made me think she might have been after him for a while prior to this video. For some reason I became aware that he might be the intended victim before the actual attack. They were so bunched together that it took me a while to see there were actually five of them, and he seemed to want to stay right in the middle.
@@TiagoNYC it likely did so to show its mother that it was stronger than it looked, so it would avoid being killed.
@@TiagoNYC Though hard to judge without much history, even if that chick did make a few wobbly, confused pecks and its siblings, don't you the mother's response was a bit out of proportion?
@@AmaanStormIt did It because he was starving, fights among siblings are common especially If food is running low
She sacrificed the weakest to give the other ones a better chance to make it. Very sad and difficult to watch, especially the last attack with her beak, and the noisy lethal fall of the poor chick...nature is cruel sometimes. RIP little chick ;(.
I think it was quite funny to watch 😂
Nature choose the fittest....😭
Maybe the mom just thought the chick was to sick to be raised further
@@jor7137 I think so indeed, but it's sad.
Он не был самым слабым, просто вылупился последним. Не повезло.
The way the mother watches it until it hits the deck.
The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Hell in the Cell.
She warned him many many times, but didn't listen.
I like being human. For how incredibly complicated and stressful our lives are compared to animals, we have an appreciation of other creatures that animals don’t. We have a greater capacity to love and experience the beauty of it.
I dont. Being humans eats assholes if youre a man
While I don’t disagree, there’s a certain brutal math problem that is going on here that the stork solved.
humans used to commit child sacrifices religously. no pun intended.
@@9forMortalMen I'm sure there have been times of great difficulty where humans have performed the same calculus.
I feel bad for the little guy, he might have been small but he had a fighting spirit, nature is cruel
Nature isn’t cruel at all. It’s pure and unbiased. Your emotional design makes you think it’s cruel.
@@Stahe yeah I think he got that lmao
@@StaheA baby being killed by its mother is cruel lol
The little guy was the toughest one in the family! He would have fought his way to a successful existence had his mother not taken the opportunity away from him.
Well that would depend if the mother could provide enough food for it. It wasn't capable of flying around in yet so the mother was singularly responsible for feeding it. Unless the dad is around I don't know.
Man hört den Aufprall. Extrem brutal!
Die kleine Ratte hat bekommen, worum sie gebettelt hat :)
It's sad. the baby seems to understand what's happening and it's scared.
If it was scared it would stop the self induced aggression.
It was typical youngest rascal bastard.
Which would eventually pierce thru skin of the older ones and make them susceptible to diseases and eventually death.
@@bosesebi6685 All of the babies were doing this. They attack the others to weaken them so they won’t get thrown out of the nest. But they lack the self-awareness to know when THEY are the weakest.
@@bosesebi6685 All offspring do this in most animal groups. There's no good or bad babies, they all want to survive and consequently will do what it takes to survive.
It is not sąd . That is exactly the way human babies are being aborted .
I can almost hear the animal activists yelling at the bird trying to question who told it to do that
Get tested for psychosis then
I've never seen an animal activist complain about animals behavior. Just how humans interact with them. I recognize you're probably being tongue in cheek but they tend to oppose things like factory farming or forced feeding I'm not a vegetarian or a animal activist or anything.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 atleast you understood i was trying to be satire 😂 (i see instagram users complain about vids like this stateing "why didn't you help it" hence why i posted the comment)
That thud it made must’ve scared the hell out of whoever heard it.
The smaller one was a real runt. Nowhere near as big and strong as the others. Nature does not play.
They're lizards with feathers. Get over it.
Interesting the one was buried so deeply inside "his" siblings. (For a while I wasn't able to see there were (so many as!) five.) Eventually, I noticed him and suspected he might be the one for some reason, even before she started to go after him. (Perhaps "she" had been after him for a while, causing him to hide? Any history to support that?)
Baby birds usually go on top of each other to get more food, the reason why that one was below everyone was probably because he was too weak to compete with his siblings
It was like they were trying to protect him 😢
@10:32 middle stork is like "imma just put my head between ya'll real quick"
I feel like the mom was kinda hesitant. She was like “You know I love you but you can’t be hurting your siblings… bye”
Mom stressed-out with the problem child
Nothing more dumber than projecting your own emotions to an animal.
storks usually do that to the ones they think wnt reach adulthood . they dont see a reason to feed those who are the weakest in the nest so they throw them out
@@michaelpark5681"more dumber" irony
Definitely had nothing to do with retaliating to moms hurting/injuring it... the only times it pecked its siblings was in protest to mom fucking him up. This was mom picking on the runt, not "disciplining the problem child". Moms cold bloodedly kill their babies. It happens, especially with storks.
It is interesting how the 1 that is being outed by the parent, takes it out on the other chicks.
I found that interesting also. It’s almost like it’s like, “I’m in pain so you should be.”
STOP associating animals with human BEHAVIOR! It’s just nature!! Perhaps he was hungry, WE DON’T KNOW! 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@mariahdominguezgomez4686 I’m not associating it with human behavior. I said, “it’s like”, not, “it must be,” or, “it’s a fact.” I agree animals don’t have human behavior. However they also show anger, aggression, pain, retaliation, sadness, anxiety, fear, happiness, etc. Who’s to say it wasn’t taking it out on its siblings? It’s not a human behavior, aggression while under attack is instinct. The difference between us is we understand right and wrong, good and evil, cognizant thinking, and advanced psychological thinking. Otherwise animals do express many of the same things we do. So this isn’t just human behavior. I’ve seen monkeys being attacked Attack smaller monkeys out of frustration. Same goes with birds, alligators, other mammals, etc.
No actually, this is game of dominance. It is showing his/her mom that he/she is stronger than others by biting them.
@@mariahdominguezgomez4686it’s really not that serious
If I ever come back as a stork, look around the nest, and realize I was last to hatch..... think I'll probably just go ahead and take a nosedive off the ledge.
I think it's whoever is first to get fed, will become the biggest, not the last one to hatch.
@@KE-yq2eg I'm no expert, but have followed various species of bird nests for many years now. No matter the species, 99% of the time, the last to hatch is the smallest..... as the lasts' siblings have often been eating for days before he/she even enters the world.
@@KE-yq2eg look at the feathering compared to the others. it's younger.
If you're first to have hatched there's a good chance you'll be first to get fed
@@dirkdiggler7253 It's probably almost guaranteed as the next sibling to hatch is likely hours away, at least. And you were great in Boogie Nights, Mr. Diggler..... big fan.
That little one was fiesty, seems like mom was chill until he started acting out
Yeah. It started repeatedly poking at the others and maybe was seen as a threat. On top of being of course the smallest.
In which country is this place?❤
부족한 먹이탓인가요? 제일 작은 녀석을 제거하네요. 안타까운 광경을 보니 가슴이 무거워 집니다.
The little guy is trying so hard to "not" be noticed by Mom... he can sense treachery is on her mind!
Bottom stork: “stand still, you guys-its vision is based on movement.”
That lil dude was gangster he was the smallest but was tough and kept KOing his bigger brothers 😂
I think the mother threw him out because of that more than his size. He kept making a disturbance in the nest.
@@sammylong3704 He was starving and trying to feed himself. It wasn't aggression but pain and desperation.
Motherly love at its best. Do they have CPS for birds?
The bang it made was extra disturbing
And the 4th smallest storklet might be the next to get the boot over the edge if Mom notices that he's now the smallest one left...
Wrong choice by mama Stork, the little one was gutsy.
It's not the size of the Stork in the fight, but the size of the roof on which it lands.
By the way, show starts at 8:40
Nah bro I stayed for the whole movie
The thump at the end shows how much fight he had😂
yeah keep telleing that to yourself you must be 5 foot. 🤣😂🤣
@@Snakeshit294 the dudes obviously trolling. Way to be too stupid to catch the joKe
@@Snakeshit294 look up Audie Murphy. Tiny dude that makes everyone here look like little girls.
Last to hatch is always the smallest, and the instincts of the bird tells it to cut its losses, and eliminate the weak. Their job is to make more healthy birds. That little bird fought to survive, knew to hide from the constant picking. But its instinctual, little one pecked the crap out of adults legs right to the end. Rip little stork
Notice the other baby storks keeping still and behaving.
Birds are just vicious creatures. When someone tells me they're an avid bird-watcher, but gut reaction is always the same: "lol, *why?"*
Nothing in the Wild happens for no reason. That’s the misterious balance of Nature.
It looks like they instinctively know to play dead, because the next step is getting tossed out of the nest.
Storks are brutal. I'm going back to watch my panda live cams. LOL
7:12 I like how the siblings are trying to protect him and then he starts pecking them and they're like "ok, you get what's coming to you". 9:40 the dude that was protecting him is so done with his shit.
He tried to be aggressive to elude his mother IDing him, but he could not hide the fact that he was too small in size comparing to his siblings.
They're not protecting him. They're trying to get to their mothers beak for the food first.
But she isn't attempting to feed. She is gauging and has already selected the smallest for removal.
The others are just getting the way.
They don't protect, they think for themselves not for their siblings
They're not protecting it.
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The beautiful scenery is simply stunning.Backdrop to something at this moment which wasn't so beautiful,though necessary. Momma bird knows what & why she eradicated this little one.Still brutal to see though
It is quite a wild juxtaposition to see a beautiful day in what looks like a suburban neighborhood. People riding a bike..m meanwhile there's infanticide going on. You got to wonder what human came across that dead store on the ground. I suppose it could have been another animal that picked up as a meal
...and the rest of the babies never again complained of being hungry.....
Nature is wild! I think the mama Stork actually broke the chicks neck before she dropped it off
i think the chick was pretending to be dead in that last moment but the mother grabbed it and down it went
Birds are metal af.
i wonder why they always seem to take a long time just to kill it, why didnt it drop it off right off the get go instead of torturing it for so long, maybe it was trying to see if it was actually worth killing so it does some tests first?
Hard to tell. Wven their eyesight is different since they have eyes on sides and not on front. And I bet she has a little bit different depth and color vision, so she may not recognise the bunch apart until she peck it a little and find out the smallest head or something.
Yeah it almost looked like it was just incapable of getting a good grip and tossing it off. Like it took it the rear four tries.
I had gerbils once. They had 6 babies and a few days later noticed the mother eating them. she ended up eating them all.
That's mother nature at work...cold and without emotion.
Mom seems to be reacting to the cries of one baby which is instigated by a different one, which the little one gets blamed for I think. 6:37 the one stork laying down in front starts crying louder as its being poked and prodded on its wing by the other one in the middle. Then the little one next to him is subtly touching it with its beak just as mother stork notices at 7:00 and 7:10. Must think hes the one thats causing problems, so she pushes him off. And instead of taking the admonishing and quieting down, he goes into fight mode and starts pecking all of them. Mom has no time for it and out he goes.
She seems to have had it in for the little mite from the get-go. Strange as I thought there were less active storks in the nest and the one she discarded seemed like a bit of a fighter.
@@KebabMusicLtd im not sure, she gave him several chances after the first time and he kept pecking the hell out of his siblings. i think she was just being reactive
It may seem brutal and obviously storks outright are/can be (and I am aware: storks very easily and very commonly reduce their own brood quantity), but I also think there is more to it. Birds and similar predators usually use various ways to check which off their offspring seem strong, healthy and feisty and which aren't. Considering it was smaller than the other chicks the stork parent already had its eyes on this one. Although one or two pecks of the parent looked a bit tough, I think initially it was fine as the parent stork was also keen to mostly ignore the small stork once it responded and then passively rejoined the brood... until it kept pecking at its siblings. That didn't look playful anymore. It wouldn't be weird if the parent stork caught on to that by instinct which may have lead to some matter of animalistic realization that if that little stork grows up and continues with that behaviour, it could cause severe injuries in the rest of the brood. Or in other words, the parent stork probably instinctually saw the little stork as problematic either way and decided it might as well be thrown out then.
It seemed like the other chicks didn´t really feel the pecking by the small chick. It seems like the mom discharged it because she thought it was sick and wouldn´t make it to adulthood anyway. It propably was half the weight of the other chicks. And the surrounding area doesn´t look like it´s sparse of food.
Huh
What?! It’s just how wild animals treat their weakest offspring. Birds eliminate the smallest and weakest in their brood, outrightly kill them off and feed them to the remaining baby birds. For the birds, it’s one less mouth to feed and thus ensure the survival of the rest. It’s all instinct not emotions with animals.
That is a very Interesting observation, and i wish we had more footage to actually see if this smaller chick was much more hostile than it’s siblings to prove it tbh
The smallest doesn't usually start pecking the siblings until after its initially grabbed by the mother. I've seen this in several stork nests and I think that pecking is them attempting to get the larger siblings to pick their heads up so they can draw the attention away from the runt and allow them to burrow in the middle to hide under them. The parents just generally get rid of the runt in most of their broods.
Pecky was granted trial by concrete, as per their ways. RIP Pecky.
The final drop over the edge was so deliberate, I wonder if placing the chick at the edge of the nest was just a bit of waffling, or was the mother testing to see if it had the strength to return to the safety of the nest.
Lol that thunk at the end 😂
Note to self: set up a safety net under that stork nest in my yard.
Or let nature take it's place.
Storks don't raise disabled babies like we do
@@williamhollaway1960 🗿
@@williamhollaway1960 💀🤣
Good idea but now you have to raise it
I can’t watch this…nature is FING BRUTAL
10:33 falls… BONK* oof rip
That little one was the nastiest one, pecking his siblings... No wonder Mom is like "off you go!!"
He was pecking his siblings so he could show his mother that he wasn’t the weakest. The mother kills off any weak or sick child to feed her healthy and older children. He was trying to show his mother that he still had potential, yet the mother knew that he was small and weak, so she tried to break his neck, but then he fell.
@@yellowfox2318 So sad, right??
@@yolielin4143 Yeah, it's sad, but that's how nature works
@@yellowfox2318 oh this made me tear up. If only all the babies could survive 😞
@@LisaLovesFugglers It’s just nature. Whether you like it or not, ya gotta deal with it. It’s horrible, I know, but it’s made this way.
Жесть. Одно дело, знаешь, другое- видишь.
The crash at 10:35 WASBRUTAL😞😔😣
When people say “oh… we should learn from animals… bla bla”. 🥲 Half of the population wouldn’t survive childhood.
She's like she said today's the day if we gonna see if this MF'er can fly or not.
yea, and then she was like 'lol'
birds are creepy asf lowkey
fr fr bussin ong ngl lfg
@@Jagar_Tharn no cap Fr fr ngl
@@SimulatedGoat facts
What country is this?
Perhaps that little one wasn't getting enough nutrition hence its smaller size and its continued pecking at the others.
My cat had kittens. 5 of them. I woke up one night and heard a crunching sound. Mother cat had taken one of the kitten under the bed and was eating her. Head. First. Utterly disgusted and I never looked at that cat the same again. No idea if the kitten had died already or if she put the final boot in, but damn.
Metal af
That's very common, the eating of dead offspring. Can't give up a meal like that in nature. Also, get your cat spayed and this sort of thing can be avoided. 😘
See that's kind of strange because there was no shortage of food. I assume you are providing the cats with plenty of food. I don't know I'm not an expert maybe it wasn't producing a milk or something. I'm curious why a cat would kill it's young but I guess tons of films. But in captivity I find it a little strange since there's basically endless food for them
But pandas will only raise one kid even if they have two. In rescue centers they will actually trick the parent by rotating them. In
That baby bird had some behavioral problems. You dont see the other babies pecking their siblings over and over like that. The baby bird got corrected by the mom several times before she realised he was a threat, esoecially to poking out the eyes of his siblings, so she made a big decision. She gave him a chance to cool down and stop but he kept being violent instead of chilling. So, off he goes. Wow
A threat, really it was tiny compared to his siblings. Probably not enough food that's why it was doing that. Use your head.
You're making it out like it's a human. Did it need a slapped bottom to behave.
It's the survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom.
It was just hungry. It's what birds do when it was hungry. It was small and not getting enough food.
@@Supraboyesyeah people love to ascribe human attribute to these animals. They like judge them based on a reality end assume they have these huge depths of empathy in gratitude and so on. It is believed that animals do experience emotion but it's not the kind of emotion we think about
So consider the life of a young stork. Fighting to survive even in the nest and against your own family.
It's not your fault you were the last to be born and naturally you are going to be smaller than the other birds in the nest.
But don't dare show any signs of weakness or you could be singled out to face the drop-of-death and when mom and dad go in search of food, your sibling storks are going to do all they can to make sure there's one less mouth to feed when dinner is served. There's no honour among storks.
Do you think that those Storks who manage to survive childhood and grow up to finally leave the nest are going to stay in touch with their fellow murderous siblings???
OMG! I just watched to the end and heard the loud Bang as junior bounced off a metal roof! Yikes!
OMG, so sad! He/she was a tough one, really fought back. Probably would have been a strong survivor in the wild if wasn't singled out since was smaller.
Are you seriously appropriating? It’s a fkin stork. Say “it” if you don’t know.
Little stork: *whining*
Mother: get your @zz outta here
Lol
This reminds me of what Mom used to say would happen if I misbehaved.
THIS STORK IS LIKE JHONN WHICK
"Yo! This vid hits different with Freebird!!"
Little homie was a violent trouble maker 🤷♂️. If it survived it would one of those that kills its own progeny and other storks chicks as well
Pretty sure he is frantically pecking the others (and the ground) is not hostility but because he has began starvation and is trying to get some sustenance. All of the others probably get all the food before him so he is always too weak and now at the point of agony.
Mother did him a favor.
معلوماتك عكسيه تماما.. تصرفه هذا ليس بسبب الجوع فمثل هذا الصغير يأكل الكثير وبسرعه غالبا.. لكم من خلال مشاهداتي الكثيره فهو ينقر الجميع وحتى أرضية العش كوسيله للدفاع واخافة المقابل
Exactly, it's funny how humans tend to look at this and assume The kid was being disciplined for making noise or punching his kid siblings. But I guess it's understandable, the vast majority of people watching this is probably not studied bird behavior in depth and many of them are very young and I guess it's human nature too ascribe human attributes to these animals.
But I guess if you watch enough of these things you start to notice the patterns and get deesensitized a bit. I've seen far more troubling stuff. King cobras were followed in one documentary where they killed every single female cover they made it with over the course of a year. And that's not predict behavior so they were freaked out
There's food on CZcams of a Komodo dragon eating the babies out of a live pregnant deer. Monkey eating a baby deer back starting at the hind parts while it's still alive.. pack a hyenas eating a really sick cow with a giant abscess
You'll probably start to see tons of this s*** once you watch one or two of these videos and the algorithm picks it up
@@user-em4qf9nx3tno it's definitely food. The only reason the storks killed the babies is as a matter of triaging resources. This has been studied in depth, in about 9% of cases there will be infanticide and nest and technically they have more successful fledgings.
The youngins behavior was none the cause of his death, it was a side effect of the lack of food which ultimately was what prompted the parent to kill it.
At least this is the widely accepted scientific consensus and it's also pretty much common sense. It's strange that people assume it's almost some kind of discipline here.
You can hear it CRASH at the bottom, holy hell
"AND DON'T COME BACK!!!!"
"Steven, you're up for adoption."
"To who?"
"Jesus Christ." *YEET*
F*** that's cruel and VERY FUNNY! 😂
So I'm pretty sure I saw a earlier video from this same stork family where a guy climbed up and gave them a bunch of fish to eat. My question is why didn't he just take the weakling of the storks? Everyone had to know that baby stork was marked for death
What you describe happened last year. Mom died. People helped the male to feed the offspring. People intervene in exceptional cases.
I think it’s engraved in their nature. They have to murder at least one chick lmaooo. If they intervened and save the weakest one, the second to weakest one in the parents eyes would be next HAHA.
Why would he do that? If it's the weakest of the nest it's not meant to survive
@@platgeslagengehaktbal its not the weakest, its the youngest/smallest...
@@abhii.1726 overall the same thing, the stork sure thinks so as well
Better than my quality control units
DAAAYYUUMMM ! Mama's Straight Savage !
Anyone else hear it hit a roof top
It's so kind of the stork to allow some scavengers to eat her weakest baby that probably wouldn't have survived anyways. And a smart way to keep her family line strong. Also, not having a decaying baby in her nest helps keep disease and pests away.
What about humans? As medical practices improve, people who would have died pass on undesirable genes.
@@xxuncexx dark, but true
@@xxuncexx like being black
@@xxuncexx
The old nazis also thought that and performed eugenics.
Since nobody after WW2 wanted to be like a nazi, it was declared unethical and therefore banned.
@@Gaia_Seraphina And with modern day abortions available, weaker genetics can be rooted out safely and legally depending on the state. However, that is currently under attack in the US by republicans. And is why we must take a stand - to ensure that weak and undesirable genes cannot be allowed to pass on.
Average animalist: only humans are brutal
The animals:
Eh, I'd say this still wasn't brutal simply because a stork isn't operating with moral agency. There are different standards for people.
Seems to me an act of mercy. It obviously wasn’t strong enough to survive as it was so much smaller that it’s siblings. Not aggressive enough to get the food first. Many birds lay multiple eggs and only one chick will survive. Robins lay 4 eggs but as one gets stronger from being first to open its mouth for food it will boot out its weaker siblings till its last man standing.