Common Cuckoo chick ejects eggs of Reed Warbler out of the nest.David Attenborough's opinion
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This film tells the story about nature in the Barycz River valley and enormous Milicz ponds. This area is located in the south-western part of Poland (in the middle of Europe). I and my wife made it for 2 years.
Sir David Attenborough, a world-famous BBC nature documentary film maker, after watching the film "Rhythms of Nature in the Barycz Valley" wrote:
"I have viewed Rhythms of Nature with great pleasure.
A lovely place, beautifully filmed"
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"No ones born a murderer" yeah ok.
kid lack alot of feeling... bird.. and animal... it just the same.. the parent is not very smart since they can not tell the egg is missing and their kid is too big... and clearly not theirs...
This video scares me.
@Moon Broken tomatoes are berries though. like this isn't "hotdog is a sandwich", the word berry has has a very specific, scientific definition, and a tomato is a berry
@@gravidascaris1499 Absolutely right. Tomatoes, peppers and bananas aren't what we intuitively think of as berries, but according to the scientific definition - they are; while strawberry is neither straw nor berry.
I think the definition of murder is an unlawful killing. No such thing as the law in the wilderness.
Baby cuckoo: *hatches*
Also baby cuckoo: I don't who I am, I don't know why I'm here, all I know is that I must kill
Spawn kill lmao
Amazing how much that sounds like all the looters and rioters of the BLM movement.
@@dianecrumbley90
Amazing how idiotic your post is.
@@latjolajban81 it's true tho
@@dianecrumbley90 how tf do you make a video about birds political?????
It’s amazing how their instincts, to kick out other eggs in the nest, starts as soon as it has hatched.
If two cuckoos happen to hatch in the same nest... there is no honor among thieves.
yea but this mother got lucky and timed the egg hatching to be the first before the others, sometimes the nest is further along and the parasitic chick will have to compete with actual chicks
Cuckoo: More pancake for me...
Came from the animation eh?
Son : *Mom I have to tell you something*
Mom: *What is it dear?*
Son: *I'm adopted*
Mom:
SON: and your real kids? I killed all of them.
@@yuwang9265 so in other words, we ain’t blood related 😉
Credit: John finnemore
@@dontforgettolike7127 what the fuck? Bruh that's disgusting.
@@walterwhite4699 why is is disgusting? “Wrong” maybe, by standards of society. But how is that disgusting?
That bird can’t even open its eyes yet and it is already committing murder-
Edit: Bruh tf did I come back to-
Edit after a year: man y’all still going 😔
I can somewhat relate it to Brazil, Iraq, Iran, Colombia and other underdeveloped and third world countries. 5-year-old kids with AK-47 on their hands, killing and being killed by the Police and drug gangs. Watch City of God movie if you haven't seen.
@@eithan20 This is USA, where kids go and kill kids and teacher at school.
@@Spooferish Well, now that you said, things are f*kced up everywhere in this world, even - or maybe mainly - in the US.
@@Spooferish Born and raised in Brazil, btw. Lived there for 25 years. Kids there punch teachers in the face when they get a bad grade - their fault, ofc. But I agree that But again, you're right, America has lots of violence as well.
@@eithan20 The USA is the most dangerous first-world nation in the world, its violence makes no one from a first world country envy it, no freedom, no free healthcare with a lack of benefits system where the most vulnerable people are left behind, thank you I was born in the UK, none of that crap happens here
Kinda amazing how they have evolved to become the ultimate parasite. Like, how the newborn chick knows instinctively that it has to remove its competition (by either pushing the eggs, or by pushing out the newly hatched chicks), and where it has evolved to know how to entice the parental birds to feed it in a much quicker frenzy than what they would naturally do with their own young
They've been doing it for thousands of generations probably. Looks like a newborn reflex. The cuckoo feels something warm touching it so it gets rid of that without any thinking involved. Genetic memories are crazy complicated.
...kind of like "Sibling Rivalry"...
...that doesn't happen with all species; usually it's predator species like the Cukoo, which lay their eggs in the nests of other species..
But what does this say about the parent birds? There’s a pretty good animated TED talk video about this and how some birds have evolved mechanisms to detect parasitic eggs.
@@kevind6723 One of the best animated Ted-Ed ever, a must watch for anyone that found this video interesting!
That was legitimately one of the creepiest things I've ever seen an animal do.
I know, I know, but still... creepy.
It’s so unsettling how it tries so hard to dispose of the other Eggs.
@Nani Sore ღ Youre a weird weeb
Nani Sore ღ Oh just imagine son, just imagine
Fight for survival, nature is kill or be killed
Thunder Emblem Well boohoo this is how nature works, it’s cruel af. Lions eat and hunt down prey everyday, these chicks play dirty to survive, they don’t have our human concepts, they are pure instincts, you can’t judge animal instinct no matter how cruel or “parasitic” it seems.
Thunder Emblem lol ok
Would've been real satisfying if it ended up falling over the nest.
Yeah that ugly little boid... 😶
Sometimes they do lol
@@mountainjew6311 Good. Lmao. (I feel bad for saying that.)
Lmao
Ikr , although I knew the video wasn't going that way I really wanted the other eggs to live.
The design of nature never fails to fascinate
Revolt*
When your 30 year old son won’t leave your house and just sits playing Warcraft all day
At least he's yours...
And kills all his siblings.....
@Anatoli Smorrin That’s the joke son, hence him being 30. 🤦♂️
@Anatoli Smorrin Jesus dude. Stop typing, you’re looking more stupid by the second. 🤣
@Anatoli Smorrin The joke is that everyone has grown up and don’t play Warcraft anymore, they’ve all moved out of their parents houses and are getting on with their lives.
It's really crazy how they do this by instinct right away after being hatched. Instantly knows what they have to do.
Everything and everybody is all the same bruh
@@DrPastah except all human babies know how to do is cry when hungry
@@kaydenlewis9246 one of the reasons a baby cries at night is an instinctive urge to stop parents from procreating another sibling soon after they are born. Another baby would divide resources. good way to stop that is keep your parents exhausted.
@@mariannehovad798 where did you get that info?
Every animal does things by instinct. Turtles will follow the moon so they can get to the ocean, it's like this because all the turtles that survived millions of years ago did this.
bird immediately after being born: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Highlander
survival of the fittest i guess
demonight tf2
Fuck these things lmao
Damn floodgates.
We’re just not gonna talk about how goddamn huge the bird got in only 2 weeks?
It's mentioned at 2:47
You have the audio off? It was mentioned.
@@jasoncook7378 they understand that. The comment was not meant to be taken literally. More so just speaking on how crazy it is.
The film talked about it, so go ahead if you want, I guess.
3:21 parents: we are so proud of junior!
Cuckoo: 😏🤫
How do they even know what they have to do as soon as they're born ? I still dont know what am I doing with my life ?
@mr man It would throw them out even if they were it's siblings. It's their instinct. Hardwired in their genetic code.
lol
this is amazing
الذي أوحى له هو الله خالقه وخالقك
إذا حد مر من هنا يترجم وله الأجر
it's what we call, INSTINCT .. hard-wired into the cuckoo hatchling
Crazy how this thing knows to knock each and every egg out of the nest at such a young age...
+Mtn Dew Natural born killer.
+Rhaez Mustapha facepalm*
+Rhaez Mustapha yeah, its not really evil, dude. Thats its instinct. It cant help it
+Penelope Seale I know; his comment clearly shows how stupid he is.
+Rhaez Mustapha Then is any other animal that competes for recourses "an evil creature"?
Amazing how it starts killing right off the bat AND knows that it needs to do it when their foster parents are away.... also amazing that it kept being fed when it was a large bird. Just like some guys that dont leave their parents home.
Let's remember that they were put there by parents who also did the same
they dont even wait until the parents leave half the time.. the parents dont seem to give a shit when they see their eggs/chicks being tossed to their death, its strange
@@GeejMusic Because I heard the real parent sticks around watching them to make sure they don't get rid of their child, if they do they kill them.
@@GeejMusic and what do you think can a tiny little bird do against a giant cuckoo? also alot of the teenie birds are exhausted from laying their eggs and won't fight back for a while, as their batteries are empty from egg production. a human mother won't be able to fistfight andore the giant a day after birth
@@kabukimanindahouse They can choose not to feed the parasite.
I find it fascinating. These animals are in an arms race of sorts, with birds like the Reed warbler getting better at stopping cuckoo birds from laying eggs in their nests and better at detecting eggs that they didn't lay, while cuckoo birds sometimes work with the male mimicking a hawk to distract so the female can lay eggs, as well as them evolving to make their eggs more similar to the species they were raised by so as to avoid detection by the host.
Wow this bird came from hell.
So you're saying baby cuckoos came from hell? (no offense)
(I know it's a joke Pls don't freaking r/whoosh me. ) ( ._. )
@@notinuse90 its a joke
@@graby360 i know :\
🤣🤣🤣
Ikr
Uhhh, Janice? I think there's something a bit odd about our son.
its a daughter for that matter
i picture it like "did u cheat on me janice
“No Harry, he might be a little bit too big for his age.. but he is your son!!!”
Jim for the last time I didn't have an affair!
Green nest.
I feel like there’s probably a point where the parents realize that this isn’t their child. Why do they continue to feed it and pour so much of their effort into it?
I've read that some cuckoo variants actively threaten the "host" parents if they don't feed the chick. Or destroy the host nest if they remove the egg. So sometimes they learned the hard way not to interfere with cuckoos...
Cuckoos after hatching: Time to get that epic victory royale.
its like me refusing to move out my parents house
lol....
Haha....
You killed your adoptive brother and sister?
The cuckoo bird is most like a Ziopiggy Invaders Scums in the Palestinian Native Land
Hey we need a response. Did you move out yet???
Did anybody come here after watching the "Vivarium" horror movie
Me!!
I did
ROFL LEGIT, ME !
Me too
Guilty
It’s amazing that the cuckoo can evolve to do this but the reed warbler has not envolved to counter it
I read an interesting article an ornithologist wrote about various marsh birds (Redstarts etc). They are adapting (via more sensitive color detection in their eyes), to the cuckoo’s egg color. The other birds are catching on slowly.
@@pilarboutte392
Interesting, looks like they'll be finally getting revenge on the cuckoo species
@@thalmoragent9344 Well as the other birds evolve to counter the Cuckoo, the Cuckoo will potentially evolve to lay eggs that are more similar to the new ones in order to survive.
@@zs4580
That or they can just... start taking care of their own eggs, or laying more eggs to help increase chances of one getting past other Bird security
@@thalmoragent9344 they don’t know how! They have no instincts to care for their young. They don’t even know how to build nests as far as I know.
Those instincts are insane. It knows to kill the other eggs before it's even opened it's eyes
And I never thought I could dislike an animal.
Try hornets or some austrailan creepy red and black giant flying scorpion
Well Cristina, never seen a red & black giant flying scorpion in my part of Australia -maybe I need to drink more Pisco and Tequila !
+Chillbro Baggins you're disgusting along with everyone who liked your comment
Wuptywu Ditto. I flagged it.
all the cuckoo birds are is undocumented immigrants. what is wrong with that, you bigot?
Can you imagine if the cameraman pick up the egg and put it back to the nest as a Prank? The little murderer baby cuckoo will be "Whooaaa.. Where TF it came from?"
'i counted..it was certainly 3'
There is no cameraman
This nest is process
That would be funny
If I was witnessing this I would have grabbed that little fucker and flung him as far as I could.
Just watched a video which showed a baby cuckoo being devoured by a snake alive. Shed a tear of joy :) One of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen.
I saw a similar video,I was cheering for the snake...
Do u guys have link of snake deviour Cuckoo baby
It's such a treat to hear Sir Attenborough's voice in nature documentaries. I can watch all day.
This isn't him narrating.
It's natural but still I hate how the Cuckoo survived, lazy parasitic creature 😅
It’s evolution, baby!
@@merveilmeok2416 who said it is not?
R D - If you watched the comic sci fi movie called “Paul”, you’d understand the meaning of the phrase “It’s evolution, Baby!” (Also a Pearl Jam song).
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R D call throwing something at 3 days old lazy, lmao
@@stephenm8898😂😂😂😂 and it looks like devil himself 😀!
That's not a bird thats the devil.
No, it's a bird and it's nature.
Though and sad? Yes, but it's how things are in nature.
It may be nature but nature can be brutal
@@brandonclark8395 joing the club... we r modern human are train and feel.. and smart enough to care about other... animal are not...
campkira Oh you’ve never had a pet
@@campkira parrots like parakeets, African greys, parrotlets, lovebirds, alot more birds I can list.
Millions of years ago one of the cockos had a weird knack for throwing out other eggs and thus he gave the genes to the next generations.
I dont think its hoq instincts were created
If it was like you say, then coocko doesnt have genes to push other Kids from The nest, and more likely died vuz of no food
If a lawyer is fighting for the baby cuckoo, he would argue "How can a infant Cuckoo can throw out other eggs?... He is innocent and should be released..?"
In criminal caseses its happening A to Z
Bird:i was born to be a killer
Me: oh really?
Bird: yeah my first kill was when i hatched
Lol
Lol ahaha
There are sharks that hatch in their mothers and kill and eat their siblings before they are are even born. How do you call that?
3:19 when you're an adult and still haven't moved out of your parents' basement
Haha!
JP-- In Middle East children don't leave their parents' home! Actually their parents will get upset if their children leave their house! They leave after getting married and have one or two children!
@@faisalalan8633 Maybe that's the problem.
Amy C what's the problem?
@@AmyCCloverlanez no problem
Me first seeing the baby bird trying to toss the other eggs: "I feel so bad"
Me after a while seeing the baby bird trying to toss the other eggs: "Come on! You almost got it!"
That bird was born and immediately knew his mission
Ive never hated somthing so tiny n helpess in all my life like dis lil cuckoo ever...omg, da selfishness is astounding!!! I knw its instinct, survival etc etc...but still !!! Lol🤣🤣
Agreed
Agreed.
If I witnessed this personally. I’ll probably toss the cuckoo out of the nest, than study how it’ll survive afterwards. Lol
"it needs to throw the other eggs out of the nest"
How does it know that thooo. This blows my mind.
It doesn't know. Over millions of years the cuckoos that did this behaviour naturally survived and they went on to pass on this natural behaviour in their Gene's. The ones that didn't ended up out of the nest and the gene pool.
its called brood parasitism
@@TheGatesOfFire it sounds like they don't have a choice then.
If you placed your finger on the base of his tail it would start to do the push, so the stimulation at that point is what makes it do its behavior. Pretty automatic.
@@jlb6877 Animals don`t have a choice or free will. They were progpammed well, something went wrong with the human first, then with the animail. But it is will be sorted by God. The Cockoo will need to be stom being lasy and make her own chest and feed her babies.
Best adaptation ever
Evolution is seriously wild for this one. It made eggs similar color and pattern and by instinct knows to Yeet the other eggs out immediately
Daddy Warbler: "It look nothing like me! you have some explaining to do!"
Cuckoo baby bird: "Sorry but due to the economy....I have to let you go."
Baby chicks in eggs: 😐😕😱😱😱😱😱😱
Cuckoo: The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many
Lol
😔
Cuckoo birds make me 🤮 from the evil they do.
If I understand correctly, cuckoo hatchlings do that because they have very sensible nerves on their back, when eggs push agains"t them it feels very uncomfortable so they try to push it away from them.
They is so young they can't actually think about pushing those eggs to have less competiton.
So yeah, they aren't evil. they have no idea of what they are doing.
I agree. They are babies. The cuckoo parents are the lazy ones
Cap
This is INSANE; is this why “crazy” people are called cuckoo?
You might be on to something there.
Don't forget about cuckolds.
The cuckoos are not crazy, the crazy ones are the mother and father birds that keep on feeding a baby that is 15 times larger than themselves and still consider that parasitic cuckoo chick as their own! In short, Cuckoos are like Donald Trump -- leeching off of others!
@@grandwonder5858 Shutup libtard
@@jbond9596 how'd that election go?
If you put a rock in the nest would the cuckoo try to lift it out? How long would it try?
+HireDeLune it will deliver the rock at your door step .
+Swoll Arms at least you are one smart enough to realise this is nature like some other people here
but rocks are heavier than eggs... even though this little bird is freakishly strong and grows fast. Other chicks wouldnt have a chance even if they were to hatch.
You should put a heavy rock in just to fuck with it so it dies trying to move it.
The cuckoo will become a bodybuilder 🐥
I wouldn't attribute the cuckoos behavior to genetic memory. I beg to differ with some of u, the cuckoos' large size must make it feel uncomfortable inside such a small nest. The cuckoo simply tries to create more breathing space by pushing out the others.
Love the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack playing in the background. Make this moment even more magical.
The fact that it knows to do this immediately is truly amazing. It looks so under-developed still but yet can think and maneuver this.
It likely doesn't know but is simply a newborn reflex. Natural selection over many generations will turn it into a genetic memory and no actual thought process is done. It's like turtles seeking the ocean after they hatch, or a human newborn searching for breasts and nipples.
@@bradleyvrooman1801 it’s wired into the dna of the animal that’s all. That’s how they know to do it
@@bradleyvrooman1801 the ancestors of this bird were such deadbeats that it literally became engraved into their dna to become scumbags.
@@bradleyvrooman1801lol not the same at all, you're trying to be smart again.
So in short cuckoo birds are a-holes....
Dilligaf?! ? that's being racist, cuckoo birds are just undocumented immigrants
idk
The parents of that birds are like "just keep fucking feeding it so it doesnt eat us too" lol
It's crazy that one species evolved to push eggs out of the nest before getting eyesight...
This bird is the most criminal i have ever seen ☺️
Q
They are such destructive birds that they are known to put other bird species into extinction or being endangered of facing extinction! In some parts of the US wildlife management officials have to destroy cuckoo birds that lay their eggs into the nests of endangered species of birds to keep them from being wiped out by the cuckoos!
Criminal? That'd be the magpie. This one here is a psychopath.
If you think this is criminal how do you feel about Planned Parenthood getting paid a commission when they send human mothers to get their babies aborted in the 3rd trimester.
This really is one of the strangest adaptations I’ve seen. It really does make me wonder if any dinosaurs shared a similar ability or instinct. Nature does tend to re-use certain behaviors and body types when they work efficiently
So many dinosaur breeds over 200million plus there is a very high chance there were dinosaurs that possessed they same method of rearing their young.
dinos dont exist it's a fable invented to fool the weak minded
I also wonder stuff like this, i wonder which dinosaur was the smartest, i mean dolphins and whales technically have their pwn language in a way. I wonder if some species of dinosaurs had there own language as well
@@CGNDC clearly lizardmen
There were some called over raptors and they would steal eggs from other dinosaurs
Crazy how these birds evolved to kick the rest of the eggs right out of the nest, immediately after hatching.
Cuckoo: “I must subvert and undermine my host nest”
Those parents are in denial
1:11 "Oh hi mom! I was just .... I was just ... rearranging the eggs? Don't they look better now? ... Right ... NOW GIVE ME THE WORM."
“Honey, I’d like a paternity test…”
I remember watching a video like this where the first chick that hatched tried to get rid of the other eggs, it ended up falling off the nest and dying trying to push off the first egg
Very Nice
right after watching this I searched for "cuckoo falls out of nest" :)
I will too
Thanks to you I will now do it right away
Yessir
But did you search for "caterpillars kill bird"? :)>
😂😂😂😂 I too did.... 😂😂😂
Surprised it never tried eat the parents 😂😂
If it ate the parents, the reed wobblers would become smarter over time and kill it the moment they saw something odd.
They don't kill the mouth that feeds them.
give evolution time...
Birds are not part of the diet of cuckoos. They mainly eat insects.
Cuckoo bird do eat their parents
Aww, a nature documentary showing the process of my golddigger stepmother kicking me and my brother out of the "nest" (our father's life), etc.
My stepmom tried to do this too and my dad didn’t even have any money
my own mother is that stepmother, she even does it to me lol
the baby bird be like: oh god wht is this heavy thing on my back oh nooo (sarcasm)
Cuckoo bird: Mom..Dad... Am I adopted?
Reed warbler: *searches the meaning of foster parenting* We don't know son.
Reed Warbler: *unable to understand any English* cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep
Rahim Claude Calpito ូ
@@TimorDa 😂
What, how, huh? How does something so new to the world already have instincts to start murdering other birds, how does it even understand the dynamics and psychics involved in knowing that you have to push the egg over a certain edge of the nest to succeed, geez this is too much.
My exact thoughts honestly
This.
And they are also fucking blind and helpless, which brutally strenghtens your point
no one have the answer for this.
It doesn't see what it's doing as murder, it sees it as doing what it has to do to survive.
Arbeedubya It doesn't "see", figuratively or literally. It simply is as it does - no different from, say, the reflexive suckling of mammalian infants.
It woke up for the first time and chose violence lol
Watching that chick contort itself to get rid of those eggs is nothing short of hilarious. It's almost surreal. Incredible, really
Build the walls of the nest, 10 centimeters taller!!
Dammit Vivarium. Now I'm literally obsessed with the Parasitic Cuckoo. It's like Highlander for birds and THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! :D
This is literally what led me here 😂
It also led me. Now I get why they shew the Cuckoo scene at the beginning of the movie.
The move was about some reptile-looking parasite more superior than human race "laid its egg" into the "nest" of a human couple that wanted to find a place to live and raise a family.
Crazy movie.
@@karashaf2085 it led us all here. >_< now im like wtf asshole bird
Reminds me of my friend who grew to like 6ft6' when his parents are like 5ft3 and 5ft7
I can see why clock makers were very amused by Cuckoos. Their singing, that is.
Nature has tons of secrets that we haven't discovered yet. This is a savage one.
And then it flew away in search of Cocoa Puffs.
what is more amazing is the cuckoo egg is the same colour as the other eggs in the nest
Some cuckoo eggs are bright blue and the parents don't notice anything out of the ordinary anyway🧠🐦
Chick before being hatch:
I wonder who will be the impostor?
After hatch: welp it doesnt matter I guess as long as they have no idea 😒😏
Who is here after watching "Vivarium"?
🙋
Me
Me
Me af
Best part of the movie
Cuckoo bird: mom, iwant my own room..
Mom:no!!
Cuckoo bird:fine...I have my ways😉😏🤫
Vincent diavil Dagatan this comment is underrated.. it proceeds to kill it siblings
Lmao
Excellent video...Thanks for making such knowledgeable video👍
Warblers be like, "Our son is gonna play in the NFL!"
I didn't know Jeb Bush was featured in a nature documentary. Interesting.
The great injustice in nature.
Justice has no sense in Nature.
Only biological imperatives.
TUTMENA That is why I will impose my own justice on these birds. I will eradicate them and create a nature that bends to my whims. If there is no natural justice in nature I will create the unnatural justice.
@@t.bo.e2487 you alright dude?
@@t.bo.e2487 its just a bird... all of nature is cruel murderous and unjust, you gonna kill all animals now?
Nature doesn't give af about justice
This can be referred as the Survival of the fittest
The advantage of being the 'only child' 😅
That bird is a genuis
Crazy how the mother warbler never shows up until the eggs are gone.
I would like to see the outtakes where she returns early due to bad weather
Then it'll stop, she'll just think hes moving around even if she sees it dropping the egg she'll think its an accident cuz who would think a hatchling can do that
Actually, they sometimes do that in the presence of the foster parent.
Because mama bird places her eggs in different baskets. I guess she known what is investment. Since she know each basket the absolute value is 1.
Actually they sometimes do this in full view of their adoptive family. And for some reason the parents still don't kick them out.
When It comes to this two week old cukoo...
Warbler... You are *_NOT_* the father!
😂 I can relate
@@njwork5935 I'm sorry to hear that
@@DAAI741 I can relate it with Maury show
@@njwork5935 okay I'm glad you didn't just tell me something private
@@DAAI741 hahah that was a Oops moment
Taking Sibling Rivalry to new heights,, 'sibling' 😒😆😑
Mum: Son. You've GROWN...
Son: 'Mum' it's genetic 'evolution'.
As an introvert, I kinda understand the baby cuckoo...
an excellent documentary on the history of U.S.-Israeli relations ... very informative
nice analogy
More like immigrants coming to Europe.
Noskila Racist.
Great acting by Peninsular Arabs as parent birds too
@@bobkouin7465 Everything is racist to you.
Well done Mr Artur for spending so much time to make this 4 minute clip. Excellent
Some birds are lazy they dump their kids for someone else lol 😂
Nobody:
Cuckoo: I AM THE CHOSEN!!!
Daddy bird " momma I think we need a DNA test "
@Alukar 01 Oh shut up little snowflake
@Alukar 01 ffs u have no humour.
Probably the same with logic and common sense too.
One of the craziest things is that it's only the common cuckoo that never builds a nest. Other cuckoo species actually rear and care for their own offspring.
#NotAllCuckoos
Really, that's interesting 🤔
Actually, many other cuckoo species have brood parasitism. The Shining Bronze-Cuckoo (chrysococcyx lucidus) for example lays its eggs in the nests of Grey Warbler (gerygone igata).
I guess that’s why they’re common.
Not true. There are at least 150 cuckoo species, 56 of which are known brood parasites. So, while the majority of cuckoo species do rear their own young, at least a third do not. Many more than just the common cuckoo.
Not a step dad, but the dad who stepped up! 😁
What?
Scientists should consider changing this bird's name from Common Cuckoo to Cain Bird
I never hated a bird like this ever so much. However this is how they survive.
I want to squish its head with my fingers, that is how much I hate it.
I wish a cuckoo would lay an egg near me. I would let it hatch and then toss it on the ground to starve alone while its mother watches.
Apparently the mother cuckoo sticks around to make sure the host doesn't reject the egg. It will destroy the entire nest if it comes back and it's egg is gone. The host bird might also abandon the nest if it comes back to fewer eggs so maybe letting it hatch and pretending it fell might save the host bird some trouble.