Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone.
Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone.
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Man fuck cuckoos. Raise your own children, you little fucking parasites.
I mean they literally lay their eggs in another bird's nest, and then the chick kicks out the other eggs when it hatches, so that another bird mom will think it's their own and mistakenly raise it, while screwing over the other chicks before they even have a chance to be born.
I wish these fuckers would go extinct.
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Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can't really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There's lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren't strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It's just nature.
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Fair, but let's not extinct another species because of how we feel about its adaptations.
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So that's why I've never seen one!
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Thought this was two pine cones until I read the description.
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Does anyone have a source for this besides memes? I did not find anything 😢
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The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones...
They probably like to eat baby birds, too. They’re a lot more vicious than people give them credit for.
Guess what a cuckoo chick does to the other birds in the nest.