Did you see those spiders who literally offer themselves as food for their newborns, alive?
And once they ate all of mommy the newborns eat each others as well.
It’s the Stegodyphus lineatus.
Per google, their environment is so harsh that they do that to provide their offspring with all the nutrients they can.
First the mother regurgitates some digested food, then the babies start eating the non vitals tissues, then she ends up dying after being slowly eaten alive for a while. Then they just finish their meal
It's apparently called Matriphagy, there is a clip of a centipede dping it in case you're bored and want to have some mildly unsettling footage stuck in your head for a while.
I linked the full video in my other comment, the sibling on the left actually tries eating the smaller one first before the one on the right takes over.
Watch a human baby. They nom nom nom on anything they can get their tiny little hands on. If they had bite size siblings they would absolutely devour them. One part of it is teething and world exploration, but they have to find out what food is somehow.
We have had minute occurrences of it, spread over eons. And afaik always as irregular ritual, famine, or war. Never normalized. Like, I’m sure the Joneses over at the next nest didn’t even care to hop over for this. They all like, “what else is new”.
You'd think so, but unfortunately there were most likely cultures that did normalize it. If you want an example look up German archeological finds from the neolithic era.
There were cannibal tribes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who would raid the low land tribes for food. IIRC the cannibalism made them infertile, so instead of having children the usual way they would take children from the tribes they raided and raise them as their own
Sounds like there is more to that story then just that though? Like, they had to be cannibals first before turning infertile? And why would that happen at all?
My understanding was that the cannibalism led to infertility, yes. Anyway I've had a quick look on google and can't find much about them so I might be misremembering
I would totally believe that cannibalism has existed in folklore of basically every society. That might lead to people telling wild stories.
Still, it’s hard to believe. Those tribes in Papua new Guinee have had to:
live somewhere where they couldn’t find enough animals and plants to eat, such that they have to eat other people all the time. But still have a society with rituals and a shared language. Just barren rock and human bones, and happy people living there.
not eat each other ( It takes probably 100 kcal to grow 1 kcal human, and a year’s wait. You can’t sustain a society like that)
somehow NOT get their ass beaten by the tribes who lived in more fertile lands with plants and animals to eat. They would outnumber those other guys 20:1.
I can run around confidently in all other areas but Caelid. I can just never get used to that place and those stupid dogs too… I swear they’re scarier than some bosses
Idk how long this was going on but to me this is less brutal than some I’ve seen where the runt gets slowly pecked/smothered every time the mom leaves until they’re unrecognizable. Atleast he was put out of his misery - poor fella
When I started fishing I was sad for the fish. Then I saw how absolutely viscous they are to each other and thought what I do doesn't seem so terrifying.
That's pretty high on my list of "preferable ways to go out"; Fairly painless, won't last hours, but neither instant nor panic-free either. It's a solid 7, with 10 being "dead before your brain can process it" and 1 being "slowly tortured to death".
This reminds me of something I always wondered… whether this stuff historically happened or not with pirates/gangsters/etc, when people had weights put on them and tossed overboard in deep ocean, do you think they would drown first or would they sink so fast the water pressure would crush them?
Happens alot with birds, this or the youngest of litter gets kicked from the nest by other siblings or the parent eats the dead or dying infant. Owls so this..
Exactly that. And by eating the sibling that is so small that it probably won't make it really far anyways, the stronger offspring is given a higher chance of survival. To us humans this might seem absurdly cruel but in the wilderness, where every day is a fight for survival, it just makes sense.
Night herons are small compared to great blue herons. I have both in my back yard consistently. GB Herons will try and kill anything they can, including cats. Nothing fucks with them.
I mean the unviable sibling is helping his family, becoming part of them as nutrients. Better to be eaten this way than to continue to be a resource sink, weakening his family, and in its own weakness ultimately be eaten by some other different animal before having their own hatchlings.
Either the mother would have thrown it out of the nest or eaten it, or, even more wastefully, it would have died by starvation and become a feast for the flies. At least this gruesome fate, its hatching wasn't complete in vain.
Fucking hell man
Why do we subscribe to this. Merry Christmas everybody
Happy Holidays and cannibalism!
May your siblings be small and tasty.
Infant so tender and mild
Take my upvote and get out
Happy cake day you lil snack ;)
🎵 eat that heavenly feast
🤣💀
This helped thank you shit was very dark there for a sec
"This is my body which was shed for you... Take, eat....
This is my blood which was shed for you... Drink ye all of this..."
I found white Middle Eastern Jesus a lot to handle but Scottish Jesus is something else
I'm assuming SJesuS...doesn't have white skin, blue eyes or long (straight, of course) hair - and wears a kilt?
So that you appreciate your older sibling doesn't see you as a special snack that your parent left there for them when they're hungry.
What are you doing, step bro?
She got stuck cleaning the oven.
Mom gets home: "Billy, where the hell is your brother."
Billy: 🤷♂️ "Beats the hell outta me. Whats for dinner? I've only had...a small snack."
Merry Christmas 🎄
merry christmas!
Did you see those spiders who literally offer themselves as food for their newborns, alive? And once they ate all of mommy the newborns eat each others as well.
I’m hate myself for this but…what kind of spiders are those?!
It’s the Stegodyphus lineatus. Per google, their environment is so harsh that they do that to provide their offspring with all the nutrients they can.
First the mother regurgitates some digested food, then the babies start eating the non vitals tissues, then she ends up dying after being slowly eaten alive for a while. Then they just finish their meal
Thanks for the info! It’s really interesting (but also gives me the heebie geebies)
It is super interesting!
And disturbing
This is indeed a disturbing universe
Best Treehouse of Horror ever.
Agreed!!
It's apparently called Matriphagy, there is a clip of a centipede dping it in case you're bored and want to have some mildly unsettling footage stuck in your head for a while.
Velvet spiders are beautiful though
Some kill the male then leave it for the young too instead of eating the male themselves given chance
You can really see the lizardiness of birds here…so brutally prehistoric.
Thought the same. You can really see here how birds are related to dinosaurs.
They aren't related to dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs.
I this case fratricidal dinosaurs
That’s like saying that German shepherds are related to dogs lol
I know. Use some mayo bro, that must be dry AF.
I don’t care what the judge said, my youth was not that bad.
Thats some cartoon shit where his body shape gonna be like his bro inside of him.
Phrasing.
PAUSE
Never seen your belly distend when your bro is inside you?
"help me step-night heron, I'm stuck inside of you"
You all need Jesus, platonically.
Ah yes, Jesus, one of the Platonic solids.
Why not romantically?
You'd see the outlines of his face against the other birds chest.
He's final words before he suffocates would be something like: "at least I know you have good taste."
Sibling on left:
Harry wtf bro
I linked the full video in my other comment, the sibling on the left actually tries eating the smaller one first before the one on the right takes over.
This is an outrage! I was going to eat that sibling!
r/unexpectedfuturama
Lmao
Haha popplars!
The other little one watching in terror knowing he might be next
Sibling behind
You can do it Harry
What a crazy impulse just to swallow whatever you can. Fucking Kirby.
I should call her.
I just did. She still swallows.
God bless her!
I understand, I do, but you must resist. Do not forget everything else she did. Lol
Sounds like my ex
37 cocks??
In a row??
To shreds you say?
Watch a human baby. They nom nom nom on anything they can get their tiny little hands on. If they had bite size siblings they would absolutely devour them. One part of it is teething and world exploration, but they have to find out what food is somehow.
Everything reminds me of her
Can it successfully digest it? Have no idea what juvenile chick's can handle.
yes it can
Criminy.
No, it's a bird not a mushroom.
Wonder if they digest it like owls (where they regurgitate the leftover carcass their body can’t digest)
Option 1: one of them dies (by being eaten)
Option 2: both of them die (being eaten obviously & the other one not being able to digest properly)
It's nice to live in a human civilization I guess.
Humans have had entire civilizations of cannibals. Usually, it's not the kids eating each other, though.
We have? Seems like a bad strategy…
We have had minute occurrences of it, spread over eons. And afaik always as irregular ritual, famine, or war. Never normalized. Like, I’m sure the Joneses over at the next nest didn’t even care to hop over for this. They all like, “what else is new”.
You'd think so, but unfortunately there were most likely cultures that did normalize it. If you want an example look up German archeological finds from the neolithic era.
There were cannibal tribes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who would raid the low land tribes for food. IIRC the cannibalism made them infertile, so instead of having children the usual way they would take children from the tribes they raided and raise them as their own
Sounds like there is more to that story then just that though? Like, they had to be cannibals first before turning infertile? And why would that happen at all?
Note the guy said “whole civilizations”.
My understanding was that the cannibalism led to infertility, yes. Anyway I've had a quick look on google and can't find much about them so I might be misremembering
I would totally believe that cannibalism has existed in folklore of basically every society. That might lead to people telling wild stories.
Still, it’s hard to believe. Those tribes in Papua new Guinee have had to:
Uhh, I don't think so.
Are you fucking high bro?
I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.
Welcome to Caelid
You Died
My first thought. They look just like those big ass birds.
I swear those damn birds are harder than some bosses. I can never get the hang of dealing with them
I can run around confidently in all other areas but Caelid. I can just never get used to that place and those stupid dogs too… I swear they’re scarier than some bosses
mems
Foul Tarnished
Holy fuck I mean watching that was actually kind of disturbing. Even after all the messed up shit I've seen. 😂
Sometimes mother birds do it themselves because they cannot afford to waste the resources on a runt that's almost guaranteed to due from the cold.
Survival in the wild is harsh.
Yea I've seen momma chameleons eat their brood almost immediately after they hatch.
U got a link to it?
I'll try to find it
Idk how long this was going on but to me this is less brutal than some I’ve seen where the runt gets slowly pecked/smothered every time the mom leaves until they’re unrecognizable. Atleast he was put out of his misery - poor fella
Dinosaurs are mean as hell
When I started fishing I was sad for the fish. Then I saw how absolutely viscous they are to each other and thought what I do doesn't seem so terrifying.
Sibling in the back “Damn I’m the next smallest, I gotta gtf outta here”
"That bitch cant be hungry anymore."
If he’s smart, he will eat Tucker’s wings overnight to prevent that shit from happening.
If he wants to live, he better start acting tuff instead of being a useless brat
Is that sibling still alive inside until it suffocates? Im speechless.
My understanding is that death by suffocation is how lots of organisms go.
That's pretty high on my list of "preferable ways to go out"; Fairly painless, won't last hours, but neither instant nor panic-free either. It's a solid 7, with 10 being "dead before your brain can process it" and 1 being "slowly tortured to death".
Stomach acid
That's why suffocating first is so much better
You’re dead by suffocation long before the stomach acid more than tingles
God I'd hope so
So would you be interested in buying a ticket to see the titanic in a prototype sub?
If I'm dying of cancer I might give it a shot
Those guys died instantly, faster than their brain can feel pain
I had the same question, surely pretty quickly as there will be no oxygen down there
Every carnivorous bird
There's a video of a small deer that gets eaten by a komodo dragon, and you still hear it call from inside the dragon for a few minutes until it stops
This reminds me of something I always wondered… whether this stuff historically happened or not with pirates/gangsters/etc, when people had weights put on them and tossed overboard in deep ocean, do you think they would drown first or would they sink so fast the water pressure would crush them?
Happens alot with birds, this or the youngest of litter gets kicked from the nest by other siblings or the parent eats the dead or dying infant. Owls so this..
Thank you winterwatch and springwatch last year..
Exactly that. And by eating the sibling that is so small that it probably won't make it really far anyways, the stronger offspring is given a higher chance of survival. To us humans this might seem absurdly cruel but in the wilderness, where every day is a fight for survival, it just makes sense.
Humans have created their own fight for survival and it sucks. I choose to be that engulfed bird.
Survival of the fittest and all that. You gotta go, you gotta go brother.
Full video & source here.
"Kids,where is your little sister? I go away for ten minutes and you can't even keep an eye on her!?!?"
"she's with
inme, mom""due to some misfortune =( , she now lives in my
stomachheart"“thank god now i can hunt for myself a little”
Middle one has to eat well or he is next
Middle one is next. Unless something happens to the other two.
Survival of the fittest that's for sure..
Survival of the fattest.
At least for humans, we consume our siblings in the womb. (Mostly)
Why does Harry, the biggest of them all, simply....
Oh, wow, never mind.
They're not saving him for sweeps, that's for sure
And I thought my siblings were assholes.
"Bro, at least put me out of my misery first."
Bro not on Christmas :(
The way it laid down its head after gulping it in felt like a elden ring move
That's your chance to get a few hits in
Just like my family
Birds are disgusting, man
I can understand why Sheldon is scared of birds
Night herons are small compared to great blue herons. I have both in my back yard consistently. GB Herons will try and kill anything they can, including cats. Nothing fucks with them.
Herons and Cranes are savage. They don't coddle their kids.
That is absolutely horrifying.
My brother was an only child.
finally_some_good_fucking_food.gif
Why do so many birds practice sibling cannibalism?
Also why don’t birds seem to play as children?
Birds have to easily be the most vicious animals in the animal kingdom. These fuckers do some wild shit.
That’s brutal
This would pair well with some heavy metal music.
I mean the unviable sibling is helping his family, becoming part of them as nutrients. Better to be eaten this way than to continue to be a resource sink, weakening his family, and in its own weakness ultimately be eaten by some other different animal before having their own hatchlings.
10/10 very metal
Bet I can guess who is next.
cant really imagine a longer day then being eaten, especially by a sibling
“Haha very funny ok where’s your brother?”
This is common for herons, storks, cranes, and birds of prey. The siblings are known to kill each other and even the mother will get in on it too.
Birds are dinosaurs, don't forget it.
The second largest is telling the 2nd to smallest - “chill out man, maybe he will choke”
Hmmm... I see one more "smallest".... No, I see TWO more "smallest" in that clip!
That's how I did it in the womb. The perfect crime.
The one on the back is looking really fucking nervous now
Little sib in the middle is counting his days.
But if he eats his bro, and its inside of his stomach, whatever he eats the baby inside his stomach will eat. So the baby inside will survive better.
The one in the middle is next
He's going to be MASSIVE in a couple months
"I hope you fuckin choke!" - his last word
This would have been easier if bro could just chew lol
the new smallest bird looks at the other bird not eating like.. don’t even think bout it
Metal
What the actual fuck
Middle child for sure
Either the mother would have thrown it out of the nest or eaten it, or, even more wastefully, it would have died by starvation and become a feast for the flies. At least this gruesome fate, its hatching wasn't complete in vain.
Next year's family reunion will be a little tough on everyone.. who gets eaten next.
Eat or get eaten.
Nasty work
Birds are seriously f - - ked up flying monsters . . . All of 'em.
gained two levels
At least nothing was wasted
They look like horror versions of Jim Henson puppets.
Mom in the background just chillin at the start. Also the other little one is probably a bit scared now
Takes sibling rivalry to a new level.
It’s just a dinosaur in the wind
This sub has had some metal shit... But this right here... This right here... A toddler swallowing a sibling alive!
Kind of hurts to watch
Now the left one can swallow the one which swallowed the first one.
Honestly that little guy didn’t look so good anyway. No feathers and really scrunched up. I dunno if he was gonna make it anyway
This made me so mad wtf 😭
Very dinosaur!
bro took a nap before going all the way
Birds scare me.
Bro... what the fuck?
This is disturbing 🤣
This is a little bit disturbing 😳
Dinosaurs gonna dinosaur.
Down at fraggle rock!!
“Be nice to your brother”
Nature is brutal
I fucking hate herons.
I hate this
Brutal.
Damn, this is pretty metal indeed.
Damn that’s brutal.
I haven't seen this sub come across my feed in a while, and every time it does, I'm reminded how metal nature is, holy hell.
Dinosaurs
I don’t know that it got it down