Gila woodpecker feeds on dove nestling
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  • 730 points Staff_Senyou

    Fucking hell. That's gruesome.

    Imagine if dinosaurs were still arou... Oh, shit

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    146 points Alpha1959

    At least it's quick. I mean it looks horrifying but 2-3 bashes that hurt a lot and you're dead, beats getting your dick and balls bitten off and then eaten from the asshole first over minutes. Sadly not an uncommon way to go in Nature.

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    50 points rep-

    Lol took a lot more than 2-3 bashings

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    26 points Alpha1959

    Fair enough, but I doubt you'd stay conscious that long. Sometimes just one hit on the head is enough to heavily disorient someone.

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    12 points BrazilianGrimReaper

    Maybe you should go watch the YouTube video of the guy who accidentally drilled through hes own head on YT

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    8 points Nomromz

    Wait what? What the fuck?

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    10 points BrazilianGrimReaper

    Guy was doing some kind of drilling he fell, and the drill went through one of hes eyeball and through hes brain or head im not entirely sure, it was on that Navy Seal who tells stories on YT he did an episode on it.

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    3 points Alpha1959

    Yes, that is also what happens in brain surgery, but that is a whole different kind of trauma. A bird's skeleton is less dense, much less so for a chick and a woodpeckers bill delivers concussive trauma alongside with its penetration power. I don't see the chick really experiencing much of it consciously, you could compare it to a small wooden pickaxe. Maybe it takes 5-6 hits, but it would still be a relatively quick death.

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    6 points Ajj360

    Yeah when birds eat each other it's usually way worse

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    68 points FrogInShorts

    Wood you believe it?

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    28 points Jimmy_cracked_corn

    It’s the natural pecking order of things

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    3 points valdy0730

    Lol I see what you did there lll

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    1 points d00b661

    You guys should go watch Primal

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  • 300 points Cultural-End641

    Jesus. It even started skull bashing harder

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  • 296 points visionaryOptions

    Damn. Why did i subscribe to this sub?! Yesterday Heron swallowing their siblings and now this.

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    123 points lordph8

    Welcome to the party pal.

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    9 points j_k_802

    Why do I always here this in Bruce Willis’s character voice of John Mcclane? Guess it’s THE Christmas movie. 🎥

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    16 points lordph8

    Come to the coast, get together, have a few laughs.

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    55 points Lambskin1

    This is only a small part of the whole video. There were 2 baby birds in there, he bashes one and eats its brain and throws it out of the nest. This part is the second bird. Then he flies off as the mother dove lands and finds this scene. Birds are brutal little things.

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    51 points Cakeyhands

    We all need a healthy reminder that nature is more Watership Down than Disney princess

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    8 points funwhileitlast3d

    Never gonna forget that heron

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    9 points DinosaurFewd

    cause morbid fascination is a thing 😬

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    3 points polishmachine88

    Merry Christmas 🎁

    This sub has some insane stuff on it.

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    3 points sirius2492

    Well in case you want to turn it up a notch, you should watch the leopard that was slurping on the poop-filled colon of an impala.

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    3 points Jimmy_cracked_corn

    I regret knowing how to read.

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    3 points Klumania

    That one is quite disturbing but this is just pure brutality.

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    1 points EkriirkE

    /r/lostredditors

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  • 114 points FordTech81

    So woodpeckers are zombies then.......

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    30 points breatheb4thevoid

    Desert ones are anyway. You got to have a knack for finding the juicy insides if you're going to live in the desert.

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    2 points hapnstat

    Gila boys run the place.

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  • 83 points Lazysenpai

    Hrmmmm brains.... ive seen another one where the bird went coconut juice on 3 little birds head.

    Seems wasteful but that's nature.

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    9 points hodyisy

    Forbidden piñacolada 🍹

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  • 70 points HipToTheWorldsBS

    There's a lot of brutal content on this sub but a lot of it is well known or expected. I had no idea that woodpeckers did this and it's unsettling.

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    3 points Valshaar

    Herons do that shit too. They spear gophers and stuff with their beaks.

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    1 points HipToTheWorldsBS

    Yeah that's well known and been posted a ton though.

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    3 points Inveramsay

    Around here you need to fit metal around the openings for bird houses for smaller birds otherwise the woodpeckers will eat the babies or eggs. Same if the bird house is made of wood that is too thin, they'll bash their way through the side to eat some jay hatchlings

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  • 35 points hambutbacon

    What a pecker head.

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    3 points Azuras_Star8

    You mean a head pecker.

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  • 18 points Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

    Woodpeckers are the painted dogs of birds

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  • 11 points Dreadsbo

    Jesus Christ.

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  • 8 points Eunuchest

    Fuck. Headpecker too

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  • 5 points revship

    This thing is shaped like a woodpecker, but it's acting like a cross between Michael Myers and The Jackal from Thirteen Ghosts

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  • 5 points Sunny_Starzz

    Oh- thats unsettling

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  • 3 points Ryguy_Games

    actual horror movie god

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  • 3 points JEYNOLDS

    Disturbing

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  • 4 points Ok_Antelope_1953

    stoooop he's already dead

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  • 4 points 11ForeverAlone11

    and I think to myself...what a wonderful world...

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  • 3 points YendorZenitram

    Serious headbangin' ...  Metal AF!

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  • 3 points illusiff

    By the Nines… nature is indeed metal.

    FUN FACT: “gila” means “crazy” in Malay/Indonesian. So a Crazy Woodpecker checks out.

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  • 2 points DreamingInAMaze

    Curious if this woodpecker can peck through a human skull….

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  • 2 points floppybunny26

    /r/birdsarentreal

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  • 2 points Practical_Smell_4244

    Thass right pokepuncture its skull and slurp its brain like soup, what a beautiful world god has created ❤️🙏

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  • 2 points Jeffranks

    Dove nestling: could you not!?

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  • 2 points EnycmaPie

    Damn, nature. You scary.

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  • 2 points basking_lizard

    Imagine the sight mom came back to

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  • 2 points ddonky

    Everything is a nail when you’re a hammer

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  • 2 points zombuca

    Knock knock
    Who’s there?
    Woody
    Woody who?
    Woody you mind if I ate your brains?

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  • 2 points JimmyThunderPenis

    Watching the brutality of 'peaceful' creatures is always a humbling and realistic experience.

    I think it's important.

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  • 1 points UntappdBeer

    Guess who?

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  • 1 points Better_Daikon_1081

    That dove ok?

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  • 1 points polishmachine88

    How many bashes does it take to get to the Tootsie roll?

    One two three...crunch

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  • 1 points mute-invader

    brutal

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  • 1 points Efficient_Maybe_1086

    The woodpecker head action makes it look gruesome. Almost like a first-degree murder.

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  • 1 points Asg_mecha_875641

    Until i saw this video i wouldn't have guessed, that a pecker could use is armored head as a weapon

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  • 1 points 4x4_LUMENS

    Skull fucked it

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  • 1 points IndividualEquipment2

    Birds are the worst 

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    1 points thegmoc

    Man.....I still remember that "songbird on songbird violence, one bird lobotomizes the other" post. They provide some of the most disturbing content, won't lie

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  • 1 points Silvertail034

    I didn't know woodpeckers did that, interesting. I mean, I knew most any animal won't pass up free calories. But still 🫥🥺

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  • 1 points UpHereInMy-r-Trees

    Hahahahaha
    hahahahaha
    hahahahaha
    Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

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  • 1 points SJIS0122

    Cool

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  • 1 points Rechogui

    WOODY NOO!

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  • 1 points DDR-Dame

    Don't blue jays also do this?

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  • 1 points Emaculates

    Imagine stabbing someone with your face.

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  • 1 points Muerteds

    When your face is a dagger, every day is stabbing day.

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  • 0 points Nfl_porn_throwaway

    “Mom?”

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  • -7 points playerkei

    Woodpeckers deserve death

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    6 points illusiff

    i don’t think you really get how nature works…

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    2 points IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE

    Why?

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  • -7 points LegoCamel6

    I want to kill it, the wood pecker

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    7 points IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE

    You shouldn’t be on this subreddit then. That’s an extremely unhealthy reaction.

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