Probably not bald eagles, but aren't some birds known to grab turtles and then drop them from high up in order to crack their shells? And didn't people die from having a turtle dropped on their head?
Edit: I was thinking of the Greek playwright Aeschylus, and it was an eagle that dropped a turtle on his head and killed him.
Some eagles do it, even to normal(ish?) stuff like mountain goats. When you've got great lift but lack in other categories, it's easier to kill your prey by just dropping them from a high altitude
I knew like 3 different people who lost more than one pet to owls or eagles. Owls are the worst because they'll do it even if the pet is on a leash. A kill they can't even escape with 😔
Over the summer i found a headless chicken in my driveway early morning. Freaked me out(I dont have chickens nor do any close neighbors) googled it and learned possibly from an owl as the fly off with them and only eat the heads.
They do. Theirs bald eagles, hawks, crows, and ravens, literally where I’m working rn. They toss dead animals/nuts and shit at oncoming vehicles all the time. Splatters/cracks them right open, easy pickings. Pretty funny, scares the hell out of me though when they’re doing it because they swoop down constantly.
Shows adaptation. It’s honestly cool. The cat getting thrown into a windshield is hilarious, imagine getting told that was the fate of your cat. 😂
Sociopathic that eagles eat and cats are invasive species and environmental pests with no natural predators beyond the rare eagle attack? Literally correcting the wrong we’ve introduced into the environment, they’re third to us and rodents in contributing to the Holocene Extinction.
Lmfao, it’s only fair eagles get an occasional peck.
Yeah sure, feral, free-ranging cats are an invasive species that devastate the local wildlife, and I probably wouldn't have bothered saying anything, but then you said:
imagine getting told that was the fate of your cat 😂
I mean I don't think most people would be laughing in that scenario, lol. I think you'd be pretty sad your cat is dead. Obviously domesticated cats people typically keep indoors as pets are not the same as stray cats.
That's the real "sociopath" part, as it betrays a lack of empathy, and the fact that you brought it up as a joke also betrays a lack of social awareness.
Yeah, like even to me thats not normal shit and I support culling feral cats. I think we should do more work culling the large populations of strays, theres too many of them and the spaying and release programs for feral cats just aren't effective, they breed too fast for it to work well, and shelters are full as it is, so catching them is just producing more suffering than culling would. If wild animals are doing the job for us, then I see that as a good thing. But even with my support of reducing their populations I don't think its funny when they're dying. Thinking its funny an animal is dying is fucked up.
It’d suck, but you’d be laughing years later. I still laugh at the thought that my mom’s dog Pepper apparently chewed on a can and died. Although she was a pretty cool dog her entire life.
And yeah, I have little to no empathy for anything beyond humans. The moment I stop eating meat, I might care more for the world of animals. Selective empathy is sociopathic and it’s pretty standard culture.
"selective empathy" is human nature, as well as the nature of most animals capable of mourning. If people cared about everything, all the time, then we'd be driven mad with our focuses split between a million different things. And if we didn't have empathy or care about the things important to us, society would literally fall apart and progress would come to a near halt
I used to live in Yorkshire. Grouse are beautiful game birds but they are incredibly stupid. When I was driving across a moor one day a grouse jumped out of a fence and landed on my car. It left a dent. Grouse are not as big as eagles.
I've had a enough hawks and owls swoop down a little too close to my chihuahua that I just keep him close to me as possible now. I mean, I get it. He probably looks like a huge chicken nugget from their point of view.
I love how there's a whole news report and it's still on that subreddit. I don't think they believe water is wet either.
Yes, it's an unlikely thing to happen! That's what made it news!
WATER ISNT WET WATER MAKES THINGS WET
WET IS AN ADJECTIVE CONDITION THAT WATER INHERENTLY CANNOT REACH BECAUSE IT IS THE BASE CONDITION
I can't do this today ðŸ˜
I CAN DO THIS EVERY DAY RAAAAAH
Yes.. including water unless you have a single molecule, its touching more water therefore is wet
water molecules have unique chemical reactions with each other that they don't have with other molecules, though.
Cohesion and adhesion are still just polar molecular bonds, even if the mechanism is different the result is the same
When water touches other water, it just becomes a bigger water
Water can't make water wet though
Water can make Ice wet which is technically also water. Checkmate
You say that but if something isn’t wet that usually implies it’s dry and I don’t think anyone can argue water is dry?
Water sticks to water, if water is touching other water then that water is wet
Not a good example ðŸ˜
Probably not bald eagles, but aren't some birds known to grab turtles and then drop them from high up in order to crack their shells? And didn't people die from having a turtle dropped on their head?
Edit: I was thinking of the Greek playwright Aeschylus, and it was an eagle that dropped a turtle on his head and killed him.
Some eagles do it, even to normal(ish?) stuff like mountain goats. When you've got great lift but lack in other categories, it's easier to kill your prey by just dropping them from a high altitude
I knew like 3 different people who lost more than one pet to owls or eagles. Owls are the worst because they'll do it even if the pet is on a leash. A kill they can't even escape with 😔
Over the summer i found a headless chicken in my driveway early morning. Freaked me out(I dont have chickens nor do any close neighbors) googled it and learned possibly from an owl as the fly off with them and only eat the heads.
I mean. They eat stuff like rabbits and squirrels. To the eagle, a cat is no different.
Poor kitty. 😨😞
They do. Theirs bald eagles, hawks, crows, and ravens, literally where I’m working rn. They toss dead animals/nuts and shit at oncoming vehicles all the time. Splatters/cracks them right open, easy pickings. Pretty funny, scares the hell out of me though when they’re doing it because they swoop down constantly.
How... how is that pretty funny though?
Shows adaptation. It’s honestly cool. The cat getting thrown into a windshield is hilarious, imagine getting told that was the fate of your cat. 😂
Sociopath comment
Sociopathic that eagles eat and cats are invasive species and environmental pests with no natural predators beyond the rare eagle attack? Literally correcting the wrong we’ve introduced into the environment, they’re third to us and rodents in contributing to the Holocene Extinction.
Lmfao, it’s only fair eagles get an occasional peck.
Yeah sure, feral, free-ranging cats are an invasive species that devastate the local wildlife, and I probably wouldn't have bothered saying anything, but then you said:
I mean I don't think most people would be laughing in that scenario, lol. I think you'd be pretty sad your cat is dead. Obviously domesticated cats people typically keep indoors as pets are not the same as stray cats.
That's the real "sociopath" part, as it betrays a lack of empathy, and the fact that you brought it up as a joke also betrays a lack of social awareness.
Yeah, like even to me thats not normal shit and I support culling feral cats. I think we should do more work culling the large populations of strays, theres too many of them and the spaying and release programs for feral cats just aren't effective, they breed too fast for it to work well, and shelters are full as it is, so catching them is just producing more suffering than culling would. If wild animals are doing the job for us, then I see that as a good thing. But even with my support of reducing their populations I don't think its funny when they're dying. Thinking its funny an animal is dying is fucked up.
It’d suck, but you’d be laughing years later. I still laugh at the thought that my mom’s dog Pepper apparently chewed on a can and died. Although she was a pretty cool dog her entire life.
And yeah, I have little to no empathy for anything beyond humans. The moment I stop eating meat, I might care more for the world of animals. Selective empathy is sociopathic and it’s pretty standard culture.
"selective empathy" is human nature, as well as the nature of most animals capable of mourning. If people cared about everything, all the time, then we'd be driven mad with our focuses split between a million different things. And if we didn't have empathy or care about the things important to us, society would literally fall apart and progress would come to a near halt
I used to live in Yorkshire. Grouse are beautiful game birds but they are incredibly stupid. When I was driving across a moor one day a grouse jumped out of a fence and landed on my car. It left a dent. Grouse are not as big as eagles.
I mean, large birds of prey are gonna prey.
I've had a enough hawks and owls swoop down a little too close to my chihuahua that I just keep him close to me as possible now. I mean, I get it. He probably looks like a huge chicken nugget from their point of view.