Big Brother Eviction Cuckoo Style | Natural World | BBC Earth 

I was just reading that current studies show that the cuckoo mom will come back and check occasionally and if the foster mom isn't taking care of the chick, the cuckoo will destroy the nest and all the eggs, so the foster bird 'know better'. It's called the Mafia Theory.

@@cameronstarkel5629 cuckoo rarely ever comes back for their chicks they dont care for their babies only cuckoo that does that is the cowbird which is a species of cuckoo other than them no other cuckoo comes back

Tạo hoá ko ban cho loài chim đó trí tuệ phân biệt. Nên mới phải nuôi con chim tu hú. Còn việc như lý thuyết mafia tại sao lại nuôi con của tu hú duy nhất khi nó đã giết sạch đàn con của mình, nếu sợ bị tu hú trả thù, thì có thể bỏ con tu hú con ko nuôi ( vì tu hú con đã giết hết con non và trứng rồi, nên chỉ có thể nói rằng các loài chim đó không phân biệt được.

⁠@@cameronstarkel5629whats a point to have nest if only chick left is cockoo? So if mother cockoo destroys it only cockoo chick suffers.

Bird brain

A maternity test in this case lol

DNA test most appropriate

Jajaja!

AND maternity test.

He would get a good whacking from me !

It's just more nature, the snake ate the other hatchlings too

@@PepeGR5 if it’s the video I think they’re talking about, no. The other eggs hadn’t hatched as of yet and the snake left them alone due to the size of the cuckoo.

" cuckoo gets what it deserves" for anyone that wants to search up the video name.

@@gaveintothedarkness a dumb title for an interesting of video plagued with dumber comments

Just saw it on Reddit

_Casually unscrews bed_

I was looking for this hahaha 😂

Bro you watch him too

Why?​@@judewilsethsalinas7114

@@theslimegamer5451 i do

Nice one

😂

Loool

That bird probably has a whole chromosome dedicated to killings. From murder to galactic domination.

Good thing I don't believe everything people say.

I don't like it either but nature has no law

hahahaha smh

Got to remember birds have instinct not intelligence.

Huh, what was that!? ...must have been nothing..

" thats suspisious!!"

"aww you must be hungry from all that exercise and murder here is some food"

you’re a Dum Azz… it just wants some space. It’s not intending to murder… did it peck the eyes out of the other bird? No… Did it clamp down if the other birds throat? No… he just pushed the bird out and said go enjoy the water like a duck.

Imagine being born and already you're an jerk. That is the Cuckoo chick in a nutshell.

wrgg

Is this why my window update is stuck on 52% 😂

This is why they used the Aztec wings on the airplane after to hide the moss balls 😂 So where did the turtle go

They can't. If they retaliate or something, the cuckoo real parents will come and destroy all their still viable eggs and babies. This is their adaptation "Tape0n4Head 3 years ago Some sources also say that if the host bird destroys the egg the parasite bird will come back to the nest and destroy the host bird's eggs. "

@@TheCandiceWang nah you dont know shit

@@gimmekromer1151 no there right the foster parents are held at gunpoint pretty much

@@foxeh9238 yeah, which is sad honestly

This is not the case if the cuckoo egg is recognized. Some species of bird recognize the cuckoo egg and will remove it, thus saving their clutch of eggs from a cuckoo chick. Cuckoos, contrary to popular belief, do not come back to do anything about whether the parents remove or destroy the egg. This has not been documented to happen, once laid, the egg is at the mercy of the parents it was left at.

:O

Same

Was hoping the little fucker would fall. Karma missed it

too bad it grab the nest so firmly 🤣

I see why ppl hate these birds lol

If I was the bird I would had push it lol

Cuckoos aren't the only birds that do this. Brood Parasitism is found in a variety of birds as well as other creatures

I found out it;s not only the cuckoo birds, cowbirds do that too...and they will destroy all eggs if their chick dies.

@@shantakidd6230 I believe Hyenas do the same thing but its not as common as cuckoos though. They kill off their brother or sister to try to get better privileges from their mother

Remember there's different breeds of Cuckoos. There's one type with a hooked beak that will even murder other chicks by hacking them to death!

Cowbirds does this too. Just as Cuckoo birds does.

DUDE! This is exactly how I feel. I can’t even begin to tell you how much it actually tilts me to see videos like this. Or how the stork will literally pick up (albeit small) healthy chick and drop them to their deaths. It makes NO sense, especially since people say it’s for survival? My ass, food shortage? Nah, it’s the low intelligence of the bird.

@@Le-Korl 4 kids = 4x the resources = 4x the energy expenditure. One strong baby is better than 4 barely alive babies. Now you know why the 3rd world is in a bit of a state = kids need resources. having 10 kids is stupid if you don't have the resources to support them. Having one is far smarter than having 10.

It's a bird brother, it's not like it actually thinks or something about this shit

Human morality doesn't work with nature.

There are sea animals who feast on their own mother after birth this is nothing

André Afonso like what?

And at the same time birds are so stupid they can't tell they're own eggs or species

@@jedsteelwell2354 That's because humans are far smarter than all, and tbh we should be able to make all animals extinct. The Holocene Extinction event is a blessing for the almighty Lord Himself.

@@jedsteelwell2354 Cuckoos have been in an evolutionary arms race with the bird species they take advantage of, for a long, long time! They have evolved to be very secretive, being able to lay eggs (in other birds' nests) in only 10 seconds, and those eggs look remarkably like those of the birds they are fooling, even when the other birds have evolved distinctive patterns on their eggs. Put a different looking egg in the nest, most birds will reject it! The part which is less well understood, is why many bird species don't seem to recognise the giant cuckoo chick, is not their own! But the cuckoo chick is able to make a sound resembling a whole nest-full chicks, so that the 'parents' bring more food! (Sorry for the long reply, I just watched a lecture about it!).

This is the real evidence that this is a satanic world. Everything seems to be evil on this earth!! I hate it.

@@andrewbeckford3160 Well, this just proves that there is no "Evil" as we know it. It's all just nature and we interpret it by our norms.

@@andrewbeckford3160 Well, this just proves that there is no "Evil" as we know it. It's all just nature and we interpret it by our norms.

It's actually really simple. Their backs are really sensitive, so when they sense an object brushing up against it their immediate instinct is to push it away and get rid of the discomfort.

I don't think they 'know' anything that complex. They are just compelled towards behaviours that help them survive. They don't know why they need to be alone in the nest. They just know everything must go.

Mental

Watch Vivarium! It has the concept of parasitic behavior of a cuckoo and even the beginning shots are the ones of cuckoo chicks in nests being fed. It's an amazing, really bizzare movie.

@@CyberDragonArt I’m watching that right now! I’ve been seeing a lot about cuckoo’s lately and had to learn more. That movie is really weird but definitely worth a watch. Read Cuckoo’s Calling! It’s by J.K. Rowling but I think she uses a pseudonym

There is a recent horror movie cuckoo. I didn't watch it but interesting premise

​@FrostySparks oh yeah I actually didn't catch the cuckoo reference the first time I watched it but it is an interesting movie. I didn't love it but I'm glad I watched it and I'm glad the filmmaker tried something interesting. I'll take that any day

Some birds try to fly after their eggs but there’s nothing they can do

Serpant servant is this why they used the 7 ball pig so the Armstrong grey could be used to cover the sphinx legs at asda?

This chick was hiding in my testicles

birds aren't intelligent, that's why they don't care

That’s where the term “bird brained” came from, there pretty dumb

Keep watching

+geohansky YES. Because its blind, its instinct is to remove all things from the nest

simon cao So whoever wins the tug of war gets to survive?

Yes. :-D .

+geohansky Excellent question !

I have been watching cuckoo videos for about three hours now , its really a strange amazing behavior

mee too

I'm just hoping to find a video where the little fucker gets tossed out the nest

100%

Most of the dinosaurs did not care for their young.

Good job

Yeah it is hard to watch. I just try to remember then The little bird is going completely on instinct and isn't actually intentionally being immoral or duplicitous. But all of that said those subspecies of cuckoos are incredibly hard to like. Just a crazy villain/con man of the animal world. It is worth noting though that most cuckoo species do not pull this nest switcheroo they actually just raise their own kids. Only a handful of them actually participate in this practice and they all under the same subspecies. But whatever, this is the species I think we're all fascinated. I will try to find some nest videos of cuckoos of slightly different varieties that do not engage in this. Curious what kind of parents they are

​@@michaelcorcoran8768 To being simple... Human morality doesn't work in nature.

I thought the same thing. But then it dawned on me that having to spend numerous weeks feeding and caring for her chicks, she can go right off and lay another egg in another nest, and then a few days later lay another, and so on. Perhaps that’s the evolutionary strategy: to lay as many parasitic eggs as possible during the mating season. Maybe each year she can have dozens of offspring survive to carry on the cuckoo empire in this manner.

Lol Cuckoos aren't lazy, once they grow to maturity they fly hundreds of miles from Europe to Africa.

The worst part is if you watch a video like this all of a sudden the RU-vid algorithm just puts them all in your feed. I had the unfortunate / fascinating experience of watching a nest full of young chicks get attacked by ants and their parents came back and saved them. But then the algorithm started recommending me videos like that with the parents did not save them and it was unpleasant. m

Agreed, too many people are criticising an animal's behaviour because it doesn't conform to the social values the humans evolved to have. It is utterly insane to think that this trait evolved incrementally and embedded as an instinct, not learned. These cuckoos have no intended malice towards the other bird species; their urge to do what what they do is as powerful as our urge to breathe air.

God's coding

@@parkinfurkmaz2877 The people who are criticizing the cuckoo (whatever that even means...) are probably watching the video while eating some tasty scrambled eggs or chicken wings... lol.

@@ayyaaaa9533 Sin's coding

@@jeffreardon9052 sure thing. but that's our prey. humans are on top of the food chain, so the fate of this pathetic planet depends on us. the eggs and chicken wings ppl eat becomes energy for them, God never condemned ppl for eating food. the cuckoo kills the chicks that rightfully belongs to the nest and he don't even eat them or anything, and take advantage from the parents.

They might eventually learn. In thousands of generations.

If there are no morals in nature, then there are no morals in human society, because humans are natural creatures. Morality would have to be simply "what is". But basically nobody who is on your side of this issue actually believes that.

I know

Perhaps they will extinct If we do artificial intervention Like that

phoonjzc because its a dumb bird specie, they don't have that common sense to tell which one is really theirs

Tape0n4Head 3 years ago Some sources also say that if the host bird destroys the egg the parasite bird will come back to the nest and destroy the host bird's eggs.

@@TheCandiceWang cuckoo is a fucking school bully

Demonic....

If they did that, there'd be no more warbler nests for the cuckoos to lay eggs in. It's in the cuckoos interest that the warbler population survives and continues to build nests for the cuckoos to use.

Of course not, only the beloved God could create heartless coldblooded killer toddlers.

Yes. There is no animal on earth that does not eat or parasitize other organisms in order to survive and reproduce. They all do it, including us humans. The cuckoo's behavior is just one way.

make it stop

amogus

We are God... Maybe.

the controllers of nuclear bombs, if we wanted we could explode this planet. as more intelligent beings, most animals aren't extinct because we protect them. if ppl decide "nah, let's end cuckoos" they will end.