Okay so i know this sucks but it happens and it is rather confounding to watch the cuckoo chick go to such lengths to push out it's competition. Just the fact that they're born with these instincts to eject other birds and eggs from the nest is truly interesting. They use an awful lot of energy doing this and that other baby is almost twice the size of the cuckoo. No, i think it is literally twice its size
It's amazing to me how much stronger the smaller cuckoo is than the other bird which is obviously much more developed. The other bird doesn't even seem to have the strength or wherewithal to push itself back into the nest while the cuckoo has the energy and strength to push its nestmate all of the way out.
if you really want to moralize nature or the cosmos, why aren't you asking why the person(s) with the nest cam didn't remove the cuckoo from the nest? I'm not suggesting they should. but if you want to make (random?) moral assertions, at least let's start with blaming someone(s) that exist.
According to Buddhism, this is why animals are reincarnated as animals. Because of karma, there is a food chain between animals, and they eat each other. They fight for survival from the moment they are born.
Because "God" didn't create anything. Nature did. By laying their eggs in other birds nests, not only do the cuckoos maximize the number of chicks that will survive, but they also spend far less energy than other birds do.
because "god" didn't create anything. Nature did. By laying their eggs in other birds nests, not only do cuckoos maximize the number of chicks that will survive, but they also spend far less energy than other birds do.
It's a cuckoo, those 2 are not related. Cuckoo mothers wait for nesting moms to leave their nest then the cuckoo lays her egg and leaves. The cuckoo baby will attempt to eliminate any eggs or babies in the nest.
it's instinctual. they will stop trying to expel nestlings after about 3 days (or so I read). their entire anatomy is designed to expel eggs and other birds. look closely at the physical traits of the cuckoo vs. the other bird. although the other bird is clearly larger and older, the cuckoo has more core strength (the bulk of the other bird is mostly in its belly for processing food). the cuckoo's back is designed to "cup" or "hold" eggs and chicks while its appendages are made for corralling and clasping onto the nest as it backs its competition out. honestly, most of the cuckoo videos I've seen, the cuckoo hatches first and the other birds never make it out of their eggs before being dumped out the nest.
It's preprogrammed behavior , all cuckoo birds do this. Nature is a crazy place! For instance many female spiders after mating will kill the male lay her eggs on his corpse and when they are born their first meal is already laid out for them😳
Il piccolo Cuckoo, punta le sue forti ''zampe'' tra gli spazzi dei rami del nido, e fa leva con una forza incredibile, fino ad estromettere o defenestrare il proprio competitore, che pesa più del suo doppio. Voglio dire solo un altra cosa. Perché il cuculo non si accontenta di ottenere il cibo, senza dover necessariamente uccidere il piccolo uccello?.
ugly ugly truth of nature! so interestingly annoying and fascinating! this will surely tech us that things happen for a reason no matter how painful and unacceptable it is...
