@@prot07ype87 are sure because I thought anti-villain meant a character who has good intentions but does bad things and the snake obviously didn't have good intentions but still did a good thing
@@shreyapatil7076 An Anti-Villain is the opposite of an Anti-Hero - a character with heroic goals, personality traits, and/or virtues who is ultimately the villain. Their desired ends are mostly good, but their means of getting there range from evil to undesirable. Alternatively, their goals may be selfish or have long-term consequences they don't care about, but they're good people who might even team up with the hero if their goals don't conflict. They often reach a kind of critical mass that makes them more good than normal villains but not quite heroes, blurring the line between hero and villain the same way an Anti-Hero does, but coming from the opposite direction. From TV Tropes.
@@em4703 it's possible the snake left the eggs alone. Not out of any sense of morality or honor of course, but the cuckoo chick is probably gonna keep it full for at least a few days, and any more food will just make the snake a bit more immobile/vulnerable while it's digesting.
@@TruthSeekers13 Its evolution and adapt to the surroundings. Some birds like blue jays started to recognize the parasite egg from their own and get rid of it before it hatches. So is a matter of time before others birds start noticing aswell.
You know what, I could see this becoming an unlikely partnership in nature. Birds get to keep their nest and babies, snakes get a free meal and Cuckoos go extinct. I see this as an absolute win
Bro, your way of thinking it's wrong, if there is no cuckoo, the snake will eat real chicks of the parents. That doesn't make sense and giving morality to animals it's really dumb.
Judge: “Snake, you’ve been brought here on charges of murder. What do you have to say for yourself?” Snake: “It was a cuckoo.” Judge: “Oh, well then. Trial adjourned.”
Judge: "Has the jury reached the verdict?" Juror: "Yes, we have, Your Honor." Judge: "And how do you find the snake?" Juror: "Your Honor, we find the snake not guilty!"
If the snake didn't eat the cuckoo chick then the cuckoo would have knocked out all those eggs and those eggs would have broken anyways so they got double lucky. They will get to hatch as opposed to being broken
Mama bird: I need someone taken out and I need it to be clean and discreet Snake: I told you I don't do kids Mama: it's a Cuckoo Snake: .......let's do this!!
For those of you who aren’t clear on the situation,I’ll explain,since I like to study zoology and ornithology. First off the chick the snake eats isn’t a good chick nor is it even the nest-building birds own kin.The chick in the nest is called a Cuckoo Bird.And as shown in the beginning it’s cruel and malicious.commonly referred to as a “nesting parasite” The female cuckoo bird doesn’t build a nest but rather instead she seeks out a nest owned by another bird couple to raise her young instead of her doing the job.The cuckoo will lie and await the nest to be unattended,the female cuckoo will then(if there’s eggs in the nest) remove or eat one egg,then swiftly lay her own and make a quick getaway before the parents of the nest return.The parents almost always turn a blind eye to the egg(In very rare circumstances the parents notice the odd egg and remove it,but this almost never happens and only in very very few circumstances)and continue the incubation process,the cuckoo egg always hatches first,or in more unfortunate circumstances along with the babies of the nests parent.The cuckoo will then proceed,even sometimes in the presence of its foster parents,eject or kick out the hosts eggs or in some cases the hosts chicks.It’ll then proceed to constantly demand food,growing rapidly and crying more for food,keeping its foster parents on their wings trying to meet its relentless appetite,until eventually the cuckoo grows so large it destroys the nest from its sheer size and then flies off leaving behind dead chicks and a broken nest.Cuckoo chicks are extremely malicious,and care not for any other babies or foster siblings.Of course the hosts don’t ever show concern for the cuckoo chicks destructive behavior as they see it as their own regardless of its behavior.There has been however only ONE instance,a RU-vid video,where a Bird couple was targeted by a cuckoo and the cuckoo chick foolishly pushed(or at least tried to) the Hosts eggs in the parents presence,the host mother,who was sitting on her nest noticed this behavior and ejected the cuckoo from her nestle,forbidding it to seek warmth under her,I can only speculate that the mother caught into the imposters ploy and punished it.Unfortunately I don’t think this is a common circumstance. Second to finish what is occurring here is the bad cuckoo chick is being eaten by a snake,in a nutshell
Ironically its ability to hatch and grow faster than the other eggs was its downfall here. It became a prime target for the snake, after which, might even sparred the other eggs due to the size of its meal
“In normal times, evil should be fought by good, but in times like this, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil” - The Chronicles of Riddick
No animal is 'evil' that is an exclusively human trait. We visit evil upon many millions of creatures every day in our greed for food, land, profit vanity; that is the evil.
For those who don't know what's going on: This is an example of Parasitic Birds. Some Birds leave eggs in the nests of other birds to grow and with Cuckoo Parasites, when hatched, they will actively push eggs out of the nest or kill other hatchlings as well. Sadly, a majority of parent birds don't notice parasitic eggs. A few do, and they do push them off the nest themselves.
Is there even a reason as to why the Cuckoos and Cowbirds don't raise their young? Because I've been trying to figure this out for so long and I don't even know the answer myself.
@@andrew2084 more energy efficient to have someone else raise your chick and have said chick kill the competition before they even hatch, the mother cuckoo can also focus on feeding itself and not having to give food to its own offspring, however not all cuckoos are nest-parasites and a few species such as the Guira Cuckoo, Chestnut-Breasted Malkoha and the Black Coucal build their own nests and raise their own chicks like most other birds
@@dororexgaming4205 I wanted to know, why do chicks immediately try to push off the host's eggs? Like does the thought of doing that, come from pure instinct by the cuckoo chick's DNA/genes? Like what animal does this after being immediately born and barely getting to know or understand the surrounding world. It's like a foster human baby attempting to push off another baby off the bed.
if the snek didnt eat the eggs too then the cuckoo likely destroyed them along with the nest, theyre vengeful and check back occasionally if things are going to their liking, most birds raise their changeling out of fear, cuckoos are the protection racketeers of the birb world...
The irony of it is that the cuckoo chick keeps moving like that to push the others out, but because the mother's eggs haven't hatched yet it's the only one making itself a target for the snake. Pretty much moving around to kill the others, but moving around like that made the chick a meal.
@@michaelversace456 even so the eggs would have all been devoured had the cuckoo not hatched early, it would have just crushed them and drank the yoke inside, the chick on the other hand is a literal mouthful and would keep it full for weeks, would have more than enough than the whole nest.
@@michaelversace456 Eh, I doubt it had room for the eggs, too, after such a big meal. I am worried that the flailing effort to swallow caused them to fall out, however. The clip being cut short before the end makes me suspicious.
@@gardenofeels6872 Uh no. ALL snakes eat eggs. The ones in the habitats where eggs are more abundant are known as egg eating snakes. However ALL species eat eggs. Even sea Kraits have been observed stealing turtle eggs.
I love how people fawn over the beautiful and majestic aspects of nature, but are completely repulsed by the ugly and remorseless aspects. It's a package deal; you don't get the pleasant bits without the gruesome ones, because they're both part of the same thing.
You can still like what you like and dislike what you dislike. You yourself say that there are 'ugly' aspects of nature, and what does 'ugly' mean if not 'something that repulses you'.
We’re repulsed by the ugly and remorseless aspects because that’s literally IN OUT NATURE. We are instinctually deterred by unpleasant things. You have to accept THAT aspect of our species just as much as you want people to accept all aspects of nature.
@@purpleemerald5299 I accept that human beings live under the pretense that we're repulsed by nature's brutality, but the truth is we're as ugly and remorseless as anything else that ever walked this planet. The only difference is that we feel the need to rationalize what we do in the made-up terms of good and evil, especially those of us fortunate enough not to have to weigh their morals against their own survival on a daily basis.
The true parasites are in human form. These birds act on instinct, it is hardwired into them. They are not deserving of anything bad as they do not know they have committed any sin!
Cuckoo *throws egg out of nest* Mother: that's it. I'm getting the neighbor! Cuckoo: oh yeah? What will he do? Chirp at me angrily? The neighbor: helllllllo ssssssssssir
You do know that the birds don’t do this out of malicious intent and instead are just doing it to survive Welcome to nature buddy,it’s not always gonna be sunshine’s and rainbows
@@thedairylord7861 "to survive" Cuckoo's could just, you know. Build their own nests and raise their own young. But they're "evolved" to be lazy/evil, so their deaths are a good thing.
@@Frenchfrys17 thats true, but evolution and instincts dont really work that way.. by that logic, all humans deserve to die because we create factories and farms
@@thedairylord7861 funny how people like you make this chick a bad person. Like dude it’s just a baby, let alone an animal. How is it supposed to know what it’s doing? Does it know he’s intentionally kicking eggs off the nest? How? When it can’t even see... let alone think about jealousy or malicious intent
Well when your entire existence is to force someone to care for your child and threaten to kill theirs so they do no work, you're going to be detested.
It's interesting that the cuckoo's "virtues" of it hatching the quickest, and being larger would make it prime targets for snakes. A true; "fuck around find out" story
The most fucked up thing a cuckoo will do aside from pushing all the other eggs is that the parents actually hung around the nest, if the victim bird get rid of the cuckoo chick or their egg, the cuckoo's parent will destroy the nest and everything in it to deter the victim bird parents from getting rid of the cuckoo's chick again in the future. Sort of like a mafia going after your house if you failed to pay.
I didn’t even think about it at first, but that snake just saved 3 children Since the cuckoo isn’t the mother birds real child it’s just a leech That snake is a damn hero! (To the real children and mother at least I’d think)
Sad thing is a lot of cuckoo females will keep an eye on the nests they lay their eggs in and if she notices that her baby is gone she might destroy the other eggs out of spite. Doesn't always happen but occasionally it does...
Wouldn't say spite. Cuckoo bird wants to try again with a new egg, she needs to have an empty nest. Yeah, it's wrong to us, but nature is wretched a lot of the time.
@Jacob Bax not a link, it was from a BBC documentary from a while ago about cuckoo behavior. Since it was when I just watched a lot of BBC America live and didn't really look up what the documentaries were called I don't know what the name of it was. It actually was more about the misconceptions though, in that relatively few cuckoo species are actually parasitic but how far some of the parasitic species will go to basically train other species to raise their offspring. Harassment of nests with successful cuckoo egg/offspring removal was just one thing the more aggressive cuckoos were observed to do in an attempt to bully the other birds to not reject the cuckoo's offspring in the future. It wasn't seen in every cuckoo of that subspecies but enough to be a recognizable trait and for some of the bird species they targeted to alter their nest design to make it harder for the cuckoos to access the nests. It is hard to find a specific source on cuckoo behavior because it varies so widely. I probably could find it again eventually but I am not that bored at the moment.
@@donsdesignideas6952 I’m not imposing anything. It’s nature and I have absolutely no say in the matter of how nature conducts its laws. It would be another thing if I were physically making sure that this doesn’t occur, but I am not. It’s just a thought. I guess if you want to make that argument, you are more than welcome, but it’s not as if you can verify if I hold those beliefs, or if the comment was made in a sarcastic and facetious way. But, I digress…
you know that if the cuckoo was not there it would have eaten the original babies right? unlike you people animals think for their survival they dont judge the good from bad since there is literally no good or bad in nature
Cuckoo birds lay eggs in OTHER birds nests. That hatchling is not related to the eggs. They push out the other birds eggs/hatchlings. Mama bird thinks it IS her baby, and raises it. This is why the death of the cuckoo hatchling may allow the eggs to hatch. The snake may not come back, but the cuckoo hatchling will not tolerate competition and would have tossed out every other egg. If the cuckoo cannot find another birds nest to lay her egg in, they will raise the chick themselves, but if she lays multiple eggs in her nest, usually the first to hatch will do the same things to its siblings.
@@TheCaptainSplatter cold-blooded doesn't mean they are cold, it means they can't warm themselves up so their temperature is the same as their environment so a snake living in a rainforest that is 80 degrees will have a slightly higher body temp than its surroundings, the confusion of what warm and cold blooded means has caused some scientist to use the name ectothermic instead(but it basically means the same thing)
I had always wondered (and hoped) if something like this ever occurred in nature to cuckoo bird chicks and you just confirmed it. Spot on mate! It just feels like justice!
I don't understand why everyone is so emotional about the cuckoo's behavior. In nature you get it how you live. Snake or no snake the cuckoo has every bit of business destroying other nests. Thats what it does.
@@jweber297 ¿Sabes lo que les hacen los pájaros cucos a sus hermanos? Empujan a sus propios hermanos fuera del nido, los dejan caer y mueren cuando ni siquiera han salido del cascarón mientras su madre no está. Hay una razón por la que está diciendo eso.
Honestly, they watch one video on parasitic birds and think their emotions are justified without realizing the song and dance of all the species involved
@@Suckmuhwhen you see a video of a lion attacking the impala and killing it while it gives birth, does that mean you hate lions? When you watch the video of the eagle crushing the lizard and plucking it’s eyes out while its still alive, does that mean you should hate eagles? Nature is a nasty place, and people who apply human morals onto a bird that acts on its instincts when it is a helpless chick that cannot even open its eyes are shameful
That snakes name is “Jimmy Boom Boom Slither.” He’s actually the neighborhoods hit men. He’s one of us. A wise-snake. Him and his brother Nicky “No Tail”, run birds nest rackets north of this nest. (he lost his tail about 3 years ago in a violent outburst with rival gangs down the block.) He got into an altercation with “The Sixth Street Colombian Snakes” underboss Peppino “The Shedder” Escobedo. Anyway, what was the poor mom bird supposed to do? Her husband, was whacked because he didn’t want to give up 5% of its moths and insects the bird would bring to the nest in exchange for protection. So…long story short, one day Jo-Jo “Big Eyes” who runs the Cuckoo Syndicate decides enough is enough and puts in a baby cuckoo to take over the nest for the Syndicate to take over as this nest is right next door to a fish pond and a gerbil operation. So of course the momma bird Nicolette Tripignoli, who’s brother is Johnny “Lonely” Tripignoli who never got married and had baby birds of his own, he of course comes from the famous Tripignoli family of the upper east side, who’s his consigliere is the absolute killer Juvenile 4 year old bald eagle, the most vicious of all, Tommy “Talons” Verducci. He put the hit out on this cuckoo trying to take over his turf. Naturally he hired Jimmy Boom Boom Slither, and you can see with your own eyes, why you never mess with others turf. Job well done boys! 😜
Usually chuckoo's egg hatches first so that it can give advantage to the chuckoo chick but here it backfired for chuckoo.... Nature is both cruel and beautiful at the same time
Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating seeing this situation play out differently, but I can't really say any animal DESERVES death for following the instinct it was born with.
I don’t know how people can call the cuckoo clock “cruel and malicious”. It’s born in the nest and acts on instinct. There is no hint that it aware that the nesting birds are not its parents or that the round things near it are alive. It just knows it wants to live. I don’t have any animosity towards the snake, either, who just wants to live. It’s a bird-kill-egg, snake-eat-bird world out there.
They could coexist with the other birds but they have to take the extra step of killing everything else in the nest. They deserve every misfortune that comes their way
Snakes aren’t exactly very smart, I’m not sure if it’d be able to A. Associate eggs with hatching babies B. Remember to come back once the babies hatch I could be wrong, maybe it is smart enough to do both
for the brief context: In early stages of young birds, they try to get rid of the competition by pushing other eggs in the nest, less eggs means more food for them, You can see at the very beginning the young bird pushed one of the eggs off the nest, So afterwards a snake decided to kill the young bird, specifically only him, karma at it's finest
damn it and your comment started out so clever but ended so bad i hope you realise that the snake doesnt care and passes by for a snack if the cuckoo was not there it would have eaten the original babies and what would everyone here do? hate the snake lmao also 1 chick loss for cuckoo is ok because they lay many eggs in different nests of the same host species and it doesnt affect the population of the host bird at all since the parasite/prey relationship is going on for so many years that the eggs of cuckoo evolved to resemble the eggs of the host bird this is called nature and in case you didnt know its a place where every species thinks for themselves and their own survival there is no good, bad, karma and idk what else like that
I'm glad the snake eventually decided to take his meal to go, so that he wouldn't break or drop the other eggs! He was like: "Ugh, this restaurant is too crowded. I'll just go eat outside." Meanwhile, mother bird: "As a thank you, your meal is free of charge! I REALLY needed to get rid of that leftover meat!" 🤣 Edit: WAIT A MINUTE, WHY'D HE GET BACK IN THE NEST?! HE BETTER NOT HAVE EATEN THE OTHER EGGS!! (I started typing this before the video was over, and exactly 10 seconds after I posted it the snake got back in. What the hell, that's not being a good customer!)
I don't think it will eat the eggs right after eating the cuckoo chick. It's huge and it will take days for the snake to digest it alone. Although, it might come back again for the eggs/chicks in the nest to fulfill his hunger.
@@qntcats5974 In a way I agree, but if we talk about us, we must also keep in mind that, unlike animals, we have a moral code to follow that allows us to live in a society, so we can't really just follow our instincts like animals do, we have also to listen to reason.
@@Alice-the-Bibi how do you know our "moral code" is any different than animal instinct? Whose morals are we speaking about? Because they can be vastly different between people.
this is a story of 4 animals actually. the parent, the parasite, and the predator. but in fact none of these are aware of the significance of what has happened. we are the fourth animal that appreciates the unfolding of events.
