This Egg is Nature's Greatest Scam 

"But the one you have to watch out for is the cuckoo bird. Do you know how a cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother's weakness. The cuckoo bird is too clever to raise its young. Instead, it sneaks its eggs into the nests of simpler birds. So when they hatch, the mother bird is fooled. She feeds them, nurtures them. And do you know what happens to her own chicks? They starve and die from neglect. All because a mother loved a chick...that wasn't her own." - Shere Khan, _The Jungle Book_ (2016)

It's interesting that the baby bird knew from birth to push out the other birds to get more food

Wow, this videos atmosphere and feel is insane, nicely edited.

There is actually some research that shows that the birds who are parsitized know the baby isn't theirs. The reason they choose to take care of the egg is because the cuckoo in this case will destroy the nest anyways so better to take care of it and hope the cuckoo doesn't choose your nest again. They have also shown that the warbler will abandoned their nests, too if a cuckoo is in the area

i already knew it was a brood parasite but ahhh your content is so relaxing to watch i love itttt! good job!

Oh no this is so sad i feel bad for the other babys 😢 but this is nature

The chick gets pushed to it death The cameraman: 👁👄👁

In Germany we have a saying about the Cukoo in german he is calles Kuckuck and some children are called "Kuckuckskind" which means cukoo child. So a child snuck into a realtionship from the mother which made the child with someone else and the husband/boyfriend doesn´t know it.

The music in the background is amazing! It's so subtle but perfect captures each little reveal/moment/mood in the video. I really like mystery games and this video gave me those kind of vibes, it was very intriguing to watch. I would enjoy watching more videos with this format

This video reminds me of educational programs i watched as a kid. It's very nostalgic, but as an adult, i can tell it's more than that. From my observation, not a single sencond wasn't considered in the making of this video. I wish there were more content creaters that strive to put this level of care in their videos.

This egg is a spy! Spy around here! This egg is a bloody traitor

I hate how your videos abruptly ended with ads, it's like watching something incomplete and it keeps scratching my heart

I like how the bird is like 3x the size of the mother even tho the egg was barely larger

The saddest part is when the baby bird pushed their sibling..

That bird's actions resemble those of Israel 😢

Imposter among us ?

this is a great format for a younger audience that doesn't know about Cuckoos and other brood parasites but I like your videos without a "narrative" so to speak.

... You!!!!.... ARE NOT THE FATHER!!

"this video is brought to you by square space, and this is a disaster" I about dide💀💀💀

Nature is nuts, man. It makes me wonder though. If that bird is unable to recognize that the cuckoo chick isn't theirs, then what things are we just physically unable to comprehend? What things are just in front of us that we don't even -- can't even recognize because our brains don't work in a way that's able to see them?

3:58 "simply a pawn in the master plan of the...cuckoo" - A minor point, but one that can be misleading. There's no planning or foresight involved. It's just an example of evolution by natural selection producing a strategy, which has no goal, plan or foresight.

Why do you don't care about he's siblings

HOW COULD YOU LEAVE cHICKy

Bro should have saved the smaller 🐦

The among us OG

🥚- I am de spy

Cuckoo is evil😮

saving time In a nutshell 3 eggs was in a nest, 1 was bigger cuz it was different bird and it kicked 2 birds out of nest and big bird just got advantages from other bird

Did you seriously cut off your tik tok of this video at “and that’s not all…” only for me to find your RU-vid just to listen to ads 😑😑😑 I feel like I’m owed one more fact lol

You should have saved the baby’s when they fell you can be there mom

Love these vids, they’re fascinating! Would it be possible for you to go over some cool facts or even just the anatomy of an Irwin turtle?

Hmm *takes big egg then throws it out,breaks it*

I kinda feel bad that u let it happen instead of saving the bird but ig we gotta let nature do it’s thing

You know what I think I probably would have took the cuckoo egg because frick parasites. Now what wood I do with it idk

1:04 is nobody going to talk about how the piano fits with this part.

2:18 pov: when you eat too much food

Great vibes in this video. Oh and the info is nice too!

Hey! Can you guess what species this is?: The specimen is almost entirely known by its vertebral column (axial skeleton): five cervical vertebrae (including the axis), ten articulated mid-to-posterior dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, and six caudal vertebrae (five of which are complete). The only other bones found with the specimen are a complete ilium and two unidentifiable bone fragments. The specimen is preserved partially articulated. However, the overall preservation is poor, with a dark reddish-brown to grey colouration indicative of a haematite coating and permineralization. Additionally, the deformation has distorted the shape of the vertebrae and parts of them have been cracked and weathered away.

What happened to the baby bird who was kicked out

The thumbnail is a Tf2 reference

THE BABYS!!!!!!!

I knew about this and I HATE CUCKOOS

Dear Mr Odd A.S., I realllly like your varied examples of wonderfull Nature: allways interesting and smart! I hope your channel gets viewed in schools, all ages! My one major request is this: do you have control over your Transcript? Mainly, can your ‘activate’ it? So it can scroll (or better: reader can scroll themselves) for those with hearing restrictions can enjoy your videos like the rest of us. (Or my own reason: i watch, sound off, at work and am sad when i cannot scroll interesting content, like your’s, via transcripts). Cheers!

Oh my, what happened to the one, who was pushed out of his nest?

*fecal sacks* ominous music plays

Did the little baby’s that the bigger one pust die😖

I would have saved the other babies

Its the ugly ducking but evil

Lol. Do people not know what cuckoo birds are nowadays? Anyways I hate these animals. They always piss me off seeing them get fat after killing off the original babies. Although I remember reading somewhere that this doesn't always work. Sometimes the mom can tell there's an impostor and she kills it immediately.

I feel superior already knowing this knowledge

This is when your channel learned me more stuff about animals, insects, and pest while the school i only learned few stuff about them😕

_There's one impostor among us..._

It felt like I'm watching blue's clues but the content is uh y'know.

Cowbirds do this exact same thing in my area and kill all the finches

I know it's nature but I ca't believe you left that Cuckoo's egg in there to kill those chicks!

You need a tv show! ❤🎉

I dont know what happened to the other bird tho 💀

can’t wait to watch this!

Why didnt you save the other babies

"why did it do that?" THE HUNGER GAMES

First

you saved the two other baby birds right?😥

Did u know the roadrunner is in the cuckoo family?

When you so small but your chick is the opposite

Plz keep making videos like this 🥺🙏

Does anyone know the music in the background?

cuckoo egg: exists me: I'm gonna destroy this.

as soon as i saw the title of this video, i knew it was a cuckoo bird lol

Koyel bird?

Bruh you could've at least saved the chicks that got pushed out

I’m a wild Krats kid so I new RIGHT AWAY what was wrong

Why didn't he grab that chicken wing and trow him out of the nest

I have coments😔 say f for the little Reed warblers☹️

What would have happened if you removed the bad egg

It’s probably another bird that laid its egg in another birds nest.

I hate this bird... 😒😒

Are the other chicks ok?

Wheres the continuation

Yo that egg is 👎👎👎

How do you make a collection of insects? And how do you spread a insects wings?

This feels like I'm watching a Reading Rainbow segment & that makes me enjoy this more

Is it just me or some of his RU-vid videos just vanished out of nowhere?.

The fact you didn't get rid of the cuckoo bird egg for the bird lost my respect to you. "I don't care how many research data or nature bullshit, I would smash those parasite eggs simply because I hate those birds."

One question though, did “big baby” already know how to do that or it’s just inadvertently since he’s too big? Because I remember watching a scene somewhere where there are 3 chicks being fed and one was humongous (the adopted chick).

one spied over the cukoo's nest.

Cuckoo bird

why didnt he help the fallen baby bird🤨

I join. you

I just found this channel and I really enjoyed this video!

:'(

Now I understand why birds throw poop at our house

Did you do anything to the chick that fell

He could be any one of us, he could be you, he could be me!, he could even be-

Some birds just be built different...evil different.

WHATTTTTT

Idk if you can see this but i was wondering if you could do a vid on the whalebill stork or better known as the shoebill the bird that looks like it was from the dinosaur period lol.

It's fascinating, isn't it? Nature's instincts at work! Even from birth, that baby bird knew how to assert itself for survival. Talk about starting life with a strong sense of self-preservation! 🐣💪

Ha ha Blues Fuxking Clues😂

I was really hoping this was gonna be about smooth vs rough indigo snake eggs and not the parasidic nesting bird... 😐

It's called brood parasitism