Great tits make me brainless too
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.
Found the dad in the comments 👨
You and me both
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Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn't but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.
A family member had a mule that had to be kept away from the chickens, as the animal would gobble up any chick within reach.
It wasn't casual, it wasn't out of hunger.
The vet was horrified when he saw it happen, even after being warned.
🎶 I ate a chick and i liked it 🎶
I hope my farmers don't mind it
It's an easy source of nutrition. Why wouldn't you gobble up some chicks?
Exactly.
I once read an article where a biologist stated that herbivores should be instead considered oportunistic carnivores.
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And cows sometimes eat frogs 🤷🏻
Imagine being bored and just like "oops I ate this living thing that was screeching trying to escape"
Just let me slap you in the face with my boobs bro, it's just really cold bro, it's just until your soul cracks open and i can eat your brains bro, please bro, they're great tits bro, it's science bro
Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book where a fox steals sugar beets from a farmer because it got addicted to sugar. It's nature. Rules are made to be broken in nature. That all I know.
Nothing shocks me after seeing the video of a deer eating a sparrow and reading a non fiction book
I liked it more when I thought the sentence stopped here.
Lol. Why is the deer eating a sparrow less disturbing than a fox getting addicted to sugar beets? XD
I think that the commenter, like me, understood it as that the deer was reading a non-fiction book while eating a sparrow. Which is an interesting image
Oh! Sorry. I don’t know how to place English commas, lol.
You nailed it here! :)
Commas basically go where you want to separate two thoughts in a sentence or "take a breath" without the full stop of a period. They also often separate objects in lists, or signify that you're talking to somebody.
A classic joke:
"Let's eat grandma!" vs. "Let's eat, grandma!"
"Commas save lives!"
😂 Hope that helps a bit! You're doing great though, don't worry. :)
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I just had a vision of a deer sitting at a table in a French bistro, about to take a bite out of a sparrow impaled on a fork in one hoof and a Haynes manual for a Triumph Stag in the other. Made me laugh.
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The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.
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Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷
Anyone who has owned chickens knows this for a fact. They're fucking brutal.
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As it turns out, many "herbivores" just need to eat and will fill in with your flesh given the chance and they're hungry enough
Great Tits aren't herbivores, they mainly eat lots of insects. The description in the comic is pretty misleading.
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Unfortunately, great tits are always eating at my brains.
I've seen chickens do this to other chickens. It's normal for them to peck at each other a bit, but if they see blood, they go crazy. They also eat eggs sometimes. Chickens, though
Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I've actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.
Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
You know the reason why most of the recent megafauna went extinct? (Mammoths, big birds, giant sloth, saber toothed cat, ...)
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..and by "harsh" they mean "typical"
Here, in the North, as snow covers the ground we make sacrificial fat ball offerings to the beast, you know, just in case. Brain is mostly fat tissue.
My honest reaction every time I see something like this. For what it's worth, the small mammals were pipistrelle bats, and other flesh and organs were missing. I don't think they've ever been reported to eat rodents.
The definition of “small mammals” is too vague, because compared to a blue whale, I am fairly small. That’s why I feed those critters.
Eat their brain, gain their knowledge.
Raptors being raptors
I wonder if they sometimes get prion disease from that.
Maybe their lifespan is so short it won't matter.
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Great Tits man
Just like me!
Clever girl.
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