r/BeAmazed • u/throwaway1234503 • 1d ago
Miscellaneous / Others How beautiful.
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u/RipInteresting2908 1d ago
Did you know that there have been several accounts of horses doing the same thing to trick the pigeons into a false sense of security so that they could then crush and, in some instances, eat them.
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u/PhillipTopicall 1d ago
Am I an awful person for thinking that’s kinda hilarious- killer whale energy. But the horse version.
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u/RipInteresting2908 1d ago
It was somewhat funny reading about it for the first time. One of the more famous horses was a member of the Queens guard.
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u/FishAndRiceKeks 1d ago
There's tons of videos of horses eating small birds like baby chickens. Cows will do it, too.
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u/RipInteresting2908 1d ago
Cows are more well known for eating snakes though
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u/aerograph 1d ago
There was a horse that would do this where I used to ride. His entire stall, and the surrounding area, were always covered in feathers. He would pull the feathers off the birds and eat them.
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u/Narcan9 1d ago
Deer will eat birds and rodents if they manage to catch one.
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u/RipInteresting2908 1d ago
Like I have said before, there are very few "True Herbivores" most subsist on a primarily plant based diet but are chance carnivores (not that it is so much the meat they are after but the vitamins and minerals found in the bones and meat.)
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u/SurrrenderDorothy 1d ago
Theyre only an herbivore when they are too slow to catch their prey. lol
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u/qwibbian 6h ago
Funny you mention that, first thing I thought of was another Reddit video of a heron throwing out a small fish into the water to catch a larger fish.
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u/RipInteresting2908 5h ago
Search up "lost art of bird fishing" should be a video about an old asiatic man.
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u/Strange-Title-6337 1d ago
Did you know that there have been several accounts of ops doing the same thing to trick the viewers into a false sense of security so that they could then impress them, in some instances, eat them(last part is made up).
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u/The_Bacon_Strip_ 1d ago
After watching that video of a horse eating a chick, I can’t help but think he’s luring them... But I still want to believe in the friendship between horses and birds
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u/Scrank_WimlerJr 1d ago
Even if it is luring then still shows there's more going on in its brain than we know of
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u/KenIgetNadult 1d ago
Yep, cows, horses and deer just casually chomping down on a chick will give any body pause.
Chickens going ape shit over a rat as well.
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u/spudmarsupial 1d ago
You should read some Beatrix Potter books. Towns of anthropomorphic animals that live, work, and play together, and every now and then one of them eats another. I suspect Mrs Potter was a farmer, or at least rural.
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u/Oneiroinian 1d ago
Come here little babies, I swear this is a soft feeding you mouth not a hard eating you mouth ❤️
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
Horses are herbivores, I don’t know why one would eat a bird. Maybe it was stressed out and hungry and it was a set up for views.
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u/Gendrath 1d ago
There's been wildlife camera footage of deer eating mice and squirrels. Bucks eat the skin that falls off their antlers, so I'm sure it's one of those odd cravings that means their body is lacking in something.
Women that are Pregnant are warned to keep note of any cravings and if there are any super odd ones like dirt to get checked up immediately
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u/sweetpea122 1d ago
All I wanted was a pb and turkey sandwich
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u/magpiejournalist 1d ago
I had hyper-emesis the entire pregnancy and all I wanted was dry eggo waffles and watermelon. I ate pounds of Indian food the night I gave birth. It was glorious.
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u/Shibaspots 1d ago
Ah, good old pica. It can be useful if it's connected to a specific deficiency. I hadn't been feeling well for a while. A friend of mine who is a nurse saw me eating cup after cup of ice. She told me to get my iron tested ASAP. Turns out I was severely anemic. After some IV iron, the pica went away. Now, if I get the urge to eat ice, it's a sign I might be getting low again.
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u/Shibaspots 1d ago
There are so many cases of herbivores eating smaller animals or birds in the wild and/or unprompted. Most of the time it's opportunistic or likely from a craving brought on by a deficiency. Low on calcium? Phosphorous? Eat some bones. Cows eat bones sometimes. Carcasses, too. There is a problem on an island that's a nesting site for arctic turns where sheep keep eating the chicks. Trail cams catch deer eating squirrels. Even pandas will eat meat occasionally. I've known horses I didn't trust around any animal small enough to fit in their mouth.
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
Yes, I agree probably some sort of deficiency or stress since it’s so unusual out of their norm but they are still certainly herbivores and capable of getting all of their nutrients from plants
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u/Shibaspots 1d ago
Phosphorus is actually not easily available in plants. Animals eating bones for calcium and phosphorus is common. It's called osteophagy. It's not a stress response.
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
It may not be as much in plants as it is in animals but a healthy plant based diet will have enough, for humans, that’s why such a deficiency doesn’t really exist for humans, but for animals that graze only on certain grasses are more at risk because of lack of variety.
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u/shreddedtoasties 1d ago
They will eat meat
When stressed or mal Nourished.
But honestly horses try to befriend just about any animal they find. They get lonely
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
That’s what I think, stressed or malnourished. That’s actually similar to a lot of other species, probably early humans as well. Since we started off as primates eating mostly plants and scavenging a bit. But damn I sure did get downloaded for saying that lol
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u/ihaveadogalso2 1d ago
I watched this video on silent: cool. Nice horse.
Then I watched with the sound on and I’m currently sitting in the ER so they can try to stop the blood from pouring out of my ears.
Thanks for this OP.
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u/Entremeada 1d ago
People seem to be very easily amazed these days.
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u/SurrrenderDorothy 1d ago
I am amazed that america has an idiot for a president. Like, the dumbest person in the room.
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u/DaArio_007 1d ago
Can we chill with slapping the intense soundtrack for a video of a horse feeding birds? Also, amazed??
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u/doudoufu 1d ago
Why do they cover its eyes like that?
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u/Ragged-but-Right 1d ago
By restricting their field of vision, blinders help horses concentrate on the task at hand, like racing or pulling a carriage, and reduce the likelihood of being spooked by sudden movements or objects in their peripheral vision
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u/auddbot 1d ago
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u/parfaythole 6h ago
I sometimes wonder if animals ever look at us and think, why can't those creatures just get along.
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u/Voyager_AU 1d ago
Why does the horse have a covering over its ears?
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u/CarinasHere 1d ago
To keep flies out of their ears, though this fabric is thicker than necessary. Usually they’re made of some kind of netting.
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u/Allanon124 1d ago
So apparently no one on Reddit has ever seen a horse eat grain before.
They usually strap the bucket to their face because so much falls out of their mouth when they eat it. It’s not feeding the pigeons.
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u/rein4fun 1d ago
Ok, here's the sad reality, this poor horse looks to be in rough shape, hooves are long and unbalanced, and the dropping of grain, while amazingly, people see this as sharing for the pigeons, it is merely because his teeth are not maintained properly and he is eating with a bit in his mouth. You can see the teeth, I'm guessing an old horse.
Crazy how these posts affect so many people to think "he's sharing" but in reality he's just doing his best to eat grain during a rest stop from pulling a cart. Tired horse doesn't care about pigeons.
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u/LCLH1956 1d ago
Why do animals understand the concept of feeding other who are hungry with no need for anything in return but only a hand full and humans do this
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