if she was really scared, she would put up more than a deterrent pecking. You know how they have the ability to fly away and use their claws right? If this animal was truly upset, it wouldn’t stay there. It would grab its child and leave.
I'd have said that was a tawny frogmouths. I've grown up with them on my childhood farm. Never seen a photo but it doesn't look like the pictures I've seen of them.
I don't think this is wildlife. That's not a baby of the same species, unless it's AI; it looks like two different species (usually young birds are the same size as adults by the time they have real feathers). So I'm ASSUMING captive. Or AI.
there’s nothing wrong with interacting with wildlife, as long as you interact with the proper wildlife and in the proper way. It’s different when throngs of tourist come in and start messing with wildlife but one person on a trail isn’t gonna do any harm.
only certain animals get stressed out and only certain animals leave their young behind. And it’s not as easy as you think to get an animal to abandon it’s young. humans are gonna have to interact with animals, no matter what, we are invading their spaces and taking over their homes. Stopping to pet a bird you know isn’t a raptor or a rarity of an animal shouldn’t be hated on.
Your mommy told you that so you would stop fucking with the critters. Animals don't ACTUALLY abandon their young. Try using Google before sounding stupid online.
Rest of your info is in general the safe option for animal and human, but exceptions exist.
Are you able to tell that this is the proper interaction with the proper wildlife? That there is no stress involved? I bet not. Rule of thumb remains to leave wildlife alone, they have more than enough to deal with already to not add stupid humans wanting some buzz
I'm going to assert that unless you're trained and experienced in handling wildlife (and not just at the front end of the Dinning Kruger effect) the only proper way to handle wildlife is with your eyes
i’m gonna say now that’s not always correct. Sometimes you have to deal with wildlife in your own backyard. Sometimes you have to deal with it while you’re hiking being afraid of it isn’t an answer being smart and mature about it is key.
My guy, the special circumstances are obviously a thing apart from accosting the bird like in this post. Part of being smart and mature is recognizing a generality in a general context and not muddying a good baseline to be the most correctest person in a room of like-minded individuals.
The fact that you think this bird was accosted, that tells me you know nothing about dealing with wildlife. You don’t know if this guy knew anything about those birds you don’t know what he knows. There’s nothing wrong with gentle interactions with nature. The fact that you think interacting with nature means that you are hurting some animal that says a lot, maybe stay out of conversation conversations that deal with animals and nature.
I disagree, we offered dogs food until they were comfortable enough to tolerate being touched in exchange for that food, and then eventually they started to like it. That's entirely different than going up to an animal in their habitat and touching them, assuming they like it (which is really just our selfish projection), when in reality they're terrified because they did not have weeks or months to get used to our presence and learn that we were not a threat.
Actually - we did not offer that food.. it was more a "throw the bones" out of the camp - and there they lurked situation. Alarming when others came- and then going on hunts with us, realizing we could cooperate - as in they track and surrund, we rush in and finnish off. Natural allies ever after that..
Well at first it'll go badly but after lots of time the wolves will become comfortable, and then eventually after generations they'll be tame around humans and we can domesticate them. You know, EXACTLY THE THING YOU'RE REPLYING TO LIKE IT ISN'T CURRENTLY EXPERIENCED, ACTIVELY OCCURRING HISTORICAL FACT. Moron.
ProfessorBanesworth
I see at least a couple scars on their hand and I think I can safely assume how they got them.
YippeeKayakOB
Leave it alone!
oozabooza
i always updoot birbs
AzgarOgly
How to stress out the wild animal for your own amusement.
davebarton315101
I always want to, I never do?
Debberz
Maybe just don’t?
huffnpuff72
There's a couple of tawny frogmouths in a tree at work. They sit there all day completely motionless. Leave them alone.
HumanFromPlanetEarth
Just trying to show baby how to birb
Exyr
Potoo
oldsweaty
What if you leave them alone? Observe from a respectful distance.
Wtf is wrong with people.
davebarton315101
How DARRE you!
BubblesTheFish
Wood you look at that.
fskn
Clearly a muppet.
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RecurringNightmare
nah, all birdies love scitches...these birdies just dont know that yet...
BrusselSpout
No, the reply is: LEAVE THE WILDLIFE ALONE, you selfish bastard
RecurringNightmare
fuck you!
VissyIngViking
The dang hint is just not getting through to someone.
TheFastpaws
This person is a jerk. They clearly want to be left alone.
Sidewaysgts
“Don’t pet the trees” - that tree
michaelfire
Mom doesn't want to leave beebee. You're scaring them! STAAAP! Don't mess with the wildlife idjitt.
UsertubeBandwagon
if she was really scared, she would put up more than a deterrent pecking. You know how they have the ability to fly away and use their claws right? If this animal was truly upset, it wouldn’t stay there. It would grab its child and leave.
michaelfire
Fight or flight...relying on camo and freeze/fear and beebee may be too big for her to flee with
aShogunNamedMarcus
So soft, want to touch the hiney
IWillFigureOutAWittyNameLater
SuperfluousMeh
Imagine it's getting dusk, and you're walking home with the evening's kill, and suddenly a stump cracks an eye open and looks at you 😂
salunatics
Potoo birb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
mrshihtzu
rare time I wish the pokemon name rule was in effect. Bird call goes "Poe-Tooo!"
TheDoctorAzAJ
i think that’s a tawny frogmouth from australia?
smashpro1
Potoos are the ones that look upwards to camouflage themselves.
cosinewave
Nightjars - they scoop up flying bugs in the early evening hours and are key to controlling insect populations.
blackstone459
I think those are tawny frogmouths, they have wider faces like that
NuArcher
I'd have said that was a tawny frogmouths. I've grown up with them on my childhood farm. Never seen a photo but it doesn't look like the pictures I've seen of them.
smashpro1
I think they are Potoos. They perch upright on tree stumps during the day.
Aranon1183
No. The plumage is wrong. Tawny Frogmouths have two thin white bands. That mama doesn't have those. It's a Potoo.
cosinewave
Nightjars in general have that morphology. Not all are that extreme.
chewballs
Don't touch wildlife, WTF is wrong with people
raberscoob
Chill out dude.
Feralkyn
I don't think this is wildlife. That's not a baby of the same species, unless it's AI; it looks like two different species (usually young birds are the same size as adults by the time they have real feathers). So I'm ASSUMING captive. Or AI.
NuArcher
It looks roughly what I remember a young frogmouth looks like. That said, while I've seen plenty of tawny frogmouths, I've only ever seen one young.
BeaverOnFire
UsertubeBandwagon
there’s nothing wrong with interacting with wildlife, as long as you interact with the proper wildlife and in the proper way. It’s different when throngs of tourist come in and start messing with wildlife but one person on a trail isn’t gonna do any harm.
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UsertubeBandwagon
only certain animals get stressed out and only certain animals leave their young behind. And it’s not as easy as you think to get an animal to abandon it’s young. humans are gonna have to interact with animals, no matter what, we are invading their spaces and taking over their homes. Stopping to pet a bird you know isn’t a raptor or a rarity of an animal shouldn’t be hated on.
jasondeslin
Your mommy told you that so you would stop fucking with the critters. Animals don't ACTUALLY abandon their young. Try using Google before sounding stupid online.
Rest of your info is in general the safe option for animal and human, but exceptions exist.
pullingsixty
Actually, the scent of human on their babies thing is a myth. Been debunked for some years now.
spooksterz
Are you able to tell that this is the proper interaction with the proper wildlife? That there is no stress involved? I bet not. Rule of thumb remains to leave wildlife alone, they have more than enough to deal with already to not add stupid humans wanting some buzz
UsertubeBandwagon
as someone who has interacted with wildlife my entire life yes you should be able to figure that out by your common sense.
spooksterz
In the gif that you see, what elements make you that it's ok, that my common sense should have identified then ?
RufusPimperton
I'm going to assert that unless you're trained and experienced in handling wildlife (and not just at the front end of the Dinning Kruger effect) the only proper way to handle wildlife is with your eyes
UsertubeBandwagon
i’m gonna say now that’s not always correct. Sometimes you have to deal with wildlife in your own backyard. Sometimes you have to deal with it while you’re hiking being afraid of it isn’t an answer being smart and mature about it is key.
RufusPimperton
My guy, the special circumstances are obviously a thing apart from accosting the bird like in this post. Part of being smart and mature is recognizing a generality in a general context and not muddying a good baseline to be the most correctest person in a room of like-minded individuals.
UsertubeBandwagon
The fact that you think this bird was accosted, that tells me you know nothing about dealing with wildlife. You don’t know if this guy knew anything about those birds you don’t know what he knows. There’s nothing wrong with gentle interactions with nature. The fact that you think interacting with nature means that you are hurting some animal that says a lot, maybe stay out of conversation conversations that deal with animals and nature.
johnxbear
It's literally how we have dogs as pets.
esparadrapo
You mean how we ruined wolves?
Snooj
It's literally not.
AshenShugarSH
We are not cave men trying to survive we know better, LEAVE THE WILDLIFE ALONE
GOAE
I disagree, we offered dogs food until they were comfortable enough to tolerate being touched in exchange for that food, and then eventually they started to like it. That's entirely different than going up to an animal in their habitat and touching them, assuming they like it (which is really just our selfish projection), when in reality they're terrified because they did not have weeks or months to get used to our presence and learn that we were not a threat.
RufusPimperton
The death of ego is realizing animal don't want to kill or cuddle you.
PicassoCT
Actually - we did not offer that food.. it was more a "throw the bones" out of the camp - and there they lurked situation. Alarming when others came- and then going on hunts with us, realizing we could cooperate - as in they track and surrund, we rush in and finnish off. Natural allies ever after that..
firlefranz
chewballs
go pet a wolf tell me how that gos for you
johnxbear
Go be stupid somewhere else
fubizdaddie
Well at first it'll go badly but after lots of time the wolves will become comfortable, and then eventually after generations they'll be tame around humans and we can domesticate them. You know, EXACTLY THE THING YOU'RE REPLYING TO LIKE IT ISN'T CURRENTLY EXPERIENCED, ACTIVELY OCCURRING HISTORICAL FACT. Moron.
chewballs
You know that's not how that works right, what your describing is just dumb people feeding themselves to wild animals not evolution
Deshalope
I reckon if you were to go and pet a wild wolf the story would stop somewhere around "it'll go badly".