I just looked it up apparently pigeons are very intelligent for instance one of the very few animals that understand a mirror
Nah it's legit living in cities that have fricked them up. They're incredibly smart at random non-bird things like learning human patterns/behaviours but actual bird shit they evolved to need are now only left there as an evolutionary hangover. Pigeons are meant to live on mountains/cliffsides, they naturally use cliff edges and rock formations as part of their nest but in a city they gotta cope with concrete and metal and whatever there is as a replacement. If you have a pet pigeon it mistakes bricks for seaside cliff-rock. Bird was never meant to separate from nature.
Remind you of any animal that have also fricked up their natural urges?
I refuse to believe they were always this fricking moronic. It must be some kind of environmental toxins fricking them up or something.
that's how evolution works. How many tiny frogs died before the two species came to this arrangement? How many remoras were killed by sharks? How many oxpeckers were killed by hippos?
Animals don't have a guidebook. They have instinct, but instincts aren't perfect and there's always variation within a population.
Most of the times those who don't have the same instincts die off, but some times it works and they survive and their lack of instinct becomes a new instinct for the new generations.
Maybe in the future there will be a species of city pigeon that nests in falcon's nests and keeps it clean from parasites and safe from crows and other dangers while the falcons are out hunting.
Or maybe all the pigeons who try this will get killed off and it will never become a thing.
no. The tarantulas don't really understand that the frogs protect their eggs. They just lack the instinct to attack those specific frogs, but they do attack other very similar species, probably because this trait is beneficial to these tarantulas and got passed on
>Maybe in the future there will be a species of city pigeon that nests in falcon's nests and keeps it clean from parasites
Pigeons shit more than any other bird, shit brings parasites and infections. Their presence in another bird's nest is purely detrimental
>friend has attic room >can hear pigeons roosting in the walls >one day council show up to "fix" the problem >they seal up the entrance on the outside >hearing faint hoot hooing for a couple days and then silence
Grim
Reminds me of when vultures were causing trouble at the now abandoned Discovery Island in Disney World in the 80s. Disney got some workers to trap 200 of them, crammed them all into a small cabin and then a couple of workers went in and beat them all to death with a stick:
Nah it's legit living in cities that have fricked them up. They're incredibly smart at random non-bird things like learning human patterns/behaviours but actual bird shit they evolved to need are now only left there as an evolutionary hangover. Pigeons are meant to live on mountains/cliffsides, they naturally use cliff edges and rock formations as part of their nest but in a city they gotta cope with concrete and metal and whatever there is as a replacement. If you have a pet pigeon it mistakes bricks for seaside cliff-rock. Bird was never meant to separate from nature.
Remind you of any animal that have also fricked up their natural urges?
Meanwhile crows figured out that they crap drop nuts on the road and have cars conveniently break them open.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NenEdSuL7QU
Pigeons are descendants of rock doves which lay eggs on cliff sides. All the eggs need is a flat surface and a few sticks to stop them rolling off the cliff
one time my friend grabbed a pigeon that was in his chicken coop, then dunked it in water to make it all wet, then put it in his (not burning) fire pit cage thing and it got all covered in soot and ash and looked really stupid to all his pigeon friends because he was all sooty and dirty
I work at a trucking place and the drivers run them over if they see one when they're bringing a truck into/out of the yard and everyone thinks they're based for doing it, even the nice old ladies in the office.
part of prey instinct is expecting the thing you eat to run away from you. If it doesn't run then something isn't right and you suspect it's not prey/can fight back
This got moved here from Wauf, incase you're curious Wauf
frick jannies
oh no the locals are going to make fun of us now
>go to watch vid
>see Hebrew channel title
You didn't get me this time.
>shitdgeons
AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST
Leave pidgies alone.
Pigeons are the rats of the sky
only third worlders repeat things like this
Third worlders love pigeons, it's westerners that hate pigeons
No they're not. They're sweet and don't bother anyone.
>t. I live in NYC.
you're the rat of the internet
Lot of asshurt pidgeon frickers
and what's wrong with rats?
one called me fat once
I just looked it up apparently pigeons are very intelligent for instance one of the very few animals that understand a mirror
Can understand a mirror but can't understand walking to a predators nest is a bad idea.
that's how evolution works. How many tiny frogs died before the two species came to this arrangement? How many remoras were killed by sharks? How many oxpeckers were killed by hippos?
Animals don't have a guidebook. They have instinct, but instincts aren't perfect and there's always variation within a population.
Most of the times those who don't have the same instincts die off, but some times it works and they survive and their lack of instinct becomes a new instinct for the new generations.
Maybe in the future there will be a species of city pigeon that nests in falcon's nests and keeps it clean from parasites and safe from crows and other dangers while the falcons are out hunting.
Or maybe all the pigeons who try this will get killed off and it will never become a thing.
Does the spider eat the frog after its eggs hatch and it has no need for it anymore?
no. The tarantulas don't really understand that the frogs protect their eggs. They just lack the instinct to attack those specific frogs, but they do attack other very similar species, probably because this trait is beneficial to these tarantulas and got passed on
>Maybe in the future there will be a species of city pigeon that nests in falcon's nests and keeps it clean from parasites
Pigeons shit more than any other bird, shit brings parasites and infections. Their presence in another bird's nest is purely detrimental
Pigeons seem really autistic, devilishly smart at certain things but completely moronic at most other ones.
Even a dog can understand a mirror given enough consistent exposure
>friend has attic room
>can hear pigeons roosting in the walls
>one day council show up to "fix" the problem
>they seal up the entrance on the outside
>hearing faint hoot hooing for a couple days and then silence
Grim
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!
YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Reminds me of when vultures were causing trouble at the now abandoned Discovery Island in Disney World in the 80s. Disney got some workers to trap 200 of them, crammed them all into a small cabin and then a couple of workers went in and beat them all to death with a stick:
https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1989/09/24/Disney-abused-killed-birds/6412622612800/
>enjoy the smell of rotting pigeons bro
Hopefully they did what they do in Brazil for bats. They put an exit the bat can leave but not enter so eventually all bats leave. Otherwise
I refuse to believe they were always this fricking moronic. It must be some kind of environmental toxins fricking them up or something.
Animals are fricking morons. They rely on instinct so if something triggers a nesting response they'll go right ahead.
Nah it's legit living in cities that have fricked them up. They're incredibly smart at random non-bird things like learning human patterns/behaviours but actual bird shit they evolved to need are now only left there as an evolutionary hangover. Pigeons are meant to live on mountains/cliffsides, they naturally use cliff edges and rock formations as part of their nest but in a city they gotta cope with concrete and metal and whatever there is as a replacement. If you have a pet pigeon it mistakes bricks for seaside cliff-rock. Bird was never meant to separate from nature.
Remind you of any animal that have also fricked up their natural urges?
Meanwhile crows figured out that they crap drop nuts on the road and have cars conveniently break them open.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NenEdSuL7QU
Yeah, me
Pigeons are descendants of rock doves which lay eggs on cliff sides. All the eggs need is a flat surface and a few sticks to stop them rolling off the cliff
We domesticated them and made them stupid, then abandoned them.
that baby's gonna come out fricked up
>they call him
>giblets berserk
one time my friend grabbed a pigeon that was in his chicken coop, then dunked it in water to make it all wet, then put it in his (not burning) fire pit cage thing and it got all covered in soot and ash and looked really stupid to all his pigeon friends because he was all sooty and dirty
that pigeon will never work in Hollywood again
he got elected as the prime minister of canada instead
My favorite one is how I keep finding these small eggs, apparently pigeons dont even build a nest
Pigeons are cute.
I wanna put that cone ontop of it so bad
I keep having to do this with plovers at my job. Even stupider than pigeons.
FRICK PLOVERS
I work at a trucking place and the drivers run them over if they see one when they're bringing a truck into/out of the yard and everyone thinks they're based for doing it, even the nice old ladies in the office.
>is your roundmeal really worth it?
DAVIS
kek'd hard thanks anon
>israel
have a nice day phoBlack person
Post the link next time ffs
thanks king
what the FRICK is wrong with those owlets.
me on the top left
What do you mean? That's how they look homie. Baby birds are ugly af.
Also, they're all the same age. Big ones are the bullies who hog all the foid, small ones are betas.
They're normal
Under those pretty feathers is something rather horrifying. Actual alien goblins
I was kind of hoping they'd just chill until the mother owl started kicking ass 🙁
The father would have done that too but the state would put him in jail if he defended his children.
Wow, the mom owl accidentalyy stomps one of her babies to death during the fight 🙁
It was a shitty weak one, was gonna die anyway.
I like the sequel where baby owls beat the shit out of a pigeon themselves.
>the sequel where baby owls beat the shit out of a pigeon themselves.
Link?
Wasn't that an episode of regular show
Did the owl get cucked?
Is this the one where one of the baby owls grows up and kills all the local pigeons out of hatred
Pigeons are fricking moronic
I like the fat one.
What kind of a nest do you expect them to make in a city with close to no natural resources? They're trying their best.
Need mora dem programs
Ought to be plenty of trash littered everywhere.
Crows use fricking clothes hangers, no excuses.
Also they're clearly very successful, hence why we have so much of them
thats a good wiener
>pecks her at the end for no good reason
based
Pecked her for being a shit mom and not sitting on her egg.
>the hen goes on to draw a comic about this incident
reminds me of this
Women who wear these types of glasses are always the worst
it's the yellow, if they wear yellow, that's how you know you're dealing with a real fricking douche
Tell me about it
Jesus, they don't even have the sense to stay away from their natural predators. Even ants are more intelligent.
Before that nest another pigeon came in and just decided to walts into the nest if the falcon and look for nesting material. Falcon nearly kills it.
Pigeons literally have 0 fear.
>hello... what noooooooooo aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh save me!
>Pigeons literally have 0 fear.
and 0 brain cells
He just peacefully knocked on that door and that cracker bird almost killed him
Yet they're more successful than all their natural predators combined
Like like how even egagle has mix of conffusion and beeing ofended.
>Are you serious? Are you that moronic? >You...You are mocking me aren't you?
part of prey instinct is expecting the thing you eat to run away from you. If it doesn't run then something isn't right and you suspect it's not prey/can fight back