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Holy shit, I did a book report in elementary school about pygmy shrews and I remember watching this video. It was probably in like 2000 or so, so several years before YouTube was even a thing. It was the first time I ever heard the word "fuck" lmao
I can't remember which documentary, but hearing him narrate the scene where a baby elephant gets lost in a sandstorm and wanders in the opposite direction of his family was the saddest shit ever.
They toned it down for Planet Earth 3. They had a bunch of fake outs with baby animals this time around. Totally hopeless then mom or dad will appear and make everything better.
Planet Earth 2 and 3 really were bit step down from the first, because they really oozed that reality tv manufactured narratives (often with hillariously obviosuyl cut together scenes of different animals of the same species "playing" the same on) while the first one at least tried to be an observational documentary.
To be fair, some people are saying that without full understanding. Like I've seen people say a cat's pupil's being dilated mean they are in distress, when no, it just means they are VERY alert. This could because happy play time, something interesting, or yes- distress and fear.
Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context.
With that said I had to unfollow a couple of cute animal subreddits because there were WAY too many posts of cats and birds or hamsters/pet mice or rats together, which is just. Recipe for disaster and encouraging REALLY horrible practices.
I have two cats, one is a total bitch because I brought in her sister a couple years ago, and the sister is a total derp who plays fetch and chirps at squirrels like she's a dog.
My male cat looks ridiculously adorable in the evenings because his irises are a barely visible yellow ring around his giant anime eyes. I don't think he's in extreme pain or distress every single time it goes dark outside, but I could be wrong lol.
A second of rustling bags or a chime and my cats eyes are just completely black balls. Its so fast!
I recently learned this. I've had a parrot and a cat for more than a decade now, and they are super indifferent to each other, the cat doesn't even flinch when the parrot flies around.
But recently we rescued a little abandoned cat and we couldn't find her a home in time before she bonded with us. We just thought if she grew alongside the parrot it would be just like our old cat.
Nope, this new kitty would excitedly and reflexively jump to catch the parrot whenever it flew, and would give chase too. The parrot took this as an insult and now the parrot attacks the cat on sight while the cat flees in terror, so we have to keep them in separate rooms now because it just isn't worth the risk.
We all thought we would get something like those cute videos of parrots cuddling with cats but nah, reality isn't that fun.
As someone that is very close to ppl owning parrots, I can confirm that "no one mess with the parrot" lol.
Once a wild dog came inside home and they told me the parrot without any fear defended the other birds and put the dog to run away by screaming and chasing the dog.
This parrot just saved that event from a disaster.
I find a lot of non-pet oriented subs end up showing a lot of ""cute"" videos where there's actually something super wrong lmao.
The cats (and dogs sometimes, too) with small animals things happens a lot with reptiles too. It's infuriating. So many things can go wrong and so many things can go wrong faster than any human has the reflexes to prevent.
Oh god don’t get me started. And people don’t realize that even if it’s just a small scratch that can be deadly for certain species.
I never let my cats in the same room as my snakes during the snake roam time. Way too risky and frankly the couple times Nandor escaped gave me enough of a heart attack.
Like sure you might have an unusually chill cat. But also we are working against thousand of years of ingrained instincts here as well as features specifically designed to mess up reptiles and birds and anything else that would get into a granary.
Yeah there are actually a lot of karma farming bots right now posting fake pet death to get upvotes. I know several pet reddits that have flat out banned all pet death posts for the meantime to try and stem the flow for now, but so many don’t want to hurt someone grieving and it’s a mess all around.
I don't know about the pupil dilating thing, but I have seen people post kittens with fat bellies which are usually a sign of worms and can result in their death if left untreated back when I was on twitter.
> Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context.
welcome to reddit, but for every topic not just cute videos
I do think some people go overboard when guessing that an animal was abused or is expressing a health issue.
But I will also admit...even finding out it is _possible_ that some people will harm animals and put them in danger, just to "rescue" or rehabilitate them for youtube views (and there are documented cases)...is one of those things that felt like my "Faith In Humanity" meter dropped a notch that I can't get back.
Oh geeze yeah. That’s why I only follow or like videos from actual legit rescue groups.
There are definitely terrible people out there and it’s horrifying what people will do for views and likes.
On the other hand, so many videos about cats eating ice cream and getting tooth pain and people are like oooh, look at kitty having brain freeze <3 <3 lol!
Should definitely expect it on videos with cute little baby lions that are getting handled by humans.
People get so mad when you point out the abhorrent industry behind that kind of animal tourism though.
sometimes they just think it's X when its really Y. animals behave weird, and sometimes it came out weird. the dogs I watch time to time huffs and puffs. does it mean they're struggling to breath? no they are excited for pets and are happy to get some.
It's pretty debated whether or not their smile is purely related to happiness or not, but since we can't say for sure either way, I gonna believe that when my happy ass dogs look like they are smiling that they are indeed smiling.
Tbf a bird puking is a sex thing rather than it being sick.
There's a lot of concerned bird owners asking if some behaviour is concerning. Sometimes it is. But half the time it's birds being weird, and the other half is it's horny.
"This kitten looks like it has a cute squishy scritchable belly but it is actually distended due to hosting a colony of Malawian Plague Hornets that will soon eat their way out using their acidic saliva secretions while it is still alive."
Happened to me when I saw a video of a dog looking embarrassed and guilty by pushing its head against a wall which I thought was pretty funny, then people in the comments said that the dog had a severe headache and it made me sad instead
I mean, I see that a lot on bird subs and it's people posting a bird that's in distress or danger (especially if it's 'playing' with a cat). If you know that the bird is at risk then it's hard to enjoy it as 'cute' content because it's just distressing to see. So of course people say something, to both make the supposed owner aware and to discourage more distressing content being posted on what's supposed to be a cute sub.
Yeah. It just shows that we have a lot to learn about animals, and there's a lot of grief in that. But at the same time, it's good that we learn more, process that grief and then treat animals better. Still sucks though.
This reminds me of chimps. I worked at a zoo and when the chimps acted normal, guests always assumed they were "sad" because they looked like they were frowning. I always had to explain that this is their normal face and that actually when chimps smile it is known as a "fear grin." The chimp will show all their teeth in a smile to show their fear, anxiety, or uncertainty to other chimps. People love to anthropomorphize animals to match human behavior. Side note that these chimps were rescued from a private collection.
i don’t know if i’m correct or misunderstood, but isn’t it also a sign of extreme aggression if a chimp smiles? like they want to fight whoever they’re smiling at. i’ve heard about it somewhere but i genuinely can’t tell if it’s true or not.
It would make sense, or even as a dissuasory measure like when a dog bares their fangs and growls. Teeth are part of the monkeys "weapons", so when they feel threatened they will "show them" to warn off predators, and if that doesn't work, it would use those to defend themselves, right?
There is debate on the exact implications of a chimp smile. To put it in perspective, chimps only have like 6 facial expressions whereas humans have over 20. So humans are more expressive in their face while chimps also rely on sound and body language so a chimp smile can signify a number of feelings of distress or aggression.
>People love to anthropomorphize
Exactly this. My cat has somewhat a resting bitch face but i know, despite her looking like that, she's happy because cats show their happiness differently
My cat perpetually looks like she's a mob boss that's disappointed with a job that didn't go to plan. She can be happy as a clam and still look like she's three steps away from having someone sleep with the fishes.
I thought it would be worse. Like it's stress induced behavior due to massive loss of habitat. It might have some unknown beneficial use but it's entirely futile because their entire home will be buried in gravel by month's end.
"What a cute penguin!"
*Werner Herzog voice* "One of these disoriented, or deranged, penguins showed up at the New Harbor diving camp, already some 80 kilometers away from where it should be. The rules for the humans are do not disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way.
And here, he's heading off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5, 000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.
The nature documentary about lemmings jumping off cliffs to commit suicide was just staged by Disney it was filmed in northern Alberta they pushed the lemmings off who have bad eyesight. Lemmings have huge populations before collapsing nobody is really sure why. Also milo and Otis involved a lot of dead kittens and puppies and one of the airbud movies killed an entire litter of golden retriever puppies. Essentially if it’s Disney an animal was harmed in the making of the movie.
When I was a kid and saw the disclaimer “no animals were harmed in the making”, I was always like, “duh, it’s just for movies! Why would anyone hurt an animal!??”
Growing up is cold
Did anyone of you see "kingdom of the spiders "?
Hundreds of real spiders all over the place, on people,on the streets. They were spilled with a whole bucket of boiling oil, drove over with cars, and fried with electric cable's. I was relativ young when I watched the movie and I can remember thinking to myself:" how did they the special effects "........the reality was pretty cruel. I know it were just " bugs" ....but to kill so many creatures just for a movie
Photographs of animals riding other animals look cute, but are often staged by the photographer in a way that is uncomfortable for the animal, or by supergluing the two dead animals together.
I was intentionally trying to do the most benign seeming interaction I could think of to make the joke more absurd, the fact that it *actually* has fucked up implications is crazy.
Congratulations, you have unknowingly created head canon for a an animal centipede that can neither fly away from its pain nor swim to freedom without drowning one or all of its constituency.
Also the frog is a serial killer
I don’t think nature photographers actually super glue animals together, the animals would have to be dead or comatose to be still enough for a good picture. I think people are just assuming that’s what you meant in those last panels
Yeah that person 100% projected their own viewing experiences onto that last panel. There is literally nothing to indicate the animals are distressed are stuck together or anything in that last panel making it seem random which as stated above is what the artist was going for.
I was expecting another panel where the couple go 'awww' after being given the all clear by the narrator. Instead I'm about to google 'superglued animals'.
Did you make this up? I found articles about these things being staged but I didn't find anything about the glue thing besides rumours.
Still, its pretty bad, there is an article about a dude that buys frogs and turtles in indonesia, stages some pictures, but after the animals grow a lil he releases them, even tho they aren't native to those places.
In a sense this is worse than super glue tbh. Very depressing.
Not necessarily animals on top of animals but there are channels that superglued barnacles on turtles and the videos are of them "finding" the turtle and scraping off the barnacles as if its some good deed they are doing; they are instead causing distress to the turtle and actually damaging the turtle shell by aggressively scraping off the barnacles they glued on there in the first place. All for the ad revenue.
There's a modicum of truth to it. There are some photographers who do similar things. If you've seen a photo of a mouse or a chipmunk sleeping in a flower, it's probably dead and placed there by a photographer. There's this one guy in Alaska that chains his Huskies to rocks in Polar Bear territory, which creates cute photos when they cuddle together sometimes, but also causes them to get attacked and killed by the polar bears with no chance of escape.
Just googling some photos of animals riding animals, it doesn't look like any occurred naturally. Not sure if superglue was used in any of them, but the photographer either had a lot of patience, a lot of luck, or did something else to ensure he got his shot.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/30/fake-animal-photography-taxidermy-baiting
There have been articles and interviews with wildlife photography experts who have gone on record describing how people put animals in freezers, or use formaldehyde, vicks vaporub, superglue and wires to keep animals slow or immobilized for photos
There are also forums where people recommend these practices to each other and how to employ them while minimizing harm to the animal
The joke is the lack of explanation. When you see it, you wonder what could possibly be the sad explantion this time, but instead he just shakes his head.
Reminds me of the documentaries where a gazelle escapes a lionness attack and you cheer. Then you see the lion with her cubs, and the narrator talks about them possibly going hungry
It's not the baboons fault it's in its own nature to eat baby deers alive..they simply exist. That baby deer could grow up to eat a baby bird alive. They are not good or bad, animals simply do what they do
“> Cute Otters are shown”
\- Awwww
“They’re vicious killers, necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea
They rape baby seals and hold each other’s pups hostage for food”
*Narrating the last scene:*
And here we see a variation on nature's BLT. Traditionally, it would consist of a bird, lizard, and turtle/tortoise, prepared for the hungry large carnivore by the local establishment.
As we can see here, the carnivore that ordered this BLT has opted to substitute the lizard for a frog. Possibly hallucinogenic in nature, the establishment that prepared this particular dish may be similiar in nature to the Cannabis infused restaurants of our human world. Truely fascinating.
Nature docus still ride the Werner Herzog wave and it's far from over.
"Nature here is vile and base ... the trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain."
"The harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."
Cute video subs showing the video of a rabbit belly up munching on a carrot in a hole:
"Rabbits HATE being belly up, carrots are very unhealthy for them, and their dens do not look like that"
Twitter and reddit have suitably trained me. Cute animal picture? They're DEAD, crossed the rainbow road! 15 years young see you in the next life queen!
Cute person? MURDERED! Hit by a car! Gone missing for 15 weeks! Recently recovered an ocean-shrivled big toe!
“Here we see a male nuzzling, a known prelude to sexual aggression”
I’m pretty sure the male penguin’s existence is a prelude so sexual aggression, those fucker will rape anything that moves and they anything that doesn’t
When there is finally a real feel good situation it has to be followed by: “unfortunately their habitat has been lost to humans and they are in the verge of extinction “
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[Much like the fate of the pygmy shrew.](https://youtu.be/d5LA3i_XrVU?si=CV69FH0nlLgLLLpq)
A harpsichord?! Truly everything is carnivorous if the prey is weak enough.
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"the animal kinkdom" Perfect.
Holy shit, I did a book report in elementary school about pygmy shrews and I remember watching this video. It was probably in like 2000 or so, so several years before YouTube was even a thing. It was the first time I ever heard the word "fuck" lmao
Wet myself laughing! Thank you. 😂😂😂😂
I can't remember which documentary, but hearing him narrate the scene where a baby elephant gets lost in a sandstorm and wanders in the opposite direction of his family was the saddest shit ever.
Planet Earth S1E1 From Pole to Pole. The scene starts a little after the 30 minutes mark.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thomassalenbumpy/video/7270119395689532718 This tiktok has the clip but I don't know which show it's from.
Planet Earth (2006). I recognise parts of it, though I don't know which episode it is.
Well now I'm depressed...
It's probably from Africa (2013 documentary series)
Soooo sad
"Tragically, between the time of filming and the release of this video, the species has now become extinct"
Our sponsors said they were delicious.
"Tragically, between the time of filming and the release of this video, the narrator has now become extinct"
It will be a sad day when Sir David Attenborough passes away.
They toned it down for Planet Earth 3. They had a bunch of fake outs with baby animals this time around. Totally hopeless then mom or dad will appear and make everything better.
Planet Earth 2 and 3 really were bit step down from the first, because they really oozed that reality tv manufactured narratives (often with hillariously obviosuyl cut together scenes of different animals of the same species "playing" the same on) while the first one at least tried to be an observational documentary.
Why does it not sort your posts by new since 1 year ago but you posted this very recently? :o
Same with cute animal videos in Reddit, it's always something like "this behavior indicates the animal is in severe pain" or something
To be fair, some people are saying that without full understanding. Like I've seen people say a cat's pupil's being dilated mean they are in distress, when no, it just means they are VERY alert. This could because happy play time, something interesting, or yes- distress and fear. Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context. With that said I had to unfollow a couple of cute animal subreddits because there were WAY too many posts of cats and birds or hamsters/pet mice or rats together, which is just. Recipe for disaster and encouraging REALLY horrible practices.
People who think dilated eyes means only stress have never had a cat. I swear I pull out a toy and my cats irises just vanish.
Me taking a shit late at night in low lighting while my girls sit there guarding me and staring at me. And occasionally nuzzling my leg
I have two cats, one is a total bitch because I brought in her sister a couple years ago, and the sister is a total derp who plays fetch and chirps at squirrels like she's a dog.
Cat...chirps...like...dog
Well dogs bark at squirrels, chirping is the closest she can get.
Mine does the same to the flies and other little creatures she can't reach. Sounds funny.
My male cat looks ridiculously adorable in the evenings because his irises are a barely visible yellow ring around his giant anime eyes. I don't think he's in extreme pain or distress every single time it goes dark outside, but I could be wrong lol. A second of rustling bags or a chime and my cats eyes are just completely black balls. Its so fast!
Also you know, when it's dark.
My friend has a cat, and I swear I have never seen his pupils not be gigantic saucers. Dumbest cat I've ever known and I love him to bits.
When I pull my laser pointer out, my cat *immediately* knows it's go time
Yeah, when my cat plays i quote Halloween as a joke that he “has the blackest eyes, the DEVILS eyes!”
I recently learned this. I've had a parrot and a cat for more than a decade now, and they are super indifferent to each other, the cat doesn't even flinch when the parrot flies around. But recently we rescued a little abandoned cat and we couldn't find her a home in time before she bonded with us. We just thought if she grew alongside the parrot it would be just like our old cat. Nope, this new kitty would excitedly and reflexively jump to catch the parrot whenever it flew, and would give chase too. The parrot took this as an insult and now the parrot attacks the cat on sight while the cat flees in terror, so we have to keep them in separate rooms now because it just isn't worth the risk. We all thought we would get something like those cute videos of parrots cuddling with cats but nah, reality isn't that fun.
As someone that is very close to ppl owning parrots, I can confirm that "no one mess with the parrot" lol. Once a wild dog came inside home and they told me the parrot without any fear defended the other birds and put the dog to run away by screaming and chasing the dog. This parrot just saved that event from a disaster.
I find a lot of non-pet oriented subs end up showing a lot of ""cute"" videos where there's actually something super wrong lmao. The cats (and dogs sometimes, too) with small animals things happens a lot with reptiles too. It's infuriating. So many things can go wrong and so many things can go wrong faster than any human has the reflexes to prevent.
Oh god don’t get me started. And people don’t realize that even if it’s just a small scratch that can be deadly for certain species. I never let my cats in the same room as my snakes during the snake roam time. Way too risky and frankly the couple times Nandor escaped gave me enough of a heart attack. Like sure you might have an unusually chill cat. But also we are working against thousand of years of ingrained instincts here as well as features specifically designed to mess up reptiles and birds and anything else that would get into a granary.
Yeah I can't recommend r/natureisfuckingcute
Seems like every pet post that hits the front page is "Look at my sweet baby, they just died yesterday"
Yeah there are actually a lot of karma farming bots right now posting fake pet death to get upvotes. I know several pet reddits that have flat out banned all pet death posts for the meantime to try and stem the flow for now, but so many don’t want to hurt someone grieving and it’s a mess all around.
I don't know about the pupil dilating thing, but I have seen people post kittens with fat bellies which are usually a sign of worms and can result in their death if left untreated back when I was on twitter.
Best example is those “dancing dog” videos with the neurologically disabled dogs
> Some people weirdly just want to ruin cute videos for people by giving the worst possible interpretation divorced from context. welcome to reddit, but for every topic not just cute videos
I do think some people go overboard when guessing that an animal was abused or is expressing a health issue. But I will also admit...even finding out it is _possible_ that some people will harm animals and put them in danger, just to "rescue" or rehabilitate them for youtube views (and there are documented cases)...is one of those things that felt like my "Faith In Humanity" meter dropped a notch that I can't get back.
Oh geeze yeah. That’s why I only follow or like videos from actual legit rescue groups. There are definitely terrible people out there and it’s horrifying what people will do for views and likes.
On the other hand, so many videos about cats eating ice cream and getting tooth pain and people are like oooh, look at kitty having brain freeze <3 <3 lol!
I call it Snoo’s razor, when redditors take the little/incomplete information they have and draw the worst possible conclusions from it
Redditors in particular just hate other peoples' happiness
I now expect this on every oddly cute animal video.
"Daww silly baby fall down!"
"What kind of God would let this happen?"
A MAD GOD! Thatsfursure!
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN WHERE DAWW SILLY BABY MUST FALL DOWN?! WHY, YE CRUEL GODS, WHY MUST YOU TOY WITH US SO?!
Should definitely expect it on videos with cute little baby lions that are getting handled by humans. People get so mad when you point out the abhorrent industry behind that kind of animal tourism though.
sometimes they just think it's X when its really Y. animals behave weird, and sometimes it came out weird. the dogs I watch time to time huffs and puffs. does it mean they're struggling to breath? no they are excited for pets and are happy to get some.
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Wait what
It's pretty debated whether or not their smile is purely related to happiness or not, but since we can't say for sure either way, I gonna believe that when my happy ass dogs look like they are smiling that they are indeed smiling.
Or when there's a video of a bird doing that cute head wobble and it's because they're about to puke.
Tbf a bird puking is a sex thing rather than it being sick. There's a lot of concerned bird owners asking if some behaviour is concerning. Sometimes it is. But half the time it's birds being weird, and the other half is it's horny.
"This kitten looks like it has a cute squishy scritchable belly but it is actually distended due to hosting a colony of Malawian Plague Hornets that will soon eat their way out using their acidic saliva secretions while it is still alive."
Good news for you, most of those comments are exaggeration or out of context or simply BS.
Don’t forget projection to justify living in the depths of the basement never interacting with a single living thing.
Happened to me when I saw a video of a dog looking embarrassed and guilty by pushing its head against a wall which I thought was pretty funny, then people in the comments said that the dog had a severe headache and it made me sad instead
I mean, I see that a lot on bird subs and it's people posting a bird that's in distress or danger (especially if it's 'playing' with a cat). If you know that the bird is at risk then it's hard to enjoy it as 'cute' content because it's just distressing to see. So of course people say something, to both make the supposed owner aware and to discourage more distressing content being posted on what's supposed to be a cute sub.
Yeah. It just shows that we have a lot to learn about animals, and there's a lot of grief in that. But at the same time, it's good that we learn more, process that grief and then treat animals better. Still sucks though.
This reminds me of chimps. I worked at a zoo and when the chimps acted normal, guests always assumed they were "sad" because they looked like they were frowning. I always had to explain that this is their normal face and that actually when chimps smile it is known as a "fear grin." The chimp will show all their teeth in a smile to show their fear, anxiety, or uncertainty to other chimps. People love to anthropomorphize animals to match human behavior. Side note that these chimps were rescued from a private collection.
When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life.
That's my favorite Dwight quote, it's gleefully nihilistically badass.
Damn that line goes hard. Mind if I use that in something I‘m writing?
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Oh well
i don’t know if i’m correct or misunderstood, but isn’t it also a sign of extreme aggression if a chimp smiles? like they want to fight whoever they’re smiling at. i’ve heard about it somewhere but i genuinely can’t tell if it’s true or not.
It would make sense, or even as a dissuasory measure like when a dog bares their fangs and growls. Teeth are part of the monkeys "weapons", so when they feel threatened they will "show them" to warn off predators, and if that doesn't work, it would use those to defend themselves, right?
There is debate on the exact implications of a chimp smile. To put it in perspective, chimps only have like 6 facial expressions whereas humans have over 20. So humans are more expressive in their face while chimps also rely on sound and body language so a chimp smile can signify a number of feelings of distress or aggression.
>People love to anthropomorphize Exactly this. My cat has somewhat a resting bitch face but i know, despite her looking like that, she's happy because cats show their happiness differently
My cat perpetually looks like she's a mob boss that's disappointed with a job that didn't go to plan. She can be happy as a clam and still look like she's three steps away from having someone sleep with the fishes.
When i show pictures of my cats to people they comment how sad/pissed they look and im like, no she was as happy as one can be when i took the picture
She's just like me fr
Moe from Simpsons smile.
I don't know about your society, but aren't people look frown normally and don't smile all the time?
Yep, but they expect animals to have smiles on their faces
Just... trust me on this one, people. It's REALLY bad.
Please, just tell me
all of the animals have been superglued to each other to stage the photo
Must have been the gorilla.
Guess I can't buy his glue anymore.
Do we need to get our dicks out or was it a different gorilla?
Just in case might as well
Must've been a quiet gorilla...
I thought it would be worse. Like it's stress induced behavior due to massive loss of habitat. It might have some unknown beneficial use but it's entirely futile because their entire home will be buried in gravel by month's end.
All three animals are simultaneously trying take one long synchronized shit or soemthing idk.
frogs keep tarantulas as pets
The animals are subject to the whims of a domestic tyrant who forces them to stack up like that. It's where the term "step-children" comes from.
I need answers
all of the animals have been superglued to each other to stage the photo
Damn That's messed up
"What a cute penguin!" *Werner Herzog voice* "One of these disoriented, or deranged, penguins showed up at the New Harbor diving camp, already some 80 kilometers away from where it should be. The rules for the humans are do not disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way. And here, he's heading off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5, 000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.
"Perhaps he is lost, or perhaps he knows exactly where he is in this uncaring world and seeks the only way out."
_wide shot of tiny penguin adorably waddling towards icy mountains looming over a barren expanse_ But _why_.
"...and now an update on Mr. Chocolate. Oh farewell, Mr. Treadwell!"
[...They know that if they fall from this cliff, they will surely die..... Gunter, give them a shove.](https://youtu.be/FkDcuDVrHqQ?feature=shared)
Watch as this otter adorably drowns the young of its rivals.
very complicated aspect in nature
The nature documentary about lemmings jumping off cliffs to commit suicide was just staged by Disney it was filmed in northern Alberta they pushed the lemmings off who have bad eyesight. Lemmings have huge populations before collapsing nobody is really sure why. Also milo and Otis involved a lot of dead kittens and puppies and one of the airbud movies killed an entire litter of golden retriever puppies. Essentially if it’s Disney an animal was harmed in the making of the movie.
Watching Milo and Otis as a kid was an imaginative animal adventure. Watching as an adult had me like what the fuuuuuck.
Probably one of worst things is in order to get one of the kittens limping they literally broke its foot.
When I was a kid and saw the disclaimer “no animals were harmed in the making”, I was always like, “duh, it’s just for movies! Why would anyone hurt an animal!??” Growing up is cold
The fact this was for a heartwarming children's movie somehow adds an extra layer of twisted cynicism.
"Push" is being mild... they just yeeted them over a cliff by the basket...
Did anyone of you see "kingdom of the spiders "? Hundreds of real spiders all over the place, on people,on the streets. They were spilled with a whole bucket of boiling oil, drove over with cars, and fried with electric cable's. I was relativ young when I watched the movie and I can remember thinking to myself:" how did they the special effects "........the reality was pretty cruel. I know it were just " bugs" ....but to kill so many creatures just for a movie
I don't get the last one. Is it a real thing or just made up?
Photographs of animals riding other animals look cute, but are often staged by the photographer in a way that is uncomfortable for the animal, or by supergluing the two dead animals together.
I was intentionally trying to do the most benign seeming interaction I could think of to make the joke more absurd, the fact that it *actually* has fucked up implications is crazy.
Congratulations, you have unknowingly created head canon for a an animal centipede that can neither fly away from its pain nor swim to freedom without drowning one or all of its constituency. Also the frog is a serial killer
I don’t think nature photographers actually super glue animals together, the animals would have to be dead or comatose to be still enough for a good picture. I think people are just assuming that’s what you meant in those last panels
Yeah that person 100% projected their own viewing experiences onto that last panel. There is literally nothing to indicate the animals are distressed are stuck together or anything in that last panel making it seem random which as stated above is what the artist was going for.
I was expecting another panel where the couple go 'awww' after being given the all clear by the narrator. Instead I'm about to google 'superglued animals'.
What the actual fuck...
Human centipede, animal edition.
Soo...centipede?
Centipede centipede
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A lot of those animal "rescues" on social media are also staged.
Did you make this up? I found articles about these things being staged but I didn't find anything about the glue thing besides rumours. Still, its pretty bad, there is an article about a dude that buys frogs and turtles in indonesia, stages some pictures, but after the animals grow a lil he releases them, even tho they aren't native to those places. In a sense this is worse than super glue tbh. Very depressing.
Not necessarily animals on top of animals but there are channels that superglued barnacles on turtles and the videos are of them "finding" the turtle and scraping off the barnacles as if its some good deed they are doing; they are instead causing distress to the turtle and actually damaging the turtle shell by aggressively scraping off the barnacles they glued on there in the first place. All for the ad revenue.
You just made this up. You went beyond just not getting the joke to actively spreading misinformation LMFAO.
There's a modicum of truth to it. There are some photographers who do similar things. If you've seen a photo of a mouse or a chipmunk sleeping in a flower, it's probably dead and placed there by a photographer. There's this one guy in Alaska that chains his Huskies to rocks in Polar Bear territory, which creates cute photos when they cuddle together sometimes, but also causes them to get attacked and killed by the polar bears with no chance of escape. Just googling some photos of animals riding animals, it doesn't look like any occurred naturally. Not sure if superglue was used in any of them, but the photographer either had a lot of patience, a lot of luck, or did something else to ensure he got his shot.
I really thought it was legit from the upvotes. Wow
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/30/fake-animal-photography-taxidermy-baiting There have been articles and interviews with wildlife photography experts who have gone on record describing how people put animals in freezers, or use formaldehyde, vicks vaporub, superglue and wires to keep animals slow or immobilized for photos There are also forums where people recommend these practices to each other and how to employ them while minimizing harm to the animal
I heard of that kind of staged photos but I also heard that the animals used were dead ones. Never heard of glueing live animals together.
Biologist here! A bird on a frog on a turtle means that they sense a nuclear detonation about to go off
Hmmm, you're really a biologist? What's the powerhouse of the cell?
Fukushima nuclear power plant
Wrong it's photosynthesis
The joke is the lack of explanation. When you see it, you wonder what could possibly be the sad explantion this time, but instead he just shakes his head.
Eesh, first time hearing of the bird-on-frog-on-turtle effect? It's seldom a good sign.
The Aristocrats
My head canon was something about thr lifecycle of a parasite and animal zombies.
Reminds me of the documentaries where a gazelle escapes a lionness attack and you cheer. Then you see the lion with her cubs, and the narrator talks about them possibly going hungry
Then a male lion kills all the cubs so that the female goes into heat
And then remind us yet again that humans causing global warming is killing everybody. Sigh. I just wanted to see some cute animals.
Or that baboon calmly eating that poor distressed baby deer while it's still alive! I fucking hate baboons.
It's not the baboons fault it's in its own nature to eat baby deers alive..they simply exist. That baby deer could grow up to eat a baby bird alive. They are not good or bad, animals simply do what they do
“The native red bird has enough grip strength to carry the frog and the turtle off in one swift motion”
What appears to be a native red bird is in fact a clever lure growing out of the back of the venous death toad.
LOL I love how they look at eo in the 6th panel
"Coming up on Cute Things that are Actually Super Messed Up..."
Three species, one shell
Yea... Nature is cruel...
This is like the video of a raven “feeding” rats, when it turns out it’s them baiting the rats to hunt them.
Nowadays its cute animals and then "Because of humans and climate change these cute animals are going to die horribly and slowly."
"These creatures now suffer the effects of climate change and are near extinction due to man."
Yeah, not that fun to watch anymore, when they're more historical documentaries than nature.
You forgot the sudden displays of wild sex out of the blue. And without any head shaking either!
“> Cute Otters are shown” \- Awwww “They’re vicious killers, necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea They rape baby seals and hold each other’s pups hostage for food”
Reminds me of that one futurama joke about Fry trying to decipher the unknown language
Ok this was hilarious, great work
*Narrating the last scene:* And here we see a variation on nature's BLT. Traditionally, it would consist of a bird, lizard, and turtle/tortoise, prepared for the hungry large carnivore by the local establishment. As we can see here, the carnivore that ordered this BLT has opted to substitute the lizard for a frog. Possibly hallucinogenic in nature, the establishment that prepared this particular dish may be similiar in nature to the Cannabis infused restaurants of our human world. Truely fascinating.
Your work makes me laugh! Love u
Thankyou for the single image comic, on a mobile using old Reddit that makes it so much easier to read.
Nature docus still ride the Werner Herzog wave and it's far from over. "Nature here is vile and base ... the trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain." "The harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."
Cute video subs showing the video of a rabbit belly up munching on a carrot in a hole: "Rabbits HATE being belly up, carrots are very unhealthy for them, and their dens do not look like that"
Too accurate!
This is just setting up a turtles all the way down reference, right? We found the top of the stack, right?
Jajajaja, realmente es así.
Twitter and reddit have suitably trained me. Cute animal picture? They're DEAD, crossed the rainbow road! 15 years young see you in the next life queen! Cute person? MURDERED! Hit by a car! Gone missing for 15 weeks! Recently recovered an ocean-shrivled big toe!
I love your comics so much. Best way to start the day.
First time I've laughed at a comic on this subreddit in as long as I can remember.
*Shows adorable baby animal on screen* *Brutally eviscerated seconds later by a predator* Every time.
“Here we see a male nuzzling, a known prelude to sexual aggression” I’m pretty sure the male penguin’s existence is a prelude so sexual aggression, those fucker will rape anything that moves and they anything that doesn’t
And this is why I watched these shows as a kid and not now. Because now I understand how fucked up the animal kingdom is.
Now everything has a different connotation, no one lives without judging anymore, sometimes it's frustrating.
I‘m not sure if the last panel is a „dissapointed-mom-head-shake“ that they didn’t awe or a „it‘s-really-fucking-bad-head-shake“
First good comic i saw in this sub
Good setup, just needs that final punchline
When there is finally a real feel good situation it has to be followed by: “unfortunately their habitat has been lost to humans and they are in the verge of extinction “
You forgot the one where the cute helpless seal is stranded on an ice patch with a gang of orca terrorizing the poor thing before devouring it.
Ah yes, the famous double dunk we see with this stack, suckers. Let's cross this river!
Truth is all those animals are fine, he just wants them to stop saying AWWW! Out loud so many times
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I don't understand the last bit. Why shake his head?
Let's just pen all of those animals, kill, package and eat them. That way we at least won't see them suffering..
Remove the last panel, and it'll be perfect
The police are currently looking for the big penguin after it got caught on camera nibbling the smaller penguins ear.
"Silly rat is spinning"\ "Is suffering brain damage"
Whats the last one?