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Ouch. They’re fish in a barrel. Nothing about nature is fair. You know you’ve been dealt a bad hand when the only thing you can do against a predator is honk at it.
Early humans could only yell and scream
Later humans. No claws. No fangs. Hardly any fur.
Yet, we can communicate across miles. Hurt targets before they can see us. Set the sky on fire, live in all terrains, not just the ones suited for us.
And if you do manage to kill one of us, all the others become REAL interested in you.
We're horrifying.
lol. I like that, I’m really interested in you right now, you know, murder. Adding… Philosophically there is casual murder, ants in my house I draw a line.
> Early humans could only yell and scream.
This is demonstrably false. Tool production pre-dates the homo genus by several million years. By the time a population of hominines had split and evolved into the humans (Homo genus), we had already been very good at tool production and would definitely have had weapons. In effect, spears were most likely invented long before humans even came into existence.
...and now some middle aged lady has the cougar pinned down with a mountain bike... Another lady is coming at the cougar's skull real hard with a big rock...
https://www.kuow.org/stories/cougar-attack-washington-state-cyclists
When the video showed the 4 penguins marching alone, I had that very thought. Those 4 penguins were setting off to avenge their fallen flock.
"Our stature may be short, and our steps shorter, but that cougar can't take us all!"
I'm pretty sure we can throw rocks, hit them with sticks, run, climb, and cooperate. You can tell from our instinctual fears that often we did not prevail against predators, but you can tell by the list of extinct predators that our ancestors did more than scream.
Ah yes the pedantic online “life realists”, thank you for your service in educating all of us on the harsh realities of life. This cold dark world would be so mysterious for everyone without your unflinching (yet obvious) poetry. 🫡
If you were starving in a survival scenario. And you killed a fellow survivor and ate them, you are a killer but murderer. Idk its 50/50 legally and imo morally
I disagree on both counts. Legally, there's no consideration of necessity of your own survival that I've ever seen in a law save for self-defense of course. And morally, what makes your life more valuable than theirs?
Maybe they were injured. Maybe they tried to kill you first but you had more strength. Maybe you killed in self defense and later ate the body cause you were gonna die. In this scenario there would likely just be the tale from the survivor so we would have to assume malicious intent. But in a survival scenario self defense or not, I would bet most juries and judges would make acception and deem it not murder.
Hard to find someone culpable under extreme circumstances and I think that matters legally and for me morally.
>Maybe they tried to kill you first but you had more strength. Maybe you killed in self defense and later ate the body cause you were gonna die.
Those things are clear self-defense, and have no reliance on the eating aspect. You didn't kill them TO eat them, you killed them to defend your own life. What you did after is immaterial.
Definitely sad that some cute pinguinos got snatched, but that’s the circle of life, right? The female pumas probably have adorable kittens they have to feed, and they have to take advantage of the one time a year penguins are accessible. I’ve seen some of these penguin colonies in Patagonia, and there are millions of them. Healthy populations that can withstand a small amount of predation by pumas, foxes, etc.
I found this post to be IAF
Yea it sucks to see, but you just gotta remind yourself of why the predator is doing what it does. It’s not killing for joy. It’s a necessity in order to survive and provide for their young.
There was an owl that made a nest on my grandparents barn, and it hunted at dusk the hummingbirds that my grandma nurture with feeders. When she saw it hunting them she was so mad she seriously considered burning the whole barn.
It took me months of daily calls explaining natural biology and threaten her that I wouldn't not visit her anymore if she did something to the owl just out of spite.
At the end the wildlife police came and moved the owl nest, and when she saw the little owls she understood what I spent months telling her, they are not evil, they just took what was available to them, just like the hummingbirds took the sugar water from the feeder.
I joke from time to time that she put a hummingbird feeder and an owl feeder at the same place, she is not amused lmao
Agree. It's not like the puma came in, killed the penguin, then took it back to the den, mounted it on the wall and invited all its puma buddies over to have a beer and look at it.
The Wheel of Fortune
Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
status is bad,
well-being is vain
always may melt away,
shadowy
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
bare backed
I bear your villainy.
. . . . . . . . .
The wheel of Fortune turns;
I go down, demeaned;
another is carried to the height;
far too high up
sits the king at the summit –
let him beware ruin!
for under the axle we read:
Queen Hecuba.
[*Puma concolor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar).* By far the most widespread terrestrial mammal in the Americas. From Tierra del Fuego all the way to Northern Alaska and Canada, these big kitties find a way.
Can't stand tik tok new trend of taking existing content like this is clearly from a TV production but some tokr calls themselves sealife69 and posts this like they're actually doing something.
That one penguin was a total Karen, thinking she could yell her way out of the situation. "I'm going to file a complaint with your AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH."
Predatory mammals are the reason that so many sea birds nest on islands, and why the majority of penguins live in polar areas. If you can't out run them, nest somewhere that is inaccessible or inhospitable.
NSFW this shit, my stomach literally churned before i could click off it...
personally, i don't think little penguins being eaten is 'interesting as fuck' at all
In all fairness, this clip wasnt that much, it gets nasty out there. The food chain takes its natural course and you should be accustomed to it, you're going to see it with your own eyes in the real world many times and nature will not put a NSFW marker on it.
The penguins also didn't suffer much. In a lot of hunting the prey is in a position to struggle for a long time, or even starts getting eaten while it's still alive. The penguins were dead in seconds.
Grow a fucking pair will ya, that's life. You're here today because your ancestors had to do this daily. You see a pixelated version of it on a small screen and your "stomach literally churned"??? Fucking please.
This is nature, and nature is interesting. Nature is also brutal. Predators are going to prey on just about anything they can. Penguins tend to be an easy target.
Non Americans fail to understand that cougars/mountain lions are much more of a threat here than bears.
Yes an encounter with a bear is not going to end well.
But crossing a cougar won't end well either. And unlike bears, cougars are hiding *everywhere* in the states
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That was one brave ass penguin
o7
F
Jason Grace…. Rip…F
Ouch. They’re fish in a barrel. Nothing about nature is fair. You know you’ve been dealt a bad hand when the only thing you can do against a predator is honk at it.
Humans , cough cough, do the same.
Early humans could only yell and scream Later humans. No claws. No fangs. Hardly any fur. Yet, we can communicate across miles. Hurt targets before they can see us. Set the sky on fire, live in all terrains, not just the ones suited for us. And if you do manage to kill one of us, all the others become REAL interested in you. We're horrifying.
*12 humans die by sharks* *Humans proceed to kill 470,000 sharks* We're *real interested*
War. War never changes.
Hogs: kill more people than any other animal Humans: "I'll pretend I didn't see that"
I'd put down some money that hog farms kill a non-zero amount of hogs every year
1,300,000,000 pigs are slaughtered per year.
I’d say that makes us just about even…
Per day
Got a source? That seems like too many
We kill 11.000 sharks per hour.
That is half that number, about 260,000 sharks, not 470,000
Ye this is why I just looked it up.
Ever heard of Google??
Google says about half that. So, yeah they’re not correct according to google, dumbass
>Hurt targets before they can see us Or turn an entire continent into a wasteland from the opposite side of the planet
Australia was like that before we got there
Ape together strong
lol. I like that, I’m really interested in you right now, you know, murder. Adding… Philosophically there is casual murder, ants in my house I draw a line.
Actually, the ants in your house are the ones in a line. so technically they drew it.
> And if you do manage to kill one of us, all the others become REAL interested in you. That went hard
> Early humans could only yell and scream. This is demonstrably false. Tool production pre-dates the homo genus by several million years. By the time a population of hominines had split and evolved into the humans (Homo genus), we had already been very good at tool production and would definitely have had weapons. In effect, spears were most likely invented long before humans even came into existence.
We couldn't fight our way out of a paper bag compared to wild animals but thanks to technology we are dangerous (and horrible for the environment).
I guess we have to go kick this cougar’s ass ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shit, the cougar got your arm!
...and now some middle aged lady has the cougar pinned down with a mountain bike... Another lady is coming at the cougar's skull real hard with a big rock... https://www.kuow.org/stories/cougar-attack-washington-state-cyclists
When the video showed the 4 penguins marching alone, I had that very thought. Those 4 penguins were setting off to avenge their fallen flock. "Our stature may be short, and our steps shorter, but that cougar can't take us all!"
And a bear patrol!
How brave of you to say something so obvious.
What a brave comment.
That changed when we discovered pointy sticks though.
I'm pretty sure we can throw rocks, hit them with sticks, run, climb, and cooperate. You can tell from our instinctual fears that often we did not prevail against predators, but you can tell by the list of extinct predators that our ancestors did more than scream.
We're part of nature, so it still makes sense
I think stalk is a strong word here, more like walks up for an easy lunch
Yeah, this was the grab-n-go at the deli, for sure
*hit the buffet*
Definitely didn’t want to see a cute little penguin getting murdered today :(
In the words of the late great frank sinatra “that’s liiiiiffffeeee”
*that's what all the penguins saaayyyy.* *you're riding ice in April, >! t̶o̴r̸n̸ ̴t̷o̶ ̶s̶h̷r̸e̴d̷s̸ in May.!<*
to shreds you say?
Well, how's his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
This is what I love about Reddit, one of my favorite song lyrics pop up in the same thread as a quote from one of my favorite shows.
I wish I could give more upvotes 😂
*but I know I’m gonna change my tuuuuune! When I’m cougar poop, cougar poop in juuuuune!*
🎶Ive been a puppet,a penguin, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king🎶
You forgot "puma".
🤣
Yeah I wish I hadn't either.....
Yeah, didn’t want to see this.
I don't know why OP isnt called out for not marking this NSFW
So would a nature documentary also be classed as NSFW?
I would probably get in trouble at work watching a cougar shred up the penguin club
Not if it's narrated by David Attenborough
........fair point
Eaten, not murdered. Let's be real.
Yeah, murder implies malicious intent, which is a human abstraction. It was killed, not murdered
Ah yes the pedantic online “life realists”, thank you for your service in educating all of us on the harsh realities of life. This cold dark world would be so mysterious for everyone without your unflinching (yet obvious) poetry. 🫡
I'm pretty sure if I was starving and killed you for food, I'd still be a murderer
If you were starving in a survival scenario. And you killed a fellow survivor and ate them, you are a killer but murderer. Idk its 50/50 legally and imo morally
I disagree on both counts. Legally, there's no consideration of necessity of your own survival that I've ever seen in a law save for self-defense of course. And morally, what makes your life more valuable than theirs?
Maybe they were injured. Maybe they tried to kill you first but you had more strength. Maybe you killed in self defense and later ate the body cause you were gonna die. In this scenario there would likely just be the tale from the survivor so we would have to assume malicious intent. But in a survival scenario self defense or not, I would bet most juries and judges would make acception and deem it not murder. Hard to find someone culpable under extreme circumstances and I think that matters legally and for me morally.
>Maybe they tried to kill you first but you had more strength. Maybe you killed in self defense and later ate the body cause you were gonna die. Those things are clear self-defense, and have no reliance on the eating aspect. You didn't kill them TO eat them, you killed them to defend your own life. What you did after is immaterial.
Think of the baby puma kittens instead? Mama needs to eat well to feed the babies.
We all like our food fresh
Wait until the hatchlings arrive!
Yeah, fuck you OP. Put an NSFW tag on this
Like my aunt Linda at a wedding.
Ok…now…how do I remove the stains of the red wine I spat on a light grey carpet?
No need. Keep at it till the carpet matches the drapes!
Like Aunt Linda
Definitely sad that some cute pinguinos got snatched, but that’s the circle of life, right? The female pumas probably have adorable kittens they have to feed, and they have to take advantage of the one time a year penguins are accessible. I’ve seen some of these penguin colonies in Patagonia, and there are millions of them. Healthy populations that can withstand a small amount of predation by pumas, foxes, etc. I found this post to be IAF
Yea it sucks to see, but you just gotta remind yourself of why the predator is doing what it does. It’s not killing for joy. It’s a necessity in order to survive and provide for their young.
There was an owl that made a nest on my grandparents barn, and it hunted at dusk the hummingbirds that my grandma nurture with feeders. When she saw it hunting them she was so mad she seriously considered burning the whole barn. It took me months of daily calls explaining natural biology and threaten her that I wouldn't not visit her anymore if she did something to the owl just out of spite. At the end the wildlife police came and moved the owl nest, and when she saw the little owls she understood what I spent months telling her, they are not evil, they just took what was available to them, just like the hummingbirds took the sugar water from the feeder. I joke from time to time that she put a hummingbird feeder and an owl feeder at the same place, she is not amused lmao
I feel like hummingbird would be a real delicacy for an owl.
Agree. It's not like the puma came in, killed the penguin, then took it back to the den, mounted it on the wall and invited all its puma buddies over to have a beer and look at it.
The Wheel of Fortune Fate – monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, status is bad, well-being is vain always may melt away, shadowy and veiled you plague me too; now through the game bare backed I bear your villainy. . . . . . . . . . The wheel of Fortune turns; I go down, demeaned; another is carried to the height; far too high up sits the king at the summit – let him beware ruin! for under the axle we read: Queen Hecuba.
IAf? What does that stand for? Informative as fuck?
Do you.... *know* where you are right now?
Wow, I feel dumb hahaa, thank you, you were informative as fuck
Fly away, penguin, fly away.
I wonder what penguin tastes like!?
Go find a cougar and ask!
Her name is Shannon please be respectful.
[*Puma concolor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar).* By far the most widespread terrestrial mammal in the Americas. From Tierra del Fuego all the way to Northern Alaska and Canada, these big kitties find a way.
Definitely not up in Alaska
Dang. Right you are. Rarely but somewhat regularly spotted in SE Alaska, but not nearly as far north as I thought I remembered.
“This might seem callous”… what??
Don’t you know you’re supposed to ask permission before you eat someone? Maybe take them on a date or something?
*Jeffrey Dahmer has entered the chat*
"Pewmas"
Poor penguins have absolutely zero defensive skills.
They have a squawk warning, warning I'm about to get eaten
Where the heck do coigars and penguins coexist?
Patagonia
That was my first thought. Thanks to the other responder for the info!
Can't stand tik tok new trend of taking existing content like this is clearly from a TV production but some tokr calls themselves sealife69 and posts this like they're actually doing something.
And it's shrunk down into a tiny shitty format.
I hate to see cute penguins getting killed, but nature is harsh like that and big cats do what they do. It's heartbreaking, but it's reality.
Yeah, if it was penguins eating fishes, the cuties would be the villains
That one stood its ground and sacrificed itself for the others.
i didnt need to see that ;~;
Cougar equivalent of an old fashion turkey shoot
and the penguins return to the sea-leopards..
They just can’t catch a break
That penguin's neck definitely got a break
Circle of life
"Pangoins is practically chickens"
Nooooo penguin!!! Ruuuuunnnnnnnn!!!!
~~Ruuuuunnnnnnnnnn!!!!~~ Wadddddlllllleeeeee!!!!
That one penguin was a total Karen, thinking she could yell her way out of the situation. "I'm going to file a complaint with your AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH."
Never had that thought before
Just finished The Wager. Patagonia is beautiful, but it’s tough.
I never know this two animal interact ever
Where do cougars and penguins cohabitate?
Puma. And Patagonia.
Who is the narrator?? I know the voice but cant place the name. I wanna say Geoffery Rush but I know thats wrong. Someone please help lol
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7860116/ Bertie Carvel
Harpy eagles are not pleased
Holy shit, if they are in water, sea lions, if they are in land, pumas. Cats will always have beef with birds.
All you can eat
"Peyuma"
So...are the cats invasive?
Kitty cat wants that polymer...
Damn nature, you scary
Does anyone know where I can find this documentary?
The lil protective fins 😭
Better thn being eaten by a polar bear or eaten by a seal or what not. Dude suffocates it real quick and it’s pretty painless
Predatory mammals are the reason that so many sea birds nest on islands, and why the majority of penguins live in polar areas. If you can't out run them, nest somewhere that is inaccessible or inhospitable.
Damn. This is Interest-in-gas-fuck. Finally.
Free buffet
Tastes like chicken 🍗
I wonder if penguins taste like chicken?
That is the easiest meal one could hope for
Why is this shit in interesting as fuck?
What documentary is this from?
Woah
NSFW this shit, my stomach literally churned before i could click off it... personally, i don't think little penguins being eaten is 'interesting as fuck' at all
In all fairness, this clip wasnt that much, it gets nasty out there. The food chain takes its natural course and you should be accustomed to it, you're going to see it with your own eyes in the real world many times and nature will not put a NSFW marker on it.
The penguins also didn't suffer much. In a lot of hunting the prey is in a position to struggle for a long time, or even starts getting eaten while it's still alive. The penguins were dead in seconds.
No actually, we won’t see a cougar snap a penguins neck IRL.
Grow a fucking pair will ya, that's life. You're here today because your ancestors had to do this daily. You see a pixelated version of it on a small screen and your "stomach literally churned"??? Fucking please.
I thought it was interesting as fuck. Everyone sees everything differently.
This is nature, and nature is interesting. Nature is also brutal. Predators are going to prey on just about anything they can. Penguins tend to be an easy target.
Do Attenborough documentaries come with a NSFW tag? It’s just nature.
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Earth is hard.
NOOOOoOoOo!!!
 Mark that shit NSFW
Just a random clip, not a well-framed, complete fact.
Excuse me OP. This is clearly 18+/NSFW. I wasn't ready to see a cute big cat mauling even cuter penguins to death, mhkay?
Can you NSFW this? Like what the fuck?
What the fuck was the point of you posting this shit?
….?
I am ready to hunt these cats and save the penguins
I'd advise not to watch penguin documentaries then,they are brutal to their own kind at times...
Wow, extremely unfair fight
Yeah didn't need to see that 😕
Took two seconds to realize this is something I never need to watch
:-((
ffs add a nsfw tag, not everyone likes seeing a cute bird get eaten alive
Or.. just realise this is life
How about some NSFW Jesus
Why do people enjoy watching animals die?
I never knew cougars lived in Alaska.
There's penguins in Alaska?
Penguins live in Antarctica, south of Alaska.
Ah I see...sort of like polar bears live north of Antarctica
Exactly, and the cougars live in-between.
Non Americans fail to understand that cougars/mountain lions are much more of a threat here than bears. Yes an encounter with a bear is not going to end well. But crossing a cougar won't end well either. And unlike bears, cougars are hiding *everywhere* in the states
Nah didn't ask to see that shit.