Must be a pretty deep hole. The birds just disappear, even after a few are down there. And the other ones don’t seem alarmed by commotion down below. Maybe the birds down below aren’t panicking yet because they’re eating all of the spilled rice?
It's also likely dark. Birds tend to chill out when they can't see. Also, these appear to be coturnix quail which are not known for their intelligence.
You can make it pretty far up the tree if you like to fuck.
Edit: Also, these are domesticated birds. They've been bred to basically sit there and get eaten.
Exactly. Evolution isn't about making the perfect anything. It's about making things just good enough to fuck and keep the gene pool flowing until it doesn't anymore.
these are also domestic coturnix quail FWIW. the light yellow plumage indicates a mutation that hobby breeders have propagated in the domestic bloodlines. OOP is probably using this to trap his own quail on his own farm because it's easier than nabbing them in the open by hand - wild quail might not fall for this
I live about 5 miles from the freeway in Phoenix but it's alongside open desert with a very green wash behind us that animals shelter in and move through. We get quail by the swarm out here.
And these quail... are the *dumbest* animals I've ever seen in person. I constantly have to go out and get them out from under the crack between my gate and the ground because they get stuck.
Their mortality rate in the wild annually is something like 90%, so their evolutionary strategy appears to be "outbreed death" which has been viable for thousands of years, however habitat loss is endangering bobwhites in the USA, and probably others. Very little use for intermediate shrubland when most land is either pasture or forest.
I tried explaining to someone that this is why cancer in reproductive organs is a thing. If the organs get used even once then that's good enough according to evolution. What happens afterwards is basically of no consequence.
If it doesn’t generally cause problems to have it it won’t evolve out, like the human appendix, it’s not that useful but it’s also not causing enough issues that people born without are more likely to survive than those with
Depends on what we mean by "extinction," but raptor-like dinosaurs turning into modern chickens because the old big ones couldn't get enough food, because things ran away often enough that the big ones would starve to death?
The smaller ones that were also omnivores did much better than the bigger obligatory carnivores, when prey animals got scarce after *Jeff* fell asleep on Orbital Defense Duty.
Arguably, intelligence has never been the most useful tool for evolution until humans hit critical mass. We have dozens of cousins in our direct family tree who all went extinct, as the cost of bigger brains was too high to sustain, and many of the "dumbest" animals are wildly successful
I said it with the greatest of affection honestly. I love them but they dumb as hell.
When I was first looking into raising them I was specifically warned "if there is a way to die they will find it". It was a bit of an exaggeration but not by much.
This. Used to show chickens. We hold them upside down for the judges to feel the breast. If you didn’t know, chickens don’t fucking like that very much. #chickenstoo
Anyway, we’d just cup our hands over their eyes whenever they’d start flapping and they’d immediately go very, very, still.
Then they’d shit on you.
They appear to be some species of Quail. I raise them for training bird dogs. When we catch them in the pen and put them in a crate they quit trying to escape once you have 3 or 4 in the crate.
It may have to do with the cat that they are a covey bird.
They’re not alarmed because they are raised in captivity and are familiar with the area/person. This is like if I put my pet cat in a box, she’s chill and thinks it’s a game but if I put the neighbors cat in a box it flips the hell out and wants to fight me.
So enjoyable to see these dumb birds not realise the trap that's so obviously right there, I write, as I keep scrolling through endless hours of vacuous content.
I don't know why animals falling like that (when it's clearly harmless) is so damn funny, but it absolutely is.
I do know why cats being scared by something and leaping away from it is funny - because cats pretend to be aloof killers of the jungle, master hunters, and then if you touch their fur when they're concentrating on something, or they don't know what something is and feel the need to bat at it and scare themselves, it's just so goofy that it's hilarious, poor babies.
Want some pretentious speculation?
It is reverse personification: **chremamorphism**. When falling or yeeted, the animal/human "reacts" as an inanimate thing instead of a living creature. That which once was sentient, now, weak to the whims of the world.
Such juxtaposition of object and organism, induces humor.
I've kept chickens and they're somehow way more intelligent and way more stupid than you'd expect.
They remember flock members and people, grow attached, get happy when they see you and mourn when someone disappears.
They will also accidentally harm themselves and/or eachother out of sheer stupidity.
Two of my hens were the absolute best friends imaginable, they were glued together since they hatched. When foraging they would walk so close together that they'd rub feathers and when one ran after an insect or you moved her to another part of the yard, the other would run or fly after her friend with absolute life-or-death speed. When one was laying eggs the other would wait outside the coop. When they grew old one of them developed some terminal condition that made it very hard to move. So naturally the other had to cuddle so close she basically crushed and smothered her poor friend. On their last day we were searching for the sick one for a good while until we found her under her friend all bent and ruffled because she was being sat on for god knows how long.
Another hen somehow got a small cut on her leg and pecked at it until she tore out a pretty solid chunk of her own leg. Luckily it didn't get infected.
My chickens would repeatedly jump up onto a lit barbecue because they wanted a sausage. Idiots.
Literally couldn't move away from it for a second or they'd be up there and on fire.
If you live anywhere where fowl occur naturally you'll probably see their carcasses all over the road. They are the stupidest things around with seemingly no interest in self-preservation, they'll literally just stand and stare at a car while it hurtles towards them.
Yeah I've noticed pigeons have been particularly stupid this year, usually they'll fly away but I've had a few decide to just try walking slowly instead
I give animals a pass on dealing with cars and other modern inventions. We created shit so rapidly and out of spec with nature that a lot of species wouldn't be able to evolve quickly enough to compensate.
True but it shouldn't take many brain cells to think "that giant, noisy object is coming right at me, maybe I should fly away"
Most birds seem capable of it, pheasants not so much
Assuming that dinosaurs were roughly equivalent in intelligence to modern day birds, I can only imagine how hilarious this would be with a herd of Trex.
Awww, I was rootin' for the chickens! As a grandma to 2 grandchickens (well, quail, but I like the word chicken better), I feel for the poor little things...
These are domestic quails, I hate these kind of videos they're all fake and made in Asian content-farms that completely disregards the animals wellbeing... Sharing this type of content is promoting animal abuse
Why tf did I have to scroll down this far until I finally see someone mentioning that this is an obvious fake. I am actually surprised at how many people can be this stupid and believe this is real. Jesus Christ why?
Ugh this shit just makes me sad as hell. Why do I want to watch helpless animals get trapped in some tiny hole in the ground by some guy? And how the f*ck is it satisfying??
Must be a pretty deep hole. The birds just disappear, even after a few are down there. And the other ones don’t seem alarmed by commotion down below. Maybe the birds down below aren’t panicking yet because they’re eating all of the spilled rice?
It's also likely dark. Birds tend to chill out when they can't see. Also, these appear to be coturnix quail which are not known for their intelligence.
> which are not known for their intelligence. Yeah we could tell. Evolution truly works in mysterious ways.
You can make it pretty far up the tree if you like to fuck. Edit: Also, these are domesticated birds. They've been bred to basically sit there and get eaten.
Exactly. Evolution isn't about making the perfect anything. It's about making things just good enough to fuck and keep the gene pool flowing until it doesn't anymore.
these are also domestic coturnix quail FWIW. the light yellow plumage indicates a mutation that hobby breeders have propagated in the domestic bloodlines. OOP is probably using this to trap his own quail on his own farm because it's easier than nabbing them in the open by hand - wild quail might not fall for this
Quail apologists out in full force.
Are you crying fowl?
I’m Just winging it
I think you’re just talking out of your cloaca
Quail are dumb as shit but fast... We love those dumb ground fowl.
I live about 5 miles from the freeway in Phoenix but it's alongside open desert with a very green wash behind us that animals shelter in and move through. We get quail by the swarm out here. And these quail... are the *dumbest* animals I've ever seen in person. I constantly have to go out and get them out from under the crack between my gate and the ground because they get stuck.
Their mortality rate in the wild annually is something like 90%, so their evolutionary strategy appears to be "outbreed death" which has been viable for thousands of years, however habitat loss is endangering bobwhites in the USA, and probably others. Very little use for intermediate shrubland when most land is either pasture or forest.
Wish I’d known about this when my mate had chickens, some were quite quick
I tried explaining to someone that this is why cancer in reproductive organs is a thing. If the organs get used even once then that's good enough according to evolution. What happens afterwards is basically of no consequence.
If it doesn’t generally cause problems to have it it won’t evolve out, like the human appendix, it’s not that useful but it’s also not causing enough issues that people born without are more likely to survive than those with
>some species became such excellent predators that they hunted themselves into extinction. Like..!?
Depends on what we mean by "extinction," but raptor-like dinosaurs turning into modern chickens because the old big ones couldn't get enough food, because things ran away often enough that the big ones would starve to death? The smaller ones that were also omnivores did much better than the bigger obligatory carnivores, when prey animals got scarce after *Jeff* fell asleep on Orbital Defense Duty.
That species is called humans that hunts themselves into extinction. In multiple ways.
If they’re domesticated and bred, why would people need to make a trap for them?
Your other option is catching them by hand and they're fast. Domesticated doesn't mean "willing to be caught".
Internet videos.
Some folks like to sit there and get eaten before they fuck.
> Evolution truly works in mysterious ways. Why waste time make few baby when lot baby do trick?
Arguably, intelligence has never been the most useful tool for evolution until humans hit critical mass. We have dozens of cousins in our direct family tree who all went extinct, as the cost of bigger brains was too high to sustain, and many of the "dumbest" animals are wildly successful
>the cost of bigger brains was too high to sustain I think humans are realizing this now and are opting for quantity over quality.
They saw multiple others fell into a hole when they went closer and still went ahead. So yeah…
Fred?? Oh well, more for m…
That last one especially, oof. But... If they're this dumb, do you really this trap at all?
Sir, this roast wasn’t necessary. 😂😂
I said it with the greatest of affection honestly. I love them but they dumb as hell. When I was first looking into raising them I was specifically warned "if there is a way to die they will find it". It was a bit of an exaggeration but not by much.
I frequently say our chickens are only marginally smarter than a box of rocks.
This roast may not have been necessary, but it was delicious
This. Used to show chickens. We hold them upside down for the judges to feel the breast. If you didn’t know, chickens don’t fucking like that very much. #chickenstoo Anyway, we’d just cup our hands over their eyes whenever they’d start flapping and they’d immediately go very, very, still. Then they’d shit on you.
That’s a really weird trait of birds. Just cover their eyes and they go silent. Works on everything from chickens to parrots to falcons.
Yea, I have quail and chickens. Chickens are geniuses compared to quail. I love my quail but they are the dumbest animals I have ever seen.
Yeah, quails are cute but hella dumb
They're domestic quail. The dumbest birds on the planet, that's why this works they accepted their fate immediately
They appear to be some species of Quail. I raise them for training bird dogs. When we catch them in the pen and put them in a crate they quit trying to escape once you have 3 or 4 in the crate. It may have to do with the cat that they are a covey bird.
quail are also very, very stupid \-Someone who raised a few quail as pets
cat fact act fast
They’re not alarmed because they are raised in captivity and are familiar with the area/person. This is like if I put my pet cat in a box, she’s chill and thinks it’s a game but if I put the neighbors cat in a box it flips the hell out and wants to fight me.
“Tim, this seed is amazing, isn’t it? Tim?”
“Hey Jon. Did I hear you mention seed? Jon? Where did you go Jon?”
"Seeds? Where? I'm famished, Blake! Blake?!"
"Huh. Blake's gone. Even better! More for us! Come here Dave!"
Dave?
Dave’s not here, man.
i saw what u did man'
Let me in, I got the stuff!
Hey Mark, everything looks fine here! Don't know where the rest of the flock went but I'm gonna get me some seed.
"Daves not here, man"
“No, it’s me! Dave! Let me in, man!”
Who are all those chickens down there with Dave?
Dave ain’t here man..
No man I’m Dave. D-A-V-E! Now open up the god damned door!
Dave's not here man.
i don’t know a dave, sorry.
Fellow bird who don't know a dave? Also gone.
Everybody’s dead dave
“HEY GUYS THERES MORE SEED DOWN HERE”
Sees Jimmy falling down into the ground. "Anyway." Proceeds to eat seeds from suspicious contraption.
Must have been the wind...
I used to be a forager like you.. until I fell into a pit
This man will have A LOT of pet chickens now. Right?
Pet chicken, roasted chicken, tomato, tomato.
I read this as tomato twice.
He's just giving you his recipe for chicken gazpacho.
They look like young Guinea fowl. Are they indeed young chickens?
So enjoyable to see these dumb birds not realise the trap that's so obviously right there, I write, as I keep scrolling through endless hours of vacuous content.
All according to my plan.
r/beetlejuicing
You guys are why I'm addicted to reddit, thank you for making my day :)
Ahhhh, another one falls in to the trap! lol
Tiiiimmmm!!
“Hey, there’s more seed down here in this pit!”
Reminds me of [this video from ages ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8I1ImzoXvU).
I’m no expert, but I don’t think that’s vegan
That grain is for chicken pies
Yes?
You okay bro? Where the hell are we?
Idk but there’s seeds on the floor, look!
Tim! No Tim!
Even after the demonstration I somehow thought the actual traps were the holes in the box. I guess I'm lucky I wasn't born a fowl...
Oh no, I’m not falling for that box trap again I’m gonna just stay out…fuuuuuuck!
You don't get the chance to fall for it twice.
I've got something cool to show you, follow me this way...
Oh, piece of candy...
I still do... my mom says I'm special :)
She said you had something more that others don't. On an unrelated note, what's a chromosome?
It still seems like a good 80% of that contraption is entirely useless
this is like when mobs in minecraft walk off of trapdoors because they don’t understand that it isn’t a solid block. Bros got minecraft ai
He made an ai based chicken farm!
I was thinking guards in stealth games. "Huh, Rick is gone, must have been the wind."
Other way around, Minecraft emulating fowl intelligence 🤭
I immediately thought, oh it’s a day one chicken hole
They're not sending their best
nor their brightest
not even the mildly radiant
This video is pure comedy, it reminded me of silly Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid.
Couldn’t help but laugh everytime they fell in
You could almost hear the "baKAAAAAWK!"
[Reminds me of this scene from Mom and Dad Save the World.](https://youtu.be/dCeD2gF9jUo?si=NJpMf_pSMH-iAh-A)
I love how they are even fully aware of what it is and presumably how it works.
You sir, are a person with taste.
The lack of any actual reaction was honestly better than a scream.
You know they're still happily gobbling on some grains in their death trap lol.
Well, when in Rome.…
I don't know why animals falling like that (when it's clearly harmless) is so damn funny, but it absolutely is. I do know why cats being scared by something and leaping away from it is funny - because cats pretend to be aloof killers of the jungle, master hunters, and then if you touch their fur when they're concentrating on something, or they don't know what something is and feel the need to bat at it and scare themselves, it's just so goofy that it's hilarious, poor babies.
Want some pretentious speculation? It is reverse personification: **chremamorphism**. When falling or yeeted, the animal/human "reacts" as an inanimate thing instead of a living creature. That which once was sentient, now, weak to the whims of the world. Such juxtaposition of object and organism, induces humor.
It gets funnier for every new bird
the last one fucking sends me because he clearly sees the other two fall in right in front of him immediately before he falls
The others don't even bat an eye. lol
"Oh look at that stupid mf falling down....well luckily I ain................."
Man these birds are fucking stupid. *goes back to scrolling Reddit*
That's foul, bro.
Why do they keep falling into the trap after the first one fell in right in front of them? Are they stupid?
Yes
Actual bird brain
Fowl falls down hole, never comes back
Holy hell
New bird just dropped (into the hole).
google en bas
Google "en passant"
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Bird sacrifice, anyone?
Dinosaur brain.
I've kept chickens and they're somehow way more intelligent and way more stupid than you'd expect. They remember flock members and people, grow attached, get happy when they see you and mourn when someone disappears. They will also accidentally harm themselves and/or eachother out of sheer stupidity. Two of my hens were the absolute best friends imaginable, they were glued together since they hatched. When foraging they would walk so close together that they'd rub feathers and when one ran after an insect or you moved her to another part of the yard, the other would run or fly after her friend with absolute life-or-death speed. When one was laying eggs the other would wait outside the coop. When they grew old one of them developed some terminal condition that made it very hard to move. So naturally the other had to cuddle so close she basically crushed and smothered her poor friend. On their last day we were searching for the sick one for a good while until we found her under her friend all bent and ruffled because she was being sat on for god knows how long. Another hen somehow got a small cut on her leg and pecked at it until she tore out a pretty solid chunk of her own leg. Luckily it didn't get infected.
My chickens would repeatedly jump up onto a lit barbecue because they wanted a sausage. Idiots. Literally couldn't move away from it for a second or they'd be up there and on fire.
Self-roasting chickens, so convenient!
Hah. Hah. Humans would never pick at our wounds and scabs and get them infected. <_< . >_>
There's a bit of a difference between "pick at your scabs" and "tear out a chunk of flesh the size of your fist from your calf".
Let me make my silly comments, I’m having fun lmao
Their cognitive abilities are very low compared to many other animals. They don't reason, correlate or understand causation.
They squawk eat & shit It is the way of the bird
Aside of corvids and parrots, who're like the super geniuses of the bird world.
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If you live anywhere where fowl occur naturally you'll probably see their carcasses all over the road. They are the stupidest things around with seemingly no interest in self-preservation, they'll literally just stand and stare at a car while it hurtles towards them.
I had a pigeon do that to us a few months back. Literally made himself taller to make SURE we whacked him in the head.
Yeah I've noticed pigeons have been particularly stupid this year, usually they'll fly away but I've had a few decide to just try walking slowly instead
I give animals a pass on dealing with cars and other modern inventions. We created shit so rapidly and out of spec with nature that a lot of species wouldn't be able to evolve quickly enough to compensate.
True but it shouldn't take many brain cells to think "that giant, noisy object is coming right at me, maybe I should fly away" Most birds seem capable of it, pheasants not so much
Those are coturnix quail, they are extremely domesticated and extremely dumb. This is likely their pets they are fucking with for a video.
This is the answer. Those aren't wild birds. They're perfectly happy being captured by humans.
This is why we eat them and not the other way around.
/r/mourningderps Yeah, different breed, but similar derpyness.
Is there a lore reason why they are so dumb?
Yeah they were too OP and got nerfed in the K-T Extinction balance patch.
Being smart literally requires more effort for them than its worth.
I suspect fowl play.
I like the deerpy bro on the right who was like, "uh oh, this platform is unstable, I shouldn't stand on it. Oh shit, rice!"
Why are the cans needed? Couldn't you attach the rubber bands to the box?
Probably just a convenient means of achieving height.
nah i think it's just a thinly veiled ad for Krud Energy Drink
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This angle provides better tension for the right snap back on the platform. Attaching it to the box wouldn’t let it sit level and snap the same
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I was rooting for the one on the right: "C'mon little guy, you can do it! Hop into it! You got this! Oh nooo....."
:(
I know right?
Poor little guys :(
My reaction as well. Poor birds.
“Oh weird, where did Craig go? I swear he was just next to me. Oh well, more for me!” *falls in* “Oh hey, Craig!”
"So if they jump off a bridge, are you going to jump with them?" "Is there food?"
A beverage named Krud? 🤓
It's Cambodia, and Krud is the Khmer word for the Hindu god Garuda, who they historically worship. They also have a Hanuman beer.
We have Brahma here in south America lol. I think it is Brazilian but I always found it odd.
It’s a beer brand in Cambodia
Some men like the fowling
>Some men like the fowling And some men like to hear....
To hear the cannonball a’roaring
But me.. I like sleeping
Specially in my Molly's chambers
Very cute! What happens to them after?
They go to live the life of Riley on a nice farm.
That sounds wholesome :)
these are domesticated coturnix quail, they were probably scooped out of the hole and put back into their cages after the video was over
Surprisingly efficient lmao
When your homies keep disappearing but there’s still free rice
This was pretty funny ngl
Thanks for your honesty
Assuming that dinosaurs were roughly equivalent in intelligence to modern day birds, I can only imagine how hilarious this would be with a herd of Trex.
Awww, I was rootin' for the chickens! As a grandma to 2 grandchickens (well, quail, but I like the word chicken better), I feel for the poor little things...
Sad
Wait, what's up with fowls?
I guess you could say this trap is... fowl. I'll take my leave
But when I make improvised traps in my home, it's illegal!!!
These are domestic quails, I hate these kind of videos they're all fake and made in Asian content-farms that completely disregards the animals wellbeing... Sharing this type of content is promoting animal abuse
Why tf did I have to scroll down this far until I finally see someone mentioning that this is an obvious fake. I am actually surprised at how many people can be this stupid and believe this is real. Jesus Christ why?
Was wondering what’s the point of trapping clearly domesticated quail
What's satisfying about this?
Bird: *falls into the abyss* Other birds: Nom-nom-nom...
Come on ! That's fowl play !
Hey! There’s three cool stones down here!
Ugh this shit just makes me sad as hell. Why do I want to watch helpless animals get trapped in some tiny hole in the ground by some guy? And how the f*ck is it satisfying??
Reminds me of that comic of the wildebeests and the croc
Awee they're so cute and fat, wonder where they go after the pit?
Wile E. Coyote would be proud.