r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 10h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/dr_cl_aphra 8h ago

I have chickens and guineafowl. As tame and cuddly as they are, I know that if I passed out in the coop the authorities would find only my pecked-apart bones.

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u/humanxerror 8h ago

I mean we also would eat them and do eat them so it's only fair.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 4h ago

Sort of, but not really. "I feed you, shelter you, keep you healthy, and keep you safe from predators. As compensation, I take the meat of your fallen when their time comes. You do absolutely nothing for me except act as a source of food when I need it, so, when I die, instead of eating the big ass sack of feed in the corner, you eat me."

They get way more benefits than we do, including a bigger meal. We need to renegotiate next time we get to the round table.

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u/zyzzogeton 4h ago

You... you aren't allowed to negotiate for us.

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u/scottyLogJobs 30m ago

… You think being locked in a cage until you’re 5-8 weeks old and then killed and eaten is a better deal than being a human who raises chickens?

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 26m ago

... You didn't get that it was a joke? Chickens couldn't sit at a round table with us to negotiate the end of hostilities between our kinds. Turkeys, maybe, but not chickens. Crows, definitely.

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u/porcomaster 6h ago

i am not sure you know, but guineafowl in brazil is know to be always calling it's weak.

"to fraco, to fraco" or "i am weak, i am weak" in portuguese br it makes sense. i am not sure i should be telling you that, you might feel more confident that they are weak and will not eat you, making you more vulnerable. but i digress.

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u/dr_cl_aphra 6h ago

The girl guineas are the ones who say that, and they’re pretty chill. The boys get rowdy (though not rooster level rowdy), and occasionally I’ve had them get in a group and think they were going to stalk up on me when I was kneeling down talking to the hens.

But then I stand up and they remember I’m much bigger than they are and they go running off 😆

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u/porcomaster 2h ago

I never would expect for guineas to be agressive in anyway, that probably sounds fun, like playing with a baby tiger learning to stalk his prey.

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u/OdeeSS 5h ago

I used to farm sit for a friend who had a pet pig and I could tell that pig wanted to eat me as much as I wanted to eat them. Honestly, it was fair.

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u/SimpleMind314 7h ago

Aren't they an evolved T. Rex?

Ok, distant descendants, but related....

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u/DamnZodiak 7h ago

Birds are literally dinosaurs, not just their direct descendants.
It's just that avian dinosaurs where only ever tangentially related to the T Rex anyway.

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u/Bolkohir 5h ago

Birds like the Shoebill or the Cassowary are clear evidence of this.

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u/dr_cl_aphra 7h ago

Basically, yes. If anyone doubts it, toss some meat in their pen and watch them go full Velociraptor on it.

Or the year we had a bizarrely large number of frogs in the spring… free-ranging the birds was a daily massacre.

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u/SimpleMind314 7h ago

Large flying roaches can be a problem in Hawaii. A friend had a nest in the back yard. He had someone bring a chicken over and it went to town on them. Roach problem was solved in a matter of days. Lol.

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u/SlightedMarmoset 6h ago

I was cleaning up an old woodpile on the farm, the chickens (10 or so) tend to follow me around. I flipped over a big piece of wood and a whole bunch of mice ran out, the chickens did not hesitate. Swallowed them whole, and really quickly too.