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[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones...

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They probably like to eat baby birds, too. They’re a lot more vicious than people give them credit for.

[–] zout@fedia.io 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Guess what a cuckoo chick does to the other birds in the nest.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

No, they let them fall to their doom.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Guess what the mother cuckoo does when it finds out the parasitized bird mom eject the cuckoo egg.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t fool yourselves, a squirrel would murder you and everyone you loved given the chance

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Furlow the squirrel-o is offended by your unfounded accusations.

More seriously though. Given abundance of food basically everything we 'know' about animal species interaction gets thrown out the window.

At any moment outside my window you find a dozen species eating side by side every single day that we were told would 'for sure kill each other before sharing a food source'.

What that says about scarcity in relation to humanity I'll leave to someone else...

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The animals in my yard behave very differently than the animals a couple of hundred yards away in the woods.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They just know it isnt worth the fight… yet

[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I eat pine cones...

Yeah but if they try you can just peck at his eyes until he stops. Give hem the old HEY SHITASS D'YA MIND?