• Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I’ve seen chickens do this to other chickens. It’s normal for them to peck at each other a bit, but if they see blood, they go crazy. They also eat eggs sometimes. Chickens, though

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I’ve actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.

      Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.

      • Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de
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        19 days ago

        Dinosaurs, ey?

        (Quick edit: As I am not close enough to biology this statement may be incorrect as chickens may not technically belong to the category [whichever level and correct name it may be/have] of dinosaur. In this case I am sorry for perpetrating this misinformation)

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          19 days ago

          Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn’t inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.

        • macros@feddit.org
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          19 days ago

          You know the reason why most of the recent megafauna went extinct? (Mammoths, big birds, giant sloth, saber toothed cat, …)

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          18 days ago

          You know that we are megafauna. And the extinct megafauna had the misfortune to be either good eating for H. Sapiens, or were too dangerous to us to let live

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      19 days ago

      Chickens typically eat eggs when they have a vitamin deficiency, although that’s why typically obligate herbivores will sometimes eat baby birds and small rodents.