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That's why the narrator always says nature is cruel
Make the predator be eaten by a bigger predator. It's not starving
Saw a documentary once where a big cat took out a fucking gator. Shit was wild
I’m too skeptical of these documentaries. I always assume there’s some shenanigans to make the crazy footage happen.
A lot of it is just months in the field to get that one shot. Maybe even years, and then splicing it together to make a fairly bullshit narrative
Though the Disney Alaska documentary…. With the running of the lemmings (white wilderness).
The scene where the lemmings were supposedly committing mass suicide? Yeah. They were flinging them off a turntable- like the kind used to spread fertilizer or salt.
Well. It did inspire a classic video game. But yeah. Lemmings do run- they just hop down, no suicide.
Make the predator eat plants, easy!
A good nature documentary can definitely make me cry my eyes out over a poor little plant dying.
The other day I saw a video of a cuckoo chick being eaten by a snake and everyone in the comments were cheering. Nobody likes those bastards lol.
One of my favorite part of planet earth was when they showed a fox steal baby chicks from a bunch of birds. At first I hated the fox but then it showed that the fox was doing it to feed their hungry children. It really taught me about perspective.
If it makes anyone feel any better, those being eaten are often sicker, weaker, and/or older than the rest (which makes them easier for the predator to capture and strengthens the heard by removing the unfit who continue to consume if not taken out)
It's sad, yes, but it's how life on earth has evolved. We all need a source of energy. Life is as brutal as it is beautiful
Everything gets eaten by something, it's the meaning of life.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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