Blind Cuckoo Chick

The blind cuckoo chick ejects the warbler egg and the warbler chick to a watery grave. The warbler parents then nurse the cuckoo chick to maturity.

Rubaiyat
Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
-Omar Khayyam

Clint Mansell - Stay With Me - The Fountain Original Soundtrack

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cuckoo
• instinct
• nature
• red
• in
• tooth
• and
• claw

[dchichan24]

ohmigawd! iT EVEN SHOVES THE HATCHED SIBLINGS OUT???

[h0tsex0r]

@dchichan24

It is rather unsettling, isn't it?

[dchichan24]

how is that chick not falling after pushing it's step-siblings out???

[h0tsex0r]

@dchichan24

instinct.

[MasterMorty]

Evil is born...

[Wittgensteinien]

@sweetchunks22 lol hahahaha.

[sweetchunks22]

wouldn't it be nice if little cuckoo bird fell backwards into the water, while trying to push the real egg out?? But then, now I'm being cruel.

[spideyplanet105]

kkkk

[spideyplanet105]

i feel sad for the other chick that fell down

[AJ890502]

i just dont get it

Y use the chinese 89.6.4 pic as intro for such a nice video ?

[QwertnotQuark]

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,

Lift not thy hands to It for help - for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.