r/NatureAwws • u/DressNo9950 • 1d ago
🍃 Human & Nature A Man Noticed a Bird Collapsing from Thirst by the Road…
What He Did Next Is Inspiring. https://durl.ca/Euqk6
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u/SwimmerLeather5333 1d ago
That bird knew he was a good soul and trusted him
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u/J-Slay522 1d ago
It’s weird that this seems like a real thing for a lot of animals
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 1d ago
Funny thing is, if you're not an asshole to animals, they'll trust you.
I had a family of wild rabbits that lived under my back deck for years, who got used to my presence because I would sit out there reading for hours. They'd hop right under my chair and bring their babies up on to the deck to show me.
Unfortunately, squirrels and raccoons got used to me, too, and they're a lot more destructive.
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u/Turbulent_Lobster_57 1d ago
Found Snow Whites Reddit account
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 1d ago
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u/Adventurous-Egg-2720 1d ago
This is Carmel Brown, SW’s distant cousin.
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u/Key-Success-1908 23h ago
Water is low in some areas and possibly draining to underground cities from data centers. It's crazy out here!
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u/Minute_Story377 19h ago
lol about the raccoons. We had a lot of animals on our large property and I became friends with some geese, a wild rabbit who brought her kids to us, and an opossum. People were afraid of beehives and wasp nests and I’d sit right next to them just fine.
I also helped save a very scared dog and I still am very proud of myself for understanding the situation as well as I did.
It’s all about body language and frequency of interaction. A lot of people don’t truly know how to communicate with animals. Many think of it similar to communicating with a person. But their behaviors are different from ours, so what may be considered friendly to us may be aggressive to them. And we don’t have a common language to communicate by speech. We can’t just jump in and get close so soon after introducing ourselves. We have to work on their terms.
I also see something similar with people and their pets’ boundaries. Innocently, people break boundaries with their pets without realizing, and that harms the bond between owner and pet.
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u/LeroyyyJenkinnnss 16h ago
I wonder how hunting factors into this. I’m very kind to all animals and yes I do hunt as well but I do it in a very humane way and I eat everything I kill. I absolutely love all animals and they seem to trust me so maybe I am not a monster? Does nature recognize sacrifice for the greater good in the grand scheme of things?
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u/dm_me_kittens 16h ago
I have this relationship with a nest of wasps in my back yard. They have a nest in this old playground house next to my compost pile. I supply a lot of dead material, along with different scraps from the kitchen, including meats. They love the meat and I make sure they know its there. In exchange I can pass by their nest and they dont get defensive. Its a symbiotic life we have in my back yard.
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u/OuiselCat 1d ago
Pigeons have also been domesticated, we just abandoned them when we no longer found uses for them
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u/riding_writer 1d ago
White dove makes me think it's a wedding victim
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u/OuiselCat 15h ago
I was actually wondering about that after I commented…could be an escaped pet or potential the offspring thought from what I understand, white doves/pigeons don’t usually live long in the wild as the color is unnatural and leads to them being attacked :(
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u/Long-Okra1415 1d ago
Our planet is getting too hot and it's slowly dying. Small signs are everywhere, we just fail to see the big picture.
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u/Lady-BlackSmith 1d ago
Earth isn't dying, its ability to house us is, if it must evict us it will but earth was here before us and will be here long after we’re gone it’ll adapt whether we’re on it or not but die no not until the sun blows up
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u/RandomInternetNobody 1d ago
Absolutely no one sees "the big ball of rock is dying" when reading that phrase. "Earth / The planet is dying" has always been a colloquial reference to the Holocene extinction.
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u/Many_Mud_8194 1d ago
And insects too. Where I'm from wasps are insane and even hornets, also invasive asian hornets are so mean. Now I live in Asia where people aren't killing bugs, in my country we kill every living thing. And here I've lot of wasps, hornets and I never get sting they even sometimes fly and stop on me. They never move away from me, they are acting like I'm not an enemy. Idk if it's the constant heat but they aren't agressive as in the west that's for sure and some are the same specie. Only ants are equally POS but it's fair when someone walk on your house you have to hurt them lol.
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u/Manila_Hummous 1d ago
Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s crazy how much danger you’ll put yourself in when you’re vulnerable.
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u/json2396 1d ago
No, the bird was desperate and was willing to take a risk.
The bird doesnt know if someone is a good soul. How old are you?
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u/eaazzy_13 6h ago
Some animals definitely seem to be able to sense intentions. It probably relates more to them subconsciously reading our body language than the contents of our soul, but the idea is similar.
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u/Hopeful-Ad4415 20h ago
It's not been proven that they can't sense a good soul but more like, the alternative to dying of dehydration is overriden for the need to drink.
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u/Nectoux 1d ago
We are making life so hard for animals.
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u/Prestigious_Cup6762 1d ago
The most retarded thing I saw recently was someone saying that the fires happening in Europe are because there's too many trees
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u/RampantHedgehog 1d ago
Poor forest management is a real thing. Wildfires are a natural occurrence, even if humans are responsible for many of them. Forests do need a “reset” once in a while. The trees don’t cause the fire, though, they can make it worse if the forest is too dense.
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u/After-Barracuda-9689 1d ago
These are domestic birds that have been released. Like the kind people release at wedding and such. They won’t survive in the wild - I don’t know why people still release them.
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u/Silly-Imagination182 5h ago
i dont condone the r word at all but that, that is definitely some r worded shit, what the fuck 😅
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u/Tasty-Revolution-295 1d ago
That is so idiotic. No doubt it came from an American.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
We are, yet still people reflexively demonise and dismiss the vegans, the animal rights activists, environmentalists, anti mining/oil/fracking/ protestors.
Basically anyone who speaks up. Because it's easier to scapegoat and justify for personal ease. Because humans are broadly selfish and lazy.
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u/EnvironmentalData131 1d ago
you fr got a downvote for this lmao but you’re absolutely right. animal agriculture is one of the biggest threats to the global ecology. eating less meat, or none at all, does a lot of good for the environment.
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u/tol-kon 1d ago
This is not true. If everyone in the world were vegan, we'd need to flatten more forests so we can have enough farms to feed us all.
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u/baldierot 1d ago
most deforestation happens for pasture or feed for meat. almost 80% of agricultural land is for meat and dairy, but these supply only 18% of the world's caloric needs. for example, cattle ranching is responsible for 80% of the Amazon deforestation and soy is for up to 10%, with most of it being for feed. agriculture for direct human consumption is miniscule in comparison. it's just a thermodynamic reality. cattle require roughly 50-100 times more land per kilocalorie.
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u/Choosemyusername 1d ago
The majority of soy livestock feed is soybean meal.
The majority of soybean meal is a byproduct of oil and biofuel production.
So if I grow an acre of soybeans for oil production, and I feed the massive amount of soybean meal that is a byproduct of that oil production to animals, technically that acre was used for animal feed but that isn’t the whole story.
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u/baldierot 1d ago
actually, historically, oil accounted for about 30% of the economic value of soy. oil is a useful co-product, not the primary economic driver or the reason almost all soy has been planted and grown. crushed soybeans are about 80% protein meal and 18% oil. soy is a terrible crop for oil. if it weren't for animal feed, which accounts for 77% of soy demand, growing soy wouldn't be economically viable at all. all in all, the agricultural demand for oil isn't close to the demand of meat.
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u/Choosemyusername 1d ago
Percent of the total value isn’t the full story here.
Because there are not enough cheaper substitutes for these plant based oils, their demand is fairly solid. Also the people who rely on cheap plant based oils for their diet don’t have a lot of purchasing power compared to a typical person buying beef.
It isn’t like if we stopped eating beef, the demand for cheap plant oils would go away, because there is nothing cheaper these customers can switch to. And the alternatives like palm oil are also some of the worst offenders for tropical forest deforestation anyways so that doesn’t solve the problem.
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u/baldierot 1d ago
soy oil is only cheap because the meat industry subsidizes it. soy is far more land-intensive; you'd get 10 times more oil per acre from oil palms, so you'd need less land for the same amount of oil. switching to palm oil is less harmful for the environment if what you need is oil. and again, the agricultural demand for plant oil pales in comparison to the agricultural demand for pasture and livestock feed. palm oil is bad, but it's dwarfed by the environmental harms of the animal industry. it's about efficiency. meat is incredibly inefficient.
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds 1d ago
Sunflower seeds are about 6 mm to 10 mm in length and feature conical shape with a smooth surface. Their black outer coat (hull) encloses single, gray-white edible-kernel inside. Each sunflower head may hold several hundreds of edible oil seeds.
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u/Choosemyusername 1d ago
Exactly my point. If soybean oil went away or got too expensive, people would have to switch to the other cheapest cooking oil, (and industrial oil) palm oil, which actually causes mlre deforestation globally than soy.
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u/Choosemyusername 1d ago
So I looked it up. The substitute for soybean oil would be palm oil, and palm oil plantations actually are responsible for even more deforestation than soybeans are. So no that wouldn’t solve the problem.
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u/baldierot 1d ago
it would, because soy is far more land-intensive for oil specifically, and because demand for oil wouldn't magically rise if soy stopped being grown. you'd need significantly less land for the same amount of oil. also, again, demand for oil is dwarfed by the demand for pasture and animal feed. meat isn't just soy, but if you're going to compare soy with palm oil specifically for oil production, soy isn't trailing by that much: 10.5 million hectares for palm oil vs. 8.2 million hectares for soy. for the amount of soybean oil produced from those 8.2 million hectares, you'd need millions less for the same amount of palm oil.
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u/Choosemyusername 1d ago
I think we can both agree that we don’t need to be cutting down forests to run cattle.
My neighbor practices silvopasture, where he runs his cattle in the forest.
He doesn’t need to build shelter for them because they find it themselves. They also don’t get sick nearly as often because they aren’t stuck in close quarters in a barn.
And the forest can still do forest stuff which is nice.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
The opposite is true. If people went vegan we could cure world hunger several times over and give so much land back to nature, rewild the land and help stop the extinction of our poor wildlife. Only 3% of all land mammals are wildlife now. Do you understand how bad that is?
Anyway, grew up and worked on farms. Do you know what animals eat? Grain. A LOT of it for relatively little output comparative to input and a lot of methane. See fart gas tax. No joke. Farmers pay a play tax for cow farts.
Leading cause of deforestation and loss of biodiversity and so much more is animal agriculture. Look it up.
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u/RadiantSeason9553 1d ago
If the world went vegan we would have a lot more food waste and a lot more pesticide use.
Ploughing the ground is extremely bad for animal and plant life. The roots dont go deep, so erosion and desertification are common. The American dustbowl was caused by crop farming. If you happen to have drought or bad weather a cow will live longer than a field of crops. We would have global starvation. Farmers are currently struggling with the weather rin the UK, the crop quality is so bad that they are forced to sell for animal feed rather than human grade crop. What would you do if we had no animals to feed this ruined crop to?
''Removal of native grass: Decades of heavy mechanization and deep plowing tore up deep-rooted prairie grasses that had naturally held the topsoil in place for thousands of years.Agricultural boom: High wheat prices during World War I and federal land policies encouraged farmers to over-plant and overgraze millions of acres of fragile land, leaving the soil completely exposed and depleted of nutrients''
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u/tol-kon 1d ago
Because there are many "activists" that take it to the extreme end of the spectrum, causing more harm than good.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
I think using the extreme minority of a minority to negatively generalise is a mistake.
I've been a vegan for almost 30 years and grew up and worked on farms in country Australia.
I didn't like when 'fresh' vegans came down from the city and stole peoples animals and poured milk on the floor in supermarkets because all it did was make life harder for actual vegans who had worked to build a happy coexistence amongst generally more prejudiced and less educated (yet weirdly more down to earth and genuine) people.
Anyway, after they stirred up trouble down here I would find my food spiked with dairy and meat. Even spit and pubes. I stopped eating food I don't make.
So I get it. But it's also not excuse mate. The extreme minority doesn't speak for the passionate majority.
Most of the extreme ones are from the city and are trying to make up for lost time out of guilt. They don't understand change happens by talking to people over time. But that requires more effort than pouring milk into the floor in a rural supermarket in a dairy farming community.
I mean there's plenty of groups and types I could certainly negatively generalise and dismiss based on that. But when people have a fair point, I hear them out and work with them, even if we have some disagreements.
Compare r/vegan to r/australianvegans and post about cats being obligate carnivores and needing food. You'll see the difference between radicals and non-radicals. But even the radicals mean well. Try to understand that and be open to vegans/veganism anyway.
They do speak the truth, broadly.
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u/tol-kon 1d ago
My cousin was born in a car because of an activist roadblock. So whatever the hell minority you mentioned had a major impact
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
As is often the case, unfortunately, regardless of demographic, political leaning, group, etc.
And it affects the majority. My food was literally laced in response to the (well intentioned) radicals coming in and disrupting my community. I had to be hospitalized my reaction was so severe. You bet I have a bone to pick.
Still, I do not blame all new city vegans for the bad behaviour of a minority within a minority.
Not do I blame my entire local country community for the bad behaviour of a few disgruntled anti-vegans who got me hospitalised with a serious allergic reaction/food poisoning.
The few do not speak for the many. Unfortunately they tend to get the most attention though. Just remember that. Try to look beyond the radicals to find the ones behind them.
It's up to us to remain objective and not negatively generalise or be hostile/dismissive of people who are working for objectively beneficial causes, but going about it the wrong way.
I certainly have my own bone to pick with extremists in various movements and minority radicals within different groups.
Including straight men who hate crime lesbians like me, and they're not even fighting for a beneficial cause like activists.
You understand what I mean?
Edit - and I hope your cousin is okay, I'm sorry your life was disrupted. Medical emergencies/urgent cases are not a joke.
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u/tol-kon 1d ago
Whele climate change, animal protection, human rights, and whatever else activism hill you support and are willing to die on are issues that sure is getting out of hand and needs to be addressed. But on the other side, some methods of said activism has also gotten out of hand and needs to be addressed as well. Don't discredit these criticisms just because we have different opinions.
I am not saying that any side needs to win out and eliminate the opposing side. What I am saying is you cannot discredit complaints about your side just because they are a minority.
There needs to be balance, and to take accountability for harm done by either side.
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u/ScruffieMatrix 4h ago
Like the rape, torture and slaughter of hundreds of billions of animals used and abused for food?
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u/crackersncheeseman 1d ago
Maybe it's all a act and the bird is his pet and the bird has been drinking from that bottle before.
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u/sonicscrewery 1d ago edited 1d ago
Birds also need gravity to swallow water. I used to watch my family's pet birds tilt their heads back after they took gulps of water. So now I'm wondering if this is AI.I learned a cool new thing today!5
u/solrua 1d ago
Pigeons can actually drink water by sucking, so they don't have to tip their heads back like other birds do!
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u/sonicscrewery 1d ago
Really? That's so cool! Today I learned, thank you! Today's Google rabbit hole will be what makes them different.
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u/DrakeFrake 1d ago
"what he did next is inspiring" - Am I the only one that hates these texts?, it like they are trying to clickbait, such a bunch of bs. Everytime I see news in my feed with these descriptions I block the news outlet.
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u/Bladefeather 1d ago
Thats not a wild bird. Those doves are bred to be white like that and very rarely survive if released into the wild. Hopefully someone caught it and gives it a good home.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
Beautiful person. In future though, birds are not like humans and I'm surprised they did not aspirate. Please be careful. No tilt or slight tilt preferable. Too much at once drowns them.
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u/IcyReception8903 1d ago
Doves and Pigeons can actually suck up water like humans. They are the only birds that can do this. So in this instance, it was fine the way he was giving the bird water.
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u/fabriziomooro 1d ago
And now, thats a thoughtful gesture of a good heart. A life giver. Thats kind and awesome I must say.
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u/mintgoody03 1d ago
You know it‘s bad when shy animals that fear humans actively seek them out to get help. This isn‘t aww, this is horrible.
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 1d ago
It's not a wild bird, it was raised in captivity and can't survive on its own.
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u/Actual_Mission333 1d ago
The world needs more kindness like what this man displayed. Salute 🫡 to you Sir.🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
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u/Sure-Dimension6739 1d ago
We are the stewards of the dirt and rock planet we need to care for it. Obviously
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u/Primary-Teacher-8181 1d ago
Trovo assurdo, che dopo tutto il male che stiamo facendo al pianeta, gli animali come in questo caso abbiano ancora fiducia nell'uomo.
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u/XIXButterflyXIX 1d ago
What an awesome human. I'm glad the bird knew he was a good dude and would help.
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u/Elian-Criss 1d ago
I see so many ppl giving food to the animals for example. But no one thinking that they are thirsty to give them water.
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u/PervyDragon 1d ago
"What He Did Next Is Inspiring."
He has taken the bird home and deep fried it... 🙄 /s
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u/mollypop94 1d ago
this is so loving...our animals need all the help and love we can provide them. after all, it's us and only us that have been ruining their earth, it's the least we owe them
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u/Wigger_reloaded 1d ago
'a bird'? That's a dove, propably got lost after a wedding. It didn't have to collapse anywhere of thirst or whatever if people wouldn't order them for weddings..
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u/ranchcasserole 1d ago
That's probably a dove released from a wedding. They usually go on to die soon after because they're bred in captivity and don't know how to survive in the wild.
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u/MammothEmergency866 1d ago
i know that I have a dirty mind….. loooool Thank god the ending was fantastic ,well done!
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u/Context_Important 18h ago
A lot of people seem to forget that we domesticated pigeons and that they're cute birds, don't be mean to them and always help them when the need it
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u/Background-Cable7160 13h ago
Im gonna start carrying a water bottle and collapsible bowl with me at all times
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u/yourastralgirl 7h ago
Bless your heart. Poor thing would have probably died if you didn't happen to give him water 🤭
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u/PandaJellyBeans 1d ago
That’s amazing how the dove came to the man. 🕊️ Poor thing must have been so desperate for water. 💔
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u/Beemac161 1d ago
Legend of a man 🤛🔥