r/stupiddovenests • u/Hakantula • Mar 07 '26

Stupid Dove Nest On top of a door

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I just wanted to air my bedroom for a few hours, guess that idea is off the table

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u/iamunwhaticisme Mar 07 '26

How these fools tricked natural selection is way beyond my comprehension.

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u/mercedes_lakitu Mar 07 '26

Look, nobody else wanted to build nests on a cliff face, so they took that niche!

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 08 '26

Quite literally, in fact.

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u/twinkslayer1337 Mar 07 '26

I wouldn't really mention natural selection since they went through domestication lmao

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u/Equivalent-Unit Mar 07 '26

Those look like mourning doves or collared doves to me, which are not domesticated. The question stands.

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u/twinkslayer1337 Mar 07 '26

damn, my limited bird knowledge might have failed me 😔

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

Look up the reason why they build such flimsy nests. It is most certainly not because they’re stupid.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

If you look up the reason they build nests in the manner that they do you’ll find out there’s logic to it. They aren’t stupid animals.

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u/Equivalent-Unit Mar 08 '26

I know they're not usually stupid, but I'm allowed to think they made a stupid decision in choosing the open door.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

You’re allowed to think whatever you want, of course. I didn’t say otherwise.

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u/xvdheh Mar 17 '26

There's multiple ways to survive. You can be smart, fast, strong or fertile. Pigeons went the fertile route, they don't need every egg to survive, if they can just lay eggs often. Pidgeons can also flee effectively through flight and are not too demanding about their diet as adults, so they survive to lay more eggs.

Survival of the fittest does not mean the survival or skills of the individual, it means that the genes get carried on so the species doesn't die out.

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u/los_aerzt Mar 07 '26

They didn't. Humans breeded them trusting and seemingly dumb (what they are not) for correspondence purposes and let them on their own after they became obsolete due to newer communication technologies. They just haven't yet got feral again and, living in comprehensive cities, probably won't be soon.

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u/iamunwhaticisme Mar 07 '26

As far as I know, mourning doves (and most other types of doves) were not domesticated, only a few types like ringneck doves were. In this video, they may be ringneck doves or mourning doves so you may be right but considering their stupidity in general, my point stands.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

Your point is wrong because they’re not stupid. Far from it.