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[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

Tortoise: "I'm not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! ...Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?"

But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

[-] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 6 days ago

New Kung Fu panda movie is crazy

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

If you're surprised by this, you haven't been following giant tortoises.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

NGL if a turtle eats you, that sounds like a skill issue on your part.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Herbivores are pretty universally opportunistic carnivores. Check YouTube for examples if you want a jarring few minutes

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 35 points 1 week ago

Horses just slurping up chicks is so fucked to see.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago

I think I got the search terms reversed

extinct terror bird holding a horse in it's mouth, but the size difference is goofy it's holding the whole horse in it's beak meaning either the bird is like 5 times bigger than actual or the horse is only a foot long

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Ahhh so the horse was just getting revenge then

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

Idk what's that in the picture, but it's not a horse

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Huh? That bird is obviously eating an Eohippus. (And yes, horses were once that small.)

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[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago

...though my personal recommendation is that you don't.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Need to snack on the crunchy chicks to get the evil modifier up. There’s a door with loot, after all.

It’s okay, because you can get even more loot by donating to a temple; and everyone forgets it.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 44 points 1 week ago

Not that surprising. Many herbivores are opportunistic carnivores.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Also most carnivores are oportunistic herbivores too. It's not shocking enough, but it's true.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I also feel like that's not a surprise to anybody that's had dogs.

My cats sometimes think they're plastic-vores so I gotta keep the bags locked up.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah, have these people never seen any animals before?

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The videos of the deer eating birds is always fun

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago

I got pictures of a duck eating chicks as well

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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Usually mostly mammals though because since they're able to digest breast milk a little meat tends to agree with them better. But yeah at the end of the day free protein is probably worth an upset tummy out in the wild.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 33 points 1 week ago

Just wait till you hear what people eat

Whoever wrote that headline would shit a brick if they saw Balut

[-] vrek@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago

Fun... Well not really fun... Fact:

Giant tortoise didn't get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.

[-] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another not-so-fun fact: several tortoise species have gone extinct due to humans hunting them for food.

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[-] stray@pawb.social 24 points 1 week ago

Everyone eats baby birds. They're full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it's the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that's how the chick got near the tortoise.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

How'd you get in on the secret?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not really a secret, it was reported on public radio in my country recently, zoos admit to it when asked. But they don't actively spread this information: during beasts' of prey public feeding hours, they are given something less gory but more expensive, like a skinned pig you might see at a butcher's.

[-] webp@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Pretty much the only prey they outspeed

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

humm tendies

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