Crazy and Raw: Kestrel Nestlings Devour Sibling After Chameleon Choke! Viewer Discretion Advised
Viewer Discretion Advised: A Kestrel nestling attempted to swallow a chameleon but choked on it. Meanwhile, the kestrel's siblings were pestering it by trying to pull the chameleon's tail out of the nestling's mouth. Unfortunately, things turned gruesome after the nestling died when the other nestlings cannibalized their dead sibling.
As the choking nestling struggled to breathe, its siblings did not make things better while they pulled on the chameleon's tail. The situation eventually turned tragic when the other nestlings began to cannibalize their dead siblings. This is a sad and distressing scenario, highlighting the harsh realities of life in the natural world. While it can be difficult to witness such events, they serve as a reminder of the fragility of life and the struggle for survival that exists in all living beings.
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Spring 2023
Date of egg laying:
Egg 1 = March 10, 2023
Egg 2 = March 12, 2023
Egg 3 = March 14, 2023
Egg 4 = March 17, 2023
Egg 5 = March 19, 2023
Hatching:
1-3 nestlings = April 15, 2023
4-5 nestlings= April 16, 2023
1 died on May 5, 2023 (choked on a chameleon).
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"Nature is beautiful. Humans are the REAL monsters" -some nugget who never looked out their window
One does not exclude the other. Nature is fucked up and we are monsters.
"We should learn from nature, humans are dumb." Nature: Teach us to be dicks and jerks and to beat everyone else because you are the center of the universe.
Bad nugget
Imagine getting killed by your siblings and your mom is like “Cool, I don’t have to make dinner.”
The young bird probably died from a combination of internal bleeding and asphyxiation. The mother has a lot of mouths to feed, nothing goes to waste in the natural world
I agree, the way they swallow its not meant for food to come back out! I’ve seen tails hanging out for a day before they digest entire thing, but it didn’t choke on it, the others had destroyed it’s mouth & other parts trying to get the lizard from it!
Savages
I've seen a lot of young birds going into a frenzy at feeding time but nothing ever beats a group of Kestrels. No idea why but they are vicious for the next bite.
Hunger. Look how fast they grow, from tiny little shriveled freaks into full-size predators, in just weeks. The ones that survive resource competition (food, space) in the nest will of course do better outside the nest. Two kestrels dive for the same meal, who's gonna win? The one with better instincts and experience.
I had given my opinion on this tragic incident before and a lot of people still don’t understand what happened exactly. One of the other chicks accidentally got the tongue of the poor chick which was swallowing the meal and started to bleed. The smell of the blood drove all the other chicks to join the frenzy. That’s all my opinion on the matter. Thank you.
Good observation!
"Tragic" This is just every day life, Great sheltered ones.
Welcome
This is an amazing capture! We as humans like to anthropomorphize animal behavior, so we choose to ignore the reality that survival trumps all. Even for baby chicks. When we are disturbed by nature, it’s not that nature is disturbing, but rather that we’re out of touch with the reality of nature.
I mostly agree, especially when it comes to family relations in nature. Everyone expects a "mother" animal to be the same as a mother human and deeply love her young - but they don't. They may bond with their family, but if a Kestrels baby mysteriously dies while she's out of the nest, she does not grieve the loss and instead sees an opportunity to feed her surviving babies. Also I'm sure her instincts told her there must be some reason the baby died. Chicks die very commonly, that's why the have so many. The siblings probably had no idea they were killing their nest mate, they just saw the tail and wanted to yoink the food from it. It all just got out of hand when they dogpiled him.
There are exact opposite videos to this one. Owls can be just as aggressive, yet there is a video of the oldest taking charge and feeding her younger siblings after her father died instead of taking the food her mother brought for herself. There was a lion who could not hunt at all and the other lions still kept bringing him back food. A falcon mother left the babies alone and the father learned to feed them, and they did not compete like this. Animals are also individuals. If you judged all of humanity based on the few cannibals and abusive familes... well this is just as silly.
@@1faithchick7You missed the point. Animals only care about survival and repopulating. Everything else either helps or hinders that to them. They aren’t altruistic.
That isnt true at all, do you forget dogs exist?@@Devin7Eleven
Humans have become way too soft and pathetic.
Wow they really wanted that chameleon... AND THEY STILL GOT IT
With a side of sibling! Score! XD
@@kymo6343 lol you beat me saying it.
I have seen hours of kestrel nestling footage, and during those viewings, I saw a great deal of innate kestrel behavior, including mom killing a sibling (very weakened state...already trying to successfully raise five total nestlings) and then feeding it to its siblings. This was behavior not captured as routinely, but fascinating to see (from a scientific/naturalist) standpoint. Now, with that out of the way, I have NEVER seen footage like this. While I was captivated, I was also a number of other emotional points...disturbed...nervous...anxious...worried...etc. This footage is absolutely epic.
Most people do not show the harsh reality's of nature. For us humans, they are hard to watch but for animals it is a way of life. We want to share the beautiful lives of these animals but also show the reality that nature does not always have a happy ending like Disney. Your comment is much appreciated.
It's disgusting, murder sensationalized
@@sew_gal7340 Once again, murder is not something you can apply to nature outside of humanity. Why do you watch these channels if you’re so appalled by them? Just here to hate watch and leave weird comments? You need therapy, or something.
I don't think I'd describe a baby kestrel being attacked and killed by its siblings epic.
Btw I believe 2:32 - 2:36 sums up why they are pieces of 💩 in my opinion
This footage is perfect for illustrating both the aggressively competitive nature of avian young, as well as the brutally pragmatic response to offspring death associated with predatory birds. Great, grisly stuff.
And another example of why people need to stop romanticizing the animal kingdom.
The nestlings weren't trying to save the other one. It looks like they were ripping out pieces of the mouth while trying to get the tail out.
someone else pointed out that around 0:44 they started going for the tongue not the tail. I think it started bleeding coz of that.
Sadly yes, I noticed the same, the poor baby probably died because of that..
I think they mistakenly started to bite the mouth of the chick and tasted blood. Once that happened, their instincts took over.
Scarier than most horror movies these days 😂
mama arrives: "well kids i got more, DEAR GOD!...... well y'all still hungry i guess... sigh...."
So much for brotherly love.
The nestling was fine until the other nestlings made it choke.
Yup
😂😂deserve
@@karumaldumal1983 you mean deserts
@@kellymendez i mean your Dork😂😂😂
always wild to me how much work it must be to be a bird that has to feed 5 other birds that are only a tiny bit smaller than yourself and probably twice as hungry! it's definitely understandable why weaker offspring tend to get killed / abandoned. as sad as the first one's death is, it's probably good it died as mom was planning to bring back another chameleon, if someone else tried to swallow it whole, they would have choked too. The death of the first one gave everyone else food without choking hazards
Amazing video, thanks for sharing👍🏼
Did he die from choking or from being attacked? This footage is stunning, I’ve never seen anything like it. Wow, then they ate him! Mom is not sentimental, she just seizes the opportunity and divvies him up. Nature is definitely not for the faint of heart. Mom is brave to go in there, I’d just throw food in the box then fly off. What a bunch of hoodlums! It’s seems to me that kestrel chicks are a lot more wild and savage than peregrine falcon chicks.
I’d say he died from both.
@@johnhall3570 Yeah, probably. He may have been able to survive having the prey get stuck when it was already halfway down his esophagus, these birds are built for gulping down large prey, similar to owls. But with all 4 of his siblings pulling on and trampling him he stood no chance. Brutal.
the other babies pecking and pulling on the chameleon's tail made it hard for the baby to finish swallowing, and so it had trouble breathing and probably choked to death
@@anzumazaki7798 Yeah, its siblings kept pulling out the tail, keeping the body of the lizard lodged in a specific position in its throat, while at the same time, all the siblings were on top of the nestling, and it was trying to resist, probably all contribute to a situation where it choked to death when otherwise it would have survived and eventually swallow the entire chameleon.
@@windtalker4191 yes the sad nestling couldnt figure out in time how rough the competition was among its siblings, the other nestlings seemed to learn and ate their food by going off to the side and hiding the food with their wings from the other nestlings while they were busy begging the mother kestrel.
That bird didn't choke, it was attacked while eating
yes, i wonder why always say the bird will "choke", it is totally different with human
It tried for like 30 minutes to get the tail down but was otherwise OK. Possibly when they pulled on it hard enough, it got stuck and blocked the airway.
@@derps0n839 and they attacked it which may have made it stressed out
I also don't think it's because of choking. First they are pulling the tail, but then one of the siblings pulling its tongue, perhaps thinking the tongue is part of the chameleon's body. The other siblings then join in on pulling the tongue as well seeing the blood, causing it to be weakened and die.
Mother Nature is a bitch.
Siblings peck its tongue and beak, full of blood here
The one horrified baby in the corner...
Thank you for posting this.
I just want to mention that I’m glad you recorded this with live, actual birds instead of some cheesy CGI.
The chicks crop was injured. The action of yanking on partially swallowed food is easily fatal. They have a sort of 'tongue' that acts as a breathing tube so they can swallow huge hunks of food without suffocating. Very delicate and fragile organ.
They are cold-blooded beasts that don't know a closer relationship like humans for each other. What were your expectations?
Nature: brutal, scary, disgusting, disturbing, violent, unforgiving, and after all of that it has a certain beauty within it’s chaotic order
Thank you for sharing nature can be cruel 😒
And people say dinosaurs went extinct.
When the nestlings started pulling at the chameleon's tail, the chick's mouth started bleeding. I wonder if the sight of blood got the other chicks all excited and made them go crazy.
if you looks closer you can see that nestlings with time were pulling on his tongue and not the tail, this is why it started bleeding
@@yosobaki when was that around? (do you have a timestamp?)
@@luudest around 0:44
Maybe the moment they realised they themselves are flesh and blood, but I doubt they got philosophical about it 🤣
Something to happen at times. The dead sibling ends up being food they instinctively can't let go to waste. It cleans the nest and keeps their bellies filled.
Nature isn't a disney movie
This is a very rare footage. It makes my eye wide open.
Yeah and its fuuny 😂😂
@karumaldumal1983 how?
Trust me People would do the same when hungry.
*have already
True
Pull almost digested food out of people's mouths? Where can I find these videos?
@@goldman77700He probably means eat family members or other people when in need. Throughout history famines have caused this. Or other events like expeditions or plane crashes where they had to eat the dead
Gotdam! These particular birds are straight thug-feeding violence aggression,(even when there seems to be ample food) and vicious beyond any bird footage I've seen. They are on 11
Imagine getting killed while trying to swallow a Big Macs
Those of you who think sharing a sphaegtti noodle with your significant other is cute, please remember this video.
The othe kid was like "Mmmmmh take your insanity somewhere else you guys and leave me alone"
Birds are just dinosaurs past their use by date 🤣
They are still pulling on the chameleon tail even after the mother had removed and fed them the siblings head. They really wanted what was on the end of the tail, kinda drove them crazy they couldn’t get it.
4:08 - 4:11 ONE in particular was obsessive and fixated causing a domino effect but the MAJORITY was the one that got the rest rilled up but had he not done that then it's obvious the others wouldn't have felt bold enough to do all that.
@@karmAnonymous It is their nature to respond to objects making movements like that. They really can't control the response it is part of their instinct to do so.
“Mom! Kenny is fucking dead!” “Aww…….. oh well, on the bright side, meat is back on the menu boys!”
So the mother supervised the sibling consumption, she never left the siblings to do that alone. What does it mean when the young do that on their own without being "shown" by the parent?
That's nature, nothing's gone to waste.
Geez!! Even Mom joins in on the "feast"😱
This is so heartbreaking…
Ahh the point when your visit goes from having you over for dinner to having you for dinner. So easy to mistake them.
Quanto è spietata la natura !!! 😢😢😢
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Was that the chicks tongue that the other chick was trying to pull out, I guess they wanted to keep her quiet.
Took too long for it to have been just the chameleon. Can tell it was skipping time. All that pulling likely caused it to lodge and/or tear it up inside. Facial and neck damage from beaks and claws constantly pecking. I’m betting it died from a combo of drowning and suffocation. And the increase in aggression after it dies shows the dog eat dog nature of NATURE.
That was brutal. The siblings were all over it for that prey, then the chick became the prey!
Poor thing? That baby would have done the same thing if it was one of the others and also ate it's sibling. It's nature and disgusting
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@ Ray Romano the chicks are just trying to survive that chick must have been in a lot of pain so not having any compassion for the little guy is disgusting
I think the first sibling that was trying to grab the lizard’s tail got the tongue instead . The smell of the bleeding ripped tongue attracted the other siblings to join the frenzy . That’s my opinion anyway.
I watched this the day it happened and rewatched it frame by frame... poor thing, such a brutal way to die.
口開けた瞬間カメレオンの尻尾じゃなく舌を噛んで引きちぎろうとしてるのエグいな そのあとも執拗にカメレオンの尻尾じゃなく舌狙ってひきちぎって食べてるし
I don't Understand. Please say again but differently. 🙏
@@alking6633 The tail is the tongue but when their mouth is open.. it’s being eaten. It’s torn and eaten the chameleon’s tongue is the tail… but now no more.
Where is the unedited version? At one pount that seems to got the tongue of the bullied than everything gone down hill. But everything is cut and speed up
Damn! The animal world is cruel! 😳
Got to keep that nest clean.what do ya think a proper burial is in order
I guess the shortage of food makes the nestlings very aggressive, and quite opportunistic, stealing food from each other and eventually lead one of them die of choking。
wow what a great assessment
and that is why the quote 'survival of the fittest' was made
Kids: " we swear it's an accident, Mom" Mom: "that's okay kids, let's have a steak tartare out of your sibling." Mom: "and you kids will decide who is going to be the next meal."
More like kestrel cordon bleu ( with chameleon stuffing instead)
4:44 The little brother in the back turned religious and began to pray.
Yeah, the bird choked, but as a direct result of the siblings fucking with it. It couldn't finish swallowing because they kept pulling it back up. The siblings got it caught in its throat, resulting in it choking to death.
Imaging getting yourself your own meal and then your siblings gang up on you attack you and because of your own wounds and constant attempts to finish the food you end up dying because of it. And your siblings get rewarded by getting to eat you
I will never understand the cannibalistic nature of raptors but I know it's nature and "nature is cruel," as they say.
Nature is a food cycle that never ends. Prey and predator. The creater of this realm the abyss made it so.
Just about any carnivore or omnivore will turn cannibalistic if hungry enough and the only thing to eat is another of its kind
Dam only birds that actually seems to eat their dead sibling. Also at 4:10 you can see the green chameleon body came back out
Mom is like at least I don't have to cook tonight 🤣🤣🤣
This gives a new meaning to "homemade meal"
It's natural selection in this way they are getting rid of competition.😢
Dang, the siblings got the lizard after all.
remember people, even us humans do the same, when we are in need for survival, we will also eat our own, if needed
Baby was fine until siblings pulled it back up and caused the chameleon to become lodged which caused him to choke and die. It was absolutely choking
It’s sad, because it wasn’t like the nestlings we’re trying to kill each other, they were just desperately fighting over a prized meal. That chameleon would keep a chick full for a while.
That some of the most brutal shit I've seen in awhile in nature. I watched a mama grizzly eat its cub after male killed it
Was this the 1st nestling? It looked like the oldest of them all. It didn't take long for them to eat it. Poor things, it's obvious they were starving.
They do all right with food in this box, but young kestrels don't like waiting their turn when the parents just pass them whole preys. If they notice something is hanging out of nestmate's beak, they will go for it like a cat to a laser pointer.
i just wish i was there after the fact I'd feed each one of those evil little feathered rats a fire cracker or maybe a cactus
@@wiseguy9925 try lighting and swallowing one first for scientific purposes.
I gotta respect the mom just... Recycling the dead chick 😬 Objectively, that's a LOT of easy food she didn't have to catch or carry back to the nest. Natural is as brutal as it is beautiful.
I am guessing this won't end up on BBC's documentaries any time soon. They're too busy glorifying nature.
Did two birds die
mom was like oh little brother is dead, cant let that go to waste 😭😭
Most people don't understand. Birds of any specie are ruthless.
it's monstrous! too cruel! 😔
first is they dont have sense like we humans have, and second is they dont have emotional heart, like we have , thus they saw was food source and mother instinct to keep clean the nest, that led them to feed on it, do you think they have brain power to understand cannibalism, no, its for human, that gives me great example how God has created that everything is for human to see as human is in test , his test is does he find his God or not.
Yes 😔
It is the natural order. Who are we to judge?
Mom: I see you made dinner
The tail getting coated in blood is probably what caused the baby bird to choke
Life’s cheap up here in the kestrel nest
definitely these Kestrel nestling won't hesitate to attack human, or (their mom tail 3:20), once getting aggresiive/hungry/, once see blood, or once released... , so monstrous a living thing on earth, so, see 1 kill 1, like insects
It’s not “crazy” that the sibling were so aggressive. It’s pragmatic.
Law of the strongest. The dead nestling couldn't carry a tune to save its life.
I know now not to watch the kestrel box 😢 at least the owls don’t kill each other, although mom will feed a dead sibling.. I can’t watch this
Watch out for the barn owl box…
@@msacer5513 I watch them and it’s been brutal too but I’ve never seen them attack and kill a live sibling like this. Do they? Ugh nature sometimes
@@kimmayton5442 if they are weak and small, the last one hatched etc… This video was pretty intense.
The littler one is next. Look at it in the corner by itself near the end of the video. It knows! 4:43
How did that chick died
Oh my f goodness, why did I search for this...
I raised chicken and I have seen them eating worms and other small bugs and mice etc.But when one chick hold something in his beak all the other chicks were running after him and trying to snatch that food from his beak especially some worm like thing so think it’s the instinct of small baby chicks and these bird of prey chick that they go after worm like food more.
Mom is like Well.......okay then
The Mother: Oh my baby ! Kids dinner is ready
4:07 They finally got what they wanted.
The craziest thing was how the mom fed her baby to the siblings without batting an eye.
Nothing wasted
tbh I wouldn't be surprised if our caveman ancestor did the same thing
@@riser7795Actually was pretty normal on ancient homo species, but this stopped a few thousands years before the existence of the current homo sapiens due prionic illness. So our very ancestors stopped canibalism to avoid this kind of infection.
That's allot of mother instincts
It looks to me like the bird got a meal too big for itself and instead of sharing with its siblings decided to be greedy and eat the thing to itself and because it was too big we see the end result here in this video. I have seen a baby bird so hell bent on being fed that a Praying Mantis took advantage of this dumb bird thinking it was being fed that it done all the hard work for the Mantis by gaping its beak wide open for the Mantis to get in its inner beak/mouth that is full of flesh and made a massive meal out of it. The Mantis with its razor sharp mandibles tore the inside flesh to bits that the Mantis was covered in blood and still this greedy bird just kept its mouth wide open for the Mantis to keep destroying this bird’s mouth. At the end of the video you could see the other baby bird open its mouth and when comparing it to the one that had been dined on you could see that the one the Mantis had fed on had a mouth pooled up with blood. So the bird thinking it was going to be fed became the one being fed on instead and its desire to do the one thing it wanted the most was the thing that will have killed it because there is no way that bird was surviving the infection’s coming its way. It will have died either of the infections or due to the mess the infections that will have messed its mouth up so much it would not be able to eat. So again the one thing it wanted so badly being the one thing that resulted in its death.
Who's next?
*for all of u who forget birds aren’t angels with wings*
So horrible! Poor baby. It should be very painful. Feel sorry for it. RIP baby.
Oof. Careful what you say if you dont speak a language properly 😂
Takes the expression "Nothing is wasted" to a new level. Well except maybe the dead chick's life. Haha.
She gets a little break from hunting today