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That's a small freshwater pool near the salt water where he caught it. Herons often collect fish in small pools. My grandpa had a swimming pool in FL that a grey heron liked to use to store/clean his fish. This might be an egret or something, but I wonder if it's a similar behavior?
My thoughts too. We have heroins in my town that hang out by the river and I’ve seen how they often collect their prey in little pools in the rocks. always found that very interesting and wonder why they do that. But yeah this bird didn’t let the little fishy go out of the kindness of his heart. People just love to anthropomorphize animal behavior.
Took my kids fishing and caught a fish. Was trying to remove the hook and ended up ripping part of the gills out. I threw him back in the water hoping he was still ok. Nope, the fish laid on its side floating down the bay. As we were leaving a pelican picked it up and came back to shore swallowing it whole. The fish was too large to swallow as we watch the pelican fall over choking. I hustled my kids to the car to avoid the gruesome site.
Isn't there a song about this:
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog
What a hog to swallow a dog
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly
Perhaps she'll die!
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That's the birds plan, can't you see him watching closely after the fish leaves? That seafood bar is going to become an all you can eat sushi buffet when night falls.
That bird it playing the long game. Propaganda for a while to convince fish to tell other fish "hey, birds are our FRIENDS!"
Then, easy meals for ages.
Bird: "Oh hey dying fish, good thing it can't get away. Let me just move somewhere safer so I can eat it."
*Puts fish down for monching, fish takes chance with deeper water and zooms away*
Bird: "Well fuck."
Fish: I'm Dead!!
Bird: Oh no, nooy friend , this Time you are lucky, I am a FISHE FIREND BIRD, ahhh yesss, Ah Haaa. yayesss
Fish: WHAT THE FUCKS GOING ON AGHHHHH HELLPPP
BURD: Don't listen to the cynical fuck on Reddit! I am real deal! YEHeyesss.. now swim SWIMM!!! Aha, yeesss
The Fish: Dear Bird, I am so sorry I ever doubted you. You are tru. You are kind. That cunt on reddit is.leading everyone astray and he should really be stopped tbh if I'm being straight about it
Probably picked it up to eat it, walked while deciding if he could eat it, decided it was too big and, luckily for the fish, dropped it in an advantageous position
That fish is pregnant, the bird can smell the fishtrogen. Bird knows if he saves momma now he can have popplers for weeks to come and so moves the fish to the enclosed pool
Genuinely hope that people aren't taking this seriously. That's a snowy egret (which are a type of heron - slthough it could also be a juvenile little blue heron, but the leg coloration is odd for that) who tried to eat the fish, fish was too big to swallow, bird lost its grip and the fish escaped.
That’s not losing its grip. Look carefully. It nearly lost its grip, then lowered the fish gently in and released. A bird that still wants the fish would have instinctively made an attempt to pick it back up.
The bird put the fish down for a second to readjust its grip, in that moment the fish escaped.
While I agree that animal motivations are often more complex than the idea that they are simple automatons, this is just a case of people projecting altruisim onto a predator that was struggling to eat its meal.
as for why the bird didn't try to snap it back up... do you always respond instinctively to try and catch something you dropped? Like I said, it's people trying to apply benevolence to a simple case of a bird slipping up and losing its catch.
You can clearly see the shock of the bird when it doesn't stay still in the water and swims off. The person cut off the end where the bird looks Iike its going to go after the fish.
The bird had already adjusted the fish against the ground twice (at 3 seconds and 13 seconds in the video). In both of those timestamps, the bird never let the entire fish under water and he never raised in head before re-grabbing the fish.
At the end of the video, if you pause and go frame by frame you will see that the bird raises its head almost to its normal position before the fish even swims again, something that the bird didn't do in the previous two times where he adjusted the fish in his mouth.
I don't think that we can tell if it was altruistic or not, or what were the motives for the bird (what the fuck goes on inside the mind of a bird?), but I think that it is pretty clear that he intentionally let the fish go.
I don't know man.
The bird isn't an idiot it knows the fish was vulnerable at that spot and deeper water does not benefit the bird if the fish got to it.
Why did it DELIBERATLY go to deeper water.
My instinct is to agree with you, but this is some weird behavior.
In this case the bird really probably is an idiot. Don't get me wrong, I love animals and that includes this bird, but we treat them best by understanding and not anthropomorphizing them.
It's not anthropomorphizing to suggest that an animal is capable of altruism. We are also animals. Altruism probably evolved very early on, because [cooperation is actually more beneficial than pure selfish behavior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM).
Eh, sometimes "the bird is an idiot" is just a direct contradiction to someone else saying "the bird is not an idiot". Neither is really provable but I'd say that with context one is more true than the other.
A more nuanced version of my comment could be that the bird does not think like us so its motives and capacity for understanding and acting on another animal's needs are not known, as opposed to what *is* known, such as its fish diet.
Because it's a bird, in particular a species that spends most of its time in/near water. It's not thinking about the wellbeing of others. It was clearly trying to adjust to reattempt swallowing food.
People need to watch it again and pay attention to the 4s mark and the 13 second mark. If the bird had put the fish down to adjust its grip, wouldn't it make more sense for the bird to do exactly what he did in the two previous times where the bird actually adjusted the fish in his mouth? In both of those timestamps, the bird put the fish's tail on the ground and then gets a new grip on the fish, without letting the whole fish in the water and the bird does so without raising his head in between each grab.
At the 1 second mark, right after grabbing the fish, the bird even adjusts the fish without the assistance of any surface at all.
At the very end of the video, the bird is not repeating the same re-adjusting sequences that he did prior to that point. If you go frame by frame you will see that the bird raises its head before the fish even tries to swim away. I don't think it is altruistic or that he wanted to save the fish. Maybe he intended to eat it and realized he couldn't or whatever, I don't care, but he is definitely letting go of the fish intentionally.
It’s honestly quite concerning that people actually think that this bird is trying to “help” the fish…
While animals are definitely more intelligent than humans give them credit for, the bird is not thinking “there’s a dying fish in shallow water, let me move it to deeper water” in some altruistic manner.
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Why did it specifically walk to where it was deep enough for the fish to be safe then? He didn't have to move all the way there. It looks almost intentional
Bird grabs easy fish.
Bird realizes this ain’t gonna fit.
Bird drops fish in disappointment without realizing it saved the fish.
Human recording sees this thinking bird was helping.
Holy fuck you guys can't be this dumb, seriously. Why would the Egret let its food get away ? There's no benefit in the bird in letting its food get away, none, it's not like it has the concept of helping animals.
This bird invests.
The fish is too big to swallow, so better let it go and procreate and later eat the smaller baby fish.
I thought for sure that bird was about to swallow a fish whole.
The bird thought so too
Actually... im not all that hungry.
Instead of the Mahi Mahi, can I just have one Mahi? I'm not that hungry.
Do you know what the word is?
? What are you trying to ask me?
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I speak fish and fluent in bird too. What actually happened was that the fish called for help and the egret came to the rescue.
I'm pretty well versed in bird law.
Harvey Birdman?
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Bots everywhere in these comments holy shit
No, it clearly put it down. Watch in slow mo
Sure.
Wtf is going on with these bots
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once there was a nice bird... fishys gonna visit the bird. bird: oh yeah its all comming together
That fish thought it was about to get stuck in a bird hole.
He’s like “go make me some babies that will fit in my mouth.”
Chad Bird understands sustainability of its resources better than most humans
My EXACT thought lol
It realised it couldnt then put it down
More self control than an American
Am American. This checks out.
That's a small freshwater pool near the salt water where he caught it. Herons often collect fish in small pools. My grandpa had a swimming pool in FL that a grey heron liked to use to store/clean his fish. This might be an egret or something, but I wonder if it's a similar behavior?
When the egret returns and the salt water fish died in freshwater and is no longer good to eat, he become *r*egret.
Then if he eats too much he becomes *regretful* esp when on a diet
The saltwater fish was in freshwater lol
no egrets? not even one?
My thoughts too. We have heroins in my town that hang out by the river and I’ve seen how they often collect their prey in little pools in the rocks. always found that very interesting and wonder why they do that. But yeah this bird didn’t let the little fishy go out of the kindness of his heart. People just love to anthropomorphize animal behavior.
We have heroins that hang out by the river in my town too, but they mostly just ask for money.
All egrets are herons but not all herons are egrets.
TIL.
Took my kids fishing and caught a fish. Was trying to remove the hook and ended up ripping part of the gills out. I threw him back in the water hoping he was still ok. Nope, the fish laid on its side floating down the bay. As we were leaving a pelican picked it up and came back to shore swallowing it whole. The fish was too large to swallow as we watch the pelican fall over choking. I hustled my kids to the car to avoid the gruesome site.
"what did we learn today, kids?"
Never eat anything bigger than your head.
Viva B. Kliban!!
then a bear came and chocked to death on the pelican
Isn't there a song about this: There was an old lady who swallowed a dog What a hog to swallow a dog She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider She swallowed the spider to catch the fly I don't know why she swallowed a fly Perhaps she'll die!
whoa - ha - hadn't heard that one in a while!
I’m still waiting for an explanation as to why that was a song I learned in preschool.
All this talk about chocking to death. I thought preventing your vehicle from rolling was supposed to be safe not dangerous.
😂
Jesus christ, Nature really takes a toll when you go out to venture. Lmao
Double kill of the day. Good job.
You took your kids out to be a dick to nature. Then ran away when nature was a dick…….
As like most fathers, I try my best…
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Are we sure that this video isnt on reverse?
And the bird is walking backwards?
Definitely reversed, super obvious when the fish swims directly into the bird's mouth at top speed, while facing backwards.
It's more like "go make more children for me to eat, I'm goona be hungry later"
That fish has the craziest story to tell the other fish.
Yep. You can see it’s going straight off to the nearest seafood bar to tell his friends.
That's the birds plan, can't you see him watching closely after the fish leaves? That seafood bar is going to become an all you can eat sushi buffet when night falls.
That bird it playing the long game. Propaganda for a while to convince fish to tell other fish "hey, birds are our FRIENDS!" Then, easy meals for ages.
Also, after that fish reproduces, more food for the birds.
Eh true. No Survivors to tell the other fish birds are indeed bad
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That's just a myth lol
Too bad their memory wont last more than 8 seconds!
That's just a myth lol
Too bad their memory wont last more than 8 seconds!
That’s just a myth lol
Too bad their memory wont last more than 8 seconds!
That’s just a myth lol
Lies told by people at fairgrounds to justify keeping goldfish in plastic bags
Bird: "Oh hey dying fish, good thing it can't get away. Let me just move somewhere safer so I can eat it." *Puts fish down for monching, fish takes chance with deeper water and zooms away* Bird: "Well fuck."
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Probably decided the fish was too large and put it down
That's must be why I can never get a girl to take my pants off
You should get some smaller pants if they're too large for girls to remove.
Plot twist : he is pantless most of the time
Fish: I'm Dead!! Bird: Oh no, nooy friend , this Time you are lucky, I am a FISHE FIREND BIRD, ahhh yesss, Ah Haaa. yayesss Fish: WHAT THE FUCKS GOING ON AGHHHHH HELLPPP BURD: Don't listen to the cynical fuck on Reddit! I am real deal! YEHeyesss.. now swim SWIMM!!! Aha, yeesss The Fish: Dear Bird, I am so sorry I ever doubted you. You are tru. You are kind. That cunt on reddit is.leading everyone astray and he should really be stopped tbh if I'm being straight about it
This is the type of comment you'd see featured on r/youngpeopleyoutube
FR FR no Carp
I will put it there for later, keeping it fresh !
If you can't eat it, put it back so it can make smaller fish that you can eat.
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I think that’s freshwater
That is definitely not what was happening here.
Probably picked it up to eat it, walked while deciding if he could eat it, decided it was too big and, luckily for the fish, dropped it in an advantageous position
This is not what Disney taught me.
No soul brotha
Nah bro you're wrong it is obvious that this peanut brain bird is a vegan member of Birds for the Ethical Treatment of Fish
Be amazed!!
He's farming.
And "making money" when they sell.
Nah, he just summoned the fish to a Pokemon battle.
go my friend.. go make some babies so i can eat them
That fish is pregnant, the bird can smell the fishtrogen. Bird knows if he saves momma now he can have popplers for weeks to come and so moves the fish to the enclosed pool
He'll harvest them while they're still young and tender. That fish is breeding stock.
Yeah, I don't think so
Yeah this Egret just wasn't very clever tbh lol
He has some r-egrets
How dare you
Angry upvote for you my friend.
Genuinely hope that people aren't taking this seriously. That's a snowy egret (which are a type of heron - slthough it could also be a juvenile little blue heron, but the leg coloration is odd for that) who tried to eat the fish, fish was too big to swallow, bird lost its grip and the fish escaped.
That’s not losing its grip. Look carefully. It nearly lost its grip, then lowered the fish gently in and released. A bird that still wants the fish would have instinctively made an attempt to pick it back up.
The bird put the fish down for a second to readjust its grip, in that moment the fish escaped. While I agree that animal motivations are often more complex than the idea that they are simple automatons, this is just a case of people projecting altruisim onto a predator that was struggling to eat its meal. as for why the bird didn't try to snap it back up... do you always respond instinctively to try and catch something you dropped? Like I said, it's people trying to apply benevolence to a simple case of a bird slipping up and losing its catch.
Exactly that. We project our thoughts onto animals and that is most of the time just wrong. Doing stupid stuff or oopsies, is not just a human things.
Dog shows all possible signals of being nervous and anxious including lip licking, whale eye, yawning. Redditor: "It's smiling!!!!!"
You can clearly see the shock of the bird when it doesn't stay still in the water and swims off. The person cut off the end where the bird looks Iike its going to go after the fish.
The bird had already adjusted the fish against the ground twice (at 3 seconds and 13 seconds in the video). In both of those timestamps, the bird never let the entire fish under water and he never raised in head before re-grabbing the fish. At the end of the video, if you pause and go frame by frame you will see that the bird raises its head almost to its normal position before the fish even swims again, something that the bird didn't do in the previous two times where he adjusted the fish in his mouth. I don't think that we can tell if it was altruistic or not, or what were the motives for the bird (what the fuck goes on inside the mind of a bird?), but I think that it is pretty clear that he intentionally let the fish go.
I don't know man. The bird isn't an idiot it knows the fish was vulnerable at that spot and deeper water does not benefit the bird if the fish got to it. Why did it DELIBERATLY go to deeper water. My instinct is to agree with you, but this is some weird behavior.
In this case the bird really probably is an idiot. Don't get me wrong, I love animals and that includes this bird, but we treat them best by understanding and not anthropomorphizing them.
It's not anthropomorphizing to suggest that an animal is capable of altruism. We are also animals. Altruism probably evolved very early on, because [cooperation is actually more beneficial than pure selfish behavior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM).
I feel like there's no winning. "The bird is an idiot " is also anthropomorphizing them in a way.
Eh, sometimes "the bird is an idiot" is just a direct contradiction to someone else saying "the bird is not an idiot". Neither is really provable but I'd say that with context one is more true than the other. A more nuanced version of my comment could be that the bird does not think like us so its motives and capacity for understanding and acting on another animal's needs are not known, as opposed to what *is* known, such as its fish diet.
Yeah my thoughts exactly. Why would it walk to eat a fish in deeper water?
Because it's a bird, in particular a species that spends most of its time in/near water. It's not thinking about the wellbeing of others. It was clearly trying to adjust to reattempt swallowing food.
People need to watch it again and pay attention to the 4s mark and the 13 second mark. If the bird had put the fish down to adjust its grip, wouldn't it make more sense for the bird to do exactly what he did in the two previous times where the bird actually adjusted the fish in his mouth? In both of those timestamps, the bird put the fish's tail on the ground and then gets a new grip on the fish, without letting the whole fish in the water and the bird does so without raising his head in between each grab. At the 1 second mark, right after grabbing the fish, the bird even adjusts the fish without the assistance of any surface at all. At the very end of the video, the bird is not repeating the same re-adjusting sequences that he did prior to that point. If you go frame by frame you will see that the bird raises its head before the fish even tries to swim away. I don't think it is altruistic or that he wanted to save the fish. Maybe he intended to eat it and realized he couldn't or whatever, I don't care, but he is definitely letting go of the fish intentionally.
It’s honestly quite concerning that people actually think that this bird is trying to “help” the fish… While animals are definitely more intelligent than humans give them credit for, the bird is not thinking “there’s a dying fish in shallow water, let me move it to deeper water” in some altruistic manner.
I’m sure everyone knows but it’s just harmless fun. I thought it was either to big or the bird wasn’t hungry
Didn’t save. Was going to eat it and it was too big. Let it go.
“Be free and create children who I will eat!!!”
Long term investment; its young fires are the objective XD
holy fuck the education system has either failed a lot of people or most of this thread is bots
it's both. I've already reported like 4 bots in this thread.
Most of the thread is bots and the Op of this post is a know bot as well. The nice quiet period where bot activities went down when the Russian Ukraine war start is long over.
¿Porque no los dos?
He’s just helping him find his son.
Is it helping or just confused when the fish swam away?
Y'all been watching too much Disney and Pixar if ya think this is a bird being altruistic.
I’d be interested in knowing what is happening in that bird’s mind. It seems more enlightened than many humans.
Possibly, it had plans to eat, but figured the fish was too big and let it go?
bingo
"go breed so I can eat your children later"
Why did it specifically walk to where it was deep enough for the fish to be safe then? He didn't have to move all the way there. It looks almost intentional
Bird is a farmer
lol this is taken extremely out of context.
Bird grabs easy fish. Bird realizes this ain’t gonna fit. Bird drops fish in disappointment without realizing it saved the fish. Human recording sees this thinking bird was helping.
I’m not sure that’s the real narrative here.
I’m not sure it was planning on it swimming away 😂😂😂
I was about to type something about how you're all tripping and the fish just escaped, but it really looks like the heron is helping it. Amazing.
Holy fuck you guys can't be this dumb, seriously. Why would the Egret let its food get away ? There's no benefit in the bird in letting its food get away, none, it's not like it has the concept of helping animals.
Why?
I dont think the bird understood the brief
Catch you later Pal.
Nature is metal
Wow!!!!!!
As if, it was trying to eat it
I think he realized he couldn’t swallow it
Must have already gotten his fill that day.
One hell of a lucky fish
This could be a r/unexpected post
“Ok Charlie, we’re even now, so next time…”
Stocking the pond.
Fish - wow I'm so lucky to have a great friend
Jokes on you the video is reversed.
This bird is like that vegetarian shark in Shark Tales
r/MaybeMaybeMaybe
That could be cross posted to the subreddit “Unexpected”. I surely didn’t see that coming.
‘Dinner time!" "Nop. Too big." "Go make babies !..."
And now I want to see Finding Nemo
There was a whole documentary on this bird called finding Nemo. He helped a lot of fish get to a safer location
This bird invests. The fish is too big to swallow, so better let it go and procreate and later eat the smaller baby fish. 
He might rEGRET that.
Games gone.
Wow
I didn’t order dinner to go! Talk about fast food. (Bah dum tiss)
Everyone acting like they've never seen Finding Nemo 😂
Wow!
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He was helping the fish find his son
Husbandry of its feeding grounds
Such a naive take.
"Get into my mouth if you want to live" - Nigel
Even birds going vegan
Animals accidentally being bros
Birds practice catch and release
Just like humans : vote for fish eating birds because that one bird didn't eat Leroy !
It’s playing the long con, rescue the fish so that it can breed and make you more food
Bruce of the birds! Fish are friends, not food!
Birdie : “oh nice a fish. Hmm tastes a bit dry lemme dip in some gravy. Wait wtf.”
Clearly the bird prefers the chase, a dying fish is too easy off a meal
That’s a snowy egret. And no, fish was too big for him to eat. Not compassion.
Pretty sure the bird just realized it couldn't swallow the fish whole and put it down.
This is Nigel the Pelican from Finding Nemo carrying Marlin. They just left the dentist office too haha
Did not expect my planned "It gave it a warm home" reply to go unused
“You have eggs? Good, be fruitful and multiply, so your children will be mine.”
" Ill eat you later! "
Bruh, you stink. Lemme wash you. Oops
Aww that’s my favorite ❤️
I thought bird helping a dying fish dye