Black stork killing chick #shorts

Recently, monitoring cameras were placed by ornithologists near a nest of a black segonha. As we watched the nest and its occupants, the adult stork began to attack one of its young. Having received many violent blows to the neck. As we can see, storks are not capable of killing their young. In the end, the puppy died from serious injuries. This behavior occurs often enough for storks and other birds. The stork kills the weakest of the brood when it cannot provide enough food for everyone, or when a bird behaves abnormally, shows signs of illness, deficiency or weakness. Instinct commands parents to eliminate the “suspicious” bird from the nest so as not to endanger other healthy chicks, once their older siblings successfully hatch. If the chicks do not aggressively compete for food, the parents would be forced to eliminate the extra chick themselves, that is, the weaker one.

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