Wildlife Videos

[nailedit]

A few days ago I posted a video of a Komaodo dragon eating a goat alive. I got told by a couple of posters that I was sick for posting it. They obviously hadn't read the text that accompanied it. (That nature is cruel and obviously not designed by a perfect God...red in tooth and claw kind of thing)

I view a lot of wildlife programmes/vids and invariably they show animals eating other animals alive.  (David Attenborough anyone?)

But does anyone bat an eyelid of a vid of a bird feeding its young with live worms???

Or a fisherman catching a trout with a maggot wriggling on the end of a hook?

 

Right, so serious question....Is it the size of the animal been devoured alive that makes it so difficult to view?

Worms, slugs, mice, flys, rats etc all get eaten alive by their natural preditors. No one bats an eyelid.

Komodo dragon eating a goat and it somehow is sick??

The dragon has to eat life as much as your little pussy cat catches mice or the fly with its web in the garage has to catch flies.

 

 

 

 

[nailedit]

Is there going to be a censorship on what vids about animals eating other animals is accepted?

A vid of a bird feeding its chicks in a nest with a live worm is acceptable and cute while a pride of lions tearing a live zebra apart wont be? They are both feeding on live animals.

Ive mentioned before that human hypocrisy is just beyond me now.

[youngmafbog]

Someone will always find something to moan about nailit.  Just ignore them or do what I do and thrive on their misery 😉

[Prudie]

It's not a right, wrong or even fair answer but from my viewpoint it's not about their size but about their presumed brain development and percieved ability to feel pain or fear. I don't think humans consider slugs and flies etc have feelings but more developed mammals such as goats, zebras from your examples do. Goats have personalities so watching one getting eaten alive we almost put ourselves in their place and think how terrified and in pain they must be (anthropromorphism). That's why it's so horrible to watch.

It's also relative, I don't care much about birds eating flies and spiders but I'm very upset if one of my cats hurts or kills a mouse and I've tried to save many over the years.