[0465] Birds Are Cruel Creatures
└ posted on Thursday, 21 March 2013, by Novil
- Nature documentary: In the nest, everything seems peaceful at first glance.
- David: Great, more bills.
- Nature documentary: But the first-born chick knows instinctively that his parents aren’t able to support him and his sister.
- Nature documentary: With a few powerful strokes he pushes his helpless little sister out of the nest. She has no chance of survival.
- Yuna: !
- Cloud: Come on, Yuna, let’s play outside!
- Cloud: Don’t you want to come up?
- Yuna: NO!
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
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Watch yourself Cloud, she’s learned about survival of the fittest.
Being the older brother of a sister i can relate. The only problem is when you realize it’s too late to dispose of them and they’re too smart and catch on to your plans. (heck my sister is a lot more sinister and sly than me)
Great comics btw I’ve been following your webcomic for almost a year now. it’s one of my top ten and i read a lot. (too much internet not enough social life haha) first time to comment
@ schizo:
My favorite human chracter is cloud btw. (obviously woo is my no. 1)
Yuna’s unto to you, Cloud!
Shoots Imperialist scum between the eyes, outruns a hunchback wolf, double-backflips past Oogdoogs, scared of heights.
@ Petah-Petah:
Or more of her brother, I guess. Both seem to apply in a wicked combination of terror.
After what she did with his action figure, she has reason to be afraid.
Silly Yuna. She ought to know that Ye Thuza would never allow that sort of thing. She’d almost certainly insist on a proper unarmed bout to the death. Not to mention that both her children ought to be able to fall safely from that height by now.
I never knew that about birds. I find it funny that a girl her age would think her brother would do such a thing though. XD
And then the mother bird returns to its nest with the dictator of the wolves in toe demanding a ransom for freedom of all bird-kind from their tyranny, and thus both chicks were saved from the harshness of nature.
Cloud: “Why not?”
Yuna: “Because you’re a murderer and you’ll push me out the window!”
Cloud: “I only killed that guy out of self defense, it wasn’t murder…” -3-
Personally self defense is my favorite flavor of murder.@ illeatyourself:
Don’t worry, Yuna. If you run up fast enough, you’ll have enough momentum to throw Cloud out the tree house using a hurricanrana.
If you don’t know what a hurricanrana is, google it.
This would be a great reason for Cloud to wear a bird costume next Halloween.
The nature channel: scaring the crud out of kids since it started.
@ schizo:
i know that feel bro. my sister figured out that if she cries, she can get my parents to punish me for her amusement. i had to adapt and learn to prove that she was wrong and i was right. then puberty happened and now she is too old to cry about anything. not only do i outsmart her in brains but i am now stronger than her. muahahaha
I don’t blame her! That documentary would pretty much traumatize me too!
Oh gods, this had me laughing!
Huh. What are the chances?
One time when i was little I found a baby bird in our garden in some plants we tried to look after her but she died after a few weeks. Is this maybe what happened to the bird I found?
Aww. Nature. Such wonderfully cute chirpy little sororicidal chicks.
@ Greenwood Goat:
It’s all in the landing. You can die from a slip-and-fall on a level surface if the back of your head takes the worst of the blow.
Good Job! I found this webtoon yesterday…i coudn’t help but read all the strips. what can i say? “clean”, “innocent”, “entertaining”. keep on drawing SaW, mates! ^^
p.s. english is not my native language so there may be some mistakes somewhere. please be patient.
p.p.s I love Cloud’s family (≧▽≦)
Oh. Wow. I would have to choose between Sandra and Woo and Xkcd?
See, this is why I stopped voting after I recognized 4 different webcomics in the brackets.
Was i the only one that read the Nature show Narrator voice as Lucky Yates.
Oh Pigley.
Well for me it has changed after high school. Nowadays me and my younger sister are very friendly… But back in the days, oh it was hell sometimes… Especially all those lies that she told mom…
I have 2 older sisters, I am surprised I made it out of childhood alive!
My problem was that every time I got into a fight with my second sister I would start to laugh. When you are laughing you can’t fight. When your opponent is laughing at you you tend to fight harder!
Now for the funny part. That sister is now my favorite sister of three.
I am unimpressed by the people who took that video. How they could watch that happen and not rescue that poor little chick is beyond me! “Oh but we mustn’t interfere in nature!” Excuses, excuses.
Yuna is adorable as always.
Shirou Zhiwu wrote:
I’m not so sure that was a canon story.
Half-Life Zim wrote:
No, I heard Morgan Freeman.
demarion wrote:
As a nature photographer or videographer, you seriously can not interfere. You could get fired. You’re there to record, not participate. Hence, Hemingway was once accused of leading a raid in WWII that helped free France, despite only being a war photographer. It’s not a moral code, it’s the job requirements. Really, how informative would nature shows be if we interfered any time a bird was about to fall out of the nest or whatever?
Heh. This comic reminds me of a classic Calvin and Hobbes strip.
One of the greatest episodes that doesn’t belong to a story arc. Sandra and Woo has the ability to make sheer brutality cute and funny.
Why is Sandra in the tags and not Yuna?
And then there are the birds that push other birds’ eggs or chicks out of the nest to lay their own and trick the parents into raising them… but at least they’re not attacking their own species, their very own siblings…
Yeah, lots of birds are jerks. But humans have done worse.
@ demarion:
Because the most likely outcomes are
1) Parents will completly forsake it after human has touched it anyway (hostile smell)
2) They will try to feed both, which given expense of energy will most likely make them weak and they will fail to feed both
3) The older chich will push it out again when you leave anyway.
What makes you want to help the poor little birdie is nothing but plain instinct of pack animal which has evolved to relly on the group. Granted it has proven effective… but only to some point… take a wolf pack for example. (they are actualy in terms of society very close to humanity- young and capable hunt (they eat first), progeny eats second, and old and slow who guard the cubs eat the last…) if redistribution if acquired resources goes too far the “hunters” will be hungry and they wont be able to catch another prey… their “production” will rapidly drop and there will be nothing to redistribute…
Hence the pack which overshot how much it can actualy “use for good of society” will die out.
just yesterday friend told me about some crazy woman which actualy took the poor little rabbit from the fox´es mouth and called animal service to help him… I actualy think we should kill the woman and give her meat to the poor fox.
Did not matter, the rabbit was dead and fox hungry :/ useless waste.
demarion wrote:
Just think of it as the Prime Directive for nature TV shows…
Paeris Kiran wrote:
This one is not true for birds at all despite what many believe. Most birds have very very little sense of smell.
Cyberohero wrote:
If you noticed I mentioned it as one of the options…
I have to say, we haven’t seen much of Woo lately.
Poor little Yuna, scared of her big brother. Cloud, I think your baby sister needs a hug.
HAH! Good one, i love Yunas face in panel 3
Hahaha ^w^ love it
illeatyourself wrote:
Oh goodness, please don’t generalize!
It’s only certain large raptors that are like this. Predominantly eagles. Many avians are very good family members, PARTICULARLY parrots.
Nokota wrote:
And on the other side of the scale… cuckoos.
myth buster wrote:
That’s kind of the point. If you know how to land right, you are far less likely to be injured by a fall. One would expect Ye Thuza to teach this to her kids, given what else she teaches them.
In the beginning was the Bird. And the bird was cruel.
— Heinlein.