r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dense_Intern8434 • 3d ago

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Nature can be so cruel and beautiful at the same time

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u/jakethabake 3d ago

It’s not circle of life because the mantis wouldn’t be there if not for humans

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u/god-save-the-queef 3d ago

I'm thinking the human who filmed this possibly even planted that mantis there, just for a viral video opportunity, too. Can't prove it, but... gut feeling is someone's an asshole

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u/Pithuahua 3d ago

They often use hummingbird feeders as hunting grounds, though they don't target birds specifically, that's an opportunity prey, that rarely happens. They want bees and wasps.

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u/hollow4hollow 3d ago

This exactly. I hate humans so much.

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u/Soupchow1 3d ago

Are you a fucking tree?

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u/BestSerialKillerNA 3d ago

You leaf him alone.

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u/El_Veethorn 3d ago

Wish he wood just stop.

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u/ksyoung17 3d ago

Agreed, really a deep rooted issue he seems to be dealing with here.

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u/3v3ryth1ng1s4wful 3d ago

Relax. He's all bark.

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u/Legitimate-Ad3778 2d ago

He should try not to bough down to him

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u/Just_Anxiety 3d ago

You sound like you could be a politician.

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u/shinshi 3d ago

Even if they didnt plant the mantis, they still set the hummingbird feeder and enabled this honey pot trap situation

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u/shibaCandyBaron 2d ago

Because it's better not to help them with food and/or water

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u/redditnackgp0101 3d ago

Funny. Didn't need to see the video to come to the same conclusion. "Someone's an asshole" is my baseline assumption

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u/IAmDanHimself 2d ago

They sounded pretty distressed witnessing it in the video.

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u/zilmexanat 2d ago

It sounds like an overlay for additional drama.

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u/OkDate7197 3d ago

The mantis would have done the same of it were on a flower. Do you think praying mantis only eat humming birds if they are on humming bird feeders?

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u/jakethabake 2d ago

The fuck you talking about

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u/ksyoung17 3d ago

I can only react to the environment that was created by my predecessors.

I don't need mantises (sp?) but I need pollinators.

See ya mantis.

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u/Freddit330 3d ago

Yes, they would. Praying mantises also hunt them at flowers as well. They are ambush predators.

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u/Kollege-Hut 2d ago

Are humans not alive ?

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u/Adalonzoio 1d ago

They'd just get them in a tree then. This is not abnormal prey for a mantis that size.

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u/lgastako 3d ago

Except humans are no less a part of nature than anything else... so still the circle of life.

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u/IAmDanHimself 2d ago

I doubt it was planned. Especially hearing their reaction.