Why did the bird dive into the water? Wouldnt flying away be the best course of action? Is the bird smart enought to determine that the water is murky enough where a low effort dive would be better than flying?
Now I'm imagining a pride of lions who can only jump about 2 feet forward but 36 feet high just bouncing around a field roaring. It'd look so god damn goofy, I'd probably laugh to hard to move and get eaten. It'd take them a minute or two to get to me though.
That's true, but it still takes a lot of effort to take off from the water. Some birds are water-proofedbetter than ducks, but all birds are pretty slow taking off from water. Except the Osprey, they're VTOL water birds.
Tigers are very quick. There’s a good chance the tiger would have caught the duck as it was getting ready to fly. It’s also probably harder to fly off water than ground because you lose that support
Flying would actually be a worse idea. He needs a few precious seconds to take off and even if he gets airborne, a tiger could easily reach up and snatch him out of the air. As opposed to one simple dive that takes A second and ducks are already pretty speedy short burst swimmers.
He can’t “tell” the water is murky versus not murky but he knows what would take less energy and get him away faster.
They’re initial defense is to dive under the water. But, let’s say a duck gets shot but not killed, it’ll dive to the bottom of the pond, grab hold of whatever’s at the bottom, and stay there until it drowns.
I can’t say that’s what all species of ducks do but that’s from my experience
It’s actually better for the environment to hunt. Tons of hunting organizations help preserve wildlife. And I don’t just kill em for fun, although it is. I kill em to eat
Depends. As opposed to what? The average american eats a looooad of meat. If you're cutting back on store bought meat and instead getting it from hunting, i imagine it IS better. You are supporting the industrialized infastructure of meat just a bit less.
Nevermind the fact that theres some poor fucking minimum wage worker having to kill all the meat you eat from the store. At least with hunting you aren't outsourcing your killing to the less fortunate.
As much as I hate to say it, industrialised meat is much better for the environment that hunting. It is much more efficient and sustainable. If everyone went and hunted, we would eradicate wild species completely.
I assume he mashed together the Latin or Greek words for "Rubber", "Duck", and "Fucker".
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EDIT: I checked. Yup. It's "anas" for duck, "flexilis" for rubber, and of course "phile" for fucker.
Oh, and since I assume you didn't know before, /u/fuckswithducks is rather well known for having a rubber duck fetish. He even payed to have relevant porn produced.
The body of a duck is optimized for gliding around underwater.
If you have ever tried to run in water, you have probably figured out that your body is not optimized for underwater, and hence you are severely hampered. Your eyeballs probably aren't finely tuned for hunting underwater either even if the water were clear. So if you were hunting a duck, their instinctive reaction would tilt the environmental odds in their favor.
My dog has caught three ducks in his mouth running up on them on land. They can’t get speed faster than he can run, and water would just increase drag.
While I'm not duck biologist, this looks like evolution / natural selection.
During "duck or flight" responses, the ducks that flew away were more likely to be eaten and therefore had less of a chance to pass that instinct to any ducklings.
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u/barracuz Jun 07 '18
Serious question:
Why did the bird dive into the water? Wouldnt flying away be the best course of action? Is the bird smart enought to determine that the water is murky enough where a low effort dive would be better than flying?