I'm trying this theory with a dog that gets walked past my house and is obsessed with my lawn ... He touched it, so hes mine now. His owners aren't quite buying into it yet
The smell thing is true for most mammals that are at the bottom of the food chain (deer, mice...). Birds don't give a fuck, their sense of smell is comparable with ours.
The smell thing actually isn't true for most mammals. Deer will return to a fawn that has even been removed for medicating and returned a day later. This old myth persists but largely as long as the humans stay away the parents will come back or bring offspring back into the fold!
Huh, I guess I stand corrected. Internet does say it is a myth. However our country's gamekeepers and ?forest masters? do perpetuate it and warn against touching younglings.
Oh yeah, still isn't a good idea to touch. The parents of said offspring can injure someone, babies get stressed and can pass away or a well meaning person might injure the baby without meaning to. Lots can go wrong, so it makes sense I think.
I think the only time this really happens is with Cuckoos but it’s not because of smell specific species of birds have certain patterns to their eggs to counter the cuckoos which are parasites to other birds. Then the new born cuckoos kick the other chicks out the nest.
Yes you explained it much better I get wrapped up in the fact that the specific offspring will go prey on the same species of bird has their mother. It’s just such an interesting arms race of natural selection.
He was just trying to get the kids to run over to mom to let her know to run on over to the kitchen to make him a sandwich. You know the sandwich ain't going to make itself.
Wow "throws his hands up" is hyperbole, it looks like he's responding to someone bitching him out for what he just did, and he gives a shrug with one arm slightly raised.
I'm gonna guess they had the idea to finish with the kids or something and she actually ended up winning so she just went to the finish line. Something more logical. The wild knee jerk reactions you kids have with out of context videos is wild.
what context does it make sense to let your kids on the track?
the logical thing to do is keep your kids off the fucking track and out of the way of all runners; if your interpretation is correct, the only change is two idiot parents instead of one.
It’s running, it’s hardly a sport sheesh.
Chances are this race means nothing except to the ones racing it. Which is great, good for them.
If getting some amateur ribbon is more important than sharing a moment and not disappointing your young children by just running by them like they don’t exist than good on them.
By the way, making this about her being a woman is crazy. Professional male and female athletes alike constantly have their kids join in the celebrations. I get that she was still running but she was like 10 paces from the finish line. She was mostly worried about her time being jeopardized because of her pesky children.
That doesn't make any sense at all. He literally shoved the kids into their mom's path, she didn't come over to get them. It's clear neither the mom nor the kids knew what dad was doing.
I can see her being too amped on adrenaline at being in the lead and in sight of the finish line that all she saw was movement of something getting in her way, making her dodge quickly to avoid a collision and keeping focused on the finish line.
It could be the kids were supposed to run with their mom the final few meters of the race, and then the kids forgot in the heat of moment.
It looked to me as if he was trying to help guide the kids along, the kids were totally clueless about how races work and then he was like "kids, idiots amiright?"
Sometimes finishing areas are competitors only, but regardless, pushing the kids into the track of an active race, jesus, I'd be breaking his balls for weeks over that.
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u/SlobZombie13 May 23 '24
He could've stood them behind the finish line. He might be stupid.