Because birds don't give a fuck about private property. They perch wherever the fuck they want. Some birds are apparently as "intelligent" as children, but I think they're actually way smarter than the bourgeoisie specifically because private property and national borders are all meaningless to them. The entire natural world is anarcho-communist and even Homo sapiens was like this for 95% of our time on Earth.
"No, actually you're wrong because birds have territories they defend and therefore capitalism is natural and we should all embrace it."
Really? Do birds enslave other birds to make money? Do they ever eat more food than they need? I don't fucking think so.
Also, birds are complex. Some are loners. Others hang out together. Sometimes different species even hang out together.
There are also far more bird species on Earth than there are mammal species. In some ways the reign of the dinosaurs never really ended.
When I lived in the American puppet state of "South Korea" I remember hearing about the wildlife in the DMZ and how certain birds there would fly back and forth between the DPRK and the "ROK" because they didn't give a fuck about the border. Based fucking birds.
Also, sometimes I saw spoonbills in the "ROK." That was really cool.
Right now there's a bunch of bluejays freaking out about something just outside my house. They get super active when it rains for some reason. That's why I'm writing this.
Do birds enslave other birds to make money? Do they ever eat more food than they need?
Cowbirds enslave other birds in a way, although not to make money. They lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and will kill the other bird’s babies/eggs if the other bird does anything to the cowbird baby.
Birds also definitely eat more food than they need, have you ever seen a fat pigeon?
But overall I agree, birds are cool. I feel like being a seagull at the beach would be like, the ideal life.
Oy, fuck cowbirds then.
As for pigeons, it might be too much human / capitalist influence on them. Regardless, pigeons may get fat, but capitalists amass more food than they could ever possibly eat while deliberately starving all the people around them.
Seagulls seem to do okay. I once saw a seagull trick a tourist. The tourist was sitting on the beach on his blanket guarding his family's food. A seagull crept up to steal it, but the tourist shooed him away. The seagull flew up into the air and hovered above the tourist for a few minutes, waiting for him to lose interest. Eventually he did, whereupon the seagull flew down and snatched his food. It was impressive.
Good point about the pigeons. They’re not really wild animals anyway, they’re domesticated animals that we brought with us everywhere we went. Kinda the same as feral cats but without the genociding every other creature in their environment
Pigeons are generally underweight and suffering from varying amounts of malnutrition. To tell the body condition of a bird you usually have to pick it up and feel it's keel bone. If a pigeon (or any bird) looks fat it's usually just puffed up. You'd be surprised about how much of that poof is just feathers.
Also pigeons are not wild animals and they depend on humans for survival. If you want to feed pigeons (or any other birds for that matter) never feed them bread, they eat grains and seeds.
Sorry for the pigeon psa, I just love pigeons
Love this post. Practically any place you visit on earth you'll find them too. Going to Antarctica? You got these majestic creatures. Middle of the fucking ocean? Check out these beauties. They're often extremely colorful whether you're in the tropics like this toucan or even if you're in the Bering Sea. Don't get me started on the amazing ways they hunt from these handsome fellas catching fish to these assassins plucking off seagulls and pigeons.
If you go outside, you're practically guaranteed to find a bird. Coolest animal group there is. :lets-fucking-go:
When I was in "South Korea" I met a toucan in a zoo. I hate zoos but my kids were young and they loved it there. The toucan was fucking awesome and incredibly nice and gentle. The sun glowed through his huge beautiful yellow beak. A teenager who was probably being paid like $5 an hour was handling the toucan but he may have perched on one of my kids, I can't remember.
It fucking sucks that their habitat is being destroyed and that this particular toucan was imprisoned in a zoo, something I supported with my wallet. Even as a liberal I didn't like going there and it wasn't hard to see that some of the animals at least were being treated poorly. They had some ostriches who were missing lots of feathers. The animals didn't seem completely miserable there but their situation obviously could have been a lot better. We also visited the San Francisco zoo a long time ago and it seemed to me, honestly, that the animals were well taken care of, just super super bored.
We need to free all workers from capitalism but we also need to free our animal comrades from capitalism too, even if they can't speak for themselves and might not know what the fuck is going on, aside from the fact that it's really fucked up.
I completely understand where you're coming from. I've visited some similar places. One place in Costa Rica had a toucan whose beak was largely broken so I understood why it was there. Some housed birds though absolutely break my heart. Fortunately, I know of some zoos/aquariums/wildlife centers that only house birds they're actively rehabilitating due to injury, and will only keep them permanently if their injury is so severe they'd otherwise die in the wild. But these places have always rubbed me the wrong way because so many species of birds travel such enormous distances, even some every day. For me it just depends on how well their enclosure is and why they're there to begin with.
Blue jays are very cool and beautiful with many different vocalizations, and iirc they have a war cry essentially to call for backup in case birds of prey show up! Its sad but a lot of bird feeding enthusiasts actually try to discourage blue jays from their feeders bc ~they are too greedy and aggressive~ which is weird to me bc that describes the human behavior which our own culture rewards.! Same for house sparrows, only they also hate them more for being "invasive" ....but it was european colonizers who brought them here, lol, to remind them of home
Yeah the other birds seem to not like the bluejays very much. They're pretty big and hog the feeders.
I've been attacked twice by blue Jays in my life but like me and my species are destroying the earth so critical support still.
“No, actually you’re wrong because birds have territories they defend and therefore capitalism is natural and we should all embrace it.”
this is the exact opposite of theory
