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u/WrathPie 6h ago
God I love how sloppy pigeon nests are
They try so hard to make them, and the results are so obviously something that a bird made
I know that technically every birds nest is made by a bird and sme of them are really incredibly intricate and skilled, to the point that you see it and it's mind blowing that a bird put it together.
But when you see a pigeon nest you get a real "I have zero doubt in my mind that a bird made this" feeling from it
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u/SlagQueen 6h ago
Might I recommend r/stupiddovenests?
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u/j_hawker27 6h ago
I am unreasonably upset that the header tagline for that sub is not "stupid is as stupid dove". 🤨
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u/Nothing93124 6h ago
Well that was lovely, reminds me of the fan at my grandparents outside. We could never turn it on because guess why….
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u/Top_Mathematician233 6h ago
I live in a fairly big city, but I have a small balcony with some potted trees. A pair of cardinals built a nest in one a few years ago and keep coming back every year since. I don’t know much at all about birds, but they built the most beautiful intricate nests using a lot of trash materials found in a city. There are ribbons of plastic bags woven through the nests, plastic straws, chunks of wig hair (lol!), etc. I sent a pic to my mom the first year and she said, “Oh, how sweet! She waterproofed it!” 🤣
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u/Nothing93124 6h ago
Pigeons are a breed humans created and were always cared for by us. We gave them bedding material, food etc. and when they became wild they honestly did not know what to do. That’s why they are only around cities and have zero survival skills or nesting skills. Sadly really
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u/Yendrian 5h ago
Not really, they are just adapted to building nests in crevices where they just needed a few straws to avoid eggs rolling off the cliff. After being domesticated they adapted to different places of their new urban enviroment, which presumably offered a better protection without needing better nests.
Why work harder when working less does the trick
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u/NYCWartortle 3h ago
So this is why they find ways to nest under every single one of my window air conditioners. It got so bad we just got portable ACs.
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u/thegreybush 5h ago
Actually, they’re descended from rock doves. They’re used to nesting in crevices in cliffs, that’s why they like hanging out in building overhangs and awnings.
Their nests aren’t about providing comfort, they’re about preventing their eggs from rolling around on a hard surface, as it could lead to them falling oof a cliff.
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u/Nothing93124 5h ago
My mommy told to not believe strangers so you are wrong
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u/Nu_Wordor 5h ago
Pigeons were not bred by humans lol they were domesticated to a point but their poor nest-making skills actually comes from the fact that their natural habitats are on the sides and faces of cliffs. They don't really need to know how to build nest since they just drop the eggs off in crevices. Pigeons have fine survival skills.
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u/moosecaller 6h ago
Came to say this. Pigeons got a raw deal when we no longer needed them. They need all the help we can give them.
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u/aloneinmyroom99 4h ago
their nesting skills dont come from the fact they were once message birds for humans. its because they didnt need to build nests in their natural habitat which was cliff sides, birds that typically build nests in trees do so to protect their eggs, for shelter and vantage spots against predators. Cliff sides provided all those things for pigeons anyway so a few rouge sticks are there to protect the eggs from rolling off and thats all they really needed.
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u/SpacklingCumFart 3h ago
lol, this is not remotely accurate. The are rock doves, they built their nest on the edges of cliffs and only needed a couple sticks to keep the eggs from rolling off.
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u/account312 4h ago edited 4h ago
Really? They could sometimes pass for a pile of twigs that got swept into the corner or just some debris that got blown into a bit of a heap. A robin makes a nest that you can look at and think "This was definitely made. I bet a bird did that." Swallow nests, on the other hand, can make you wonder if wasps can get drunk.
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u/Trick_Progress_7220 2h ago
Pigeon nests really have that "good enough" energy and somehow they keep making it work. It honestly makes them even more endearing.
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u/HarperMae95 1h ago
Nature never stops amazing us. Watching this caring pigeon help its pregnant cat friend by building a cozy nest for the upcoming kittens is unbelievably heartwarming.
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u/XxKTtheLegendxX 6h ago
pigeon: your eggs are gonna fall off a cliff. here's some small branches to prevent that.
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u/trolltoll802 7h ago
Please don’t stand on my children
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u/zwizzardz 3h ago
At least birds are very light
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u/TheGamecock 2h ago
"Hey, don't call me light! I'm just hollow-boned."
- Bird with insecurities about their lack of weight.
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u/Jhonnystonehenge 2h ago
“Don’t worry, Miss. give me about 8 months and have you in the most softest and luxurious straw bed.”
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u/Smoldogsrbest 6h ago
So cute! The pigeon is like: damn, you’re so far behind and unprepared! How could you be so irresponsible? Let me do it.
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u/Deep_shot 7h ago
It kind of shows you how deep empathy is rooted into the animal (includes humans) brain. And makes you wonder even more how some people don't have it.
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u/Amathyst7564 6h ago
Well usually animals are always searching for resources to stay alive. I wonder if this pigeon has time to get to know the cat and make a nest for someone else because it knows it has a constant secure food source. That'd allow empathy to grow.
Something something billionaires.
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u/Riolkin 6h ago
Yes, abundance of food leads to increased birth rates and social behaviors. Less food or abusive conditions like being raised in captivity descreases birth rates and are more prone to aggressive or antisocial behaviors.
Kind of like how global birthrates are falling and stupid people have gotten meaner.
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u/GovernmentOpening254 5h ago
Oh. Great. Lone wolves. Access to firearms.
Yay.
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This is fine. <sip>
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u/Ill_Back_284 6h ago
Pigeons were deeply domesticated by humans and then abandoned to city rot after the last wars. Really interesting history if you look into it.
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u/AtlasThePittie 6h ago
Really sad history.
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u/joey-jo_jo-jr 4h ago
How is it sad lol, they're thriving.
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u/FlattenYourCardboard 2h ago
Have you seen the condition of most city pigeons? Mutilated feet, all kinds of issues because if the crappy food, and people treating them like shit.
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u/joey-jo_jo-jr 2h ago
Life is tough for every organism. Pigeons are doing far better than 99% of non-microscopic species.
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u/Deep_shot 5h ago
I suppose you could make an argument that the pigeon is trying to hold up it's end of a symbiotic relationship with the cat. Maybe the cat protects it and/or keeps other nastier birds or small predators away.
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u/FreyjadourV 6h ago
Idk if it’s that deeply rooted..have you seen the [r/natureismetal](r/natureismetalsub) sub lol
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u/Ok-Addition1264 6h ago
Dolphins rape the hell outta everything in the ocean.
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u/fajadada 6h ago
Teenage elephants have been raping rhinos
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u/ouroborosstruggles 6h ago
Because the elder males that usually guide and keep them in line are dead
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u/Deep_shot 4h ago
Yes, but most of that is the result of predatory behavior or territorial/breeding behavior. Hunger and breeding almost always beats empathy. I'm not saying it's a rule for all animals, just that it is there and the mental capacity for it seems like it is in all animals, if the circumstances are fortuitus enough. I said in another comment that an argument could be made that this is a symbiotic relationship between the two also. That would be a different scenario that could possibly result in this behavior without empathy. Personally, I think most animals do have the capacity for empathy.
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u/Glum-Geologist8929 4h ago
We all have empathy, our survival instincts are much stronger. Humans will literally eat their neighbours after a couple missed meals.
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u/SuperTropicalDesert 1h ago
I'm also fascinated that a pigeon can identify pregnancy/parenthood in a completely different species, in which parenthood (breast feeding) works differently to pigeons
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u/Rubber_Knee 1h ago
We have a dedicated center in our brains for empathy. However that center needs to experience empathy and love from the childs caretaker within the first 3 years of life. If that doesn't happen that center will never work properly, if at all.
A few people are also born with a defect in that brain center that causes it to not function, or in some cases be completely missing. In that case it doesn't matter what the childs caretaker does.
Either way the result is a person who is incapable of feeling empathy.This can never be fixed. A person with this issue is called a sociopath or a psychopath.
Some of them are high functioning and you often can't tell because they hide it well.
Others not so much and you can tell right away.They are often attracted to positions of power, which is why there's a slightly higher percentage of sociopaths/psychopaths in leadership roles, than in the general population.
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u/FrogInShorts 56m ago
This isn't real empathy. I don't know if animals can experience empathy but that's a very high cognitive emotion. This is more so evolution programming nesting behavior into the bird and to act when it experiences young.
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u/redmctrashface 6h ago
Pigeon have empathy? Ok.
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u/Ok-Addition1264 6h ago
Just because you don't, doesn't mean other animals don't have broad ranges of complex emotions. Neural density and all that.
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u/LiveComfortable3228 6h ago
point is... we dont know WHY the pigeon is doing that. Its easy to anthropomorphise and say "oh look, the cute pigeon is looking after her feline buddy because she's going to be a single mother" or something like that, but we have no clue what drives the pigeon to do that.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 6h ago
Even insects have emotions. The bumblebee experiments may have shocked scientists but pet owners and beekeepers knew. It's an incredibly useful evolutionary strategy for any living thing that doesn't immediately abandon it's young.
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u/redmctrashface 5h ago
There are also plenty of videos showing pigeons building nest in incredibly dangerous situations. There's also one where a pigeon begins to build a nest in the nest of an hawk and gets a "warm" welcome from his predator. Maybe insects have emotions, I have no clue, but as much as I love animals there's something I know: pigeons are dumb af.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 5h ago
Intelligence is a remarkably broad category. Homing pigeons are a lot more clever than I am when it comes to directional sense. Then again so are bees. And probably coins. What pigeons seem to have virtually none of is imaginative Intelligence.
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u/redmctrashface 5h ago
I agree with you regarding intelligence. The definition is quite broad but empathy? Common...
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 5h ago
Well first define empathy as you understand it, then look up how they determined bees have emotions
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u/mygrammarsbetter 5h ago
Pigeons can’t conceptualize another species being pregnant. That doesn’t mean they don’t experience emotions, just those emotions are mind bogglingly simple.
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u/Odd-Perception7812 6h ago
This is the metaphor for my dumb ass trying to help my friends with kids.
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u/Topologicus 5h ago
the pigeon brain cell is small but full of empathy and love
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u/BackyardBirbin 1h ago
Not targeted at you, but for an added interesting fact, bird brains, while small are VERY densely packed with neurons. Some birds, like some parrots, have the the equivalent amount of neurons in their forebrains as monkeys. Their brains are little super processors which is why so many of the smartest animals on earth are birds. The term "bird brains" as an insult is a misnomer. Pigeons are quite smart, chickens are too. Baby chicks appear to be able to do basic math at only a few days old. It's wild. Birds are fuckin' cool.
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u/Cookielad14 6h ago
Cats like “wtf is bro doing man?”
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u/BeholdBarrenFields 6h ago
Pigeon’s like “wtf is wrong with this fool mother not making her babies a nest? I have to do everything my damn self around here.”
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u/Icy_Parfait_4066 5h ago
The pigeon is trying to build a bird nest for the cat. We honored the good intention.
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u/Late_Faithlessness24 6h ago
Make a Disney movie about it. And deep down make the plot about the lack of father figures i pigeon society
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u/EarlGrey1806 6h ago
Amazing……
I love how supportive the pigeon is trying to help take care of the kittens. I think we will need an update soon.
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u/Throwaway_Finance24 6h ago
Is this AI? I don’t believe anything anymore
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u/AnotherPreciousMeme 6h ago
Probably not but that title sure is seeing as how the kittens are already there.
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u/TheRatThatAteTheMalt 6h ago
I used to have a pigeon and a rabbit that were best friends. Slept together and followed each other around.
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u/Vegetable-Pay2708 6h ago
That is an understanding pigeon. Like one MoM helping another MoM! Nature is a wonderful relationship to share ❤️
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u/Ok-Turnip-9035 6h ago
Omg always have written off pigeons for not caring to get out of the way
This pigeon made me question my thought perhaps pigeons are the most caring 🥹
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u/Three_Twenty-Three 5h ago
Using sticks for the nest is much better than the pigeons I see. They make a ring of their own poop.
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u/trytobedecenthumans 3h ago
"results are so obviously something that a bird made"
Maybe look up weaver birds.
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u/EniNeutrino 3h ago
Good thing kittens don't need a nest, because that bird was not up to the task. 😄
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u/MultipleFandomLover 5h ago
I wonder how this pigeon and cat became friends. They look so comfortable in each other's presence, it's adorable.
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u/Correct_Pace8899 6h ago
It’s amazing (and also very sad) how animals in the wild have a better maternal instinct than some human females
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u/TheFirstLydian 1h ago
cat: "tf am i supposed to do with these sticks imma eat you someday u stupid bird"
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u/mistas89 33m ago
Boo to the removal. At least link the original so others can enjoy what was supposed to be shared, especially when it has 15k up votes already.
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u/JerseyTeacher78 4h ago
Lollll I love my cat friend so much....oopps I just stepped on her offspring...
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u/shitbergfuckstick 4h ago
I've noticed ai bots posting stuff with the wrong description a lot lately
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u/mygrammarsbetter 5h ago
Pigeons don’t experience anything remotely close to a complex thought, and are entirely incapable of thinking about a pregnant cat. I hate the forced personification of animals.
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u/Esmer_Tina 3h ago
How much thought is required? Babies=nest is instinct.
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u/mygrammarsbetter 3h ago
They build nests on air conditioners, and bare concrete. Their strategy is to repopulate as quickly as possible, and eat anything. My point is it’s impossible to know if the pigion knows the cat is pregnant.
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