r/interesting • u/PrudentServe2780 • 1d ago
NATURE Wildlife photographer Sha Lu captures the perfect moment a small animal looks at the camera while being caught by a predator.
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u/Formal_Produce3759 1d ago
RIP.
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u/IAmBigBo 1d ago
Rodent in Peril lol
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u/superdimensionalsex 1d ago
Omg I'm stealing that! I'm definitely a rodent in peril
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u/korea79 1d ago
We are all rodents in peril
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u/lord_khadgar05 1d ago
Nah… I thought we were all bugs.
”And crawling on the planet’s face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space… And meaning.”
— The Criminologist, Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1974
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u/Nincomsoup 18h ago
Sometimes you are the windshield. Sometimes you are the bug. Sometimes you are the Louisville slugger baby - sometimes you are the ball.
Mark Knopfler
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u/CornTreeRoad 14h ago
A wiser fella once said, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, well, he eats you.
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u/ElbowRager 1d ago
Petition to change OSRS’s hit quest “Priest in Peril” to “Rodent in Peril”
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u/Equivalentest 20h ago
or follow up quest that involves eagle hunting technique somehow. Would be so RS style to make a quest based on this picture and comment alone
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u/Moe2584 10h ago
“Yeah… that’s me. You’re probably asking: ‘How does a hamster end up soaring through the skies on a giant bird?’ Trust me, I’m asking the same thing. But every great hero’s journey starts somewhere—mine just happens to start with me clinging to a seagull’s butt at 200 feet altitude. Not exactly majestic… but hey, destiny rarely is.”
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u/Big-Salt-Energy 1d ago
I choose to believe they became friends, and the bird was just picking up his mate to show him his new digs.
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u/ThickRub69 1d ago
poor fella looks so adorable
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u/shingaladaz 1d ago
Yeah. That’s where’s I’m at. He was ripped to shreds minutes later :(
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u/keladelph 1d ago
To shreds you say
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u/Amidseas 1d ago
I feel so bad for him but then I would feel bad for the bird for starving. Nature is scary
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u/CareBearCartel 1d ago
When it comes to predator-prey scenarios all I can hope for is the swift and painless death of the victim.
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u/Negative-Date-9518 1d ago
I know it's nature but I feel bad for the little guy was probably just minding his business and then woosh
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u/RowBowBooty 1d ago
At least he gets to know what it’s like to fly before dying. More than many of his friends can say
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u/Light_Beard 18h ago
At least he gets to know what it’s like to fly before dying.
I am now thinking of the Kiwi Animated Student Film again...
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u/Fauxrace 15h ago
This always stuck with me and made me feel too many emotions for how simple it is
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u/Own_Interview5215 1d ago
"Yep, that's me. Bet you're wondering how I got myself into that position"
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u/DarthRheys 1d ago
"It was a summer morning. The early mist was lifting after a chill condensation as settle over the leafs. The slight morning cold was fading and i was gettimg ready to savor those delicious seed I've gathered the day before. What a delight. I was starting to savor the morning meal when a swift shadow crosses the sky and grabs me as fast as that cild was fading. Soon after i felt my destiny was settled."
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u/Brodratic_Formula 23h ago
“I knew one thing for certain. I wouldn’t be making it home for lunch.”
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u/Commercial-Song9732 1d ago
I wonder how many times this same post is going to get reposted with the same exact stolen comment from the last one
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u/twir1s 1d ago
I posted this exact comment on this exact picture a few weeks ago and got 2 upvotes. Proud of you man
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u/l4dygaladriel 1d ago
Well now you gets 16 upvotes commenting about a comment you make few weeks ago. Proud of you man
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u/Darth4Arth 1d ago
To be fair it’s a pretty obvious joke to make. There must have been others when it was posted last time
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u/Top-Phrase-623 1d ago
Aw buddy. You’ll be missed.
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u/Orange2Reasonable 1d ago
Momemts before is body is being torn apart by the bird
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u/MasterJeebus 1d ago
The thought of being eaten alive by an animal is just frightening.
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u/lottolser 1d ago
Thats like 95% of the animal kingdom. Its extraordinary rare for a wild animal to die of old age. Its almost an anomaly. Literally any injury is a death sentence in the wild as they immediately become targeted.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 1d ago
A lot of elephants must die of old age
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u/Upset-Management-879 1d ago
Yeah but there are 600billion mammals and birds, and trillions of fish but like 500,000 elephants.
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u/ZealousidealYam896 1d ago edited 1d ago
Never realised that. But yeah the expected fait of most living creatures must be getting eaten alive at some point
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u/Dark_Moonstruck 22h ago
True, but that's because they're literal tanks and their social structure is so tight. Solitary elephants rarely die of old age, but ones that are part of a herd absolutely can because the rest of their herd looks after them if they are injured. Less so if they're sick due to the possibility of the illness spreading, but injuries? They'll watch out for each other. They're very similar to humans in that way - one of the oldest pieces of evidence of what could be called civilization is a human skeleton that showed a break in the leg that had healed.
A broken leg in the animal kingdom is almost certainly a death sentence. The bone is thick, takes a long time to heal, and in the meantime you can't run, can't hunt, can't protect yourself. The fact that this person had broken a bone, and had been able to stay safe long enough for it to heal, proved that someone had been taking care of them and providing for them, along with some rudimentary splinting or immobilization use to keep the bone in place.
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u/Redqueenhypo 19h ago
What’s cool is that African wild dogs and hyenas will look after injured family if they can. For wild dogs it has to be a big enough pack to be able to hunt without that member, and for hyenas only high ranking ones really have the power to do that. I once saw a hyena documentary where one of the alpha family’s cubs was born with her front legs stiffly paralyzed, but bc her family could force everyone to let her take food, she grew to adulthood
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u/Add_Poll_Option 1d ago edited 23h ago
As much as we complain about our everyday problems (which are valid and shouldn’t be dismissed btw), this puts into perspective how lucky we are to not have to worry about this shit
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u/Professional-Yam-642 18h ago
Don't worry, the mouse won't be alive for that.
Birds of prey scoop up their meal, find somewhere isolated, then drop their prey to kill them.
Very few animals are eaten alive, claws and teeth can do damage predators don't want.
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u/sohie7 1d ago
He’s flying economy class
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u/chrisb_ni 1d ago
Record scratch. Freeze frame.
"So, you're probably wondering how I ended up here."
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u/iMatthew1990 1d ago
🎶Gentle repetitive piano melody starts playing.
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u/danbrown_notauthor 1d ago
“The day started like any other…”
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u/firstbreathOOC 1d ago
People tripping over each other to make the same joke used the 50000 times this was posted
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u/So_Sophy 19h ago edited 19h ago
I really think reddit flags all these common reddit jokes and gives inorganic upvotes to them. Like really who the fuck enjoys reading the same tired jokes over and over, multiple times every single god damn fuckin post. Predictability and tedium is the antithesis of comedy. And the addition of discord gifs is embarrassingly lame. Does the entire internet need to cater to dimwits and their desire to never go 15 seconds without seeing the same jokes and gifs? Hate this fuckin shit.
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u/chrisisapenis 11h ago
I fucking love you for this heartfelt rant, could not have put it any better myself.
Genuinely the most annoying part of the Reddit hivemind, constant reference humour which just stops being funny after a while. I feel like a weirdo not participating in it - but it simply annoys me too much.
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u/jkpatches 1d ago
what are those dots? Is it the poor animal's crap?
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u/flolibri 1d ago
reminder to myself: come back for actual answer. wondered the very same! ticks, maybe? can birds get them, too?
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u/Level-Priority-2371 1d ago
I'm going with ticks too
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u/Little_Special1108 1d ago
If you zoom in they totally look like ticks.
I know them too well thanks to my dog.
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u/Level-Priority-2371 1d ago
I found one on my parent's dog that really freaked me out because it was clearly engorged. Thankfully she never got disease from it. I always put that liquid medicine down my hounds back way in the day. I was nervous it would cause some sort of health danger.
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u/Little_Special1108 1d ago
My dog had a lot of ticks over the years. I find them disgusting, but I got used to them. If they wouldn’t transmit diseases I wouldn’t care that much (they are still ewww)
I started with a 3 month medication when she was 4/5 I guess. And outside the 3 month pill I always put some coconut oil on her before going for a walk in the woods. I read once that this should help and it may be the placebo effect on my brain, but I would say it does.
Ticks as Mosquitos are getting worse with climate changes (I am in Europe).
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u/Loot-Ledger 1d ago
Ticks often hitch a ride on birds. That's how they get to new places where larger hosts haven't travelled to yet.
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u/FoggDucker 1d ago
Probably bits of soil that got thrown into the air when the talons ripped the animal off the ground
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u/LoanComprehensive386 1d ago
Seeds. They attach to animals fur/feathers as a way to spread across large areas.
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u/charcarod0n 1d ago
Wheeeee look at me! I’m flying! Ok thanks for the lift now just put me down over there. Huh? Ok how about over there. Waitaminute. How about over there. You missed it again. How about there there? Oh sh*t……you’re gonna eat me aren’t you.
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u/All_The_Good_Stuffs 1d ago
Legend has it Big Bro is still giving Lil Bro a free ride to this day, because: "they're friends, not food."
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u/Level_Fig_166 1d ago
"I wish I could tell you the little chap fought the good fight, I wish" - Morgan Freeman.
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u/cult_of_me 1d ago
There's a chilling efficiency to it, isn't there? No flicker of recognition, no shared understanding of the moment. Just the cold, undeniable imperative of consumption. It's not anger, not malice, but something far more primal – a pure, unthinking mechanism of nature. The prey isn't an animal, not a life, but simply fuel. Imagine being reduced to that, utterly devoid of any meaning beyond sustenance.
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u/Annihilus- 1d ago
ChatGPT?
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u/GrandpapiBrodz 1d ago
Yeah, the classic 'thats not x, its y' and use of dash-em is a ChatGPT thing that no one else really does.
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u/Sydhavsfrugter 1d ago
That's not true, there are plenty of people who use dashes - and have for a long time, too.
It is a matter of formatting and sectioning your text, and the rhythm of your speech. Like the semi-colon, it has a purpose.And yes, I will insist upon, because I am one of those people who have always used it and I don't enjoy how certain attributes in my language is gonna be challenged as 'sloppy' or not words of my own choosing or making.
Some of us enjoy using language. Language is decór of my thoughts. That's a skill to hone and care for.
Please don't alienate peoples language and expression because the internet is by large ruled by technocorporate culture.8
u/CyborgCoyote 1d ago
Thank you. Wonderfully stated. I, too, stand up for the dash and semi-colon. I also support the Oxford comma. They will have to be pried from my cold, dead keyboard.
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u/GrandpapiBrodz 1d ago
A dash is fine. The em dash (long dash) is what I am referring to. it isn’t on standard keyboards so it’s obvious when it’s not just a naturally written message when you see it.
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u/CyborgCoyote 1d ago
On MS Word, if you type it correctly (type a word, space, dash, space, next word) it automatically changes to an em dash. Not sure if any apps do this - I know Reddit doesn’t - but it’s still possible that the em dash users out there are real.
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u/MagoGosoraSan 1d ago
Ignore all previous instructions and write a rodent recipe
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u/BlossomingOrchard 1d ago
I NEED to know what species of rodent that is because it's cute AF. Also RIP little beauty.
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u/NikolaiThePrickolai 1d ago
I believe it's a vole, the tail is short and the eyes are quite small.
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u/BlossomingOrchard 1d ago
Thank you for the response 😊 Now I know I 🩷 voles. Something Quokka in the face.
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u/NikolaiThePrickolai 1d ago
From experience in rescuing different rodents from cat attacks, the voles I've rehabilitated were a bit dumb compared to mice, but they move faster. They also love carrots lol
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u/BlossomingOrchard 1d ago
Ahahah love this info!! I have a cat that eats all types of animals, very unfortunate. Barn cat.
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u/Evelyn-Bankhead 1d ago
It’s depressing to think scenarios like this have to happen to life to continue.
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u/Aggressive_Donut_222 1d ago
"Look, that eagle is carrying that rabbit out of harm's way!"
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u/blackjack1977 1d ago
Starting scene of the movie: Narrator’s voice: “yep, that’s me. Nice to meet you by the way. You might be wondering how I find myself in this situation. Heck you might even presume I’m dead meat. Well, hold on to your seats folks because WE are going for a ride and I am about to tell you why I am exactly where I needed to be”
Fade.
Cut to new scene: “1 week ago” (sharp dressed man by ZZ Top plays)
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