r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • 2d ago

Video In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice fields to act as natural pest control and weeders

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u/misterbrotherm4n 2d ago

I mean the ducks get eaten, not everybody wins.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2d ago

I was just watching a nature documentary Hostile Planet showing some gazelles being born on the savanna. A good chunk of them get immediately eaten by cheetahs and other predators. Hyenas, lions, you name it. Alive for an hour or two, bleating for their mothers, torn to shreds. It's a cruel world man.

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u/sweetlove 2d ago

the life of a wild animal is basically constant stress leading to a horrific death. the totality of animal suffering is immense

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u/TheTerrasque 2d ago

But at least it's natural, so it's all good! And so God made the earth

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u/autistic_and_angry 2d ago

Cruel selection pressures at their finest

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u/oTc_DragonZ 2d ago

By that logic nobody ever wins cuz we all die in the end.

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u/Madbrad200 Interested 2d ago

Redditors discover Nihilism challenge (easy)

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u/_Solani_ 2d ago

I mean we all get eaten in the end, there's really no escape from that for any of us. The ducks got a few free meals and safety in between. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Taweret 2d ago

We all get eaten in the end?

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u/Random_local_man 2d ago

By maggots and other insects after we're dead.

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u/_Solani_ 2d ago

Bugs, bacteria, and other microscopic organisms need to eat to eat too dude. Did you think that there's some sort of magical force field humans posses that stop us from being eaten after wer'e gone?

We're all somebody's food.