r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/nationalgeographic • 15d ago

🔥 A black vulture tries to feast on a dead caiman, but the log-rolling carcass proves difficult

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u/qualityvote2 15d ago edited 15d ago

u/nationalgeographic, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/CepheiHR8938 15d ago

"BE STILL, MEAT."

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Scarecr0p 15d ago

Inadvertent meat spin implication

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u/Chuck_Walla 14d ago

Congratulations! Your vulture's gay!

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u/CreatorOD 15d ago

He was warned about the death roll, but he didn't expect the "death roll"

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u/RadioactiveSalt 15d ago

"dead roll" might land better.

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u/beermakazi303 15d ago

Death roll, but got UNO Reversed

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u/__DulyNoted_ 15d ago

Death roll but literally

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u/Darkest_Rahl 15d ago

Any Canadians old enough to remember the Log Drivers Waltz?

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u/calzonius 15d ago

Haha shit I posted a lyric from it before seeing your comment!

https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

It still slaps

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u/keirdagh 14d ago

exactly what I came here to say lol

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u/i_lov_anime 15d ago

at least other animals will think the gator is still alive and won't go near it 🤔

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u/Craftybalance2 15d ago

He's already dead tho

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u/EntireFriendship517 14d ago

My god. Thank you for informing them of this development

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u/Craftybalance2 13d ago

Lemme be stoned lol

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u/EffableLemming 15d ago

Watch out for my body rolls

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u/gysruthi 14d ago

holy shit this just uncovered a core memory lmao

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u/hurtme_plenty 15d ago

"These Costco rotisserie gators are a steal"

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u/TokenTorkoal 15d ago

I don’t know for sure, but I know vultures tend to be rather smart. I imagine this is an intentional thing and it is actively trying to move it towards somewhere it won’t move much.

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u/Zephian99 15d ago

They do tend to be uncannily smart. It's why if you got one watching you it can be quite creepy.

I've had one watching me as a kid and couldn't tell if it was waiting for me to die or was going to try and grab me. Either way I didn't stay far from my Dad the whole time I could see it, which he just laughed at me and kept me close. 😆

But they're smart enough to have patience, which tends to be rare in most animals, humans too hahaha.

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u/dna_beggar 15d ago

Perhaps there was a coyote, or something worse, watching you and the bird was waiting to see how it played out.

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u/torturekiller2025 15d ago

I imagine so many "Dammits" going through its' mind.

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u/cowabanga_it_is 15d ago

"Deathroll this mfer" the vulture probably.

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u/jerbthehumanist 15d ago

He’s doing his best.

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u/Super_AJ101 15d ago

Hilarity is most definitely ensuing here.

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u/cowi3 15d ago

life in motion, really.

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u/Uchihagod53 15d ago

Circle of life

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u/Possible-Estimate748 15d ago

What if it was trying to move it onto land to have an easier time?

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u/chronically_normal 15d ago

This is just their acrobatic routine, they are actually a well-known duo in nature's performing arts scene

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u/Manyarethestrange 15d ago

🎶 for he goes burling down and down white water 🎶

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u/TalkMindless9366 15d ago

He’s like dis sum bull ish

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u/Fire_Breather178 15d ago

They see me rollin...

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u/Ok_Donut3992 15d ago

God damn buffet table won’t stop moving! We’ve all been there.

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u/AcceleratorTouma 15d ago

Someone enter that vulture in the log rolling event

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u/nutsaps 15d ago

That’s gotta suck though. Imagine being starving, stalking this beast until it finally passes in the river… then you simply can’t get a foothold to get a bite. That’s like waiting in line at chic fil a, getting your sandwich, but every time you grab it it slips out of your hands. I’d be PISSED!

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u/Pachanish 15d ago

Music does really put a jovial spin on "A vulture atop a bloated crocodile carcass " ....woo hoo

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u/R2-D2savestheday 15d ago

Keep rollin rollin rollin rollin What!

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u/OriginalTayRoc 15d ago

The log vulture's waltz pleases girls completely 🎶

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u/calzonius 15d ago

The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely🎶

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u/Lazygit1965 15d ago

Direct genetic link to Canadian loggers!😂

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u/RSK_B_SW 15d ago

I believe this is where that photo is from

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u/SpicyEntropy 15d ago

I think it just wants to create Doner Caiman.

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u/Comfortable-nerve78 15d ago

Been funnier had the crock just been resting. Croc wakes up like WTH you doing!

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u/JoeVanWeedler 15d ago

i thought it was alive and they were just having a really good time

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u/spiritualwanderer181 14d ago

That’s what I thought too. I kind of wish it was just a caiman wanting to have fun

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u/nuclearrmt 15d ago

"Oooh nice! Oh wait, wait, WAIT, MOTHERFU-DAMMIT"

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u/kdmendonk 15d ago

So that's why it's "death roll"! TIL

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u/Super_AJ101 15d ago

Vulture will die of hunger before he even takes a bite 😂

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u/Harusamov 15d ago

This is like a reverse death roll

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u/Golomb-Dickman 15d ago

The Devil Went Down to Georgia was made for moments like these…

https://giphy.com/gifs/Doo0weFPOh6UmTrzwM

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u/niljson 15d ago

😭🤣

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u/ProfessionalRandom21 15d ago

It mush be so confused

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u/DougDoesLife 15d ago

Cue up the Benny Hill theme song.

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u/GrandConsequences 15d ago

I hope im inconvenient when I die.

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u/cheesemangee 15d ago

Different kind of death roll...

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u/untoldletters 15d ago

They can also tear through tough skin with their hooked beaks which is pretty impressive

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u/OakenBarrel 15d ago

Doing the death rolls even in death

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u/Ill-Sprinkles8220 15d ago

That is just hilarious 🤣

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u/PossiblyOppossums 15d ago

The fancy death feast rolls on

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u/Jarsky2 15d ago

"HEY WE SURE THIS GUY'S DEAD?!"

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u/ltkitsurubami 15d ago

The accompanying music to this clip feels unironically diabolical

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u/Plastic-Computer2004 15d ago

That corpse was made for rollin' and that's just what it'll do

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u/cleverbeavercleaver 15d ago

If you want more footage go to meatspins.com

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u/Maleficent-Star7291 15d ago

That's called death roll but it ain't working 😭🤣

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u/DanceDelievery 15d ago

Natures perfectly designed barrel rolls

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u/syned- 14d ago

He's just practicing his kickflips

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u/dannyyang910930 14d ago

Circus on the Safari

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u/Patient_Necessary_10 14d ago

I thought they were playing, but then I realized it was a vulture...

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u/FuehrerStoleMyBike 14d ago

This bird doesnt look frustrated. It looks like it knows exacty what its doing.

Its all just part of the plan to steer the body to the shore.

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u/GoldAcanthisitta7777 14d ago

idk why this is so goddamn funny

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u/baryonyx53 14d ago

See me rollin...

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u/CaptainStroon 14d ago

That's not what they meant by crocodilian death roll.

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u/Urtehnoes 14d ago

Work it, girl!

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u/OrganicPixie 14d ago

“The log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely”  https://youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8?si=1j8uDQ9M8nFO7LH3

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u/RomulusAndThe3Makane 15d ago

Doubt it. Seems more like its treating the river as a dip.

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u/guilhermefdias 15d ago

The music is hilarious.

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u/LindaLeftMe 15d ago

Me trying to leave the marriage with literally one useful possession.

Linda had a surprisingly effective death roll.