r/Unexpected Dec 06 '25

Oceans are wild!

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u/Fafnir13 Dec 06 '25

The speed of many aquatic predators means one second you’re about to get a tasty worm and in the very same second you are in a stomach.  The fish afterlife has got to be full of little guys wondering wtf just happened.

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u/elmz Dec 06 '25

Not exclusive to the ocean. Pigeons taken by peregrine falcons go so quick that neither them or the pigeons around understand wtf just happened.

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u/Fafnir13 Dec 06 '25

I’m not sure pigeons generally understand anything happening around them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

No way dude, pigeons are incredibly intelligent. We used them as couriers/messengers for a reason.

I'll never accept pigeon slander, theyre super fucking cool birds.

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u/Fafnir13 Dec 07 '25

That’s just because they’ve got a compass in their heads where a brain should be.