One of my favorite part of planet earth was when they showed a fox steal baby chicks from a bunch of birds. At first I hated the fox but then it showed that the fox was doing it to feed their hungry children. It really taught me about perspective.
If it makes anyone feel any better, those being eaten are often sicker, weaker, and/or older than the rest (which makes them easier for the predator to capture and strengthens the heard by removing the unfit who continue to consume if not taken out)
It’s sad, yes, but it’s how life on earth has evolved. We all need a source of energy. Life is as brutal as it is beautiful
That’s why the Attenborough ones are great, they usually have ten minutes at the end where they do a bit of behind-the-scenes and you hear the crew talking about how they had to camp out in the jungle for six months or something ridiculous just to get one shot of a particularly elusive animal. They’re always so excited when they finally get it!
A lot of it is just months in the field to get that one shot. Maybe even years, and then splicing it together to make a fairly bullshit narrative
Though the Disney Alaska documentary…. With the running of the lemmings (white wilderness).
The scene where the lemmings were supposedly committing mass suicide? Yeah. They were flinging them off a turntable- like the kind used to spread fertilizer or salt.
Well. It did inspire a classic video game. But yeah. Lemmings do run- they just hop down, no suicide.
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