@why-animals-do-the-thing
So. I know absolutely nothing about bird care. And this seems really harmless and cute. But I was wondering why these chicks are flocking to a dangling key chain like this? Is this just an instinct or have they associated humans with food coming in, or all they all just adorable dumb babies like when you dangle keys in front of a human infant? Why are the chicks flocking like this?
According to @crisscrosscutout, this is super normal chicken behavior. It’s not a result of lack of stimulation or anything, they just really do go ‘ooh shiny’ and flock to check it out.
Definitely looks like a typical “ooh shiny” response from baby animals, there just happens to be a heck of a lot of them in one spot all piling up on each other.
Now please picture a flock of velociraptors doing this.
I think we should stop using “chicken” as a word for “coward” because have you ever met a chicken? Chickens ain’t scared of shit. Chicken is ready to throw down at all times.
million dollar idea: instead of spending thousands of dollars on steady-cam equipment, filmmakers should just attach a camera to the head of a chicken and carry the chicken around as you film.
Fact:
They actually did that.
cannot. stop. laughing.
Birds do this because their eyes are large, flattened disks instead of spheres, so the eyes can’t move in the skull. Instead, the bird moves its entire head in tiny motions. As such, they have the brain-programming, basically, to subconsciously move their head to give them steady sight in the same way that mammals subconsciously move their eyes. It’s awesome.
BettSplendens Tumblr Evac 