What animal has the lowest preference for mercy?

in #bird5 years ago

This is called the shrike.
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Cute, isn’t it?

Believe me, the shrike is the Jack the Ripper of the bird world. It kills its prey in the most spine-chilling and gruesome way possible.

They impale their prey on a sharp object like a thorn or a barbed wire. This makes it easier for them to devour their victims bit by bit.

They have also been observed to hunt relatively large vertebrates like mice and lizards.
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On larger vertebrates, they induce paralysis by a bite to the neck and vigorously shake their immobilized victim so as to snap the vertebrae of the victim prior to impaling it on a thorn.

They don’t always impale their victims to eat them. It’s also used as a method of food storage. They can leave a mouse impaled for days before they come and make a snack out of it.

The shrike, also known as the butcherbird, is the ultimate embodiment of mercilessness.
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Now imagine this: what if the shrike were the size of an ostrich and it could somehow fly.

There would be human kebabs everywhere

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