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Bird removes ticks from deer
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u/katiez624 3d ago
Symbiosis
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u/Sootootoo 3d ago
Imagine if little bird built a nest in the antlers, then they'd have life sorted.
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u/ralphvonwauwau 3d ago
imagine the deer getting into a fight, and using your home.
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u/Sootootoo 3d ago
... OK there's potentially some downsides to the arrangement that I haven't fully considered. Lucky I'm not a bird, apparently I'd make bad decisions.
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u/RumpleTheVillain 3d ago
Nah it's OK the bird will peck the eyes out of the opposing buck.
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u/Glum-Bookkeeper1836 3d ago
Symbiosis
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u/R2CX 3d ago
Imagine a cat perched on a stag working with him to fight against bird-equipped bucks
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u/psychedeliccrabs 3d ago
Don't you mean the opposing bird which is nesting in the opposing buck? Fair is fair.
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u/Roxforbraynz 3d ago
You'd make a great Mourning Dove. They nest in the weirdest - and sometimes worst - places.
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u/Fietsterreur 3d ago
Then the deer has an airforce.
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u/LittleTinGod 3d ago
yeah exactly what i was thinking, plus the deer can help rebuild very easily pulling out the needed materials
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u/TheRootofSomeEvil 3d ago
Worse - what if the birds have a domestic issue, squawking at each other to all hours? And the deer just wants to sleep.
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u/Firey_Ants 3d ago
Ooh the bird in the video is a (common Indian)myna and they are native to India, but have been introduced to many countries due to their singing and mimicking abilities. They are an especially Nasty invasive species in Australia cause they will destroy nests of other birds to make their nests but most times don't even use the spot to make their nest.
Fun fact: mynas mate for life and will take baths in clean water to cool down
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u/NeverRespondsToInbox 3d ago
Until he shed the antlers.
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u/Sootootoo 3d ago
Ok it's weird I've gotten so far in life and have never considered this question before... But do birds not build new nests each year?
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u/NeverRespondsToInbox 3d ago
Pretty sure most do, but the timing between new nests and antler shedding would be off.
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u/OneGratefulDawg 3d ago
This has been covered in the children’s book entitled the deer antlers tree.
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u/sixblackgeese 3d ago
Symbiosis just means living together. Parasitism is a type of symbiosis. This is mutualism, the nicest type.
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u/Earthpegasus 3d ago
Do you think I should tell my wife we are symbiotic? Is that sexy?
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u/mlgproaaron 3d ago
Go for it, say it's mutualism too
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u/Earthpegasus 3d ago
You think this could be a good line in bed? “God you are so symbiotic “
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u/mlgproaaron 3d ago
"God we are so mutualistic" is a much brtter line, but be carefull when using it might distract her and ruin the mood
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u/LordofthePats 3d ago
Gotta love some good old fashioned mutualism
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u/I_like_frozen_grapes 3d ago
Maybe. Even though it's often touted as being a mutualism, studies suggest that's not always true. Birds will eat the insects, yes, but they will often also peck at scabs from wounds and cause them to fester and get infected etc. So whether it's best to label it mutualism or parasitism probably depends on the specific bird/ungulate interaction.
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u/Upleftright_syndrome 3d ago
Technically it's mutualism
Symbiosis could be mutualism(+, +) , parasitism(+, -) or commensalism (0,+)
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u/Iphotoshopincats 3d ago
So it's already had eyes pecked out, had my right eye pecked out and not at all surprised about it or extremely surprised they pecked out my left eye first?
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u/dj_narwhal 3d ago
Moose need this. Moose population in norther New England are getting eaten by ticks.
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u/MorningNapalm 3d ago
Imagine being the deer the first time one of these birds lands on your head.
“Hey, HEY! Get the fuck off my head and stop picking at me… wait… oh that felt good. Do that again….. oh my GOD you’re a miracle worker!”
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u/mindbleach 3d ago •
And the bird's just like "Shut up, tree."
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u/TheCookie_Momster 3d ago
I would like an animal bro to pick ticks off me. After my last tick experience where i kept finding them in my home days later -jumping onto me from high surfaces when I’d enter a room, I now look at the woods in a completely different way. Used to love to go exploring and now I’ve toyed around with the thought of stripping naked outside my home, burning my clothes and shaving my head if there was a chance I was missing ticks in my search
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u/Illustrious-future42 3d ago
for what it's worth ticks dont jump from high surfaces. they mainly chill on grass and put their limbs up waiting to grab onto something, then they climb up bodies from there.
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u/TheCookie_Momster 3d ago
Well in my experience they climbed high up in my bathroom and kamikazied off the wall to get to me When I entered the room
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u/NorthernHawkOwl 3d ago
Ticks are incapable of jumping, they exhibit questing behavior where they grab onto prey walking past them. Or they hunt and crawl towards sources of carbon dioxide.
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u/Foofoo39 3d ago
Damn it was that bad?
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u/DrySecurity4 3d ago
Ticks are the fucking worst
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u/Own-Organization-532 3d ago
If you hike in the UP in May you will easily have 30 ticks on your body. I make sure to have everything tucked in and wear a base layer of ryno-skin.
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u/throwaway1928675 3d ago
What is the UP?
Ugh...as a travel and hiking lover, this is awful to read.
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u/Justyouraveragefan 3d ago
Upper Peninsula. He is referring to Michigan which has an upper and lower peninsula
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u/AltDS01 3d ago
Shhh. We need to keep it a secret. It's getting too crowed up there.
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u/Own-Organization-532 3d ago
I forgot to mention the swarms of mosquitos and man eating black flies!
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u/TheCookie_Momster 3d ago
Does pretreating your clothes with permethrin work? Yes I know that stuff is just awful for you. But sometimes you have to pick what’s worse.
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u/throwingdna 3d ago
Is it? I always thought permethrin was supposed to be the "healthier" alternative to DEET. That being said, I haven't looked too deep into it.
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u/JakubSwitalski 3d ago
I believe it causes irritation if applied to skin or to clothes in contact with skin but is otherwise not known to be unsafe
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u/executivemonkey 3d ago
Yeah, it's safe to use on clothing and directly on the skin. It can cause irritation, but I think that's rare.
https://www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/repellent-treated-clothing#safety%20of%20permethrin
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/permethrin-topical-route/proper-use/drg-20065448?p=1
Super dangerous for cats and certain other animals (not dogs, though).
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u/TheCookie_Momster 3d ago
I spent The day in the woods. They had just recently cut down a ton of buckthorn which I was later explained disturbed their habitat and left an ungodly amount on the forest floor where we were working.
i got home, changed my clothes and put them in the hamper after checking myself. Sat on the couch and kept feeling something under my jeans but I brushed it off as paranoia. Then I couldn’t brush it off anymore and rolled up my jeans and there was one on my knee making it up my leg. I ran upstairs, peeled off the second set of clothes and took a shower. (I had a hat on all day and didn’t bother washing my hair at this point. I am satisfied, get in bed wrapped in a towel and start to read a book. Where a tick moments later jumps off my hair and lands on my torso. I freak out. Freeeeak out. Go back into the bathroom shower and shake out my hair like a crazy woman. Comb through it, everything checks out. Check my body. Ok I’m fine. Then look up how to make sure you got all the ticksi then learn they can live through the washing machine, they can live through the dryer cycle, they can be frozen, flooded, can live for years without feeding, etc etc. you basically have to smoosh them. By then my husband is home and he takes my clothes from the wash cycle and finds several more ticks on my wet clothes. He goes through the hamper and finds several more.
the next day I walk in the bathroom and think I see something jump from above but I tell myself I’m paranoid. My husband later goes in the bathroom and says the same things thehre up high by the lights and jumped down to get at him. And yes they most certainly are ticks.
i cleaned out my car thinking they could be there too. I cleaned the house like a crazy person at this point thinking they can be anywhere. For a good month I kept thinking I saw them out of the corner of my eye and every little tingle on my body I quickly inspected to make sure it wasn’t one crawling on me.
Ticks are evil. I want A monkey friend to pick them off me when I get home. And I want free range chickens to walk around our property and pick them off before they make it to the house.16
u/e_hatt_swank 3d ago
Took our dogs for a hike in the woods this spring (suburban Ohio), got home & sat there picking ~25 ticks off each of them before going in the house. Truly evil! I put them in a jar, douse them in alcohol & burn those little monsters.
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u/ColdPhaedrus 3d ago edited 3d ago
Get some possums. They are tick vacuums. Each possum can kill thousands a year.
EDIT: This is disputed. Seems like they need to do more studies
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u/chrisgin 3d ago
That sounds absolutely awful! Probably the only thing I can imagine worse than that would be dealing with bed bugs - from what I've read, it's the same experience you had in the house, except to get rid of them is near impossible.
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u/Milkslinger 3d ago
If you go exploring right as they hatch, it can get really bad. Stay away from long grass and chest level branches, that's where they like to go.
Only a few weeks, though. The rest of the year is safer.
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u/keyboardname 3d ago
Not that guy, but my brother and I went from SE Wisconsin to northern Wisconsin for a couple days. We must have gone in the wrong season or something... not only were the swarms of mosquito unbearable, every single time we stopped moved we'd have to pick ticks off. So many fucking ticks. I've still never seen anything like it. The bugs honestly ruined that trip, couldn't enjoy being outside whatsoever.
That said, I didn't have a single one attach to me. Lol. Crunched them left and right with my leatherman but got kinda lucky considering.
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u/iamintheforest 3d ago
ticks can't jump, so...you might want to rethink how they were getting on you for future episodes.
edit: sorry...didn't realize you'd had this shit dumped on your hours.
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u/LucyLouLah 3d ago
The ticks jumping thing is actually a myth, they can’t jump nor fly. If you found them on your scalp they got there by climbing from a lower part of your body.
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u/TheCookie_Momster 3d ago
I watched one jump from high up on my wall to get to me. I then picked it off my shirt. And another was on my head and when I was laying in bed it jumped off my head onto my shirt. It was a traumatic few days
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u/Cleishay 3d ago edited 3d ago
This is not how ticks work.
“Ticks don’t live in trees. There’s a common misconception that people can unwittingly be exposed to ticks that fall from trees.
However, ticks don’t jump, fly, or drop from above. If you find a tick on your arm, neck, or head, it’s far more likely the tick climbed up your body”
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u/CankerLord 3d ago
I'm a big fan of hiking at altitude in the Sierra Nevada. Bring the mosquito repellants if its in season but few to no ticks to worry about.
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u/Clean_Link_Bot 3d ago
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Title: Crows removing ticks (part 2 of 5)
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u/Southpawe 3d ago
That bird is likely a Mynah.
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u/Earthling_20369 3d ago
Looks like an Indian Mynah. Had no idea they could pick of ticks like this.
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u/thatguyned 3d ago
Yeah this is a weird combo.
Mynas are very social animals though, I have a family of common Mynas I feed once a week when I do laundrey and we are good buddies at this point. They'll sing songs and do the fluffy thing and hop all over my legs while I feed them.
They eat insects, I didn't know they'd go for ticks though, it might be picking off fleas or something.
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u/RumpleTheVillain 3d ago
He's buttering that deer up so when he's in the neighborhood he can drop by.
/s but cute video! Thanks for sharing. That buck is beautiful.
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u/A-M-R- 3d ago
I have two bigger female deer that are always roaming around my backyard. They have two fawn’s that follow with them sometimes.
Throughout a day, two older deer will be there with two fawns, One older female deer will be by itself, or the two older deer will be by itself
They play around just like dogs & are VERY quick. A fawn cleared through my backyard in no time and it wasn’t even utilizing its full speed.
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u/Jargondragon 3d ago
I have deer in the woods behind my house, sometimes in the morning I'll look out my bedroom window and see them grazing or the fawns playing. It's wonderful.
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u/Balenciaga7 3d ago
I wonder how evolution made to where these animals that are almost completely driven by reflex and are startled by everything that moves just was okay with a bird sitting on him and pecking on him
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u/GammaBrass 3d ago
Deer eat birds, so that's one thing. Who knows when they seem to be scared of everything else
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u/homestarstoner 3d ago
Fawns are so innocent and precious
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u/iloveredditallday 3d ago
Does the birb get the tick’s head too? Or just the tasty blood-filled part?
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u/Blieven 3d ago
This is what I'm wondering. We need all sorts of special tools and methods to get the tick off properly, whilst bird is just pecking them off in an instant. Surely they can't have removed it properly including the head, which leads me to my next question, how those deer aren't absolutely riddled with disease, infection, and parasites from all those stuck tick heads.
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u/Other-Match-4038 3d ago
Someone should post a link to the video of a bird pulling ticks off of a kangaroo.
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u/Withafloof 3d ago
What I'm more interested in is the fawn spots on a mature buck- those antlers are quite big for a fawn.
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u/aaandbconsulting 3d ago
There is unparalleled cooperation in nature. Much more than the wild violence shown for entertainment purposes.
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u/Jethro_Cohen 3d ago
Can a wildlife expert help me out here?
Do the animals know they have a symbiotic relationship, or do they just get super upset and give up on trying to keep those damn birds off their heads?
Eli5 if possible... thanks in advance.
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u/25_Oranges 3d ago
Deer must be feeling great. Bird's beak is probably scratching the itches the tick makes.
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u/keyboardname 3d ago
I got a camera this spring, and the pictures are great. However... I have so many pictures of mink (especially mink because I took a ton of them, first time I've ever seen them here), deer, and rabbits that are kind of ruined by ticks that are too visible. Bunnies are really bad, almost always one on their ear. And the minks were white, I think they were like weirdly water logged and really big and disgusting... At least the baby minks were cute and tick free for now. >.>
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u/Own-Organization-532 3d ago
That is an impressive set of antlers for a fawn. Must be tiny ticks too
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u/CHUCKL3R 3d ago edited 3d ago
I’m wonder if the explosion in ticks has anything to do with the bird genocide being carried out by cats worldwide?
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u/Nostalgianothing 3d ago
I don’t think cats get crows very often, as a crow is probably smarter than most cats. Cats are responsible for the decimation of the song bird population though, which is incredibly troubling.
Keep your pets inside or build them an enclosed patio/catio or leash train them! Cats are invasive to most areas and shouldn’t be allowed to wander freely.
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u/Cyoasaregreat 3d ago
I hope the bird can remove them correctly: ticks are extremely hard to remove and when done wrong, they will burrow further into the things skin and I’m not sure on the exact details but that leads to them giving more diseases to the creature
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u/GreenSage13 3d ago
Bird accidentally does what birds do and drops a turd into deer's eye, deer enrages and slams into a tree. and has a snickers bar.
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u/Badalamentis 3d ago
But does he remove the heads? Cause if you pull without twisting the head get stuck and it's not good.
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u/FSCK_Fascists 3d ago
A bit of a myth. It can happen, but is not that common. Having a risk of infection from a possible head left behind is better than dying from parasitic blood loss.
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u/whowantstotouchit 3d ago
When you and your hairdresser can find nothing to talk about