Posted on 05/02/2024 8:19:17 AM PDT by SJackson
The “Five Little Ducks” were met with a grizzly end.
A zoo bear named Juniper shocked guests at a girl’s birthday party after devouring ducklings that had landed in its enclosure, as seen in a video with over 2 million views on TikTok.
“A #natgeo trainwreck for my daughters’ birthday, thanks JUNIPER,” mother Rachelle captioned the clip of the impromptu feeding.
She and her fellow revelers, which comprised both adults and children, had reportedly been celebrating her daughter’s birthday at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.
The bash took a turn when the party-goers stopped by the bear exhibit and witnessed a 2-year-old female coastal brown bear, named Juniper, eyeing a momma duck and her ducklings that had alighted in the enclosure.
That’s when the humongous quack addict decided to make its move.
In the traumatizing clip, the mother duck and her brood are swimming through the pool as Juniper watches them hungrily from the bank.
All of a sudden, the hangry bruin jumps into the drink and makes a bee-line for the ducklings, causing them to scatter across the pond. She then proceeds to gobble them up one by one like chicken nuggets as the onlookers gasp in shock.
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Fortunately, Rachelle assured viewers that the kids were not “traumatized” by the quacker-crunching carnage.
“We see wildlife doing their thing all over where we live,” she said, snarking, “Oh and we also let them watch Dave Attenborough shows *gasp.*”
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Welcome to real life, kiddies. This is nature, not disney
That is what bears do when they are hungry. They can’t go to Mc Donald’s and order a Big Mac with fries and coke.
In my ponds, it’s the catfish small ducks need to look for. Just about every one gets eaten.
That bear was a real jerk! H/T Norm McDonald
Yogi ran out of pic-a-nic baskets
Ah, some decent illustrative journalism for once...lol
Yes, and the writer resisted commenting on their taste.
Quack addict 🤣🤣🤣
kids...a reminder...they also kill people...
Whose bright idea was it to put live SNACKS in a bear cage? Yeesh!
Unsocialized/untrained dogs will do it, too--for fun. They go by instinct and don't know any better otherwise. Hopefully the bear won't be killed for this but if it is, it will not happen by taking it out back and shooting it in the head.
Oops! I see they were WILD ducks. Never mind. Circle of Life and all that. :)
Seems, this was mama duck's idea.
Story reminds me of this:
“The game laws say nothing whatever about the actions of animals,” he said. “Animals are thoroughly reliable. They do exactly what is required of them and they never think of doing anything else. Their conduct does have to be regulated. The lion will not kill unless he is hungry, and then he will most certainly kill. He does not kill to expand his personality or to gloss over flaws (true or imaginary) with which he cannot live. He kills because he personally needs to eat.” “Man,” he said, does not behave as his Creator intended him to. Therefore laws have to be laid down to govern his behavior.” Leonard Wibberley, “Meeting With a Great Beast”.
Shame on you. (I hadn’t even thought of that...yet)
Where’s Kristi Noem when you need her? 😆
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