Little bird feeds cuckoo; netizens share divided opinion; watch video
By Team Newsable | First Published Sep 25, 2021, 12:14 PM ISTA video of a bird feeding a cuckoo shared by Aviator Anil Chopra has emerged on social media.
Digital media is flooded with videos of animals. Here and then, clips of birds surface on the Internet and bring smiles to the netizens face. Aviator Anil Chopra shared one such video on Twitter and, in the caption, mentioned that there is no old age home for birds like human beings. In the video, one can see a little bird feeding a cuckoo. The short clip has left social media users with different opinions.
Indian Forest Service officer Parween Kaswan retweeted the video and wrote that the cuckoos are brooding parasites and don't make nests. Instead, look for other's nests. Parween Kaswan said that the female cuckoos indeed lay eggs in other's nests and run away. Not to forget, IFS officer Kaswan is very much famous on digital media and often shares exciting facts about birds and animals with his followers.
Not at all true. Bigger is a cuckoo, a brooding parasite. They don’t make nest. Rather look for other nests. Female lay eggs in other's nest & run away. Cuckoo kill kids of host also. Host bird raise them as their own & know about reality late. Small bird here is actually older. https://t.co/kqPBsQM9gG
— Parveen Kaswan (@ParveenKaswan)Latest Videos
The video went crazy viral on social media and has collected over 41k views and 1154 retweets, and around 3,830 likes. The clip also acquired different opinions from social media users. Reacting to the video, one of the users wrote, "Hate to puncture the feel-good factor, but the 'old' bird is actually a cuckoo chick. The cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests and when the chick emerges, the foster parent accepts it as its own. The bigger cuckoo then kills off the chicks of the host and drives its foster parents to death on account of its enormous appetite. What you are seeing is this." Another person commented, "That is a cuckoo baby being fed by an adult bird. Koyal or cuckoo lays its egg in birds of other species, the baby koyal hatches before the other eggs & throws out the other eggs. The parents raise the koyal baby, many times bigger, as their own. It is a parasite so to say." Watch the video.
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