animals eating other animals

Werner Herzog: [On the jungle] Kinski always says it's full of erotic elements. I don't see it so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and... growing and... just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they - they sing. They just screech in pain. It's an unfinished country. It's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is - is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape. And whoever... goes too deep into this has his share of this curse. So we are cursed with what we are doing here. It's a land that God, if he exists has - has created in anger. It's the only land where - where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at - at what's around us there - there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of... overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle - Uh, we in comparison to that enormous articulation - we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban... novel... a cheap novel. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication... overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. Even the - the stars up here in the - in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment.

― Suddenly...Soup! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:17 (eight years ago)

i will never not enjoy watching a cockroach die.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:32 (eight years ago)

Birds eating a penguin alive by ripping its intestines out of its ass
https://gfycat.com/FluidMediumIndigowingedparrot

― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 01:42 (eight years ago)

i am glad people are explaining what these things are instead of just leaving random links
my inner sadness thanks you

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 01:49 (eight years ago)

one of the penguins is like "fuck you guys I am out of here" and the other one is on some homicidal "so what is this like" shit wtf

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 02:00 (eight years ago)

Herzog's wrong, nature is harmony, it's just sometimes diminished fifths

― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 02:19 (eight years ago)

Birds eating a penguin alive by ripping its intestines out of its ass
https://gfycat.com/FluidMediumIndigowingedparrot

― Jeff, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 9:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

gotta eat the booty like groceries

― 龜, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:12 (eight years ago)

And also the back of the head apparently O_O

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 29 September 2016 00:21 (eight years ago)

at this point, whatever that gif actually is it probably isn't as bad as what's in my head but i will never know

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 29 September 2016 05:52 (eight years ago)

ulysses it if fucking horrifying.

― how's life, Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:28 (eight years ago)

― how's life, Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:29 (eight years ago)

It's screaming for a Herzog narration.

― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:51 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

https://twitter.com/Ben_On_The_Moon/status/808148742763347968

http://i.imgur.com/YYxrwhA.jpg

― 龜, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:22 (eight years ago)

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/15/13977140/watch-whales-eat-shark-alive-video-monterey-bay

― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 14:25 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/science/cannibalism-animal-biology.html?smid=tw-share

― 龜, Monday, 30 January 2017 19:08 (eight years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/Z3yVA2K.jpg

― 龜, Monday, 30 January 2017 19:09 (eight years ago)

best animal siblings

― mh 😏, Monday, 30 January 2017 19:13 (eight years ago)

probably the greatest 'awkward family photo' ever taken. the proud parent presiding. that poor little thing in the middle, perhaps intelligent enough to sense it's next. the synchronised teenage savagers

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 30 January 2017 22:28 (eight years ago)

nah, the one in the middle is like "see I told you, she's much tastier than me"

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:55 (eight years ago)

Poor Tiffany

― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 04:30 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/badger-buries-entire-cow-carcass/

― 龜, Monday, 3 April 2017 13:42 (eight years ago)

That's beautiful.

― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 April 2017 13:58 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0bNm1ijoBY