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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Man that bird was living a straight up nightmare.

And from the comments I saw it gets worse for this bird - apparently after the bird flew off, the scientist who captured this call played it back to check they had recorded it properly, only for the bird to come back and start calling again.

These scientists accidentally played the cruelest prank imaginable on this poor bird, and it was likely not smart enough to ever realise it.

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there's there's nobody there. You're sure you heard someone, but there's nothing, except you.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's like the time researchers were monitoring elephants after a member died.

A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for days afterward. The researchers never again did such a thing.

Animals grieve over the lost connections just like we do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

How do you not break down and weep after having done such a thing?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there's there's nobody there. You're sure you heard someone, but there's nothing, except you.

Second worst nightmare unlocked. Imma go cry now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there's there's nobody there. You're sure you heard someone, but there's nothing, except you.

You just basically summarized the experience of people deconverting from fundamentalist Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Plot twist, he killed them all and was just coming back to make sure he finished the job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This could be a great short film, with the footage and story at the end, Twilight Zone style.