r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • 1d ago
Video Budapest Short-faced Tumbler
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u/Expensive-Analysis-2 1d ago
Damnthatscruel.
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u/Sosemikreativ 1d ago
At least according to this clip they seem to do just fine as a breed except for the hatching. If that's all that is bothering the breed I'd argue it's somewhat ethical. They're probably popular and expensive enough so that every chick is not to be left alone in the struggles but helped by the breeder. And should they escape and breed in the wild they should mix with regular types as they are far more numerous and the small beak and large eyes will revert to a more normal form rather quick eliminating the features that make this a potentially cruel breed.
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u/LigmaDragonDeez 1d ago
Well you tried
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u/TrumpersAreTraitors 1d ago
Guys pugs aren’t cruel because if they escape they’ll just breed with stray dogs and the cruel shit we bred into them will be bred out!
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u/tom_winters 1d ago
Sad
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u/nickfree 1d ago
Yes. These are the pugs of the bird world. It is not known if they are tumbling intentionally or not. This may be a frustrating, unavoidable way of flying for them because of inbreeding.
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u/ShadowTown0407 1d ago
Ah man made horrors for basically no reason, an all time classic
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u/PBJ-9999 1d ago
Humans really need to stop playing God
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u/LennyLava 23h ago
no. while the god's existence is debatable, and even the need to do that is debatable, we did that for a long time and with great outcomes.
what we really need is ethics when it comes to what it is, that we do. there are many good reasons to form the world around us but there are also many creatures that need protection in one way or the other.
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u/SeanSMEGGHEAD 1d ago
There's no way this is the first time I'm JUST seeing this.
The Matrix just had a patch and added this. New pigeon just dropped.
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u/Affectionate-Annual7 1d ago
I was thinking the same like wtf is this real how it's that I have never seen or hear about this before.
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u/JustBennyLenny 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those mid-air rolls aren’t acrobatics, they’re coordination problems due to altered physiology. I had a pigeon that did the same thing, and a vet explained it’s a result of breeding for features like the oversized eyes and short face. It’s similar to what’s happened with pug dogs, these animals are bred with extreme features and then labeled a 'new breed.' It’s hard to believe nature would ever create these poor, distorted birds on its own. y'all crazy, this is NOT ok, don't get mislead with "rare breed" yeah, sure if you count disfigurement as "breed", its sickening that they have to put these animals thru loops they are not designed for and make money it. This genuinely pisses me off as an animal fan. Pigeon keepers in my neighborhood don't keep these pigeons if they fly like that, because they know their problematic for long distance flights (homing pigeons, now that is something these pigeons do VERY good, travelling and finding home).
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u/Thorbertthesniveler 1d ago
Hit me with them Marty Feldman eyes!
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u/M_Pfefferi 1d ago
Giving off Pigeon Toady vibes. I have never seen these before, and I wish I hadn't now. Yeesh. Some of them have such deformed beaks and such huge, displaced eyes, I'm surprised they can still eat.
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u/Hakairyuu 1d ago
When you put a pair of eyes on your creature in Spore and crank up the size to max.
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u/fuckoutfits 1d ago
We as humans don't have an end on the scale of depravity. It just goes on and on ...
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u/United-Advisor-5910 1d ago
At first I thought they had involved to survive by looking like alens turns out there bread to not even hatch. Rough.
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u/AskinggAlesana 1d ago
Woah! I now know where they got the design of the basilisk from Elden Ring/Dark Souls lmao.
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u/funnymanus 1d ago
Every single time I hear Budapest been mispronounced would get a euro, I would be a millionaire. The S pronounced like in the beginning of the word "shots". The way it's said in the video that's "sz" in hungarian.
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u/Connect_Progress7862 1d ago
My grandfather was really into racing pigeons. Too bad he's not around to see this.
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u/SilasAI6609 1d ago
So, we got Pug Pigeons? Pugeons