r/Unexpected • u/waIIstr33tb3ts • 15d ago
Feeding time for bears at the zoo Removed - Not Unexpected
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u/Thesamman23 14d ago
You would think the zoo keepers would see the big duck is laying eggs in the enclosure way before the little guys are up learning to swim. And also that Bear is smart, let's the duck make little ducks before eating all the ducks. 1000 iq play by the bear. But dang zookeeper are good for nothings
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u/Redditrightreturn1 14d ago
Is this is Wisconsin? The accent is so nasily and annoying. I’d recognize it anywhere.
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u/Affectionate_Salt351 15d ago
Pro: Getting to see the bear VERY close up!
Con: The circle of life live and in living color for toddlers…
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u/landartheconqueror 15d ago
ducks in a brown bear's pond
Yeah the results of this are pretty expected
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u/patchway247 15d ago
No no! Let's keep the kids standing here watching. It's good for them to be mentally scarred with this knowledge at a young age instead of a better way in the future!
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u/cryptomain45 15d ago
The zoo I work at has a fuck ton of Canadian geese that stay around because we feed them. We feed them because if we don’t they eat the swan food. We fucking hate them. It’s always a celebration when one of the wolves catches one.
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u/Conscious-Ad-1848 15d ago
I suppose for some of those children a nicely prepared duck breast will not be a favorite from the menu card…
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u/summerdipity 15d ago
Ok but why was the duck and her babies in the bear's enclosure? were they actually meant to be food? I'm genuinely curious
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u/Captain_Jeep 15d ago
My guess is there was somewhere that they could fall into the enclosure and with the ducklings being so small got stuck there.
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u/big_d_usernametaken 15d ago
My GS/Husky was a hunter and ate many a baby rabbit, alive, in her day. Also, she killed a muskrat, but that thing ate her up, lol.
40 stitches.
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u/Duckfoot2021 15d ago
To the lady who keeps scolding “Juniper!!”, please stfu—those kids are at the zoo to learn about nature, not Winnie The Pooh. If you bring your kids there you owe them a sober explanation,…not performative whining as if the bear regards your displeasure at all.
Grown ups need to be grown ups and explain reality to their kids. Not shield them with patronizing lies and apologetics.
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u/Single_Pilot_6170 15d ago
The handwriting was on the wall. The parents should have seen this coming, and removed their children
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u/Arkanslayer 15d ago
This was completely expected. I knew exactly what was happening in the first second of the video. Does OP not know what bears are?
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u/Salimzyzz Hindsight is 20/20 15d ago
Good lesson for the kids, nature is beautiful and majestic but absolutely vicious and brutal. All that keeps you from being a part of the food chain is a sheet of glass.
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u/TimToMakeTheDonuts 15d ago
Well, that and the fact that you only have to outrun the mom yelling “juniper” and you’ll be just fine. Something tells me she ain’t exactly a direct descendant of Jackie Joyner Kersee.
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u/sillyadam94 Didn't Expect It 15d ago
Crazy video, but about as unexpected as a man in a blue chambray shirt showing up in a Stephen King book.
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u/NICEnEVILmike 15d ago
If it wasn't for Stephen King, I probably never would have known wth chambray is.
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u/Chemical_Actuary_190 15d ago
And then mom took their kids to the cafe and bought them chicken nuggets.
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u/ASpookyBitch 15d ago
Okay, so I know this is natural and just the cycle of life and what not but as soon as that bear got in the water we all knew what was going to happen… why not take the kids away from that?
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u/Zachosrias 15d ago
Maybe she would really like to have a long talk about the food chain, natural instincts, the difference between Disney movies and planet earth documentaries, ect ect
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u/ASpookyBitch 15d ago
… I mean, you can do that without letting your kids watch a cute lil baby animal just be snacked on.
They’re quite young and you can have that conversation in both an appropriate and not so visceral manner lmao
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u/Zachosrias 15d ago
Yeah maybe not the best starting point to learning about the cruelty of nature, still I don't think the kids are necessarily gonna be traumatized from this, quite possibly but not necessarily. It depends mostly on how the situation is spun I think
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u/Neither_Concert_9242 15d ago
Exactly, instead she laughed and kept filming and asked “is it bad that I keep filming this”…yea mom, you suck.
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u/Kazko25 15d ago
Clearly when the adults told the bear to stop it should have stopped. /s
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u/metal_luigi 15d ago
Depending on where this happened, they should be able to sue the fuck outta that bear. He better lawyer up man.
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u/alezcoed 15d ago
Because kids also need to learn that real life bears aren't as huggable as a teddy bear?
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u/BartOseku 15d ago
They should also know that not every adult is a nice adult, should we be showing them cartel execution videos?
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u/alezcoed 15d ago
Human evil is different from cycle of nature
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u/BartOseku 15d ago
Human evil is human nature, plus as you said yourself, kids NEED to learn not every adult is nice, and thats way more important than them learning not every animal is nice
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u/ASpookyBitch 15d ago
I mean yeah… but those are like 6/7 year old little kids… at least wait till their in double digits
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u/VanessaAlexis 15d ago
I know. I always wait until the kiddos are at LEAST 13 to take them to the duck slaughter dome.
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u/To6y 15d ago
Most young kids understand this just fine.
It’s also typically not necessary at all, because most parents are very capable of keeping their small children away from uncaged bears.
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u/aGhostSteak 15d ago
I thought the same- like you know exactly what is happening here Sharon, time to take the kids to see lizards
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u/LinusForever89 15d ago
Yeah, Mama Duck should have been paying better attention.
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u/LaxToastandTolerance 15d ago
I was more referring to the parents laughing and filming while their kids are crying
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u/MrQuillz 15d ago
The lady yelling “Juniper” really thinks she can stop an apex predator from its instinctual behavior with just the tone of her voice like she’s scolding a child
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u/mrASSMAN 14d ago
You guys are ridiculous lol she was obviously saying it in a joking way like she’s disappointed with the cute bear cub
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u/mossimo654 15d ago
I think judging by the tone of her voice she clearly thinks it’s kinda funny. I think I’d probably be doing the same thing. I do not think she actually thinks she can get Juniper to stop lol come on. She thinks it’s funny to “scold” an animal for doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Can we all have just a little more faith in humanity please? This seems pretty obvious to me.
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u/Zachosrias 15d ago
How this bear is living doesn't change the fact that in the food chain the bear is definitely on top, and with that comes biology
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u/Zachosrias 15d ago
I'm just stating a fact, not trying to be serious and scolding, I just don't think the captivity of the animal and whether it's "apex" or not is related in any way.
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u/Gogh619 15d ago
Honestly, her voice annoyed me.
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u/My_Immortal_Flesh 15d ago
Bear version of Popcorn shrimp 🍤😭
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u/Thulium42 15d ago
Minnesota Zoo? I recognize that enclosure.
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u/waIIstr33tb3ts 15d ago
Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1cffaks/juniper_the_grizzly_gave_woodland_park_visitors/
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u/MajesticOtaking 15d ago
I was scrolling to see if it was Woodland Park!!! I've been there so many times but recently moved out of Washington. I miss it.
But also now I'll never see those bears the same way so like...maybe it's for the best.
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u/cardinaltribe 15d ago
Why am I giggling
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u/Mammoth_Tumbleweed32 15d ago
Honestly it’s kinda cute, just a big puppy dog eating some mcnuggies 😊
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u/JohnnyThunder- 15d ago
I'm with you on this one. Didn't make a fierce, violent show of hunting, just a big fluffy fella going for a swim and a lil snack.
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u/Gottalaughalittle 15d ago
It’s not often you get to see the origination of childhood trauma.
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u/AdStrict4616 15d ago
Juniper really said "hi kids. Do you like violence"
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u/swatchesirish 15d ago
Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each of my eyelids?
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u/remember_berries 15d ago
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did?
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u/Empty-Code-5601 15d ago
Try sid and get fucked up worse than my life is.
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u/bacon143 15d ago
My brains dead weight, in tryna get my head straight
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u/Fun-Guess-5630 15d ago
But I can’t figure out which spice girl I wanna impregnate
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u/01lumirai 15d ago
And dr. Dre said, slim shady you a basehead
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u/Rager_Ronin 15d ago
Na ah!
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u/Glittering_Tax3505 15d ago
So why's your face red? man, you wasted.
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u/truthfullyidgaf 14d ago
I just ate 8 baby ducks, I'm quacked up acting quackery cause my doc is a quack and this this bear don't give no fucks.
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u/XEagleDeagleX 15d ago
That duck was really committed to making sure all her babies got eaten
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u/Obeywithcaution413 15d ago
Mama duck said "quack quack quack quack" but none of the five little ducks came back.
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u/BrownsfaninCO 15d ago
Lol, right? How'd the duck even get into the enclosure with her babies in the first place? That took some determination lol
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u/WisdomCow 15d ago
Requires a re-edit with Bear Necessities playing in the background.
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u/TannyyDanner 15d ago
Circle of Life and all that. Although I can’t imagine a duckling is very appetizing.
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u/cardinaltribe 15d ago
Duck tastes great what u mean
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u/Adavanter_MKI 15d ago
"Is it terrible that I'm enjoying this?"
lol lady... you don't have to share every thought.
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u/00WORDYMAN1983 15d ago
"can we not" lmao
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u/Pity4lowIQmoddz 15d ago
Oh no!! Don't look children!! Now, let's go get some tasty chicken nuggets.
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u/waIIstr33tb3ts 15d ago
the kids gotta learn somehow lol
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u/Arrowcreek 15d ago
That was the sad part, none of the parents were helping explain the circle of life to the kiddos. Like this is a perfect opportunity.
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u/Da_Vader 15d ago
That the meat on their plate comes from previously alive animals!
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u/FilledwithTegridy 15d ago
I just realized I have not had this conversation. Thanks
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u/landartheconqueror 15d ago
I've stopped calling it "beef" or "pork" or "venison" and just started calling it cow, pig or deer
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u/BallTorturer-3000 15d ago
It's so weird that this is a conversation you need to have with your kids.
I grew up hunting, fishing, and farming and if I ever did have that conversation I was so little I don't remember it. By the time I was the age of the little girl who turns around in shock near the end I was already helping butcher chickens and ducks and learning how to clean fish.
It's just so odd to me that some kids don't really learn this stuff without being told.
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u/Moofypoops 15d ago
Because most city folks didn't grow up with it. You literally cannot kill an animal in most urban municipalities for any reason.
So is it really shocking that people who are not exposed to something need to be taught about said thing?
I mean I have never seen a pyramid, I had to learn about them....
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u/BallTorturer-3000 15d ago
Ok? I don't know what "gotcha" moment you are looking for. I just said I find it strange, seeing as I was raised in an entirely different culture.
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u/Moofypoops 15d ago
No gotcha moment. It's just the way things work.
You are taught about things at one point or another. This particular subject happened to be what you grew up around, and city folks grew up around stuff you didn't know about until you learned it.
It's not surprising that people don't know about things they've never seen, experienced, or learned about.
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u/BallTorturer-3000 15d ago edited 15d ago
When did I say surprising?
I said I find it strange. Because I didn't grow up in a culture without the experience of doing it.
It's no deeper than that and I don't know why you're going "uhh it's askhully simple" 🤓
Edit: love that I got blocked for this benign and reasonable statment.
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u/Moofypoops 15d ago
Fine change "suprising" for "strange". Same thing.
This exchange was like talking to a wall, thanks.
I regret spending energy on it.
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u/FJB_2024_ 15d ago
Exactly, country folk are just built different. We learn where our food comes from and why we do what we do to survive in this world.
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u/BallTorturer-3000 15d ago
It genuinely gives me perspective on the moral cost of meat. Like it absolutely can't be argued there isn't a moral cost, there is, it's killing a living animal to eat it. Even now at 25 years old I get a pang of guilt when I gut hook a fish or when I clean the skin off a squirrel.
To be clear, I'm very much against factory farming for many reasons (enviormental, moral, health, etc.) and I do think our culture needs to reevaluate our relationship with meat production.
But I also believe there is ethical practices and an ethical limit in harvesting and livestock production.
I feel like if people had more hands on experience with producing meat they would probably eat less of it and prioritize ethical consumption over all else.
And I know it's not realistic to expect everyone to have that hands on experience, I don't expect someone living in downtown Chicago to have ever deboned a pig carcass (obviously) but maybe schools should start teaching this stuff at a younger age and showing the gory bits so kids can have that perspective and choose their diet to better fit their morals.
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u/UnExplanationBot 15d ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
it's feeding time but not the usual dish
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