Have you ever seen a nature is metal incident?

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I've seen Pike fish rise out of the water and eat moorhens. They also eat ducklings. It seems a bit backwards, doesn't it? A fish eating a bird. Pike can grow quite big and they make quite the splash when they snatch something from the surface of the water.

One time I saw a rabbit on the pavement on the verge of death. You could tell it was dying and that there was no saving it. When an animal is that close to death, it can be unnerving how still they are. The rabbit had this haunting expression that's difficult to describe.

I have seen rival birds throw out the eggs of other birds. Cuckoo birds are rather infamous for this behaviour. They steal nests and throw out any eggs that were in the nest.

Swans are by far cruel and stupid. Two male swans had to be separated recently because they kept trying to kill each other. Swans are territorial and stubborn. One time I tried to leave my house and a bunch of swans tried to attack me. Made me late for work.

I once witnessed baby chickens eat their half developed sibling. I was around nine or ten. Uh, not so fun fact but you can buy spray for chickens to make them less likely to engage in cannibalism. Whether or not it works is another question.

I watched plenty of nature documentaries on TV when I was a kid, and some of the stuff I saw was pretty intense and probably not suitable for young and/or sensitive viewers. There's always some animal getting eaten by predators. One time they show a baby duckling being grabbed and pulled underwater by a pike like mentioned above.

I did find those scenes pretty scary or disturbing, but I wasn't bawling or crying afterwards. I guess I must really be a psychopath. Or maybe even as a kid I just knew how cruel nature can be.

We don't have pike, but I saw several ducklings disappear from behind mum in our dam.
We let an eel catcher harvest the dam and he pulled out one that was bigger than my leg.
He said he caught $200 of eels for export.

https://youtu.be/YbsnGVWmI1M

I saw a video of a mother rat who ate one of her babies and was about to eat another one.

“Nature is cruel but we don’t have to be” - Temple Grandin

Tiny Nature is Metal incident I've witnessed a couple of times: a cellar spider taking down a giant house spider. The two species have a similar legspan, but the GHS is much, much bulkier. The smaller spider seems to be able to sneak past its defenses, tangling its legs up with silk before wrapping it up while it struggles.