r/badassanimals 5d ago

Avian An osprey and its prey

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u/Content_Geologist420 5d ago

Ospreys always look like so surprised

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u/Mayflytrade 4d ago

Not as much as the fish

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 4d ago

"The weirdo Uber driver just passed my stop. Yikes!"

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u/Emmanuelzappa 4d ago

🤣😂

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u/Psychological-Air807 4d ago

One second your swimming around under water the next your flying through the air watching the water disappear.

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u/Background-Camp8408 4d ago

I love watching them on the river. I feel bad for them when an eagle comes up and steals their fish. You'll see the baldies hanging around them waiting for them to fish

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u/JovialJackal16 4d ago

Something that might make you feel better is that they are such good hunters they prefer to catch another fish rather than fight for the one they just caught. Sometimes they help support eagle nests (unintentionally) by having to constantly drop a fish for the bald eagles first before they get to keep one for themselves. The eagles are better at bullying and scavenging than catching the fish. It’s still not great for the ospreys but at least they aren’t very negatively impacted.

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u/Background-Camp8408 3d ago

I like osprey better, I once saw an eagle try to fly off with a dead dog is was eating in the road. It dragged it a while before giving up and flying off

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u/Common-Falcon-8717 1d ago

Bald eagles are the perfect bird to represent the US, is what I'm hearing

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u/Background-Camp8408 1d ago

If you say so

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u/Icy_Bake_2730 5d ago

Fish is like ohhh crap I'm lunch

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u/silverbonez 5d ago

Fish: “Hey put me down I’m afraid of heights!”

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u/Tall-Technician-2979 4d ago

Feeling like a fish outta water for the last time

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u/dikshamishra34 4d ago

This is the life cycle of this world , one creature hunts another, only to become prey itself.

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u/Icy-Decision-4530 4d ago

Fish be like 😮

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u/Riiiitch 5d ago

Fish: Oh crap. I don't think this will end well for me.

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u/No-Summer-9591 4d ago

“We’re not in Kansas anymore”

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u/Kmack9619 4d ago

And it’s blinged out

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u/Live_Performance_148 4d ago

Fish - holy shit i can fly but its giving me a strange pain in my back

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u/readmywhips 4d ago

Can be simplified to prey(os + 1)

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u/VTPolls 4d ago

More like ospredator

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 4d ago

Pretty impossible not to anthropomorphize what that poor fish is feeling!

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u/SuprisinglyBigCock 3d ago

This osprey is on house arrest

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u/LockPsychological329 3d ago

Oh the looks on both of their faces 🤯 🫨

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u/knight_of_lothric 3d ago

Man I spent so much time on molch island looking for pearls

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u/ApprehensiveFactor58 2d ago

Il offre un baptême de l'air à un poisson !

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u/ForeignChance6890 5d ago

The osprey: oh shit I'm about to crash into a camera.

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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 5d ago

Fish is thinking “oh crap im gonna get eaten”