Baby Bird: SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM!
Mommy Bird: Here is some food.
Baby Bird: SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM!
Mommy Bird: I already gave you food.
Baby Bird: SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM!
Mommy Bird: Okay here is some more food.
Mommy Bird: Okay here is some more food.
How do you prove that the baby bird is 'blackmailing' the mommy bird? Could he not just be hungry, and want more food? I don't think that birds can go through the process of thinking, 'if I scream, I will attract predators, so if I keep screaming, my mommy will want to shut me up so no predators find us, so if I just keep screaming, she will give me more and more food.'
Um...I don't know, but that just doesn't really seem logical to me that a baby bird would know about predators even before he is out of the nest, and that he would try to threaten his food-provider, who could just up and leave if a predator came.
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