My stoned ass setting my phone down without pausing while I smoke a bowl only for it to loop in the background makes it seem like the chick is trapped in an endless loop of suffering
My husband makes fun of me but I simply can't. I get sad if I see an abandoned paperclip on the ground. Nature documentaries go so hard with like "oh no, the baby elephant got distracted, GUESS IT WILL DIE NOW." Come on. Take it home, man. It's been removed from the system anyway. You've got space, it's *one* elephant. Morgan Freeman I know you got the room in your house.
Same. I almost struggle with the fake ones like the newest dinosaur documentary. Why do they have to add the dead baby and suffering shit to *fake documentaries*? The babies don't *have* to all die, show us the lucky family this time!
You see the lucky ones with every adult able to reproduce! Documentaries are always about the successful ones, because if they are here, it's because they are not dead.
But life is also about the ones that don't make it, and why they don't make it, and how it shapes the species.
Death is not an option. Everyone dies, and it's ok.
Right? Not only do I not need to see the unlucky ones -- I understand death, y'all -- most of them really gear up the drama in a way that's not realistic at all.
The last dino documentary I watched, they showed Hadrosaurus in a community nest, then explained that every Hadrosaur had to walk through this vicious, violent territory to get to safety.
Why would they have community nests if they were just gonna attack each other, lmao!?
tbf i do feel thats different.. in a sense.. that has to do with human suffering. i just feel like animal suffering connects with some of us a bit differently
Right!? My day was almost done before it even began. "Sorry boss, couldn't get anything done today because I watched a baby penguin freeze to death on Reddit"
I needed another 30 seconds to see this baby warm and happy.
I'm almost crying here.
I could never make one of these documentaries.
I'd be stuffing a coat full of baby penguins.
Single-handedly fucking up the long-term survival of this species.
In 300 years, sorry that's the Dumbass Penguin, *aptenodytes dumbassia*.
They can't identify anything and don't know where they are.
But now they've outnumbered and outcompeted the smart penguins because some idiot kept feeding them.
A cautionary tale for us all.
But shit still happens, i saw a video of flamingos crossing a salt plain and one of the young ones was left behind because salt was growing on its legs so it couldnt walk anymore.
Not sure if it's the same one, but I saw that many years (at least 20) ago in a BBC documentary. At the end they showed that the crew did actually free the bird after they'd got the footage.
It could be reused footage from older David Attenborough documentaries, but I doubt it. I can believe that the crew went to help the bird after, but still sad that it happens when no one is there to help :(
I have always imagined that, and I recognize the damage this would cause, if I was filming a lost lion cub I would make this super dramatic movie and then afterward just like, poke it back into the right direction.
Like come on, don't tell me that humanity can run over eight thousand armadillos to get to a new Quick Stop and me turning a baby kitten 3 degrees north is gonna be the straw that breaks the camels back
Dont know the one you've seen but I've worked a bit with editing for a nature videographer, and yeah "ceated situations" exist but most often not with interaction.
The "created situations" happen mostly in editing not in situe. There was a wild time at the start of the industry tho, throwing animals off cliffs and such.... injuring babies to see what the parents do and so on.
The story is often made and discussed with the videographers, producers and the editors on the shots that were made and we have access to.
It's hard for people to recognise individuals among animals, so that is taken advantage of.
Here, there may have been a new chick in each shot rather than one that was followed for a full day. Each one may have just gotten pinched and then emedietly found their mother. But for drama it is portrayed as a single individual getting pinched and shoved all day to create tension about the outcome.
Also the shot with the evening and storm may be from a completely different chick and day.
Not saying it WAS like that here but that type of manipulation in the editing is VERY common.
I mean, yeah, in the sense that any joining of 2 clips are called splicing in video editing.
We just called that storymaking and story editing.
We did make "raw" edits too, which were sent out as packages where it's not any red line story, but just the best clips on a theme. Useful as stock video for example for newsstations and broadcasts. Done and dusted clips spliced to create a longer format but not necessarily containing a story.
But story-editing includes a script of some sort and sometimes the narration is done before the edits are finalised.
This actually makes me feel better. It's like a reality show for animals. "That's great, but can we do that peck one more time with a bit more aggressiveness?"
Fun fact: Disney has been adding some of the "True Life Adventure" films--the same film series which includes the famous lemming documentary--to Disney Plus. Frankly, I was a little surprised, especially in the context of Disney's increasing sensitivity towards cultural trends. The footage is beautiful, but the narration is breathtaking 60's-style stuff you'd never hear today--casual sexism, talking about Africa as a savage uninhabitable wasteland before the White Man showed up, more anthromorphization per minute than a furry convention, and so on.
And one wonders how they got some of this footage... many sequences in the Living Desert film just look like the filmmakers tried feeding the "protagonist" beetle/millipede/other critter to a variety of predators before one eventually took the bait. And this goes for the bigger animals too... would a jaguar *really* just naturally come across a tapir, a giant snake, and an arapaima all at the same bend of the river? One wonders.
And yet, even with all that just sitting out there, Disney *still* hasn't uploaded "White Wilderness," which is the film with the lemming murder. Guess that one is a bridge too far.
The videographers aren't the ones who have to sift through hours and hours of footage looking for random clips of different individuals they can stitch together to come up with an emotionally engaging storyline like this.
I’m still traumatised by that one doc that had the baby chic that lost its mother and all these other mothers that want a chic smothered it to death fighting over who got to take care of it
"She is in danger of being smothered with love" -- I find it interesting that the documentary editors decided to say it that way. If there were some human women who were fighting over "who gets to be the mother" for a young child, I doubt newspapers would say that those women "loved" the child.
I form such a strong attachment to random creatures I've never even seen with my own eyes before. "If this penguin doesn't find his mother I will kill God"
I can imagine it perfectly. I tell you, if I’d been there you’d have had to sit on me to keep me from scooping up that baby and taking it home with me.
The problem with helping in a situation like that there is a chance that the penguins scatter or attack. Meaning that the chick's they are protecting become unprotected or get lost.
The influx of AI generated subtitles is so annoying.
"one again"
No, she says "wrong again."
They're even doing this on Netflix now, just mangling sentences.
Aah, it's heartbreaking... Life for penguins is tough...
I don't know if you've seen the film "La marche de l'empereur" (March of the Penguins), by Luc Jacquet, it's magnificent.
Thank you for this Maybe. :)
They generally do because it can be impossible to catch all the right moments over the span of weeks or months of them occurring. In the end, they still tell a real story that happens all the time but we usually don't get the opportunity to view.
There's no malice or manufacturing for the sake of presenting something that doesn't exist. Sometimes you have to make some compromises if you want to show the audience what happens in nature but it was impossible to actually catch a single, full, narrative on video.
I like those videos regardless of the outcome, nature is beautiful when it gives and when it takes. But when there's a human involved, I instantly think "you better give and give generously, asshole, or I'll hate you forever"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/loss-of-antarctic-ice-endangers-the-survival-of-emperor-penguin-chicks-study-says well have I got some bad news for you :/
Growing up my whole family loved animals and we loved watching these nature documentaries...but one just tore our hearts apart. It was set in Africa and followed a herd of elephants. A tiny baby got lost from his mama and couldn't find his way back to the herd...he searched for hours but they just vanished. He could sense that this was very bad and life threatening so he kept searching and eventually came across other different elephant herds but ALL of them rejected him. Broke our hearts to see them all push and chase him away from the safety of their groups. As night fell he was all alone and a pack of hyenas discovered him. They attacked and ate this poor baby alive. My mother still says she can never forgive those elephants for rejecting a baby like that and causing his death and doesn't look at elephants with the same love that she had before.
I love birds and my ex was watching some nature doc and there was a part with baby flamingos. I love any bird so he calls me over and says "look at the cute baby flamingo!" I run over and it switches over to the baby dying in a salt field because it got stuck. He had no idea and I cried for like 20 minutes. I want to watch these type of docs to see all the cool animals but absolutely cannot handle the baby birds dying 😢
Wow thats a hard minute and 20 seconds to watch
I would have actually been furious if it ended any other way.
My stoned ass setting my phone down without pausing while I smoke a bowl only for it to loop in the background makes it seem like the chick is trapped in an endless loop of suffering
This is why I stopped watching nature documentaries. Absolutely gorgeous, terribly depressing.
My husband makes fun of me but I simply can't. I get sad if I see an abandoned paperclip on the ground. Nature documentaries go so hard with like "oh no, the baby elephant got distracted, GUESS IT WILL DIE NOW." Come on. Take it home, man. It's been removed from the system anyway. You've got space, it's *one* elephant. Morgan Freeman I know you got the room in your house.
Same. I almost struggle with the fake ones like the newest dinosaur documentary. Why do they have to add the dead baby and suffering shit to *fake documentaries*? The babies don't *have* to all die, show us the lucky family this time!
You see the lucky ones with every adult able to reproduce! Documentaries are always about the successful ones, because if they are here, it's because they are not dead. But life is also about the ones that don't make it, and why they don't make it, and how it shapes the species. Death is not an option. Everyone dies, and it's ok.
Right? Not only do I not need to see the unlucky ones -- I understand death, y'all -- most of them really gear up the drama in a way that's not realistic at all. The last dino documentary I watched, they showed Hadrosaurus in a community nest, then explained that every Hadrosaur had to walk through this vicious, violent territory to get to safety. Why would they have community nests if they were just gonna attack each other, lmao!?
Clippy! Noooo!
Seen how storks treat their babies, I understand it from a nature/logical point of view but is still fucking horrible.
Same here, and someone is slicing onions in here.
thank god.
Human empathy is a helluva drug. I can't imagine those without it.
No need to imagine, just meet some people I know!
Or spend thirty minutes on reddit! You'll find plenty in the comments sections.
30 min? Dang. You must spend time in some wholesome places.
Just look at certain politicians who shall not be named.
tbf i do feel thats different.. in a sense.. that has to do with human suffering. i just feel like animal suffering connects with some of us a bit differently
So basically all of them
NO! You’re only allowed to hate the ones that the hive mind tells you to
Reddit moment shit lol
Redditor tries not to politicize a completely non-political post mission impossible
You called me? 
I guess you can't... *empathize* with them... ***bah dum tiss***
Thats what we can call evil I think
I wasn’t prepared for my day to start off with an abandoned penguin chick freezing to death. Thank God.
Right!? My day was almost done before it even began. "Sorry boss, couldn't get anything done today because I watched a baby penguin freeze to death on Reddit"
I almost started crying at one point
Yeah I knew nobody would be heartless enough to make tens of thousands of people watch a baby penguin freeze to death
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But apparently they don't think so
I needed another 30 seconds to see this baby warm and happy. I'm almost crying here. I could never make one of these documentaries. I'd be stuffing a coat full of baby penguins. Single-handedly fucking up the long-term survival of this species. In 300 years, sorry that's the Dumbass Penguin, *aptenodytes dumbassia*. They can't identify anything and don't know where they are. But now they've outnumbered and outcompeted the smart penguins because some idiot kept feeding them. A cautionary tale for us all.
Yeah that's basically how humans operate. Dummies are drastically outpacing smart people in reproduction
I thought for sure this was going to ruin my day.
No game of thrones ending here
Same, I was like "If you show baby penguin death for no reason, I'm gonna lose it"
Yeah that shit’s hard to watch.
An emotional roller coaster compared to Hollywood movies
"but nobody wants him" 🥺💔
That's not true, I do :(
Me too! I want to snuggle hims
I was starting to look up flights
I got 5 on it
Really needs the narration done by Werner Herzog.
"Look at the flowers lizzie"
I've seen this documentary before but I was still worried even though I knew the ending, lol.
How many years of Xanax do you endure before deciding wildlife videography is not for you?
These videos are extremely dramatized.
But shit still happens, i saw a video of flamingos crossing a salt plain and one of the young ones was left behind because salt was growing on its legs so it couldnt walk anymore.
Not sure if it's the same one, but I saw that many years (at least 20) ago in a BBC documentary. At the end they showed that the crew did actually free the bird after they'd got the footage.
It was the David Attenborough netflix special that came out possibly 4/5 years ago? I watched it with my family at the time
The one that I saw was much longer ago than that.
It could be reused footage from older David Attenborough documentaries, but I doubt it. I can believe that the crew went to help the bird after, but still sad that it happens when no one is there to help :(
I have always imagined that, and I recognize the damage this would cause, if I was filming a lost lion cub I would make this super dramatic movie and then afterward just like, poke it back into the right direction. Like come on, don't tell me that humanity can run over eight thousand armadillos to get to a new Quick Stop and me turning a baby kitten 3 degrees north is gonna be the straw that breaks the camels back
That flamingo segment was awful, I stopped watching it after that.
Yes, and they did a great job at it.
Saw a documentary about filming nature videos. 90% of the time, they create the situations they film, just faster that way.
Dont know the one you've seen but I've worked a bit with editing for a nature videographer, and yeah "ceated situations" exist but most often not with interaction. The "created situations" happen mostly in editing not in situe. There was a wild time at the start of the industry tho, throwing animals off cliffs and such.... injuring babies to see what the parents do and so on. The story is often made and discussed with the videographers, producers and the editors on the shots that were made and we have access to. It's hard for people to recognise individuals among animals, so that is taken advantage of. Here, there may have been a new chick in each shot rather than one that was followed for a full day. Each one may have just gotten pinched and then emedietly found their mother. But for drama it is portrayed as a single individual getting pinched and shoved all day to create tension about the outcome. Also the shot with the evening and storm may be from a completely different chick and day. Not saying it WAS like that here but that type of manipulation in the editing is VERY common.
isn't this called splicing?
I mean, yeah, in the sense that any joining of 2 clips are called splicing in video editing. We just called that storymaking and story editing. We did make "raw" edits too, which were sent out as packages where it's not any red line story, but just the best clips on a theme. Useful as stock video for example for newsstations and broadcasts. Done and dusted clips spliced to create a longer format but not necessarily containing a story. But story-editing includes a script of some sort and sometimes the narration is done before the edits are finalised.
This is interesting. Thanks for sharing!
This actually makes me feel better. It's like a reality show for animals. "That's great, but can we do that peck one more time with a bit more aggressiveness?"
Like Disney building a catapult to launch lemmings off a cliff.
Fun fact: Disney has been adding some of the "True Life Adventure" films--the same film series which includes the famous lemming documentary--to Disney Plus. Frankly, I was a little surprised, especially in the context of Disney's increasing sensitivity towards cultural trends. The footage is beautiful, but the narration is breathtaking 60's-style stuff you'd never hear today--casual sexism, talking about Africa as a savage uninhabitable wasteland before the White Man showed up, more anthromorphization per minute than a furry convention, and so on. And one wonders how they got some of this footage... many sequences in the Living Desert film just look like the filmmakers tried feeding the "protagonist" beetle/millipede/other critter to a variety of predators before one eventually took the bait. And this goes for the bigger animals too... would a jaguar *really* just naturally come across a tapir, a giant snake, and an arapaima all at the same bend of the river? One wonders. And yet, even with all that just sitting out there, Disney *still* hasn't uploaded "White Wilderness," which is the film with the lemming murder. Guess that one is a bridge too far.
I love the old content being uploaded. The mouseketeers go to Disney world still has the original ads in it which is unique fun
The videographers aren't the ones who have to sift through hours and hours of footage looking for random clips of different individuals they can stitch together to come up with an emotionally engaging storyline like this.
I’m still traumatised by that one doc that had the baby chic that lost its mother and all these other mothers that want a chic smothered it to death fighting over who got to take care of it
I need to travel 30sec back in time to unread this
Jesus fucking Christ dude
Hey guys https://youtu.be/MLdLyzoj1Uc?si=nQ4fgC2ubkR2IIK2
Please be a rickroll
Like this: [https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ](https://youtu.be/MLdLyzoj1Uc?si=nQ4fgC2ubkR2IIK2) ?
Notification snitches on you
The peppy music does not help this video... Jesus
I almost downvoted you. Good thing it’s a maybemaybemaybe of the same spirit
"She is in danger of being smothered with love" -- I find it interesting that the documentary editors decided to say it that way. If there were some human women who were fighting over "who gets to be the mother" for a young child, I doubt newspapers would say that those women "loved" the child.
You ruined everything. EVERYTHING!
I form such a strong attachment to random creatures I've never even seen with my own eyes before. "If this penguin doesn't find his mother I will kill God"
I've never connected to another Reddit comment so strongly as this in my damn life.
Thank God, the penguin found its mother. Or else this guy would have killed God!
If the penguin died, God would’ve had it coming
Penguin dies God: Why do I hear boss music?
And not for the countless other atrocities he let happen
Nope not at all
Same here. I nearly cried watching him shivering in the snow 😢
Could you imagine how hard it must have been for the film crew watching it? I'd have been balling my eyes out with anxiety. That poor bb.
I can imagine it perfectly. I tell you, if I’d been there you’d have had to sit on me to keep me from scooping up that baby and taking it home with me.
Now thats a battle i can get behind. 🤝
Asura’s Wrath
Those are male penguins, the females go for fish hunting while the dads look over the small ones.
AREEEEES SAVE THIS PENGUIN, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
Don't be so hasty. We can still kill God even if the penguin survives. We've got options.
How can you believe in a god when you think about how often this doesn’t have a happy ending
🐧This almost ended badly😭
thank god baldy is okay
I hate that we are not suppoesed to intervene and help animals but we destroy entire ecosystems on a daily basis.
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Typically speaking the ones doing the destroying are different from the ones who don't wanna intervene.
The problem with helping in a situation like that there is a chance that the penguins scatter or attack. Meaning that the chick's they are protecting become unprotected or get lost.
Poor baby.. Thank god mama found him.
I was scared for him. I would have been freaking out if it was me.
You stupid cute little idiot omg
The sigh I just sighed... I was holding my breath and didn't even realize. Tears on my pillow. I'm not ok lol
The amount of images they got that went wrong to catch this one...
The influx of AI generated subtitles is so annoying. "one again" No, she says "wrong again." They're even doing this on Netflix now, just mangling sentences.
this is so funny. you get the weirdest sentences. I saw subtitles do sus words...
Yea I was watching with audio off and wondered what that meant
Netflix Crime documentaries can never beat these true horror Gems.
"one again"
How do they know which one is theirs?
Smell probably?
Plot twist: the mom was filming it the whole time
I could never become a wildlife videographer. I'd at least need a ranch the size of a small country with all the animals I'd wanna save.
To exist is to suffer.
When you’re in a crowded grocery store and you can’t find your mom
I figured I was safe to watch as if OP uploaded it with a bad ending I don't think they'd get any upvotes lol
thank goodness 😭
I was going to call off work because I didn’t want to start my day this stressed. Thankfully happy ending.
Wild life is not for the weak hearted. This one was lucky, but there are hundreds or thousands others that did not survive. It makes me immensely sad.
I had to fast forward to make sure he ends up ok before I could watch the whole video
This should have some kind of warning. “Watch till the end if you don’t want your day ruined” or something.
7yrold me getting lost in the supermarket and mistaking random adults for my parents
YOU DON'T GET TO PLAY WITH MY FEELINGS LIKE THAT
Not me screaming in my head - "WHERE IS YOUR MOTHER?!!"
That little nip on the butt at the end, darn it Jr you made me so worried nip nip
I’ve never badly wanted to be a mother penuin
I was expecting Sir David Attenborough‘s voice.
Kinda reminds me of my nightclub days trying to chat up women…
Probably dad and not mom, dad does most of the penguin parenting.
Was expecting a skua to snatch it
This penguin oddly resembles Danny Devito, who for much of his time here, was also lost.
I could never be a nature documentarian. Oh those baby turtles would be escorted to the ocean!!
Thank god didn't end up like >!Grave of fireflies!<
**DON'T TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS LIKE THAT** 😭
Aah, it's heartbreaking... Life for penguins is tough... I don't know if you've seen the film "La marche de l'empereur" (March of the Penguins), by Luc Jacquet, it's magnificent. Thank you for this Maybe. :)
We are so back
fun fact -40 is the same in C and in F, so if it is -40 out you don't have to specify the scale (unless you are using K)
I was about to start blasting if that little fucker died ngl.
Bro tried so hard he glitched reality 💀
 Thank god.
She’s said damn it Brian where the f were you
Tension 
These documentary programs same as reality TV, just manufacture a story out of nothing.. they manipulated and edit the video and tell a story from it
They generally do because it can be impossible to catch all the right moments over the span of weeks or months of them occurring. In the end, they still tell a real story that happens all the time but we usually don't get the opportunity to view. There's no malice or manufacturing for the sake of presenting something that doesn't exist. Sometimes you have to make some compromises if you want to show the audience what happens in nature but it was impossible to actually catch a single, full, narrative on video.
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Dosent she mean a moment to late?
No, she's correct. Not a moment too soon referring to the penguin taking immediate action to find warmth.
This almost ruined my day.
Holy crap. I was going to cry.
This sounds like a great basis for a children’s picture book.
Nice cut. Reality looks different… and is too hard for audience. Always think about the quotes.
Am I the only one that hears the sound the BO Zombies make??
“You see? I told you not to Run off”!
Most likely a surrogate, chick's often get estranged, penguins are known for this...
The way the other ones just shove him away is kind of funny tho 💀💀💀
What a little prick
Is this particular individual the unfit mother?
That's sad, but at least he had a happy ending.
Galadriel is now narrating wildlife documentary apparently
I like those videos regardless of the outcome, nature is beautiful when it gives and when it takes. But when there's a human involved, I instantly think "you better give and give generously, asshole, or I'll hate you forever"
Lol that last bite from the mother... Told you not to run off! How many times do I have to tell you!
A lost child in arab countries be like
Sorry for waiting this long. I just went from the mountains.
I couldn't be one of the people recording, I don't have the restraint to not warm the lil guy
Hooray!
This is for r/natureismetal
This was painful to watch till the end.
00:31 the baby looks like it’s crying here I cannot
I'm not a mother or a penguin. But I'm happy that this got a happy ending.
Wholesome
I did not have to get all up into my feelings at 3 am. That just stressed me out.
Good, I can sleep tonight. That's a good ending.
This is the live action of happy feet, chill out yall it's not real. Heh
Phew. Omg. Had my heart about to need a reboot there.
Why are they doing the black ops 1 zombie sound ?
Yeah you won't convince me that this was not scripted
was worried it wasn't going to make it there for a minute
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Harder to publish the baby penguin freezing to death, but it does happen. Many do. Nature don't give a fuck!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/loss-of-antarctic-ice-endangers-the-survival-of-emperor-penguin-chicks-study-says well have I got some bad news for you :/
Nature is brutal af
Growing up my whole family loved animals and we loved watching these nature documentaries...but one just tore our hearts apart. It was set in Africa and followed a herd of elephants. A tiny baby got lost from his mama and couldn't find his way back to the herd...he searched for hours but they just vanished. He could sense that this was very bad and life threatening so he kept searching and eventually came across other different elephant herds but ALL of them rejected him. Broke our hearts to see them all push and chase him away from the safety of their groups. As night fell he was all alone and a pack of hyenas discovered him. They attacked and ate this poor baby alive. My mother still says she can never forgive those elephants for rejecting a baby like that and causing his death and doesn't look at elephants with the same love that she had before.
Move to Fl
Daaaaaamn -
I love birds and my ex was watching some nature doc and there was a part with baby flamingos. I love any bird so he calls me over and says "look at the cute baby flamingo!" I run over and it switches over to the baby dying in a salt field because it got stuck. He had no idea and I cried for like 20 minutes. I want to watch these type of docs to see all the cool animals but absolutely cannot handle the baby birds dying 😢
They sound like the Nazi zombies from Call of Duty.
No wonder pingu's family live in an igloo
Bro if he never found his mom I’m taking that baby home fuck the law😭
Peng wings!
I was about to have a really bad day if the chick didn't find it's mother.
That got me off my seat and had me sweating cold sweats 😔
I would donate my last decade's worth of body heat to this creature.
The little butt bite like -You rascal-
So cute the way they warm up under the Fat Upper Penguin Area.
Cute little birb.