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Apr 12, 2025 12:55 AM
SquirrelWithATophat
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nojustsayitdont
Nature documentaries taught me to not get attached to crabs. Or lion cubs. I've seen some shit.
OzRockabella
keyblader1985
OhIfIMust
StTriniansHeadBoy
Try My Octopus Friend. The whole documentary is like “I’m depressed so I’m going to spend a year interacting with this octopus in ways that a documentarian like myself shouldn’t interact with the subject of a documentary, and in fact ways that humans shouldn’t interact with octopuses at all”.
Until the end when it’s like “welp, it sucks that my friend is being eaten alive, but I’m a documentarian, so what can i do except watch? My healing journey is complete!”
JudgingEagle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
justplainvanilla
doublebutttriplehut
The Prometheus school of running away from things
princesscindycat
I had emotional attachments to the Meerkat Manor show and then they canceled it :(
MaleProstateMilker88
Watching nature-documentaries as a kid radicalised me.
DOcelot1
Telemapus
documentaries since 2015: Psych! He got away. Now let's smash cut to his cousin being eaten.
ReplyingAI
mako925
Nature is brutal
iloovechips
My Octopus Teacher
TobiOfTheAkatsuki
Koro Sensei?
iloovechips
I have no clue what that is
FortifiedWhine
I was scarred forever when I watched a doc about a tiger with three cubs, and one was a bit of a runt, had a deformed tail and was really weak. It couldn't keep up, and the mother left it behind to die. I'll always remember it crying out after it was too weak to follow and the film crew weren't going to/couldn't help it and it died. Now I have made myself (get stupid drunk) sad...
MissAizea
I saw a documentary about Golden snub nosed monkeys. The main focus was on the "heir"of the male troop leader. I think they called him little prince or something. Anyways, his dad is killed so the troop is taken over by another male and he's basically run off. It's snowing most of the time, he needs his mom, he's hungry... he runs into her and he legit cried like a child and she held him so tight for just a moment before running off with her new troop. He went into a tree and just cried & cried.
ecmsco
animal videos dont always help but (drunk here) waitil you can get away with it
JudgingEagle
Reminds me of watching one about lionesses of different ages.
One of the younger ones got bit by a venomous snake; and their cubs died of starvation while their mother struggled to process the poison (foaming at the eyes/mouth/sinuses) over the course of several days.
They were all pretty close by to each other, but the mother couldn't hunt, or nurse; she also nearly starved to death herself.
FortifiedWhine
Now I'm even sadder!!!
mksu
Because education is more engaging with a narrative.
Higure
Stories and emotions activate the learning part of the brain like nothing else.
omgzwtfs
All I remember is becoming emotionally attached to crabs then some big flat bitch came along. Same with Steve Irwin
mksu
See? It's working! You learned that stingrays are here to do two things: eat crabs and shank nature presenters, and that stingray was all out of crabs.
duktayp
EccentricNut
he's gonna be ok, right?
imgurmage
This kills the crab.
OhIfIMust
iamnatmann
Man that was a rough way to go. Actually felt bad for the thing in that scene.
ThatHurts
Also very scientifically inaccurate. The difference between the inside of a space ship and the vacuum is space is 1atm, plus or minus a bit. Not nearly enough differential pressure for this sort of thing. Put your hand over a hole in the hull and you'd get a hickey. Not a spaghettification. It happened to the crab because the difference between pipe pressure and ocean pressure is around 20 or more atmospheres