You can see the calculations going on in his head.
“If I just ram this peanut down my throat, I’m pretty sure I can hold the other one in my beak and make it home before I pass out.”
He was curious how much he could get away with if it was a trap. You see him go for the quick score and when there’s no reaction he gets greedier. Then after downing the second one and still no trap he decides to grab one more before getting out of there.
But only if the second one is big enough to allow carrying it while not being able to close my beak properly.
Blue Jays are corvids, and they’re smarter than dogs. A dog already in possession of a large piece of meat will drop it to pick up a smaller piece of meat. This jay is definitely selecting for size.
What’s the plan here? Is he hoping his stomach acid will dissolve the whole outer shell?
I think he’s just carrying it for now. He didn’t fully swallow the first one.
oh yeah, I forgot one of their main things is barfing up food
OK but what’s he going to do with it later? Does he have a way to peck through the shell? Peanut shells seem soft and hard to peck
Why would the shell being soft make it harder to open?
Softer things don’t crack as easy as hard things when you hit them. Think lead vs tungsten. If you smash a lead ring with a hammer it’ll get misshapen but won’t shatter, hit a tungsten ring and you’ve got metal shards all over the place. (sorry if tungsten is the wrong metal for the example, kind of an old memory)
I mean yeah but that’s for metal. Peanut shells are Super easy to open especially if you have a hard pointy nose haha
Yeah but when you have a tiny weak neck, not so much.
Damn really picking on the bluejay
Holy shit you have achieved Disney Princess status! That is really cool.
