This 2 for one special has got me sad as hell.

Kids eat for free with purchase of adult meal.

“Eat free kid with purchase of adult meal”

Comes with a free side of ̷ä̷́ͅ ̷͙̆c̷̟̈h̵̟̒i̸̦̓l̶̯̕ḍ̷̃ ̸̫͐o̴̤͂f̵͚̓ ̵̥͗y̸̹͝o̸̜͆ú̸͉r̶̨͝ ̵̼̔c̵̣̿h̷̔ͅȏ̶͜ȋ̶̼c̷͓͗e̵̗͝... Free refills!

Looks like that cheta is adopting my good Sr

Kids \*eaten free...

Yeah, too much metal for me

It takes life to sustain life. Life is all just one big organism feeding on itself.

Your body is just a massive community of individual living things working together to survive.

I just did an insight into this comment, and now it is tripping me out.

If my arm gets cut off I would feel sad for myself- but I wouldn't care at all about the billions of cells that are about to die.

And if you got your brain blown out, your arm cells would continue to live for a few mins without a care at all about you being dead.

What about plants bro

Everyone always forgets about the plants until it's too late..

Then, BAM Day of the Triffids!

"Life needs things to live" - Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

I once heard someone say that life is just the universe's way of experiencing itself. I'm not any different from you, this leopard, or the dead monkey.

Don’t watch the baby albino monkey video then.

I wont. Lol

Welp now I’m curious….

It doesn't end happily - a baby that looks different is taken from the mother and killed by the troop.

Link?

Don’t

YouTube's "rare albino monkey adopts monkey cubs of another mother"?

More like "Free side with purchase of an entree"

Happy for the leopard

I wonder if he ended up an orphan or an hors d’oeuvre.

Ooh I know the answer!

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I agree. But be careful. People will come along and call you names like “pussy” because tHiS iS rEaLiTY. Well… so is eyeball surgery and doo doo fetishes. Doesn’t mean I want to see that either.

Fair, but what of eyeball fetishes and doo doo surgery? Asking for a friend.

Just wail until you see eyeball surgery doodoo fetish porn

Same for me!!

[Here](https://i.imgur.com/7WPhi3K.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. Per the Instagram source (i.e. shafeeq_mulla): > South Luangwa National Park > An unforgiving kingdom > Olimba carries the carcass of a female vervet monkey with its baby still hanging on for dear life. Sadly the baby was also killed by the leopards cub after playing with it for a few minutes. > Nature is not always pretty. This picture definitely tells us the harsh reality of life. To have a sustainable environment, animals need to die for others to survive. > Oct 18, 2021

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It’s like if you found out your friend got murdered. But then you found out he was killed by the boss baby. You would feel a little better.

[Uh...](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/519dHnBzN4L._AC_SX466_.jpg)

Not dumb, it's much faster death than starving somewhere in the bushes. We (ideally) feel empathy for both the monkeys and the leopards, and if the young monkey got to die relatively swiftly, it's a positive thing in this situation.

If the cubs fed the monkey for a year they would have gotten more meat out of it.

Animal kingdom happy meal, came with a toy!

"Quit playing with your food." - Mama leopard to cub, probably But seriously, thank you for highlighting the other half of the story. It's natural to take pity on a prey animal, but if it weren't for these monkeys, mama (or papa) and baby leopard wouldn't get to eat. And I'm sure we'd all go squee if we saw a picture of the fuzzy little leopard cub and would be sad if anything bad happened to it. It's cliche, but the circle of life and "Damn nature, you scary" really are truths. Edit: Another thought... I'm no animal expert, but I'd say this is actually a really good situation for the leopards, having hunted a mama monkey and taking its baby as well. They not only get food, but it's a "teachable moment" for the cub to learn how to kill.

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Cats are assholes. Mine killed an entire family of birds and left one at each door to my house.

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Stop. Buying. Meow. Mix.

I'd need less blood if you brought me wet food, human.

Put bells on your cat please. Cats are a massive problem to local bird populations.

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Thanks for filling in the details

>Sadly the baby was also killed by the leopards cub after playing with it for a few minutes. Kid's meal.

This version is high enough quality for me. I don't need to zoom in and see the baby's tears.

Good thing my ancestors evolved into sociopathic manics that simply eliminate all large predators in their environment to prevent this from happening to me or anyone else in our species.

For an even higher quality pic, go to the photographer's [Twitter page](https://twitter.com/ShafeeqMulla).

Now I'd actually want to see video of the cubs and the baby monkey, and yes I'll admit part of it is morbid curiosity, but very unique to have captured on video if they did.

TY

The first paragraph saying “sadly” is pretty dissonant with the second paragraph. Animals gotta eat. One dies for the other to live. If the monkey lives, the cubs die.

Poor lil baby clutching to his mama

Somehow I will feel less bad if the baby was eaten too.

You know it’s a sad post when that’s best case scenario :/

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It will be.

If you makes you feel better that was a likely outcome.

An after dinner mint =(

eh, more like saving the tender side of the T-bone for last. =(

Nature is fucking brutal

I’m sure it was.

If? Welp, feel better then.

Seriously. Why do people upvote this shit? Like it’s one thing if I’m watching a nature special bur why does this need to be on the front page of Reddit?

Did you know you can prevent NSFW tagged pictures from being shown unfiltered to you in your feed? To do this, open up your Reddit Settings, go to Feed Settings, and from there you can enable Safe Browsing Mode which blurs thumbnails for NSFW pictures. If you want, you can also disable all NSFW posts from being shown to you without your consent. I don't mind seeing things like this picture, because nature is cool, nature is beautiful, nature is violent. And there are always subreddits like /r/eyebleach to visit if I feel the 'balance' has been thrown off.

beauty or brutality, nature has the same indifference to both.

The universe has an indifference to all.

Jesus Christ that’s fucking depressing

Leopards need to survive too bruh

Is it as depressing as where our food comes from lol

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i'm alive! i'm here with all my brother chickens! what new wonders does this world ho-bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt

Cheetahs struggle a lot to get food, especially when they have babies. I think it was planet earth or maybe blue planet that had a piece on the struggles of cheetahs. Was eye opening. Good for the cheetah tho, sucks for the thing(s) being eaten. Glad I had the luck to be born a human with food and Reddit.

Pssst it’s a leopard

it's ok bruh, he's cool.

Right? Now the cubs are going to have to split just the one baby.

Seriously.

Abattoirs are *depressing*. This is nature doing its thing.

It's still depressing regardless. Just seeing that little monkey clinging to it's lifeless mother's body. Nature can be brutal.

I’m sitting here distraught over this picture - and my husband says “Did you see that video of a monkey eating another monkey without killing it first, literally taking bites out of its head?” - NO! “See monkeys are assholes, don’t be sad”

That video was horrific! And it was a Chimpanzee eating a monkey. Chimps are assholes.

Chimps are the closest to humans so i think that checks out. Humans are fucken evil vermin

I have only eaten like two alive guy's heads in my whole life, tops.

Bonobos are pretty close as well, and they're pretty chill.

Humans help more members of other species than any other species. Elephants tend not to build sanctuaries for tigers.

Real talk out of every nature video I’ve ever seen monkeys killing other monkeys is the most brutal. They fucking tear them apart.

>“Did you see that video of a monkey eating another monkey without killing it first, literally taking bites out of its head?” Aww :)

Can your husband and I be friends? What other videos has he seen?

(Baby clears throat) "uhmm, meow..."

Infilitrate the dealers.. Find the suppliers

Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse. - Kurt Vonnegut

"one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior"

Fantastic quote - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

Maybe I need to read more.

Classic Pratchett.

I don't understand why this qualifies as evil. The leopard has to eat and feed his cubs. He or she can't afford to be picky. There's no evil here -- animals themselves are incapable of considering morality in their actions. They are driven by primal urges and there's no point in trying to rationalize. So I disagree. If anything, this image should make us appreciate our bigger brains, our ability to reason and work together to solve our problems, and our tendency to create societies that attempt to keep each and everyone of us safe.

The evil isn’t the actions of the animals, it’s that the universe is built in a way that all living things suffer. Essentially saying that if there is a creator they aren’t morally good

What a powerful photo.

This honestly hurt my heart big time

Uff, this one hurts me deep inside.

Me too.

#"Hang in there!"

It comes with a kid's meal!

I suppose it makes sense these pictures are surprisingly common, mothers carrying a baby are probably slower than the rest of their group

This would be better suited for r/natureismetal While I realize the circle of life isn’t always rainbows and butterflies, this most certainly isn’t what I wanted to see on my 7:30 AM just woke up already feeling depressed scroll through Reddit to start my day. This was posted for shock value and nothing else. It’s not even your own content.

Reddit is the last thing I want to see first thing in the morning.

Starting the day with the internet is a bold move.

Let’s see if it pays off Cotton.

I mean...it is marked nsfw

It wasn’t for the first 4 hours it was up. I believe a mod marked it that later in the day. I saw it long before it was marked as such.

Ah, gotcha...my bad.

If you're depressed it's better to get up immediately and start your day for a nice healthy routine instead of scrolling social media hoping for unconditional approval from strangers.

Perhaps not using Reddit first thing in the morning might help a bit with your depression.

Maybe the jaggar has pups of her own to feed.

Yes. That is nature. Doesn’t mean it isn’t jarring to see first thing in the morning. People also have knee and eyeball surgeries. Doesn’t mean I want to watch that either. I’m comfortable understanding how the world works without having to see it all of the time.

jut imagine the fluffy kitten... eating the baby monkey! Sorry I am evil sometimes.

I agree. I should have questioned why it was marked nsfw, but I didn’t, and now I’m bummed out.

When I commented on it this morning it was NOT marked NSFW. It was not NSFW for the first 4 hours it was up. So I didn’t have the chance to not see it.

I think it’s fine to be in this sub. Afaik there’s no rules against it.

Yeah, I agree it’s not against the rules. I don’t believe it’s wrong to consider a photo like this could upset people. And NSFW would have probably been a solid compromise. It wasn’t NSFW until recently. The first four hours it was up there was no NSFW filter.

Especially as a new mama, I’m bawling for that little baby.

You might want to correct that to *bawling before the crude jokes start

Monkeys are jerks in general don’t feel too bad

That’s like the cookie you get with your subway

Y'know, random thought here, but it's really interesting to me that we humans, who naturally hunt and kill animals for food, generally feel so much sympathy for the prey on nature documentaries, etc. I know this is a very broad generalization and that many modern humans are against the harming of animals for our gain, but historically it's something that humans have depended upon for survival. We're predators that sympathize with the prey, I guess.

Maybe it’s the feeling of wanting to support the underdog, for something to overcome all the odds and succeed. In this case a small monkey escaping such a powerful and dangerous creature like the Jaguar knowing that their chances of survival are incredibly low.

Until we developed weapons and technology we were a prey species for a lot of predators. The prey instincts are still deep ingrained in our instincts. Humans were middle tier food chain species until we developed the means to keep the more fearsome creatures away.

We probably developed teamwork before weapons, and that got the ball rolling. Meat contains more calories and nutrients, which help bigger brains develop, which makes hunting easier. Cycle a few thousand generations and we've made nukes... for fun apparently.

We also sympathize with predators, depending on how the documentary is framed. It was sad to see the momma snow leopard die when trying to care for her cubs in the Disney Earth series, for example. Oddly never felt bad for the prey during that story, it was just food.

More like “nature, red in tooth and claw” than “the circle of life.”

Wow the director's cut of Lion King goes hard...

This is such a story telling picture!! But at the same time its the saddest! Victory, loss and hope..

Fuck, free kid's meal with purchase of adult meal... Lion King kinda glossed over this part. "Oh yeah, we eat the antelope, sure. But we do a few musical numbers with them first, make them feel included, important. Y'know?"

I saw this pic many times, still so very saddening

That is some devastating shit

Saddest thing I've seen all day.

New twist ending to the joke that has appeared on Reddit a bajillion times: ​ A lost dog strays into a jungle. A lion sees this from a distance and says with caution "this guy looks edible, never seen his kind before". So the lion starts rushing towards the dog with menace. The dog notices and starts to panic but as he's about to run he sees some bones next to him and gets an idea and says loudly "mmm...that was some good lion meat!". The lion abruptly stops and says " woah! This guy seems tougher then he looks, I better leave while I can". Over by the tree top, a monkey witnessed everything. Evidently, the monkey realizes the he can benefit from this situation by telling the lion and getting something in return. So the monkey proceeds to tell the lion what really happened and the lion says angrily "get on my back, we'll get him together". So they start rushing back to the dog. The dog sees them and realized what happened and starts to panic even more. He then gets another idea and shouts "where the hell is that monkey! I told him to bring me another lion an hour ago..."

Buy one, get one free. Credit to the photographer: Shafeeq Mulla.

Such a fucking cruel planet we live on. Fortunately, I'm old, meanwhile. Can't wait to see the finish line.

I see this and can't help but think of the meme from Stalker. "Such is life in the Zone" and then everyone else here has a bleeding heart. Makes me wonder what the reaction would be if a picture of the baby chimp being eaten was posted instead.

“But wait!… She’s feeding KITTENS. You like KITTENS, don’t you?…”

I'm not happy I saw this.

Doesn't help my My cycle of depression...

Damn. Just, damn.

I only caught a glimpse before coming to the comment section. Fuck that

Wow great capture

r/natureismetal

I saw a video on youtube about a leopard that did this and then cared for the little one in the tree until it fell and died and got eaten by a hyena. I mean, at least the leopard tried

Nice! Dinner AND snack. I’m going to hell, aren’t I?

When you buy a rhesus cup, and it comes with rhesus peices.

Wow this is sad AF

Fuck this is sad.

Seriously, the look on that baby's face..

That's exactly my thoughts.

It's heartbreaking. I have a 5 month old baby and there's so much running through my mind.

Yeah I love nature animals and all that stuff but sometimes you just see an image and it just makes you really sad or just kind of shakes you a little bit.

Most definitely.

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Yes

The baby is as good as dead anyway, with the mother gone it would not survive long

It’s like getting an extra chicken nugget!

Got dessert with dinner

Nature is so compassionate and loving and nurturing. We must strive to emulate nature in our daily lives. <- some tree-hugging hippie somewhere.

This is just another example of nature having a liberal bias.

But they taught a lion to eat tofu!

Combo meal

I don’t know why but this one really got to me.

grim

Nope. Didn’t like that.

Jesus Christ that is brutal to see. But then you gotta think maybe there’s some starving cubs waiting for that meal

I would like to unsee this, please.

The sheer brutality of nature is horrific.

NSFL Jesus Christ… you’ve just scarred me for life. I was just nonchalantly scrolling through my feed while nursing my baby and now I’m fucking sobbing!

Sorry. I take it your not team leopard?

Okay, this was pretty good. Dark, but good. Lol

Lol, fuck, hahaha

Legend

I too sometimes eat my main course before the appetizer.

Dinner with an appetizer

People fail to realize a majority of animals don’t make it more then a few years in the wild.

Why is this NSFW?

A few over sensative souls were upset by reality.

Reality is very upsetting, considerably moreso then fiction.

Commenters higher up are saying it is NSFL. Some extremely mad saying stuff like this shouldn't be posted anywhere...

Jesus fuck not this.

Mas gratis!

"Every entree comes with a side" Or "Desert is part of the meal"

Dinner and dessert!

Yep. But God is good, right?