r/BeAmazed • u/ResponsibleMovie1622 • 5d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Two loving swans are reunited and their joy is absolutely infectious.
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u/Allergic_Allergy 4d ago
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u/Lordborgman 4d ago
This gif hurts so much more now...
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u/Theghost5678 5d ago
Swans are very loyal to their partners
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u/TeneroTattolo 5d ago
but bastard and hateful with very one else.
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u/acanthostegaaa 4d ago
"I work with a guy from Mexico who doesn't speak a lot of English. A canadian goose made a nest by one of the paddock gates and hissed at him while he was putting horses out. He comes back to us after and says, "I do not like the cobra chicken."" - funny meme
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u/petit_cochon 4d ago
I respect swans. They're big birds and they'll fuck you up if they feel threatened. After a few decades on earth, I'm now firmly on the side of wildlife in general.
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u/HoidToTheMoon 4d ago
An animal is always an underdog versus a human. I tend to root for the underdog. Simple as.
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u/ajanisapprentice 4d ago
An animal is always an underdog versus a human
Especially if the animal is a dog.
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u/78preshe8 4d ago
Ou...I tried to watch a few videos in that sub, but I just couldn't get my guts to bear it.
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u/HoidToTheMoon 4d ago
Personally it's the horn straight up the ass for me. That's a level of violation you just don't see.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 4d ago
Here’s a beautiful balm for that. This man rescued a bullfighting bull and basically the bull is a giant lapdog now. He gives talks to try to educate people about this topic.
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 4d ago
I feel you. We don’t deserve animals, they’re actually living right, unlike our disgusting asses.
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u/rakkquiem 4d ago
I saw a swan rip the windshield wipers off a car because it came to close to it sitting in the middle of a road.
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u/SilverConversation19 4d ago
I have scars from my childhood from their hateful ways. It’s really nice to see them be so happy tho 🥹
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u/Boiseli 4d ago
If you treat them well, they can be really friendly. They even make "thank you" sounds if they know you and you feed them.
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u/TeneroTattolo 4d ago
After some simply everyday experience I really don't eager to meet them in any form. And avoid any encounter when possible.
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u/SparseGhostC2C 4d ago
A swan bit me once, in a public park. Then it wouldn't let go of my hand. Trying to play tug of war with a neck that long when you're like 9 years old is very difficult.
Swans are dicks
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u/TheColdChill 4d ago
White* swans are loyal to their partners. Black swans however, have a higher "infidelity" rate. It's interesting how different the two species are. Another fun fact, these two species can interbreed, and will produce Blute swans. (Black swan + white/mute swan)
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u/jeffbrock 4d ago
I have a house in Bruges, Belgium where there are many white swans. Every year, during nesting season, the city puts up blinds around their nests to shield them from tourists. Every year, at least once, I find myself telling a tourist, who is trying to get a picture, “Yeah, I wouldn’t do that if I were you”. Then I step well back and watch
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u/Green-Block4723 4d ago
Swans may look elegant and serene, but when they’re protecting their nests, they basically turn into feathered MMA fighters.
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u/jeffbrock 4d ago
You haven’t lived until you’ve been chased by a bird the size of a german shepherd.
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u/0x53r3n17y 4d ago
Hey there neighbor! Those swans are, so the legend tells us, an eternal punishment for our city.
In 1482, emperor Maximilian became regent after the death of Mary of Burgundy. He was also a warmonger and he badly needed money to finance his campaigns. So, he came to Bruges to levy taxes.
The townspeople didn't like that, so they detained the emperor in a house on the local market square and held a big feast. During this feast, they had the local bailiff - Pieter Lanckhals or Peter Longneck - executed as a warning. All the emperor could do was watch from his window and fume.
After his release, Maximilian heavily punished the city by taking away important rights.
Symbolically, he also mandated that the city would keep swans eternally as a reminder for what had happened.
It's a legend, because no historic records tell us of this obligation. Moreover, Bruges kept swans way before and had bought the right to depict swans on heraldry from the count of Flanders decades before.
I agree with you, you don't mess with the swans, though. Unless you want to take some mean bites home with you.
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u/jeffbrock 3d ago
They had to keep a minimum of 101 swans, if I remember the story correctly. Remember, about 10 years ago, when that black swan showed up and everybody lost their shit?
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u/_biology_babe_ 4d ago
Fuckin’ Bruges… A fairytale town…
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u/jeffbrock 4d ago
My Flemish wife hates that movie. She thinks they are making fun of Belgium. Which, admittedly, they are to a certain extent. But, it is still a great movie.
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u/usumoio 4d ago
I want to know more about that guy's swan bag. Did he have it made custom? Is that standard for swan caretakers? How do you get the swan in the bag to start?
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u/ItsAdvancedDarkness 4d ago
So this account is a bot, right?
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u/captainmo24 4d ago
Looks like it. 12 hours straight commenting, a lot of it on random new posts in large subreddits, and lots of repetitive phrases
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u/EagleBlackberry1098 4d ago
Nature’s way of showing that true love really does exist.
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u/Successful_Level6429 4d ago
Always end a day with a positive video. This is the positive video to end today. Good night.
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u/sheavill 5d ago
So sweet! Beautiful cinematography of the reunion. PLEASE stop using overlay music. Much prefer the natural sound, thank you!
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u/RoseWolf1882 4d ago
Overlay music can sometimes take away from that raw emotion. It’s always nice when nature gets the spotlight
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u/grungegoth 5d ago
So how did she? get botulism poisoning?
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 4d ago
Avian botulism is fairly common. They get it from eating maggots that are on carcasses.
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u/acanthostegaaa 4d ago
I'm gonna assume from eating garbage
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u/Theron3206 4d ago
Eating dead animals usually. If the conditions are right it doesn't take long for enough toxin to be produced to paralyse a bird.
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u/kerberos69 4d ago
We had a family of swans in the blind bay behind our house growing up. They’re such beautiful creatures…. but swans are absolute dicks.
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 4d ago
They're just geese with smokey eye makeup, I don't know why people think they're any different than those other bastards
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u/kerberos69 4d ago
If you’ve got a problem with Canada Gooses, you’ve got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 4d ago
Yeah we should let it marinate a little more, Canada geese can be a bit dry
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u/Barrister_of_the_Bar 4d ago
My friend has a small pond with a swan pair. You could not pass it without a baseball bat, just in case they decided today was the day.
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u/exgiexpcv 4d ago
This is the best post to watch before going to sleep.
Good night, internet. Pleasant dreams to you all, whenever you may sleep.
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u/chill633 4d ago
Having seen the dark side of swans in the past, I was fully prepared for this video to be a trap and the "loving" swan turn an disembowel the guy in the green shirt.
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u/Kitzle33 4d ago
They are beautiful. They are graceful. They are stunning. They are loving. And, without a doubt, they are jerks. Lol
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u/ECrispy 4d ago
its great people enjoy posts like this, but please remember -
all animals are sentient and almost all have complex feelings just like us, of love, fear, family etc.
and we needlessly torture trillions of them every year, they spend their whole life in captivity, fear, misery and pain
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u/all___blue 4d ago
The one brief time they don't try to MURDER EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. Fuck swans, they are the guy from new jersey of the animal world.
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u/Several_Ad7913 5d ago
Lovely clip! This is great stuff, whoever you are or wherever you are in the world
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u/antlerpanda 4d ago
Just curious, is that swan's neck thinner because it's just been ill, or is it just sexual dimorphism?
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u/Delicious-Wasabi-605 4d ago
Yeah she's totally ready to get raw swanned as soon as they get back to the nest.
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u/Adventurous_Water651 4d ago
I’m not watching another video or reading another Reddit tonight. I’m going to bed thinking about these beautiful swans.
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u/Speedstick8900 4d ago
All I can think about is this quote from Dr. Monty in BO3 zombies. “Their legs are moving like I’m pedaling a bicycle up a fucking mountain.” Probably not completely accurate but I can’t get the visual out of my head lmao.
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u/polydactylarbok 4d ago
I cannot believe that swan wasn’t absolutely biting tf out of that guys hand
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u/stone_henge 4d ago
The only thing more powerful than a swan's love for its partner is its depthless hate for everyone else.
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u/HermitofCrabs 4d ago
It fucked me for life after witnessing Mute swan drown a Whooper swan. The pair of the murdered one just lost will to live after that and was found dead a week or so later.
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u/Firm_Tomato4879 3d ago
Imagine she (swan) comes back after recovery to see the guy (swan) with a new gf!
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u/DrWindupBird 2d ago
Once lived in a small town in Alaska that had a mating pair living in a nearby pond. Someone shot one and the whole town put up posters offering rewards for the shooter “dead or alive”
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u/Sad_Independence5433 4d ago
Was kayaking once and saw a swan skeleton the neck was disgusting so many bones
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