I apologise for my post in advance.
This will likely not provide the same entertainment to others reading it as it did to me in the moment.
Today, while I was indulging in a ham cheese and tomato croissant, I happened to find myself staring at a small troop of ants that were gradually making their way across a footpath in a line. They tend to do that.
Now, due to the close proximity of the cafe this meal was purchased from to a small patch where a tree and some other plants, birds often spend their days lounging around the area.
(While not being extensive, this story is not a quick one, so bear with me here)
I'm unsure of how exactly it came about, but it happened to be that there was a decent amount of smallish pieces of bread near the ants. Perhaps that's what brought them across the pavement in the first place.
Here's where it all comes together;
There is a bird sitting on a small barrier. (The typical sidewalk cafe barriers, I'm unsure how common they are but I have faith that you will know what i'm talking about.) For those who are easier to entertain, this is laughable in itself.
The bird observes the line of ants. It swoops. Disaster ensues. The ants scatter.
But what's this? The bird has disregarded the ants entirely. It eats the breadcrumbs.
-POSTFACE-
This may not be funny to other people. But in that moment, I came to ponder once again the strange nature of how we associate with animals in the nature that we inherited from them. Though I'm unsure of the nutritional value of ants compared to that of breadcrumbs, surely the ants would provide a larger and thus more fulfilling/sustaining meal. Alas, the bird chooses to opt for the bread rather than the more traditional ants. I wonder, would a bird in the wild eat a berry before an insect of similar size? We have drastically altered this world, and the processes within it.
In short, I found it funny, not only in the 'ha-ha' sense but the peculiar sense also that a bird would eat something man-made rather than bugs that would provide more nourishment.
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