My colleague said when he was a child, he rescued a baby bird that had fallen from its nest. He nursed it back to health by feeding it. He had to stuff the food right down the bird's throat, because it was used to being fed that way by its mother.
It did die, eventually, but not from the way that it was fed. This mode of eating prepares the birds so woef…
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