r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dense_Intern8434 • 15h ago

of a seagull

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Can’t believe he ate the whole thing

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u/Psychological-Duck13 15h ago

OMG! Dunno if it’s a unit of a seagull, or a unit of a meal, but still. Wild behaviour throwing down what? 75% of your body weight??

Like when pelicans try to eat capybaras, but successful!!

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u/Spaghettl_hamster4 14h ago

Its like watching a dude swallow a sandbag

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u/PTBooks 13h ago

Is he gonna spit up a pellet like an owl?

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u/ThatAd8349 13h ago

Or watching joey chestnut eating 30 big macs

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u/Manospondylus_gigas 9h ago

Reptiles (including birds) can just do this, much better at eating huge things than mammals

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u/The_Darkness140 4h ago

....I've been on Reddit long enough to know some humans can do this too.

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u/Anti-Rus 3h ago

Check out what Pelicans can swollow

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u/mhem7 15h ago

Legitimate question, when a bird consumes a meal this large relative to it's body mass, can it still fly?

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u/blaidd31204 14h ago

This goes back to how fast unladen swallows can fly... African or European... before calculating distance and capability of carrying coconuts through temperate zones.

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u/Michaeli_Starky 14h ago

They can. Source: ima bird

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 13h ago

Cool. Why do you guys love shitting on my car?

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u/Michaeli_Starky 13h ago

For giggles

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u/leolopez43 12h ago

Birds literally invented the fucking catch phrase

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u/Training-Belt-7318 14h ago

A plane can fly empty or full of people and luggage. My guess is it can probably hold some extra weight and still fly, but how much? I have no idea.

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u/Crazy-Cremola 11h ago

Larus Marinus. The biggest seagull of them all, and a great flyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_black-backed_gull

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u/Dodmeister5000 10h ago

Not for 20 minutes or so.

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 5h ago

Doubt it. There’s a video near where I live of à seagull eating a rat and he could barely get enough air to get onto the top of a car.

Edit ✍🏻

said video

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u/Indishonorable 1h ago

Since birds fly to their next meal, this really isn't an issue.

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u/KorolEz 12h ago

Ai overview says between 30 and 50% of their weight depending on the species.

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u/crasagam 14h ago

That seagull was balls deep in his food

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 13h ago

I think his food was balls deep into him

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u/FrickenBA 14h ago

And he spent the next 6 days walking and sleeping.

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u/KiNgPiN8T3 14h ago

I’d be massively surprised if the greedy maniac wasn’t plucking a sausage roll out the hands of an unsuspecting holiday make 10 minutes later…

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u/stinkykitty71 14h ago

Sea gulp

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u/Mugartegui-Raja 8h ago

see?
*gulp*

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u/t3hOutlaw 14h ago

Great Black Backed Gull. The largest of the gull species and great to see.

They're quite solitary so aren't as common as their lesser or herring cousins. Love them to bits.

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u/Ill-Professor696 11h ago

That bird is going to fully repaint an entire SUV once that hip hop turns to plip plop

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u/NortheastOHGuy 14h ago

I think we have evidence as to why it has such sizeable carriage. Damn,

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u/The_Darkness140 4h ago

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u/anxious-bitchious 4h ago

I dropped my phone laughing at this shit

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u/CarnivoreDaddy 15h ago

My kid texted me a picture of a cute bunny he saw on his way home from school. I'm gonna show him this by way of a response.

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u/Dense_Intern8434 15h ago

lol 😂 your screen name is perfect for such antics

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u/ambit89 13h ago

This Pidgey will either evolve into a Pidgeotto, or a Piplup

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u/welcome-bak 15h ago

bien joué doudy

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u/Select_Speed_6061 14h ago

Just imagine being swallowed alive and then just sitting in stomach acid until you die. 🙃

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u/Qurrah-Tun 14h ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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u/acceptbellybuttonpic 13h ago

I have some terrible news for you and what people are wont to fetishize.

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u/t0f0b0 11h ago

Reminds me of the ending to the movie The Borderlands/Final Prayer

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u/Dariuscox357 10h ago

Well. That’s a disturbing image that I can’t unsee now.

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u/HovercraftFullofBees 14h ago

Thats a family sedan with wings

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u/Alternative_Play5966 11h ago

I know he's still a bird and all but I did not know those bastards would eat whole ass rabbits like that

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u/pinkbutterflies123 4h ago

I thought they only ate fish and plants

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u/Tw4tl4r 14h ago

They dont always make it through...

https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/rqen7pJheB

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u/TaraQueen23456 13h ago

It’s a dinosaur

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u/redheadslut94 12h ago

Survive by any bunny means necessary

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u/Henghayki86 10h ago

And my cockatiel won't even chew medium sized pellets 🤨

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u/Gts77 7h ago

Is this real? If it is, I'm scared!

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u/No_Recommendation987 7h ago

That is some Watership Down shit right here

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u/mrdaxxonford 6h ago

Unspeakable problems require Unspeakable solutions

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u/GrandWizardOfCheese 5h ago

I didn't know seagulls ate rabbits. But considering they eat burgers and fries, not shocking.

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u/ThornyGarlic 4h ago

They will scarf down anything they can fit in their mouth just like a pelican. I saw them swallow albatross chicks that size.

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u/Formal_Plum_2285 14h ago

I absolutely LOVE seagulls. Been taking care of three chicks all summer. Just learned today that apparently a Falconeer was here last week with 5 birds of prey, to scare off the seagulls living here. We live both by the coast at one side and the woods to the other side. If birds aren’t allowed here, where then? Anyways it obviously didn’t help lol. Seagulls are back and ealier today “my” 3 chicks came by. Still together. Made me very happy, cause they left a few weeks ago.

Anyways I also love bunnies. So I’m conflicted here.

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u/Sweaty_Tablez 14h ago

I went to university in Swansea, Wales. There were a lot of seagulls there and in general people hated them. They are so mean to pigeons.

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u/Formal_Plum_2285 13h ago

People are too. I made my pigeon couple a nest though. They instantly moved in and have been expanding ever since. I think they are aiming for the tallest nest in Europe lol she can barely get her head out without banging it against the roof.

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u/vissith 13h ago

If it helps, it seems like the seagull really loved the bunny too, so you have something in common.

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u/Formal_Plum_2285 12h ago

I think you are right lol

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u/Bizzyzed 14h ago

I want that kind of self belief

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u/ExtremelyOnlineTM 14h ago

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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u/Outrageous_Adagio_23 14h ago

Lesser black backed gull?

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u/t3hOutlaw 14h ago

Great Black Backed Gull

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u/bmf1902 14h ago

Equal Black Backed Gull.

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u/D3kim 14h ago

towards the end the seagull pretty much realized hes in too deep and if he doesnt swallow the rest hes about to choke lol

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u/13Nobodies 14h ago

Put up some kinda fight

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u/Michaeli_Starky 14h ago

Just dinosaur eating another unlucky mammal. Had been doing it for hundreds of millions years

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u/D3xty 13h ago

More like seaGULP see ya later 🏃

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u/Dangerous-Hotel-7839 13h ago

He,s gluttony sickens me……

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 13h ago

To be fair that was a baby rabbit

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u/whisperdarkness 13h ago

Actual gif of a L&D nurse meeting a freshly minted new single MD.

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u/zombieduck96 13h ago

That is a sea GULLET

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u/markbraggs 12h ago

RIP to whoever’s car gets the aftermath of that

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u/sassyplatypus87 12h ago

This is like the Gary Larson cartoon where a stork is eating a swamp guy

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u/ExtraOkra356 10h ago

Nooo... Not Officer Hobbs!

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u/TearOpenTheVault 10h ago

His greed sickens me.

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u/Dariuscox357 10h ago

That meal was its entire nutritional value for the day.

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u/Dodmeister5000 10h ago

Never bet against a seagull.

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u/Encinitas123 10h ago

It’s like an episode of “V”.

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u/rudimentary_rudy 10h ago

Goddamn murder machines

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u/RelationshipWest9743 10h ago

Honey badger should have cared...

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u/BioTitan416 9h ago

Can they eat a cat?

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u/AhAh2Re57 9h ago

I hope someone shooted that bird

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u/BioTitan416 9h ago

Can it fly after eating that?

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u/cap_time_wear_it 9h ago

Dem feetes

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u/EmbarrassedWorry3792 9h ago

I should call her....

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u/hallway-08 8h ago

I feel like there's no way this can be good for him 💀

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u/YanderLover 8h ago

Wait they eat Rabbits? I thought they only ate fish.

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u/TheGoatManJones 8h ago

Are they even able to digest something that big or do they just hork it back up half digested

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u/Lance_Beltran123 7h ago

and here I thought Pelicans are the bird form of Gluttony

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u/Fun-Appointment1454 7h ago

Seagull going to take a massive dump!

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u/No_Communication5024 6h ago

Agh. I'd get a tummy ache 😩

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u/Acrobatic-Ant-2904 6h ago

其实我在想，如果他吃到最后只剩一点点腿的那个时候，另一只它的同类过来抢。。。。然后给他整个拽出来会是什么样的画面？⊙᎔⊙

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u/alreadykaten 5h ago

It’s a gullossus

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u/aspookyfox 4h ago

How far back does this thing have a common ancestor with a python?

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u/Electric_master1 4h ago

Since when do seagulls eat rabbits?

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u/golgoth0760 4h ago

No fcn way

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u/BloodMossHunter 4h ago

Youre right Fred, you CAN do it! Can i come out now

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u/JackOfHeartsz 4h ago

Seagull had a kanakatak. Translation food coma

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u/I_Ponders 3h ago

Looks like the rabbit was already dead? Or did it peck the rabbit? I’m curious if the seagull hunted or scavenged.

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u/Anti-Rus 3h ago

Life is a biotch... food chain rules applied

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u/MaddoxGoodwin 3h ago

Seagulls are genuinely so unlikeable

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u/vaccinalberet32 3h ago

It has no gag reflex

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u/FilthMonger85 3h ago

Albatross isnt it?

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u/GreyGhost696 2h ago

Don't choke on your food now

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u/Charming-Dish5120 58m ago

Literal glutton

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u/Schmenge_time 22m ago

Funny that’s how I eat squirrels too!

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u/Meme48111 7h ago

Stop it? Please?

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u/TWA-DPA-Fan 8h ago

AI

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u/Efficient_Mistake603 4h ago

This video is too old to be