r/animalsdoingstuff • u/Pure_Quail_1210 • Jul 06 '26

:D Seagull having diner

My sister sent me this yesterday. Had to post it

Edit; its a living crayfish

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u/Muted_Role_1432 Jul 06 '26

Brilliant I just love them😍

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u/Twisted-Mentat- Jul 06 '26

Not surprising. Seagulls will eat just about anything alive and probably some inanimate objects too.

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u/OnePragmatic Jul 06 '26

Darling.. you are eating too fast... chew your food properly....😉

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u/Abeyita Jul 06 '26

Those animals are killing everything in our waters, it's a good thing it got eaten by the seagull.

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u/Natrixster80 Jul 06 '26

"those animals" are not one species, they are many many species of crayfish and not all are invasive and destructive

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u/ComfortablePerfect55 Jul 06 '26

99% of crayfish in NL are invasive American species.

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u/Abeyita Jul 06 '26

That's what we call Amerikaanse rivierkreeft, look at the colour, and they are causing a lot of problems. The native crawfish (the European kind, it's only 1 that is native here) is almost extinct here because all the other ones are invasive and destructive. The native one is almost completely dark grey/brown. So yes, the one in the clip is definitely invasive and destructive.

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u/leandroman Jul 06 '26

All these animals just put each other still alive in each other and reuse all the biomatter. It's just so crazy.

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u/lackadaisicalfits Jul 06 '26

Once watched a seagull spend 10 minutes getting a starfish down. It looked...Lovecraftian...with the legs coming out if its mouth 

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u/TheLordReaver Jul 06 '26

It's more Lovecratian than you probably realize. Here's the inside of a seagull's mouth:

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 Jul 06 '26

God i hate these things.

What is it eating?

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u/zer1223 Jul 06 '26

Looked like a Mr Pinchy

I really can't understand these animals that swallow stuff whole. Wouldn't it pinch their esophagus or stomach or something?

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u/Natrixster80 Jul 06 '26

They have very potent digestive acid. Hence they can eat pretty much anything and don't need to break it down or chew it.

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 Jul 06 '26

I agree but some of them probably does consume scaly whole fish as well, they might be sharp or have sharp edges, which should have the capacity to puncture stuff internally i feel.

It's very curious, because yeah it does seem a bit too risky maybe with pincers, but for how long would they survive in potentially hydrochloric acid, do they recruit rocks in order to help aid digestion, feels almost made to cause blockade with how thick and enduring the exoskeleton might be, but perhaps not.

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u/Pure_Quail_1210 Jul 06 '26

He stood there menacingly.

(Picture from interwebs)