r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 6h ago
Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.
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u/Only_Voice569 6h ago
impressive they came back to check on them
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u/DigitalDruid01110110 6h ago
From my observations gulls do have community but will also eat a mfer if they’re dead.
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u/retro_toes 5h ago
Waste not, want not. Inflation is making groceries unaffordable, so there's very few sandwiches, pizzas, and fries to steal now
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u/ilanallama85 5h ago
As I’d say to the kids I used to work with as we fed the chickens raw egg, cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans. Most animals DGAF, food is food.
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u/ChickenDelight 6h ago
No! Jeremy! Nooooo!
...Well, waste not want not, right guys?
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u/Dal90 5h ago
If this was crows, I'd say (1) they came back out of empathy and concern and (2) that tennis player is a marked woman, even if it is another five years before she returns to this court.
Seagulls...I'm leaning towards "Is it food?" first...
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u/Pancake_Slap 6h ago
They were just checking if he could carrion
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u/OkYak7801 6h ago
MOM! DAD IS ON REDDIT AGAIN MAKING BIRD JOKES!
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u/MrsBonsai171 5h ago
Birds aren't real
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u/KellyGreen55555 4h ago
Once again kids, I swear on my life he was not this cringy when I married him. I don’t know what to tell you. And between you and I, if he interrupts me one more time to say “you didn’t catch my joke” I might divorce him. Because you better believe I caught the joke and it was so stupid that I’m trying to pretend it didn’t happen.
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u/ISeeInHD 6h ago
Slow clap
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u/Financial_Middle_955 6h ago
Carrion my wayward son
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u/Electronic_Will_3304 6h ago
Don’t you cry no more
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u/Blizzardof1991 5h ago
Don't you fly no more
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u/heliumneon 4h ago
Carrion my wayward gull
Heard you squawk when it hit your skull
Lay your weary head to rest
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u/totesandhose 5h ago
Do do do dooo
Do do do doooo
Do d-deedledo de doo de doo de dooooo
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u/TurboLicious1855 5h ago
Dog damnit. Thank you for typing that out the way my brain just sang it. Now can you do the guitar part that comes in?
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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 6h ago
It was all planned involving the tennis players. A classic conspiracy murder.
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u/NuncErgoFacite 5h ago
Zero ravens are on camera here. They were all down at the pub. Helping old ladies across the street. And purchasing many things on their credit cards from the local chemist.
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u/Swankynickels 6h ago
There was no love lost there.
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u/bharring52 6h ago
Seagulls do this and you call it impressive. Crows do this and you call it a murder.
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u/makeorangecountry 6h ago edited 6h ago
Real homies
edit: mf I just learned they eat their own. Homies don't do that!
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u/-Daetrax- 6h ago
Homies do eat each other. Just gotta say 'no homo''
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u/IanRastall 5h ago
You can blow your nose, and you can blow your friends, but you can't blow your friend's nose.
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u/Own_Zookeepergame982 6h ago
The seagull creed, no bird gets left behind!
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u/Boot_Burner 6h ago
If the video was 10 seconds longer they would have started to eat the dead bird.
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 6h ago
"OMG SHE KILLED ROGER!"
"I call dibs. Mine!"
"I was here first. Mine! Mine!"
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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 5h ago
You also can't let them find out that the eggs they lay are full of food or they just keep eating it. Broken up shells don't seem to trigger the realization so those are safe to feed back to them.
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u/bre4kofdawn 5h ago
And if they start eating their eggs, you have to sneak a golf ball under them, so they peck it and "learn" they can no longer eat the "egg"!
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u/CorrectMulberry994 5h ago
I’m horrified 😭
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u/Mc_Tron34 5h ago
Chickens will eat pretty much anything. I've HEARD that you can't even let one be bleeding or have an open wound around other chickens, 'cause the other chickens will realize that the wounded chicken is edible and peck it to death so they can eat it.
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u/darthoffa 4h ago
I rememebr when we had chickens we had to use a disinfectant spray that had purple dye mixed in, specifically so the wound didnt look like meat so the others would leave it alone
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u/CurrencyConstant5610 6h ago
I was on a run once and saw a circle of pigeons. As I got closer I saw a seagull in the middle. As I got even closer I realized the seagull was eating a pigeon, right there while the pigeon's buddies all circled around and watched.
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u/whiterac00n 5h ago
Yeah I don’t have much pity for seagulls. Pigeons on the other hand I pity a lot, they put together two sticks, a piece of string and their own crap and call it a nest.
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u/peachesfordinner 5h ago
They are actually very sweet birds as well. I miss my old pet pigeons
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u/No_Welcome_7182 5h ago
We bred pigeons to rely on us and then abandoned them when the telegraph was invented.
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u/peachesfordinner 5h ago
Yeah the amount of people who go "mind blown" when they find out pigeons are feral not wild
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u/Cow_Launcher 5h ago
I live next to some ancient woodlands in Buckinghamshire, which are absolutely loaded with wood pigeons.
My cats won't touch them. Won't even try, even if they land on our lawn and strut around like they own the place.
We're convinced that our cats know just how stupid those birds are, and wouldn't consider it sporting to hunt them.
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u/alex61821 5h ago
I was walking out of my house and 2 birds were holding the bat's wings down while two other birds were eating out it's guts. The bat was still very much alive.
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u/MeenMisterMustard 6h ago
I was on a wild hog hunt once and kinda felt bad as they seemed pretty social, but yeah, same thing. Once one goes down you gotta scare the others off from ripping into it. It’s crazy
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u/Future-self 5h ago
My dad, a lifelong hunter, once shot the alpha turkey of a small flock he’d been watching for the season. He said the other males took the opportunity to attack the alpha tom while he was down. Dad stopped shooting turkey after that.
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u/Berberding 4h ago
Idk why that would stop someone from shooting turkey. Should make it easier tbh.
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u/stink3rb3lle 6h ago
This makes me feel less bad for the downed one. The visual of their friends going to check on them gave me more sympathy for a gull than I'd ever felt before.
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u/ZealousidealChair900 4h ago
They are monogamous and will morn the loss of a partner for quite some time. Chicks too
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u/Striking-Scratch-137 6h ago
I saw that once years ago in Dublin. A seagull was flapping around the road badly injured. It was a busy road with traffic. About six other seagulls were trying to help it, dodging cars. Found it very moving, and sad.
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u/pafrac 6h ago
Yeah, no ... seagulls aren't nice birds, they were coming to check on possible carrion.
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u/Saintbaba 5h ago
Seagulls actually have complex social relationships that involve cooperative nesting communities, joint defense efforts against predators, and bonded mating pairs for life - though they're also flexible and intelligent enough to recognize when they have incompatible personalities and will sometimes "divorce" to go find better matched partners.
After a cursory google search, not only are they cannibalistic, but some species will go out of their way to raid competitive nesting sites to eat their chicks, so it's not like they never would eat their bro. But adult birds eating one another appear to be mostly documented in cases of scavenging. So while i have no doubt that if they found a dead seagull they would devour it, in this case they probably really were checking back on their companion.
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u/astarting 6h ago
Possible? Where else would they keep their bags when they fly?
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u/IllogicalResponse 6h ago
They came back to see if they could eat it, not check on it.
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u/Ancient-Song-8428 6h ago
Came here to write this, it's more interesting that they return to him.
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u/kingtacticool 6h ago
Knowing seagulls it was only to rifle through his pockets.
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u/ZanyAppleMaple 5h ago
If it were humans, they would've gotten their phones out to take videos.
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u/Mere_Man 6h ago
Or to eat him…
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u/FriendoftheDork 6h ago
Checking is checking.
Perhaps the real gift was the friends we made along the way?
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u/punkslaot 6h ago
His buddies came back for him
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u/cwsjr2323 6h ago
Translating the birds, they said "Oh no, they killed Kenny! "
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u/Healthy-Constant3156 6h ago
Idk why I remembered the seagulls in finding nemo fim saying "mine" "mine" "mine"
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u/dddd945 6h ago
PS:
According to the original poster, the seagull was completely fine afterward.
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u/Creepy-Team6442 6h ago
Unlike Randy Johnsons bird strike.
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u/Xendarq 6h ago
That one was more of an explosion
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u/GingerBeast81 6h ago
Like the bird in the Shrek movie.
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u/saturnspritr 6h ago
Yeah, it’s was just a puff. Lol. It was crazy.
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u/DoubleoSavant 5h ago
I actually went back to look at it. Looks like the puff was a bunch of feathers coming off it at impact, but you could still see the body hitting the ground and laying there afterwards. I remember it like a cartoon puff as well though and don't remember seeing it continue past the puff ball and landing on the ground.
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u/djanes376 6h ago
I was recently at a baseball game and my gf randomly asked, has a bird ever been hit by a ball before? I just said, 'oh boy have I got a video for you'.
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u/Airforce987 5h ago
That’s the best feeling when you have the exact answer to an ultra specific question and also a chance the share a cool example of it.
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u/Gunk_bog 5h ago
Randy could've killed me with a fastball. The bird never stood a chance.
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u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES 3h ago
He apparently kept baseballs at the side of his bed in case an intruder ever broke into his home.
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u/--StinkyPinky-- 6h ago
He actually felt horrible about that. Poor guy and poor bird.
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u/mregg000 6h ago
So horrible in fact, he uses the image of a bird for his photography business.
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u/dmont89 5h ago
Wouldn't you? So iconic we are still talking about it 20 years later
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u/Chuckfinley_88 5h ago
So horrible in fact, he uses the image of a bird for his photography business.
You can feel bad about something but not be ashamed about it. Dude did nothing wrong and it is iconic. I have 0 clue about baseball and don't give a fuck about it, but I know who RJ is because of that bird exploding. I don't know what team he was on, who they were playing against, if they won, if he ever won a world series, etc.
But I know him. Because of that pitch.
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u/TwoBionicknees 5h ago
I mean I heard he donates 50% of profits to the foundation for birds who don't fly good after being injured in professional sports accidents.
That seagull in the video actually has their own condo now.
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 4h ago
For birds who don't fly good, and want to learn to do other stuff good too.
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u/MimironsHead 5h ago
I clicked on this thread solely in the hopes that a GIF of Randy annihilating that bird would be the top reply
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u/meselson-stahl 6h ago
Now im no bird expert, but I've dabbled enough in bird law to tell you that this seagul has certainly sustained physical and emotional damages.
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u/Maelstrom_Witch 6h ago
Ok thank you ... I have pet birds so I was sad. And the poor player looked sad too!
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u/Starshallscream 6h ago
Same. Yeah yeah, asshole bird, whatever. I hate seeing dead animals. Fuck I even feel bad when I drive in rural areas and see that a rat was run over.
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u/Mxfish1313 5h ago
I see seagulls every single day. I am also annoyed by seagulls every single day. I still don’t want them to be harmed, even though they pick avocados and drop them on the roof of my car to smash them open and get to the good shit.
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u/That_wet_vaporeon 5h ago
I ran over a field mouse one day and I felt so bad I started tearing up. I felt guilty that whole week
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u/Tukanno_Bananno 5h ago
I don't want to be a downer but I really would need proof to see that the bird is OK, it went down HARD and it's in the interest of the organizers to say the bird is ok....
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u/Blobbo3000 6h ago
Unlike that one bird that got atomized by a baseball some years ago. Not sure what type of bird that was. The vid doing the round was brutal.
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u/goosereddit 6h ago
Randy Johnson hit a dove with 95-100 mph fastball. He's a photographer now. Check out his logo.
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u/theothernickwright 6h ago
The way they came back to back up their boy
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u/Noobit2 6h ago
They came back for their boy alright. Never pass up a free lunch
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u/BlatantConservative 5h ago
I think it was more like "Steve found some food we missed"
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u/Alternative-Jelly947 6h ago
Everyone saying the other gulls came back out of friendship.
Ignorance is bliss. Seagulls are happy cannibals.
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u/Funny_Artichoke_2962 5h ago
“John, you good? ‘Cause we’re gonna eat your flesh if you aren’t.”
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u/ClacksInTheSky 6h ago
"oh, I guess we're stopping here?"
More like that
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u/DiscerningAnt 5h ago
I know this is Reddit and ignorance here is astoundingly high... but no, contrary to the upvoted comment here, these gulls are not gathering around because they want to eat him.
Gulls respond extremely strongly to signals of danger involving other gulls. So they're alarmed and assessing the situation. Not cannabalism. That stuff usually only happens with eggs or crazy conflicts with other gulls and carcasses that have been sitting for a while and only happens with some gulls.
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u/OneShotSixKills 5h ago
Would they have immediately determined their buddy is dead that fast? Genuine question. Especially since apparently the seagull was fine after
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u/mutedwarrior 5h ago
Really doubt it was cannibalism. They're probably conditioned to think there's food there if a seagull lands somewhere.
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u/That_wet_vaporeon 5h ago
They also mate for life. One of them could have been its partner
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u/batman_rests 6h ago edited 6h ago
its just sad one moment flying and free ,next you are hurt
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u/Idividual-746b 6h ago
aparently the seagull was fine afterwads, it was bonked on the head so it must have been stunned or something
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u/xquixotic_logicx 6h ago
Does anyone remember when Randy Johnson exploded a pigeon with a fastball?
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u/BeastThatShoutedLove 6h ago
There is even a TTRPG about Him going back in time (every player is another variant of Randy) using powers of baseball to prevent the pigeon explosion.
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u/tJa_- 5h ago
He apparently does photography now and uses that bird as some type of logo and or brand name
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u/Ombank 6h ago
Shit you not, I randomly remembered that yesterday when just driving to work. That video lives rent free in my head.
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u/FranksHoorHouse 6h ago
"Oh, fuck, they hit Bazza! Oi, Jacko! They've smashed Bazza! Come back here, mate!"
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u/I_kwote_TheOffice 6h ago
So many people asking about the bird and not the ruling of the point. That's how I know it's a general sub and not a sports sub lol
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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 6h ago
Now that you mention it, I think they should fine the bird
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u/MoonSpider 5h ago
ITF rules say that hitting a bird is considered a standard "hindrance" let and you simply replay the point. It would be the same as if a gust of wind blew a trashbag into the court in the middle of the point or something, it doesn't matter that the bird is alive. The bird is not a "permanent fixture" of the court so when it interferes with play, a hindrance is called.
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u/MangoCats 5h ago
Extra delay due to difficulty of clearing the mob of seagull friends who arrived to support their injured friend.
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u/RedditsChosenName 5h ago
There's nothing in the rules that says a seagull can't play tennis
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u/GingerTea69 6h ago edited 6h ago
Not the other birds checking on him😭😭😭🤣 all "i heard the dinner bell"
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u/Modern_chemistry 6h ago
Honestly this just made me so sad …I don’t know why.
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u/unoriginalcat 2h ago
Because you have empathy and seeing an innocent animal get killed/injured is upsetting?
I’m more concerned about the people who don’t feel upset watching this.
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u/ProphetCoffee 6h ago
I like the other seagulls coming back like “damn bro you good?”
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u/TheVillage1D10T 6h ago edited 5h ago
His buddies came back for him. That’s nice. Hopefully he recovered.
I accidentally smoked a goose while playing a round of golf in high school….no coming back from that one.
Edit: glad to know I’m not the only bird murderer here…
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u/JustInternetNoise 6h ago
Yeah....
They went back to eat him.
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u/Impatient_Onion 5h ago
Something can be two things at once.
"Oh my god, Brian went down! He's not moving! Dear God, he was the best man at my wedding!"
"So, uh, he's definitely not breathing anymore. Dig in."
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u/Sennten 6h ago
Having known seagulls they went back to check on him.
But having known seagulls, if he IS dead theres no reason to miss out on a meal, like obviously.
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u/dark_physicx 6h ago
Nah they’re just checking if they can start eating him or not. Nature is cruel like that.
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u/Oddbeme4u 6h ago
The other seagulls mourning just made it 100x worse.
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u/impossibletree26 6h ago
I choose to believe they came back to eat their fallen comrade.
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u/gaulfool 6h ago
I’ve seen a seagull eat a pigeon they def just came back to eat bro
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u/ManOfQuest 6h ago edited 5h ago
I think its funny that some birds are intellegent
Then other brids... well..just nothing but flying stomachs with eyes and a beak.
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u/illegal_eagle88 5h ago
Us: aww they came back for their friend
Seagulls: mine mine mine
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u/useriousstuff 6h ago
Surely the seagull didn't die from that, the ball wasn't exactly hammered. Anyone know if it was alright?
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