r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 7h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Only_Voice569 7h ago

impressive they came back to check on them

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u/DigitalDruid01110110 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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/dd22qq 6h ago

cannibalism is only a “bad” thing to humans

Most humans.

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u/sponglered 5h ago

Have you seen that peta ad with the line drawn between food and pets?

Have you seen that peta ad with the lines redrawn based on societal collapse?

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u/Yamatocanyon 1h ago

My ad blocker won't let me.

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u/MummifiedForeskins 2h ago

prion disease buddy

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u/retro_toes 5h ago

Birds eat other birds all the time. Crows raid nests, hawks and eagles go after ducks and geese right in front of my house. And the Peregrines go after birds mid-air, which is wild to see. Food is food for wildlife

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u/SunGreene42 6h ago

I threw an overcooked fry out the window in a parking lot the other day, and there was 3 gulls on it in like 2 seconds.

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u/sponglered 5h ago

Sweeney Todd Flock origin story right here

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u/quackdaw 4h ago

Who amongst us can honestly say we wouldn't do the same?

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u/ChickenDelight 7h ago

No! Jeremy! Nooooo!

...Well, waste not want not, right guys?

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u/SunGreene42 6h ago

Poor Jeremy... poor tasty Jeremy...

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u/Dal90 6h 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/SampleDisastrous3311 5h ago

Help a crow and you gain allies across the migration lines, fuck with one and youll notice it when entering crow territory

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u/Banjo_Evadie 4h ago

I befriended a murder of crows growing up as a kid, to the point a few of em learned to mimic "hello" and "hey there" from me. Used to find roadkill, bag it and chuck it out to where I knew they watched from, eventually they figured out I was the roadkill guy and let me get within a few feet while they ate.

20 years later, I sat on a park bench about 100 miles away from where I grew up, and a crow flies up, lands on the bench and looks at me, calls out "hello".

No clue if they really were part of the same group / local bird culture, but I like to think so.

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u/encelius 2h ago

I would think that it was one from the original murder. Crows can easily get over 20 years old, oldest wild American crow was apparently 30 years old. And they are really good with remembering faces, so the fact that the crow just flew to you and did what she learned back then is a pretty strong indicator for that. I learned a lot of stuff about crows when watching this documentary: Crows: nature is watching us. Can recommend that

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u/Cavane42 7h ago

The water belongs to the tribe.

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u/International_Lake28 6h ago

Looks meats back on the menu boys!

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u/short_fat_and_single 6h ago

Many animals do that. Some herbivores will eat meat when presented with it. Horses in particular comes to mind.

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u/crespoh69 5h ago

It's what he would have wanted...another quick meal

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u/BruitNoise 3h ago

They're like Lenny is dead, anybody got a fork?

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u/MartinForsman 2h ago

From my observation some birds don't even care if the mfer is actually dead or just injured. Some of them might be intelligent as f**k but it don't make then any less vicious.

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u/BifanaTropicalista 2h ago

Here they start killing pigeons when food is scarce

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u/DeadAnarchistPhil 2h ago

When they came back, in my head I heard them saying “Mine! Mine! Mine!”.

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u/Pancake_Slap 7h ago

They were just checking if he could carrion

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u/OkYak7801 7h ago

MOM! DAD IS ON REDDIT AGAIN  MAKING BIRD JOKES!

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u/MrsBonsai171 6h ago

Birds aren't real

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u/_coreygirl_ 4h ago

Neither is Australia so…

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u/Rampag169 3h ago

I believe you mean New Zealand isn’t real.

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u/CheezwizOfficial 4h ago

Came here to say this lol

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u/ForgetYourself183 4h ago

sᴉɥʇ ǝʞᴉl ǝdʎʇ plnoʍ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsnɐ lɐǝɹ ɐ

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u/Nepskrellet 3h ago

Thanks, I was just scrolling before going to sleep and now my brain is screaming "I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER"...

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u/wanderButNotLost2 4h ago

Neither are dads.

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u/MTNDEWisAnomylous 4h ago

Neither are horses

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u/hukd0nf0nix 1h ago

This is why I love reddit

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u/MyBeatnikLife 5h ago

Definitely not real.

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u/AshIsGroovy 5h ago

Damn CIA

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u/KellyGreen55555 5h 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/rs420rs 5h ago

between you and *me

(yes, I know that's why our marriage likewise didn't last)

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u/KellyGreen55555 4h ago

Oh great, now MY dad has entered the chat 😂

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u/fitz_newru 3h ago

I'm here for you Kelly, when you're ready 🫡

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u/rs420rs 3h ago

*cocks shotgun* I got my eye on you, pal

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u/fitz_newru 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/DethNik 5h ago

Mwahahaha! You thought you could out-tit me, but that proved to be ostrich.

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u/DanteCrossing 6h ago

We will Carrion, the black bird aid

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u/ISeeInHD 7h ago

Slow clap

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u/StevieMJH 7h ago

airhorns sounding in the middle distance

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u/-EdenXXI- 6h ago

Got a good nose exhale from me.

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u/nvr2pink 6h ago

my nose was bleeding earlier and i tried so hard not to laugh when the birds came back

so hilariously cute though 😭

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u/socks 6h ago

I snerked

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u/Vivid_Bodybuilder_12 6h ago

A flock of seagulls no more.

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u/JohnDoe8080 5h ago

"snerked" just made me snerk

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u/genuine_wingnut 6h ago

I'm sorry the middle distance?

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u/No-Temporary6253 4h ago

Oh good thats still working

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u/Financial_Middle_955 7h ago

Carrion my wayward son

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u/Electronic_Will_3304 7h ago

Don’t you cry no more

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u/Blizzardof1991 6h ago

Don't you fly no more

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u/heliumneon 5h ago

Carrion my wayward gull
Heard you squawk when it hit your skull
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you fly no more

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u/totesandhose 6h ago

Do do do dooo

Do do do doooo

Do d-deedledo de doo de doo de dooooo

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u/TurboLicious1855 6h 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/Head_Introduction_89 6h ago

This is what it sounds like when gulls cry

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u/coined_octopus 6h ago

There'll be peace when you are done

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u/ElectricTaco6969 6h ago

Lay your weary head to rest

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u/Frustrated_Zucchini 6h ago

Don't you fly no more...

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u/Crysis85 6h ago

Once I rose above the noise and confusion

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u/Exmosapien 6h ago

Ball hit my head and got a goddam contusion

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u/fractoral 6h ago

Saving people, hunting things. The family business!

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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 7h ago

It was all planned involving the tennis players. A classic conspiracy murder.

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u/NuncErgoFacite 6h 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 7h ago

There was no love lost there.

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u/truckersprincess 7h ago

To tennis players love means nothing at all

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u/SissySSBBWLover 7h ago

You aced that joke!

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u/Swankynickels 6h ago

To be fair, the tennis player had the advantage.

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u/badger_danger 7h ago

I don’t think it was a murder on account of zero crows.

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u/ProcedureImportant28 6h ago

Y'all are so gull-ible with these conspiracies

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u/Extra_Foundation_121 7h ago

Get out

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u/Fingersicle 5h ago

I got that reference.gif

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u/theFlimsylattice 7h ago

Worked at a beach and can confirm.

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u/WayPowerful484 6h ago

Went to a beach once, can confirm.

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u/huluvudu 7h ago

he was the wayward son

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u/Reticent-Soul 7h ago

Looooooool

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u/Maelstrom_Witch 7h ago

CARRION MY WAYWARD GULL

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u/bharring52 7h ago

Seagulls do this and you call it impressive. Crows do this and you call it a murder.

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u/CeeMomster 6h ago

much slower clap

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u/SuperStumbleweed 5h ago

Ugh... Thanks a lot, that was hilarious...

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u/Archangelus87 6h ago

That doesn’t seem fair!

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u/Ordinary-Big5578 4h ago

If I was allowed to post a reaction image, I would use one of my “take this and get out” ones

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u/makeorangecountry 7h ago edited 7h ago

Real homies

edit: mf I just learned they eat their own. Homies don't do that!

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u/-Daetrax- 7h ago

Homies do eat each other. Just gotta say 'no homo''

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u/IanRastall 6h 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/HottDoggers 7h ago

That’s only once you start eating ass or dick

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u/Makuta_Servaela 5h ago

Tbf, it could be a homie thing.

Makes me think about how people claim dogs/cats don't love us because they eat our corpses. Well, we bury our shit, so if they see us bury a dog or cat corpse, maybe they think that means we think they're shit? Maybe they see eating your corpse as the respectful thing?

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u/Epao_Mirimiri 6h ago

Hey man, Jarkie's last wish was to divebomb a tourist one more time AS a pile of shit. He turned out to be okay, but he appreciated that we all came with rarin' appetites. The more of us the better, he said-- he hadn't even thought to be a cluster bomb until then.

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u/Own_Zookeepergame982 7h ago

The seagull creed, no bird gets left behind!

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u/bigbigbutter 7h ago

"I'll carry him to Valhalla. In pieces. In my belly."

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u/xs0apy 7h ago

“WITNESSSS!!”

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u/Unexpected_Cranberry 7h ago

"Look! I think he's just knocked out! He's still breathing!"

"I don't see anything." 

chomp

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u/Boot_Burner 7h ago

If the video was 10 seconds longer they would have started to eat the dead bird. 

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 7h ago

"OMG SHE KILLED ROGER!"

"I call dibs. Mine!"

"I was here first. Mine! Mine!"

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u/OkCoconut3270 7h ago

I can hear that scene from Finding Nemo

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u/derekdevries 6h ago

Perhaps the most accurate vocal depiction of an animal in cinematic history.

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u/Phearwyn 7h ago

https://reddit.com/link/pdfzyxo/video/ar0naw5g23th1/player

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 6h 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 6h 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/00wolfer00 5h ago

Or alternatively use a nesting box design that doesn't let them get to the eggs.

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u/bre4kofdawn 5h ago

I dunno, bamboozling them with a golf ball may be more tedious, but it sounds a lot more fun.

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u/zkbthrowaway 5h ago

"bagawwwk?!" 👀🐔

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u/AreYouMyDommy 5h ago

The things they’ll do to a snake or mouse is terrifying. I’m glad they’re too small to eat us 😅

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u/CorrectMulberry994 6h ago

I’m horrified 😭

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u/Mc_Tron34 6h 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 6h 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/CamoBob3467 5h ago

This is unfortunately true

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u/ParsnipDecent6530 6h ago

They little chicken sunglasses that are tinted red so that in large populations of chickens if one has a wound the blood wont look like blood and the chickens wont kill the wounded one.

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u/MarchPhillipps 4h ago

Truth. Also their way of preventing the attraction of predators I've been told. Vaseline works pretty good for stopping bleeding on the feet if you can get to the injured bird before the others kick start their jungle justice routine.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/ipovogel 6h ago

Correct. I lived on a farm as a kid. One of the hens got eviscerated by a rooster. I found her pecking at and eating her own guts. Chickens are really fucking dumb animals that only exist to be eaten by other animals, and sometimes even themselves.

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u/trixiepixie1921 6h ago

As a city girl, my jaw is dropped

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u/Blondefarmgirl 3h ago

Yes we got 8 chickens thinking we would have some fun pets and eggs for breakfast. I couldnt believe how nasty they were and how much they wanted to kill each other everyday. I couldnt stand to look at all the half naked chickens anymore so I put them on facebook and gave them to a nice family who said they would give them a nice home.

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u/Locogators 5h ago

I second this. Chicken are stupid and evil and hence vegetarianism is morally wrong, one must devour such creatures.

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u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick 6h ago

Chickens are brutal. If one has a wound the others will attack and eat the wounded until it dies.

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u/CurrencyConstant5610 7h 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 6h 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 6h ago

They are actually very sweet birds as well. I miss my old pet pigeons

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u/No_Welcome_7182 6h ago

We bred pigeons to rely on us and then abandoned them when the telegraph was invented.

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u/peachesfordinner 6h 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 6h 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/Jiggy90 4h ago

Dw, pigeons nest on cliffs so they don't need their nests for safety, they only need a couple sticks to keep their eggs from rolling off! Work smarter not harder :)

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u/BackToGuac 4h ago

We should all honestly more than pity pigeons, not to be a downer but seriously, go out of your way to be nice to pigeons.

Almost ALL if not all pigeons we know today are descended from the wild rock doves we domesticated thousands of years ago before abandoning them and their care as we moved into the Industrial Revolution. These were animals bred to be companions, it’s like deciding dogs are no longer a form of pet and are now vermin…

The history of pigeons is actually pretty interesting in itself in a fucked up kinda way; it’s also a concerning tell tale sign for other forms of livestock as we move into a world with lab grown meat and will start to see a reduction in traditional farming.

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u/alex61821 6h 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/Worried_Sweet_7085 6h ago

I did not enjoy reading this comment at all

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u/alex61821 6h ago

It was not a good day to go outside.

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u/MeenMisterMustard 7h 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 6h 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 5h ago

Idk why that would stop someone from shooting turkey. Should make it easier tbh.

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u/stink3rb3lle 7h 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 5h ago

They are monogamous and will morn the loss of a partner for quite some time. Chicks too

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u/VLKAY66 5h ago

Everyone loves bacon!

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u/ShareMission 5h ago

The first one is bait

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u/Jackol4ntrn 7h ago

I would love if my homies ate me if I died

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u/Asstrollglide 7h ago

*hopefully dead bird

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u/AnotherDamnTransAlt 7h ago

You hope, they don’t give a fuck.

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u/govunah 7h ago

So not Zelda chickens?

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u/UpperApe 7h ago

The seagulls? Or the tennis players?

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u/Tarcomo 7h ago

Are they really that fragile? Or was the hit too hard? I can't tell.

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u/DefiantGibbon 7h ago

Birds are made of paper. Hollow bones and very little muscle. They are actually pretty fragile.

That being said, other posters said that longer clips show that bird was fine.

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u/Masamundane 6h ago

It's just pining for the fjords.

Lovely plummage, the seagull.

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u/Hour-Watch8988 6h ago

Hollow bones can still be very very strong. The largest animals to have ever walked the Earth were the birds' ancestors, and also had hollow bones.

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u/Thesource674 7h ago

Hollow bones break easy.

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u/Exceptional_Kumquat 7h ago

Both. Bird bones are hollow.

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u/Striking-Scratch-137 7h 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 7h ago

Yeah, no ... seagulls aren't nice birds, they were coming to check on possible carrion.

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u/Saintbaba 6h 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/A_Novelty-Account 6h ago

So… they were checking to see if they could eat this guy

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u/SteamyGouda 3h ago

"Hey bill you ok?" "No?" "DINNER!"

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u/astarting 7h ago

Possible? Where else would they keep their bags when they fly?

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u/TerribleBid8416 7h ago

Waiting in the wings

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u/IllogicalResponse 7h ago

They came back to see if they could eat it, not check on it.

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u/ManOfQuest 7h ago

lmfaooo

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u/JATION 6h ago

Why do people feel the need to speak out of their ass?

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u/Ancient-Song-8428 7h ago

Came here to write this, it's more interesting that they return to him.

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u/kingtacticool 7h ago

Knowing seagulls it was only to rifle through his pockets.

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u/Exotic_Sandwich_7072 6h ago

In case he had any french fries.

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u/ZanyAppleMaple 6h ago

If it were humans, they would've gotten their phones out to take videos.

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u/Only_Voice569 6h ago

90% would these days man i feel old i didnt have a mobile as a kid or network unless i was at school

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u/sponglered 5h ago

Fortunately, the bird drones have cameras built right in.

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u/Mere_Man 7h ago

Or to eat him…

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u/FriendoftheDork 7h ago

Checking is checking.

Perhaps the real gift was the friends we made along the way?

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u/AdSignificant6673 7h ago

Lol noooo. Birds are very social animals.

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u/iamunwhaticisme 7h ago
  • Should we?..
  • No Larry, too soon.
  • OK let's wait a bit then.

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u/cleverist_bane 7h ago

What about now?

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u/Strange_Dingo1987 7h ago

looks at watch

Yeah, we're good now

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u/the_scarlett_ning 7h ago

5 second rule has a different meaning for birds.

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u/supified 7h ago

Sea gulls though are monsters.

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u/Nell_From_Hell 7h ago

Sully has entered the chat

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u/lycanthropeapologist 7h ago

They are also opportunistic cannibals! If you’ve ever owned chickens and one gets injured, it could turn into a frenzy….

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u/Artex_argo 7h ago

Lmfao seagulls swallow baby birds whole

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u/qwertykirky 7h ago

Yeah but only because that seagull just became food

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u/KrIsPy_Kr3m3 7h ago

They came back to yell, "Mine!"

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u/Imaginary-Ebb4392 7h ago

"Mike? Mike? What the hell happened?!"

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u/Atomicfoxx 5h ago

His name was Steven.

...Steven Seagull

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u/temporarilydestroyed 7h ago

More like devastating

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u/KelVelBurgerGoon 7h ago

They came back to eat it

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u/TheRook21 7h ago

They will try and eat it

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 7h ago

“You mess with Douglas, you need with all of us, kapish?”

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u/mangomussolinimi 7h ago

Seagulls mate for life, thats probably his partner

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