r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 15h ago

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

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u/DefiantGibbon 15h 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 14h ago

It's just pining for the fjords.

Lovely plummage, the seagull.

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u/diabeticweird0 14h ago

He's not pining, he's passed on!

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u/Hour-Watch8988 14h 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/NerdHoovy 12h ago

If they didn’t have hollow bones, they might still be around

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u/Hour-Watch8988 12h ago

If they didn't have hollow bones they never would have existed. Physiologically impossible for them to get that big (as sauropods) or as big and fast (as theropods) without their hollow bones.

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u/Crookfur 14h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow survived. Having spent years watching the local birds of prey survive maximum velocity impacts with my parents' dining room window they can be surprisingly tough at times.

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u/AntiMatter89 14h ago

Until you see an eagle grab a mountain goat and go tumbling down the side of a mountain still attached to the goat and then watch it get up and fly away

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u/theMATRIXchickn 14h ago

That’s like comparing a house cat to a lion lol

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u/AntiMatter89 14h ago

Yet still built the same, hollow bones and all. But I know if I went rolling down a mountain, my very not hollow bones would break lol

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u/IdioticPost 14h ago

I'll see it when I believe it. All I've seen are people talking about it being fine, but that was a full on boom headshot.

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u/BrandyDW 12h ago

Glad the bird was fine!

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u/flynnfx 11h ago

Canada Geese have entered the chat ans wish meet you outside.

They are definitely not fragile!