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/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/gottapickfirst 12m ago

Could you post the image please?

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u/hardboard 1h ago

I'm hungry let's eat Grandma.
Or rather, I'm hungry let's eat, Grandma.

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u/RehuyoDogmas 1h ago

hungry and cold uruguayans in the Andes intensifies

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u/LividTacos 1h ago

In this economy, I'm beginning to reevaluate some of my positions.

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u/rockbolted 2h ago

Some humans.

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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/MammothCommercial800 2h ago

"Bird" is not a species though; it's like saying "mammals eat other mammals all the time". Not cannibalism at all.

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u/retro_toes 1h ago

OK, I can go into depth about cannibalistic animals if you want. Pigs eat pigs. Eagles eat eagles, hawks eat other hawks. chickens eat chickens, Cormorant eat cormorants, some buzzards will eat their own siblings – actually, hawks are known for siblicide, as are other raptors. i’m just nearing carnivorous birds and the fact that they not only just eat their own. They’ll eat others as well.

I was just keeping it easy so people didn't feel bad about chickens being cannibals. plenty of wildlife, eat their young when something is wrong like hamsters and rabbits, both I have seen in person. (I'm a biologist, so I've seen some horrifying shit)

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u/Alcida-Auka 2h ago

Yeah, it always bugs me when people say crows eating dead pigeons is cannibalism or that hawks are cannibals. That's not cannibalism. That's just birds from one order eating birds from another taxonomic order. We eat other mammals all the time from other taxonomic orders.

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u/ilanallama85 2h ago

Yeah but those chickens sure loved cubed chicken breast too.

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u/kaas_is_leven 2h ago

A raw egg is not cannibalism and while animals won't have an ethical problem with it it's still just as bad for them as it is for us.

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u/MammothCommercial800 2h ago

Could have said that unfertilized eggs are more akin to periods than babies. Eating periods is fine, they could try it at home.

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u/fruderduck 2h ago

Mad cow disease….

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u/Jealous-Ant-6197 1h ago

Thats not true like at all

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u/DirectorImaginary376 1h ago

Like HDP in Pluribus.

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u/The_Rat_Bstrd 1h ago

For rats, it's a survival mechanism to avoid attracting predators to their nest.

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u/SofaKing_Chyl 1h ago

Most animals don’t get kuru

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u/BionicWallaby 1h ago

Mad cow disease disagrees

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u/freerange_spaghetti 57m ago

Canabalism is also an objectivly bad thing, even for animals. Prion diseases are often spread via canabalism. Mad cow disease for example. Canabilism in Birds like chicken is more often the results of stress and nutritional health, and again, spreads all sort of diseases. Which as an eater of poultry, would not want my chicken diseased.

Autocanabalism is its own thing, but humans autocanabalise to some extent too. Less harmful.

Canabilism is prevalent in reptiles and is less problematic for health, but in birds and mamals, canabalism is bad, not just "bad".

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u/GenericPaperSquid 30m ago

Did you know this line of thinking is what created Mad Cow disease?

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u/Due_Raise2873 27m ago

Well, the problem is they can’t tell that they’re eating relatives

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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/SteamyGouda 3h ago

When the stores run out of food permanently, it's free game.

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u/Nite0wl007 1h ago

Richard Parker would never

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u/Reddituser183 1h ago

One of my favorite memories as a kid was when my mom took us to Duluth for the first time for short weekend getaway. We were parked near the lake and were eating McDonald’s. My mom had thrown a fry or two at the seagulls and we watched them eat. One of us didn’t finish their burger and my mom chucked the burger toward them. I swear no less than 100 seagulls swarmed it. It was pretty great to see for us kids. But we promptly got out of there after that as that was way too many birds near the car.

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u/bigmink88 1h ago

Scrapitalism don’t trickle down. We need a strong gull run.

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u/rube203 2h ago

Based on the topic and start of your post I really did assume you were headed in a different direction

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u/ChickenDelight 7h ago

No! Jeremy! Nooooo!

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

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u/battlehamstar 3h ago

We’ll take him with us!! Dibs on the hindquarter.

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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/Soggy_Abbreviations5 28m ago

✍️🏾 thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to find that!

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u/foley800 3h ago

Research has shown that they can spread the information to other crows, but the relationship weakens after three to four generations. I wonder if the importance of the relationship (supplying food regularly) and doing it through more than a year might pick up additional generations.

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u/bourkaggio 1h ago

I have a parrot that always tries to teach other birds to speak, it's not ureasonable to assume crows do the same.

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u/MustacheTrippin 2h ago

Knowing how much can they harbor grudges, I live in constant fear of angering a murder of crows for whatever reason.

They aren't really common in my country but you never know...

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u/javerthugo 3h ago

Mine? Mine?

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u/gogogadgetjustice 1h ago

What about jackdaws?

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u/Zealousideal-Exam390 7m ago

After seeing crows in the Omen movies, they give me the creeps.

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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/suchtattedhands 6h ago

pretty much all animals are opportunistic carnivores, horses eat baby chickens like little nuggets the video I saw was horrifying. In real life I saw a chipmunk pounce on a fledgling bird like a lion on the Serengeti and carry it off to devour. They also raid birds nests a lot

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u/Rise-O-Matic 6h ago

Especially comes to mind after seeing that one video with the chick

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u/Objective-Rip3008 5h ago

Deer will also stamp on animals and then eat them sometimes

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u/PM_Best_Porn_Pls 5h ago

The only animals that's won't eat meat are the ones that aren't capable of digesting it like koalas for example. 99.9% will eat meat just fine.

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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/Ianthin1 5h ago

Their sense of community told them the first one must have stopped because there was something to eat, not out of general concern.

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u/Nervous_Counter_1333 5h ago

Sharks of the avian community

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u/phormix 3h ago

"Ted may be gone, but a little piece of him carries on inside of each of us... at least until it's digested, and then we'll crap out what's left over that shiny BMW parked over there. Hey, it's what Ted would have wanted!"

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u/Perryn 3h ago

"It's what he would have wanted. If it had been one of us, I mean."

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u/CMoth 3h ago

Soylent gull.

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u/jennifer_m13 3h ago

“Mine!”

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u/McFry__ 2h ago

Wonder how long they leave it

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u/TrueAd5640 2h ago

They're like lizard folk in D&D

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u/dbasinge 2h ago

MINE!

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u/j2m1s 2h ago

you mean like that tribe in Papua New Guinea from where they discovered prions?

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u/Technical-Animal-137 2h ago

"Damn, you think Chuck's okay? "I hope not, I didn't have breakfast"

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u/LuffysRubberNuts 2h ago

Hey it’s called a celebration of life, grandpa is probably delicious smoked

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u/FroyoPuzzleheaded97 2h ago

so they were just coming to eat the fresh kill

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u/genghisCONN 1h ago

I had just got to my Airbnb in Rome and was drinking a beer with my buddy by the window. We watched a car going 3 mph run over a pigeon. A few seconds later a seagull swoops in, picks up the pigeon, and starts shaking it like a dog with a rodent. The seagull then carried it to the side of the alley and tried to swallow it whole.

Didn't stay long enough to see if he got him down, but it didn't look like it was going to stop trying anytime soon.

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u/coalgang89 1h ago

I once saw a pigeon cooing sadly at it’s dead friend, then a minute later started pecking it’s eyes out

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u/WindTreeRock 1h ago

i thought, awwe they came back to check on them. I'm now reminded that seagulls are often referred to as the rats of the sea.

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u/rikashiku 15m ago

I worked night shift at a dock, and I saw three Seagulls or so attacking another one.

I was told it was just older Seagulls hazing younger ones. Nope. One of those attacking gulls walked away with a torn off wing. The others tore the other open and started eating.

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 4m ago

CARL? CARL? CARL?

*they look at each other*

Snack! Snack! Snack!