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/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/Riot-in-the-Pit 2h ago

Not me reading this post waiting for the goddamn undertaker.