Killer Gulls Rip Into Whales and Murder Seal Pups
If gulls just stole some of your chips while you were out trying to enjoy your lunch, you should feel lucky, because one species has recently developed a taste for ...
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[ ♪ INTRO ] When you’re out enjoying a nice picnic on the beach you might occasionally find a gull trying to grab some of your chips. And you are like, “get away, just...stop bothering us!,” you know? But just imagine for a moment that instead of your picnic basket those gulls were after... your flesh. Because one particular species of gull has recently developed a taste for live mammal meat, revealing just how adaptable these animals are. Most gulls eat fish or invertebrates like crabs, though they’ll occasionally snack on carcasses if they wash up. They’re considered generalist, opportunistic feeders—they’ll pretty much take whatever they can get. But in the past 50 years or so, one species—the kelp gull—has developed a fondness for mammalian flesh, and lea...
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[ ♪ INTRO ] When you’re out enjoying a nice picnic on the beach you might occasionally find a gull trying to grab some of your chips. And you are like, “get away, just...stop bothering us!,” you know? But just imagine for a moment that instead of your picnic basket those gulls were after... your flesh. Because one particular species of gull has recently developed a taste for live mammal meat, revealing just how adaptable these animals are. Most gulls eat fish or invertebrates like crabs, though they’ll occasionally snack on carcasses if they wash up. They’re considered generalist, opportunistic feeders—they’ll pretty much take whatever they can get. But in the past 50 years or so, one species—the kelp gull—has developed a fondness for mammalian flesh, and lea...
